South Korean steel major Hyundai Steel has awarded a contract to ThyssenKrupp Uhde for building a new coke plant consisting of four coke oven batteries and a large single train gas treatment unit. The contract will be implemented by a consortium consisting of Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Co Ltd. of South Korea and Uhde GmbH of Dortmund Germany. The first coke oven battery and the gas treatment unit are scheduled to go on stream in late 2009, and will be followed by the commissioning of the other three coke oven batteries by late 2010.

The coke plant, the annual production capacity of which will be 3.2 million tonnes of coke, is part of a new integrated steel mill complex being constructed by Hyundai Steel at Dangjin in Chungnam Province of South Korea. The four coke oven batteries planned will together produce around 8,700 tonnes of coke per day from approximately 11,600 tonnes of coal and will each comprise 60 large capacity coke ovens with a chamber height of 7.6 meters. At the same time, one of the world’s largest gas treatment units with 190,000 meter cube per hour throughput will be installed at the same location.

Uhde’s scope of supplies and services comprises the complete basic engineering, the procurement of special equipment and the supervision of erection and commissioning. The Korean partner will perform the detail engineering and procure all local supplies. The total order value amounts to about EUR 250 million, Uhde’s share being some EUR 150 million.

Uhde is a company in the Technologies segment of the ThyssenKrupp Group and has a workforce of more than 4,100 employees worldwide. The company's activities focus on the engineering and construction of chemical and other industrial plants in fertilizers, electrolysis, gas technologies, oil, coal and residue gasification, refining technologies, organic intermediates, polymers and synthetic fibers and also coke plant and high pressure technologies.