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Article: Qatar Steel Co.
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- APS Review Downstream Trends
- Article date:
- September 14, 2009
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Qasco at Messai'eed is owned by QP, having bought out the 20% stake of Kobe Steel and 10% of Tokyo Boeki in late May 1997 (thus ending a 22-year association with the two Japanese firms). Based on direct reduction (DRI) process, Qasco's capacity was raised from 500,000 t/y to 650,000 t/y by late 1997. A second DRI plant, Qasco-2, licenced by Midrex of the US and on stream in early 1999 raised the capacity to 1.2m t/y. Qasco-2 has a new reinforced bar plant next to the existing one.
Qasco's expansion has added a 1.5m t/y DRI module, taking hot briquetted iron (HBI) capacity to 2.3m t/y. Meltshop capacity has been raised 50% to 1.5m t/y with installation of a ...