Harsco Corp.’s MultiServ division has been awarded three contracts to service the Saudi Arabian steel industry. The contracts are valued at more than $34 million.
Under a new five-year contract, MultiServ has been selected to provide a range of scrap management and material processing services at the Al-Rajhi Steel meltshop now under construction in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The new electric arc furnace mill, due to be commissioned in the first quarter of this year, is expected to produce up to 850,000 tons of steel per year, providing steel billets to Al-Rajhi's hot rolling division mills in Jeddah and Riyadh. Al-Rajhi Steel Industries is a leading producer of merchant long products and commercial and cold rolled steel serving the Middle East construction and infrastructure markets.
Under two separate five-year contracts, MultiServ will expand its ongoing services at the Hadeed (Saudi Iron and Steel Company) mill, assuming additional responsibilities for on-site raw material handling and steel plant services. Hadeed is the Gulf Region's largest steel producer with an annual production output of more than four million tons.
MultiServ's contracts call for the operation and support of two mill-owned dockside gantry cranes to offload incoming iron ore from ocean-going ships, and the monitoring and maintenance of the mill's eight mile conveyor belt system.
The conveyor services contract reflects MultiServ's expanding capabilities for providing conveyor belt management services, an outgrowth of Harsco's acquisitions in 2005 and 2006 of two leading providers of conveyor belt management and maintenance services to the steel industry and other industrial clients.
MultiServ will also assume responsibility for the regular processing and clean-out of Hadeed's steelmaking ladles, tundishes and Electric Arc Furnace refractories, taking over work previously performed by a local contractor, and before that, by the mill itself.