Harsco Corp. announced that its mill services division has been awarded a ten-year contract valued at more than $60 million over its duration to provide on-site environmental services to ArcelorMittal's Dunkirk steel works in France.
Harsco's award includes the construction of a dehydrating plant that will process the mill's blast furnace and melt shop sludge by-products into reusable filter cake material suitable for use within the steelmaking process as well as other external applications.
The award also includes screening and blending of various by-product materials for on-site recycling to the mill's sinter plant, which produces materials for charging the mill's three blast furnaces.
Work is scheduled to begin by early next year. Harsco's services will enable the mill to replace its previous storage of sludge materials in on-site settling lagoons, now environmentally prohibited by French authorities.