Nass builds fully-integrated steel plant in Bahrain

 Bahrain's Nass Contracting was appointed to execute a civil integration package for the US$1.2 billion United Steel Company (SULB) integrated steel plant in Bahrain. The 1.3 million-square-metre steel production complex is located in Hidd industrial area. The plant is being set up in collaboration with Japan's Yamato Kogyo Company, a global steel section producer, which also owns 49% of the company.
SULB is a ground-breaking project for the Middle East's steel industry, and is expected to be the world's first fully integrated steel production facility with manufacturing capability extending from iron ore palletising to final steel products, which will not only be of the highest standard and quality, but also the most competitive in terms of cost.
The plant comprises a direct reduced iron plant (DRI plant) with nameplate capacity of 1.5m tonnes per year (mtpy) and design capacity of 1.8mtpy, a melt shop with nameplate capacity of 0.80mtpy and design capacity of 1.2mtpy, and a heavy section rolling mill with nameplate capacity of 0.60mtpy and design capacity of 1mtpy.
SULB will also be Middle East's first fully integrated medium and heavy beams and structural steel sections producer and is expected to replace about 20% of the annual four million tonne imports of these products into the region once fully operational. Not only will SULB help lessen regional import requirements for medium and heavy steel sections into the Middle East markets, it will also make a significant socio-economic contribution to Bahrain, where about 1,000 people are expected to be employed with a target of 70% Bahraini nationals.Mercurial Superfly High