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Uhde wins coke plant contract in South Korea

Hyundai Steel Company has awarded Uhde a contract to build a new coke plant consisting of four coke oven batteries and a large single-train gas treatment unit. The coke plant, the annual production capacity of which will be 3.2 million metric tons of coke, is part of a new integrated steel mill complex being constructed by Hyundai Steel at Dangjin (Chungnam Province), around 100 km south-west of South Korea's capital, Seoul.

The contract will be implemented by a consortium consisting of Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Co., Ltd. of South Korea and Uhde GmbH of Dortmund, Germany. Uhde's scope of supplies and services comprises the complete basic engineering, the procurement of special equipment and the supervision of erection and commissioning. The Korean partner will perform the detail engineering and procure all local supplies. The total order value amounts to about € 250 million, Uhde's share being some € 150 million.



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