wiredInUSA February 2018

Growing rebar exports

New power for Nepal

Image: www.tamakoshihydro.org.np Nepal’s national grid was boosted by new installed capacity of around 150MW during 2017. New projects will continue to come online during 2018, including the 30MWChameliya hydropower project that was due to begin generating in January. The 456MW Upper Tamakoshi hydropower project, owned by the NEA, is nearing completion, and is set to generate electricity in July. Together with the hydropower projects, the energy sector has achieved a major milestone in the area of transmission line construction with the 132kV Blanch-Attariya transmission line. The line is already in operation, carrying electricity produced by the Chameliya hydropower facility. Cross-border transmission lines are also to be developed between Nepal and India, and Nepal and China.

The Iranian trade attaché to Iraq, Naser Behzad, has announced that South Rouhina Steel Complex has sent 500 tons of rebar, worth $250,000, to Iraq. “Exports to Iran have paved the way for sending standard goods,” he said. South Rouhina Steel Complex currently has the capacity to produce around 500,000 tons of rebar per year, and the figure is expected to increase to three million tons within two years. The company was founded in 2010, on a 100 hectare site in Khouzestan province, located 7km from Dezful. Rouhina Steel has two steel rolling mills and a steel making facility said to have the potential to be among Iran’s main exporters of steel products. $250,000 worth of rebar has been exported to Iraq

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