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Iron Making
Blast Furnace Sinter Plant Lime Calcining Plant Raw Material Handling Plant Coke Plant

Overview

A potent symbol of a steelworks, blast furnace is a facility to produce hot metal by smelting iron ore.

We demonstrated our enormous capabilities for providing large-scale blast furnaces by construction of No.5 blast
furnace at Gwangyang steelworks recently and revamping three blast furnaces at Pohang Steelworks and four at
Gwangyang Steelworks. In particular, in June 2013, we successfully carried out the second revamping project for
No.1 blast furnace at Gwangyang steelworks, which has the world’s largest capacity with 6,000㎥.

Furthermore, our business region is expanding into all over the world as well. We provided blast furnaces with high
productivity and availability with low operating cost to PT.KP in Indonesia, IISCO in India and ESCO in Iran.

Based on our international experience in building blast furnaces, we are evolving into a global player with the best
technology in the field of blast furnace engineering.

Key Projects

Indonesia PT.KP blast furnace India IISCO blast furnace Iran ESCO blast furnace

Iran ESCO blast furnace

The capacity of plant is 1.40 million tons of hot
metal in annual. This project has been
performed to increase the steel making
production capacity of Esfahan Steel Company
in Iran from 2.60 million tons to 4.00 million
tons. And this is the POSCO E&C's first overseas
project through competitive bid.

◆ Project period: Jun. 2002 ~ Dec. 2008

◆ Production capacity: 1.4 million tons/year
◆ Inner Volume: 2,020m³
◆ Method of Furnace Proper Cooling: Copper
Stave + Cast Iron Stave Cooler
- Application of Automatic System for
Casthouse & EIC Intergrated Control System

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Korea POSCO Gwangyang No.5

blast furnace

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