Nucor Contracts Design, Construction for $2-Billion Project
Daniel Corus would build Louisiana blast furnace plant
Daniel Corus would build Louisiana blast furnace plant
Nucor Corp. placed a contract with Danieli Corus for design and supply of a new blast furnace plant, proposed for a site in Convent, LA. Nucor announced the project in May, and is awaiting a permit to build. While it has not finalized on the location, the steelmaker reportedly will build the plant somewhere. Louisiana is the only U.S. site under consideration.
The proposed $2-billion operation would produce up to 3 million tons of pig iron to supply Nucor’s steelmaking operations.
Danieli Corus and Nucor state the project would be the first greenfield ironmaking operation in North America in over 30 years. No timetable for the construction has been outlined.
Danieli Corus, a wholly owned subsidiary of Daniel & C. SpA, worked with Nucor over the past year to develop the project’s feasibility study. The contractor outlines that its scope of supply would include the blast furnace, with lining and cooling systems; a hot-blast system; slag granulation equipment; a gas cleaning plant; a pulverized coal injection system; a charging conveyor belt; cast house; stock house; top-gas recovery turbine; and automation systems.
Danieli Corus also would provide operator training and operational support.
The project also calls for new harbor facilities, material handling systems, a heat-recovery coke plant, a co-generating power plant, and on on-site oxygen plant.
The proposed $2-billion operation would produce up to 3 million tons of pig iron to supply Nucor’s steelmaking operations.
Danieli Corus and Nucor state the project would be the first greenfield ironmaking operation in North America in over 30 years. No timetable for the construction has been outlined.
Danieli Corus, a wholly owned subsidiary of Daniel & C. SpA, worked with Nucor over the past year to develop the project’s feasibility study. The contractor outlines that its scope of supply would include the blast furnace, with lining and cooling systems; a hot-blast system; slag granulation equipment; a gas cleaning plant; a pulverized coal injection system; a charging conveyor belt; cast house; stock house; top-gas recovery turbine; and automation systems.
Danieli Corus also would provide operator training and operational support.
The project also calls for new harbor facilities, material handling systems, a heat-recovery coke plant, a co-generating power plant, and on on-site oxygen plant.
