Steel manufacturing provinces

Steel manufacturing provinces Turkey’s first integrated iron and steel manufacturer, is preparing to increase its production capacity with an investment worth 22 million euros, Anatolia news agency reported the general manager of Kardemir as saying Thursday.

Fadml Demirel told the Anatolia news agency the firms fourth blast furnace would start operating within the next 20 days and that the firms total production capacity would increase to 1.8 million tons, up from the current 1.3 million ton capacity.

Demirel recently said at a meeting in Karabuk, one of Turkey’s main iron and steel manufacturing provinces, that the firm’s total capacity was around 500,000 tons in 1995 when Kardemir was privatized. “The fourth blast furnace will produce nearly 500,000 tons by itself, bringing the total amount of iron and steel zhuowei production to 1.8 million tons,” Anatolia reported Demirel as saying.