NWEPDI Signs Engineering and Survey Contract for Shaanxi Youser Group's Alloy Project

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Northwest Electric Power Design Institute (NWEPDI) (Xi'an, China), a regional subsidiary of China Power Engineering Consultancy Corporation (CPECC) (Beijing), recently signed the engineering and survey contract with Shaanxi Nonferrous Metals Holding Group Company Limited (Shaanxi Youser Group) (Xi'an, Shaanxi) for the 1,650-megawatt (MW) support power plant of Shaanxi Youser Group's Yulin aluminum-magnesium alloy project, CPECC announced on February 23, 2010.

Shaanxi Youser Group is a large-scale enterprise that was established February 28, 2004, based on China National Non-ferrous Metals Xi'an Corporation. The company is mainly engaged in the management and operation of state-owned assets, as well as the development of nonferrous metal resources, with 26 subsidiary units and more than 28,000 employees in service at present.

Shaanxi Youser Group is building a large-scale New Materials Cyclic Economic Industry Park in Jinjitan Town of Yuyang District, Yulin City, with a total planned investment of $2.63 billion. The project will be adopted with the development mode of "integrated coal, power, aluminum and magnesium" to achieve an economic conversion of resources. Construction of the industry park is comprised of a 5,000-ton-per-year polysilicon project; a 300,000-ton-per-year Al-Mg alloy project; a 1,650-MW support power plant; and the associated 8 million-ton-per-year coal mine project.

The company support power plant will be furnished with five 330-MW, direct-air cooling, subcritical, coal-fired cogeneration units in two phases; three 330-MW units will be built in Phase I.

According to the schedule, construction for Phase I is expected to begin in July 2010, and the three units will begin operations in May, August and November 2012, respectively. Construction of Phase II is expected to begin in April 2011, and the two units will begin operation in February and May 2013, respectively.

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