Gov`t steeling themselves for Japanese plant report

Hanoi (VNA) - Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has granted permission to the
Japanese JFE group to conduct a pre-feasibility report on a steel plant planned for
Dung Quat economic zone, in the central province of Quang Ngai .

The report has been commissioned to help clarify the project's objectives,
investment scale and its estimated timescale for implementation, as well as
investigating its product category, the equipment and technology needed, total
infrastructural facility investment, site clearance procedures and environmental
protection measures.

Based on the report's findings, as well as suggestions from the relevant ministries
and branches, the Government will consider incorporating the project into its steel
development plan, which runs until 2025.

The 5 million USD steel plant is predicted to produce between 6 and 10 billion
tonnes of crude steel per year.

All exhaust gases produced during the production process will be reused for the
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