Thursday, January 16th, 2014
SEOUL, KOREA - Hyundai Steel said on January 14 that it won an order to supply all 43,000 tons of thick steel plates to be used for Istanbul's third bridge on the Bosphorus. Under construction by Hyundai Engineering & Construction and SK Engineering & Construction, the Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge, a hybrid of suspension and cable-stayed bridge, will be culmination of latest construction technologies.
Of the 43,000-ton steel plates, about 30,000 tons will be a high-performance product (S460ML) capable of withstanding under extreme temperature conditions such as 50 degrees below zero. This is the first time a Korean steel maker to win a large-scale order of this product.
Earlier, Hyundai Steel had succeeded in winning steel products for the International Financial Center in Busan and the Federation of Korean Industries headquarters building. A company official said, "Based on the latest supply contract from Turkey, we will work to get orders for infrastructure projects under way in Qatar for the 2022 World Cup."