Work begins on sponge iron factory

Work will officially begin today on Kobelco Viet Nam Co Ltd’s sponge iron factory in the central province of Nghe An.

The US$1 billion factory will occupy an area of 40ha and be able to produce 2 million tonnes of products per year.

The mill is expected to be fully operational in the first part of 2013.

The company is a subsidiary of the Japanese Kobe Steel Group.

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Posted by VBN on Jul 24 2010. Filed under Steel. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

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