Work continues at the MMC

In the Karauzyak district of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, construction work continues at the Tebinbulak field, where a mining and metallurgical complex (MMC) is being built. The production capacity of the future enterprise for finished products in the form of direct reduction iron will amount to 3.6 million tons/year.

The customer of the project is the Joint Venture “Triangul Metals Tebinbulak” LLC, and the EPC contractor is Enter Engineering. UzLITI Engineering specialists are engaged in the design of auxiliary, infrastructural structures and communications. The field will become part of the integrated metallurgical complex for the production of metallurgical raw materials and steel products to meet the needs of domestic enterprises and other consumers.

Today, the project carries out general construction work at the main technological sites of the MMC:

— DRI plant (production of direct reduced iron with the design capacity of up to 3.6 million tons/year with 2 technological installations).

— off-plot facilities (OPF). Work is underway on concreting the foundations and columns of the Metal Structures Plant (MSP). The supply of machines and equipment is in the process as well;
— technical water pipeline and water treatment and sanitation site;
— access railway (general construction works);
— temporary buildings and structures.

The project area is 680 hectares, more than 500 specialists and more than 140 units of construction and special equipment are involved in the work.

In the near future, work is planned at the main technological facilities of the MMC: the open pit (extraction from 30 to 58 million tons of ore per year to meet the production needs for raw materials) and the processing plant (production of iron ore concentrate from ore in the amount of up to 5 million tons / year).

The implementation of the project will ensure the production of DRI final products (pellets /Fe>92-94%) — 1.8 million tons (stage 1), and a significant social effect will also be achieved in the form of creating new jobs.