Posted on 18 Feb 2016
The contract signed between Shandong Province Metallurgical Engineering Co., Ltd (SDM) – the engineering company associated to the Chinese Shangdong Iron & Steel Group - and Paul Wurth officially came into force on 22 January 2016. It includes the supply of engineering and supervision services for the construction of four Paul Wurth jumbo oven batteries of top charging type, with 58 ovens each and an oven height of 7.3 m, in the new coke making plant of Shandong’s Rizhao Iron & Steel works on the Chinese eastern coast.
This engineering contract ensues from the cooperation agreement signed in 2013 between Paul Wurth and SDM.
The four new coke oven batteries will be the first top charging jumbo batteries designed by Paul Wurth and erected in China, a new milestone in the Group’s history!
