| • | Total production capacity now exceeds six million tons of sinter per year |
Production operations recently commenced at the new Sinter Plant No. 2 at Dragon Steel Corporation. This 3.8 million t/a sintering facility, which was supplied by Siemens Metals Technologies together with its consortium partner CTCI Corporation, was built in the Taichung harbor area as part of a major campaign by Taiwan’s largest steel producer to expand into the flat-steel market sector. A wide range of innovative technologies and equipment features is installed as the basis for optimized sintering operations, a low energy consumption and minimized environmental emissions.