en.Wedoany.com Reported - Northeast China Metallurgy Co., Ltd. (NCM) officially signed a general contracting agreement in early July with Tajikistan's KMT Mining and Metallurgy Company for a production line project with an annual capacity of 500,000 tons of electric furnace steelmaking and 261,000 tons of rebar.
Tajikistan is rich in mineral resources but has long lacked a complete steel deep-processing industrial chain, with steel heavily reliant on imports. The KMT project is NCM's first landmark project in the Tajikistan market, with initial construction covering core ironmaking operations such as open-pit mining, beneficiation, tailings ponds, and a 1-million-ton pellet production line. Since the project commenced, NCM has leveraged its proprietary complete ironmaking metallurgical technology and full-chain general contracting service capabilities to advance site construction, equipment installation, and safety management, earning recognition from the owner for its construction achievements. Building on the performance of the first-phase project, NCM has successively secured waste heat power generation, steelmaking, and rolling projects, achieving a closed-loop layout of the "mine-pellet-steelmaking-rolling" full-process metallurgical engineering in Tajikistan.
The newly signed electric furnace steelmaking and rebar rolling project plans an annual capacity of 500,000 tons of short-process electric furnace steelmaking, supported by a 261,000-ton rebar production line. Upon completion, the project will leverage the existing raw material supply system to achieve local conversion and deep processing of iron ore resources, producing construction-grade rebar. This will fill the gap in Tajikistan's domestic high-quality steel production, reduce the country's dependence on steel imports, and improve the integrated industrial system of "mineral resource development—smelting and processing—end-use building material supply."
NCM stated that, taking this contract signing as a new starting point, it will advance all aspects of the KMT project to facilitate its implementation and commissioning.
