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STEEL TIMES INTERNATIONAL BUYERS’ GUIDE & DIRECTORY 2015-2016 STEEL TIMES INTERNATIONAL World leader in coil joining equipment for the steel processing, tube producing and stamping industries BUYERS’ GUIDE & DIRECTORY 2015-2016 sti directory cover.indd 1 7/21/15 8:19 AM We transform ... the world of metals. The whole world of metals ... from one source. What connects the world originates with us. We plan, The result: Quality products that stand up to top strains design, and construct plants worldwide for producing and ensure sustainable quality of life around the globe. processing steel, aluminum, and copper. And that brings us closer together. 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An alphabetical guide of steel manufacturers, Price UK £76 | OVERSEAS £93 producers, suppliers of plant equipment and (Free to paid subscribers of Steel Times International) services with full company details ISSN 1759-9482 ISBN 978-1-84313-076-5 SECTION 2 This copyright of the contents in this publication belongs to Quartz Business Media Ltd. No one may, without the publisher’s express written consent, reproduce the whole or any part of the CLASSIFED LISTINGS material contained in this publication, make copies of it to store on a computer database or other storage system or publish or Company listings by services and products transmit copies anywhere in the world. The use of this directory by persons employed by or involved with any other advertising or publishing company, particularly in connection with telephone PROCESSING 51-63 sales, is also prohibited. Any breach of these terms will amount GENERAL SERVICES 65-75 to an infringement of the publisher’s rights under the Copyright Designs & Patents Act 1988 and will result in legal proceedings. Traceable material has been inserted throughout the Directory to SECTION 3 detect copy. Editor Matthew Moggridge Country Listings 75-79 Directory co-ordinator Esme Horn Front cover/Contents Annie Baker Company listings by country Senior Sales Manager Paul Rossage Sales Director Ken Clark Production Executive Martin Lawrence LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Published by This Supplement of Steel Times International aims to provide an annually updated guide to suppliers of plant, equip- Quartz Business Media Ltd, Quartz House, ment and services to the steel industry. 20 Clarendon Road, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 1QX, UK. As a supplier, if your company is not included please email [email protected] for further information. Tel +44 (0) 1737 855 000 Fax +44 (0) 1737 855 034 Steel Times International is an English language journal with a global readership in over 110 countries. It contains a digest of global news, events and statistics, as well as more detailed technical articles, company and country profiles, Printed in England by The Marstan Press Ltd, Princes Street, conference reports and regular regional economic briefings. Bexleyheath, Kent DA7 4BJ, UK. In addition to its regular eight issues a year it also publishes selected articles in Chinese, Russian and Spanish. The web site is regularly updated with news and events and a selection of features. © Quartz Business Media Ltd. 2015 Matthew Moggridge, Editor Whilst every care is taken in the compilation of this Directory, the publishers can accept no responsibility for errors or omissions appearing therein or for any consequences arising there from. SteelCONTENTS International 1.indd Directory 1 2015 FINAL.indd 3 18/09/20159/17/15 12:15 10:50 PM 4 CONFERENCE REPORT: EUROCOKE 2015 Vale’s mission in Mozambique Mozambique is a well-known exporter of cashew nuts, but is on the brink of establishing itself on the international coal market, thanks to a challenging open-cast mining project by Vale. Matthew Moggridge* reports WITH a mission to transform natural resources into prosperity and sustainable Product attributes development and a vision to be ‘the number one global natural resources “The Moatize product can produce high strength coke and because it has a lot of vit- company’ in the world, I was surprised rinite, it can absorb a lot of semi soft coal as the higher fusable content gives it a good to hear Vale’s Dr. Oliver Scholes claim carrying capacity.” Dr Oliver Scholes, Vale. that some delegates at Eurocoke 2015 may not be familiar with the international The Moatize coal offers the following attributes:- mining company. Despite being one of the biggest global • High hot strength (CSR) mining companies, Vale accounts for only • High cold strength (Micum Drum) a small percentage of the coal market and • High vitrinite combined with good fluidity has only been mining coal in recent years, • High quality hard coking coal alternative to Australia according to Scholes. He told Steel Times • Rank/Volatile matter and CSR sits close to optimum coke oven coal blend targets. International that steel industry is familiar • Excellent caking properties. with Vale because of its iron ore business, but the coal industry is less familiar with the company. Vale, headquartered in Brazil, is a leading iron ore mining operation and the second biggest producer of nickel. It produces copper, manganese, ferro alloys, cobalt, platinum and now coal, the latter currently making up a small percentage of the company’s overall business. Dr. Scholes was here in sunny Amsterdam to discuss Mozambique, an African country with a population of around 25 million people and defined by its history. A Portuguese colony until 1975 Mozambique gained its independence The main challenge in Mozambique is plants processing 55Mt/yr of run-of- and dive-bombed into almost 40 years of logistics-related and with this in mind the mine coal to generate 22Mt/yr of export civil unrest. company is investing heavily in rail and product. It will then be transported 912km Vale has embarked upon a coal mining port infrastructure as the mine is several along a new railway line – the Nacala project focused around the Moatize mine, hundred kilometres inland. Corridor railway – to the port of Nacala. which is close to Tete, Mozambique’s 9th The Moatize project embraces two largest city. It has a population of 130,000 Multi-billion dollar investment development phases. Phase one covers and temperatures that can reach 50 The fact that Vale has invested a cool the development of the first wash degrees C. US$7bn in the Moatize project illustrates plant, getting it up and running and “It’s a hot place to work and a relatively the importance the company attaches then shipping coal through the port of poor country,” said Dr. Scholes, explaining to its ‘high quality, large, long-life and Beira. While the wash plant has a 12Mt/ how the African country is a famed expandable asset’. “In a few years time yr capacity, the most product that can exporter of cashew nuts – as well as the market will need coal from new supply travel this route is 6Mt/yr, meaning that, cotton, sugar, prawns and aluminium – regions and, most importantly, it’s not just currently, Vale can produce double what it and now looks set to make a name for volume of coal that the market requires, can get out of Mozambique. itself on the international coal market. it’s hard coking coal, and Moatize can Moatize is an open pit mine with a Vale has been shipping coal from provide it,” Dr. Scholes said. relatively low strip ratio and a low gradient, the Moatize mine since 2011. It has There is an estimated 1.4 billion tonnes meaning it’s suitable for strip mining. “We coal interests in Australia and some of reserves at Moatize spread over a use a combination of shovel loaders and joint ventures in China, but the jewel in concession area of 226 sq km. When fully off-road trucks to get the coal out,” said Vale’s coal crown is the Moatize facility. commissioned there will be two wash Dr. Scholes. * Editor, Steel Times International Steel Times International 2015 www.steeltimesint.com CONFERENCE REPORT Vale BG.indd 1 9/16/15 8:53 AM CONFERENCE REPORT: EUROCOKE 2015 5 Coal inventory and mine sections Reserve statement 2014 (million Mt) Reserves Proven 276 Probable 1,148 Total 1,424 Resource Measured 296 Indicated 1,428 Inferred 762 Total 2,486 Legend Vale License Limit Mining in Section 2A since 2011 River Rai Road Sections 1&4 will be producing from 2016 Road Life of mine plan currently exhausts coal from Sections 5&6 in 2046 Sections 2B, 2C, 2D & 2E have recognised coal deposits, suggestive of significant additional resources to increase mine life beyond 2046 There are six coal seams within the “Multi-billion dollar projects anywhere will a lot of social change is taking place,” said Moatize basin. Coal is extracted from take a long time to get to profit margins Dr. Scholes. the Chipanga seam to produce low-mid given the capital spend,” said Dr. Scholes. volatile matter, prime hard coking coal He explained that Vale is instead counting Looking ahead… products and an export thermal coal its successes to date in other ways.