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Siemens-led Consortium to Build Turnkey Facility for Asturiana de Laminados
01/22/2008 - Asturiana de Laminados SA awards a contract to a consortium headed by Siemens Metals Technologies to build an integrated turnkey sheet production plant.
Asturiana de Laminados SA, Spain, has awarded a contract to a consortium headed by Siemens Metals Technologies to build an integrated turnkey zinc sheet production plant. The parties to the contract are maintaining confidentiality regarding the actual value of the order.
The new facilities, which will be built in Pola de Lena, are designed for an annual production capacity of around 70,000 tonnes. The production plant will supply zinc sheet with several thicknesses for construction and industrial use.
Siemens Metals Technologies will be responsible for overall management of the project as well as for technological integration of all parts of the plant, from the melt, casting and rolling sections to the lines for cutting to width and to length, and final strip coating. Siemens will also supply and install the entire rolling line.
Melting furnaces will be provided by GHI Hornos Industriales SL of Spain, while the coating line will be supplied by the British company, Stein Atkinson Stordy Eng. Ltd.
Among the promoters of the plant are companies of the zinc sector, a financial entity, and the “Government of the Principado de Austurias” through its risk capital society.
Asturiana de Laminados plans to manufacture intermediate products in the new factory beginning in October 2008.
Metals Technologies (MT), a business unit of the Siemens Division Industry Solutions (IS), is one of the world's leading engineering and plant-building companies for the iron and steel industry as well as for the flat-rolling sector of the aluminum industry and for open-cast mining. MT, which was created from the integration of Voest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau, Austria, plus the electrical engineering product business and automation solutions of Siemens, provides a comprehensive range of supplies and services for all related technological processes and integrated automation solutions for the entire life-cycle of metallurgical plants.
