The 1st Waste Gasification & Melting Furnace Project in the Republic of Korea Adopts Nippon Steel Pr

In 2002， Nippon Steel Corporation (President Akio Mimura) licensed its Direct Melting System (shaft furnace type gasification and melting furnace) technology to POSCO E&C Co. Ltd. (President Hak-Bong Ko)， an engineering subsidiary of Pohang Iron & Steel Co.， Ltd. of the Republic of Korea. POSCO E&C has recently been qualified as a firm to design and implement Yangsan City’s waste treatment facility construction project (200 ton-per-day capacity)， the ROK’s maiden waste gasification and melting furnace business. The qualification corresponds to a virtual order placement and the formal contract is expected be executed towards the end of April of this year. The completion of the facilities is anticipated to be around autumn of 2006.

Firms that have introduced the state-of-the-art waste treatment technologies from Japan and Europe applied for the project. The above outcome exemplifies the high evaluation of the reliability of Nippon Steel’s Direct Melting System which has the largest number of operating units in the world， as well as the recognition of POSCO E&C’s technical expertise in melting treatment and environmental measures accumulated through steelmaking technology. In the Republic of Korea， waste gasification and melting furnace projects are likely to increase in the future. Nippon Steel will energetically support the business expansion of POSCO E&C and， with the present order receipt as a solid foothold， wishes to further develop environment-related businesses in Asia， Europe and other parts of the world.



Contact for further information about this announcement:

Tsuyoshi Takabatake
Environmental Plant Sales Div.
Phone: +81-3-3275-7951