wiredInUSA March 2018

Call-off contracts Partners in development

Essa bin Hilal Al-Kuwari Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahramaa) has signed two call-off agreements for the supply of low voltage, 11kV, and pilot power cables with Doha Cables and Qatar International Cables Company (QICC). The total length of the cables is 10,000km. The two-year agreements were signed for a total cost of $521.83 million, the Gulf Times reported. The newspaper continued that the signing ceremony was attended by Kahramaa president and senior engineer Essa bin Hilal Al Kuwari; Doha Cables chairman Sheikh Faisal bin Qassim Al Thani; QICC’s Sheikh Fahd bin Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani; and a number of officials. The value of Doha Cables’ contract with Kahramaa is over $340.56 million, with the QICC contract worth $175.7 million. Under the call-off agreement, the supplier provides materials to Kahramaa within two days of receiving the order.

Image: UC Rusal - IrkAZ smelter

UC Rusal has signed a cooperation agreement with SMS group of Germany. The agreement foresees the companies’ cooperation in the development and construction of continuous casting equipment to produce wire rods, based on Rusal’s continuous casting, rolling and extrusion technology. According to the agreement, a pilot equipment line, installed and field tested at IrkAZ smelter, will be developed by the parties, with subsequent commercial sales of the equipment through SMS group’s network. “Partnership with one of the largest industrial concerns in Europe is an important step for the development of the engineering and technological potential of both UC Rusal and Russian intellectual developments in general. I am sure that cooperation with SMS group will become a powerful incentive for the popularization of Russian technologies abroad,” said Victor Mann, Rusal’s technical director.

wiredInUSA - March 2018

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