ABB (www.abb.com) has won an order worth approximately $62 million from Vale to supply electrification and automation systems and related equipment for a new iron-ore-pellet plant in Oman. The new Vale plant, 230 kilometers northwest of Muscat, is expected to produce up to 10-million ton/yr of iron ore pellets. Scheduled to start operations at the end of 2010, the facility will provide the Middle East region with iron ore and pellets for the steel industry.
ABB wins order for new iron-ore plant in Oman
| By Dorothy Lozowski