Thursday, July 8, 2010

The contract is worth nearly EUR 13 million and includes the manufacture, delivery and installation of the steel frame structures and foundations for the boiler and auxiliary equipment buildings.

The size of the new power plant unit is reflected in the fact that the around 2,500-square-metre boiler plant will be almost 67 metres tall, roughly the height of a 20-storey building. The new unit will be commissioned toward the end of 2012. After the new unit is commissioned, the entire Połaniec power plant, the largest in southeast Poland, will have an output of over 7 terawatt-hours of power energy per year, equal to the supply for over 2 million households.

"The design and manufacture of structures for industrial buildings is always demanding because the structures must be capable of supporting very heavy loads. In all Central Eastern European countries, our design expertise and project management can be integrated into construction projects from an early stage of the project to installation. This means we can work with the customer to identify the best construction solutions to provide the best value and structural performance for the customer," says Jouni Metsämäki, Senior Vice President, Central Eastern Europe, Ruukki Construction.

Manufacture of the steel structures will begin at Ruukki's plant in Oborniki, Poland in August. Deliveries will last about seven months.

In the project, Ruukki's customer is Foster Wheeler Energia Polska, which is part of the Foster Wheeler Global Power Group. The developer is GDF SUEZ Energia Polska S.A., the fifth largest power producer in Poland. The power plant unit will be located on the Vistula river, near Połaniec in the Świętokrzyskie voivodeship.

Ruukki has long experience of large power plant projects. Last year, the company supplied, for example, the power plant frame and envelope manufacturing and installation for Metso Power in Finland and the steel frame and envelope structures for Fortum's combined heat and power plant in Estonia.