Ruukki has agreed a contract to deliver the steel structures for a new unit to be built at the Połaniec power plant. The unit will be one of the world’s largest power plants fuelled by biomass. 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 2500sq/m boiler plant will be almost 67m tall, roughly the height of a 20-storey building. The new unit will be commissioned to ward 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. 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 power plant unit will be located on the Vistula river, near Połaniec in the Świętokrzyskie voivodeship.
