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SULB

SULB Company BSC (Closed) is the Middle East region’s first fully integrated medium and heavy beams and structural steel sections producer. Located in the Kingdom of Bahrain, SULB is a joint venture between Foulath Holding BSC (Closed), the Middle East’s leading steel investment vehicle and holding company (owning 51% of SULB), and Japan’s Yamato Kogyo Co., Ltd, a leading global beams and structural sections producer (owning 49% of SULB).

SULB’s facilities are being established within Foulath’s existing state-of-the-art steel production complex located in Bahrain’s Hidd Industrial Area.

The facility will be comprised of a Direct Reduction Iron Plant (DRI Plant) with a nameplate capacity of 1.5 million tons per year (mtpy), which is capable of producing 1.8 mtpy, and a Melt Shop (MS) and Heavy Section Rolling Mill (HSM) with nameplate capacity of 0.8 mtpy, which is capable of producing 1.0 mtpy.

SULB will be the lowest cost producer of its kind in the world and, once fully operational, will replace approximately 14% of the current imports of medium and heavy beams and structural sections into the Middle East markets.

The project is being developed in co-operation with world leading steel industry and technical partners.

It is expected that SULB will begin commercial operations by the second half of 2012.

 

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