400,000 tpa ilmenite smelting complex for treating beach sands at Richards Bay, South Africa. The end products are Sorelmetal (high purity pig iron) and a high titanium dioxide content slag. Facilities include a roaster plant, a coal charring plant, a smelter with two, 6 electrode-in-line furnaces of 105 MVA rating each and a slag processing plant.

Scope of Services

• Engineering, construction supervision, commissioning and start-up for the smelter complex
• Assistance to Owner’s team for project and construction management
  

Project Highlights

• Design (conceptual through to detail engineering), construction and start-up of a greenfield plant
• Highest powered smelting furnaces of their type in the world