Baosteel Pudong Iron and Steel Co. Ltd. at Luojing, near Shanghai, China, recently started up a Corex C-3000 plant, with a nominal production capacity of 1.5 million tons of hot metal per year. Siemens Metals Technologies completed the project within only 29 months from the contract signature. Baosteel Pudong Steel (the former Shanghai No. 3 Steel Co.) was rebuilt at Luojing in the Baosteel industrial area on the western outskirts of Shanghai due to the relocation projects for the 2010 World Expo. The Corex process allows a wide range of coals to be substituted for coke in smelting-reduction operations, which considerably reduces raw-material costs and environmental emissions. Top gas from the Corex plant is used in a combined-cycle electrical power station, as well as for heating purposes throughout Baosteel's steel works.
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