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Turkey: Tosyali Harsco has signed a 10-year contract with an estimated revenue of US$210m to provide services at Tosyali Holding’s new steel plant at Sariseki near Iskenderun. Tosyali Harsco is a joint venture between US-based Harsco and Tosyali Holding. Tosyali Harsco's scope of work at the new plant will include the treatment of all scraps via sorting, shearing, lancing and cleaning processes, scrap handling and logistics to the melt shop, underfurnace cleaning, ladle slag handling and slag processing.

Initial plant commissioning at the plant in Sariseki is schedule to start in March 2023. The US$2.5bn project will have a production capacity of 4Mt/yr. It includes two Quantum-type electric arc furnaces manufactured by Primetals, slab and billet casting machines, a hot rolling mill and long and flat product finishing lines.

India: Dalmia Cement (Bharat) has started using two electric trucks to transport slag as part of its E-Truck project. They are being used to transport slag from the Steel Authority of India Limited’s (SAIL) Rourkela plant to the cement producer’s plant at Rajgangpur. The company has also commissioned two charging stations at its Rajgangpur plant and three more are to be installed by March 2022. The E-Trucks initiative is intended to reduce Dalmia Cement Bharat’s carbon emissions from transportation and decrease its logistics costs. A further 20 electric trucks are intended to start use by the end of the 2022 financial year.

“Achieving environmental sustainability has always been a priority for us at Dalmia Cement Bharat from a business and a social standpoint. While we are grateful that our government is creating the right policy and investment environment that encourages organisations to take positive environmental action, as private organisations we need to take the lead,” said Mahendra Singhi, managing director and chief executive officer, Dalmia Cement Bharat. He added that the company was confident that it would able to achieve its sustainability goal of becoming carbon negative by 2040.

US: Harsco’s Metals & Minerals division has expanded an agreement with Egyptian Steel, a manufacturer of rebar and wire rods in the Middle East and North Africa. Under the terms of this expanded agreement, Harsco will provide scrap and slag management, material handling, and metal recovery services at Egyptian Steel’s Beni Suef plant. Harsco has provided similar services to Egyptian Steel’s Al Ain Al Sokhna site since late 2017.

“This contract further strengthens our market-leading role in the Africa and Middle East steel markets, where Harsco has been providing environmental services for well over two decades,” said Russ Mitchell, the Chief Operating Officer of Harsco Metals & Minerals.

Italy: Finland’s Tapojärvi has signed a contract to supply slag handling and metal recovery services at ThyssenKrupp’s Acciai Speciali Terni steel mill. Tapojärvi Italia will build a slag-handling unit and then start to produce and develop slag-based products. The contract consists of two-year period of building the unit and 10 years of operating time with additional option for another 10 years of operations.

“We have innovative and cost efficient solutions to meet the challenges steel mills have around the world. We productise industrial by-products and develop new business opportunities around these materials all the time,” said Mari Pilventö, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Tapojärvi Oy.

China: The Ministry of Ecology and Environment has accused the Gaoyi Iron and Steel Company in Yuncheng in Shanxi province of illegally and dumping steel slag over a 10 year period. The ministry has named the steel producer as part of an initiative to name and shame industrial polluters, according to Reuters. The steel producer was ordered in 2013 to build a slag treatment yard but it failed to do so. So far in 2018 it has produced 0.3Mt of steel slag. Most of this has been dumped on nearby farmland.

India: There are plans to establish four major steel plants in the iron ore rich states of Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Karnataka, according to Union minister for Steel, Narendra Singh Tomar. He said that the country aims to acheive 300Mt/yr of steel production capacity by 2030 and the proposed four new plants are expected to contribute with a total capacity of 20Mt/yr.

India: JSW Cement, which has set up a 4.8Mt/yr capacity plant at Nandiyal in Kurnool, is hoping to increase its capacity utilisation to 100% in two years from the current 50%.

"This would be driven by an increase in cement demand from infrastructure and housing segments," said JSW Cement director and CEO Anil Kumar Pillai. The Nandiyal unit was set up with an investment of US$228m. "We are hopeful of using full capacity at the Nandiyal plant by 2017 - 2018 on the back of an increase in demand for cement."

The current plant could be extended to have a second unit of similar or higher capacity, if required. The long-term plan was to have 30Mt/yr in 10 years at multiple locations. For the slag requirements of the cement plant, JSW would also increase the capacity of its steel plant at Vijaynagar from 12Mt/yr to 20Mt/yr.