[SMM News] Steel structure of OM ferroalloy project in Malaysia begins to be installed.

SMM4, 25 March: recently, according to the China Seventeen Metallurgical Group, on the morning of April 8, with the formal start of the hoisting of the steel structure, the steel columns were steadily lifted and accurately installed in the designated position. The steel structure of the sintering plant of Malaysia OM ferroalloy project has officially entered the installation stage. It is reported that the OM ferroalloy project is located in the Samalaju Industrial Park in Minduru City, Sarawak State, Malaysia, 60 kilometers away from Mindu Lu City, with a total of five sub-projects. The construction content includes pile foundation engineering, construction engineering, electrical installation engineering, steel structure engineering and general plan road construction, etc., with a total construction period of 276 days.

Sarawak, Malaysia is located in the north of Borneo, its southern border with Indonesia, north of Brunei and Sabah, Malaysia is the largest state, OM ferroalloy project is located here. As early as November last year, Malaysia OM ferroalloy company sintering plant expansion project by China Seventeen Metallurgical Group Housing Engineering and Technology Branch officially started.

According to OM Holdings, which reported fourth quarter 2018 results, the company traded a total of 504895 tons of ore and alloys in the fourth quarter, down about 10 per cent from 559576 tons in the third quarter as a result of a decline in third-party ore transactions. World crude steel production from January to November 2018 was 1.64 billion tons, an increase of 6 per cent over the same period in 2017. OM Materials (Sarawak) owns a ferroalloy smelter in the Samalaju Industrial Park in Sarawak, Malaysia. The plant consists of eight main workshops and 16 25.5 MVA furnaces, of which 10 are used to produce ferrosilicon and 6 are used to produce manganese alloys. The plant can produce about 200000 to 210000 tons of ferrosilicon and 250000 to 300000 tons of manganese alloy per year.

As of December 31, 2018, a total of 16 furnaces were in operation, of which 9 furnaces produced standard grade ferrosilicon, 1 furnace produced refined ferrosilicon and 6 furnaces produced manganese alloy. Furnace production exceeded designed capacity in the fourth quarter of 2018, with ferrosilicon producing 57592 tons of "FeSi" and manganese alloys (mainly involving silicon-manganese "SiMn" and high-carbon ferromanganite "HCFeMn") 61734 tons. Production of ferrosilicon in the fourth quarter was comparable to that in the third quarter of 2018, with manganese production up about 11 per cent from the previous quarter. In terms of sales, 60222 tons of ferrosilicon and 64474 tons of manganese alloy were sold in the fourth quarter, 61179 tons of ferrosilicon and 57097 tons of manganese alloy in the third quarter.

OM Materials (Sarawak) Q4 production and sales:

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