WCA May 2011

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World’s largest DR module m Emirates Steel 1.6 million tpy HYL Energiron plant with HYTEMP System, Abu Dhabi

has a long history of leading the industry in its innovative practices, continues to solidify its position with this new project and to further advance in its commitment to secure its long-term supply of quality iron feedstock. The Energiron ZR process provides significantly low plant operating costs and through intrinsic characteristics of the process, allows the selective capture of CO 2 which can be commercialised as a valuable by-product. The DR plant will also comply with the strictest environmental regulations by the EPA in terms of NOx, SOx and other pollutants, having already been granted the corresponding air permit in Louisiana.

This new project covers the full supply of the DR plant, licence, training and technical assistance in commissioning and start-up. With the support and backing of the Tenova Group, Tenova HYL will supply the full DR plant equipment manufacture and delivery to the client, mainly from USA and NAFTA, and will supervise the project implementation in the USA. Roberto Pancaldi, chief executive of Tenova HYL, said: “This is a perfect fit in terms of providing the vanguard steel company in the US with what we feel is the vanguard technology in production of direct reduced iron for steelmaking.”

Nucor Corporation, the premier steel producer in the United States, has signed a contract with Tenova HYL for the world’s largest single DR module ever to be constructed. Nucor will install a 2.5 million ton per year Energiron ZR plant using Tenova HYL’s state-of-the-art reformerless process design. The plant will be built in Louisiana, and will supply highly metallised, high carbon DRI to Nucor steel plants. The plant will be designed to produce cold-discharge DRI of 96% metallisation and 3.0% carbon in the form of iron carbide, which will be shipped to the various Nucor producing facilities that will use the DRI in their steel making process. Nucor, which

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