NIPPON STEEL'S SHEET PILES USED FOR SOUTH KOREA'S INCHEON BRIDGE

Posted on: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:52:00 EST


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TOKYO, Nov 26, 2009 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) --
NISTF | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Nippon Steel Corp. (TSE:5401)
said Wednesday that some 16,000 tons of its 38-meter
straight-web sheet piles were utilized to construct the
collision protection structures for the pier foundations of the
Incheon Bridge in South Korea.

The Incheon Bridge, which links Incheon International
Airport with New Songdo City, is the largest bridge in South
Korea and the seventh-largest bridge in the world.

Nippon Steel's straight-web sheet piles are a record 38
meters long, which is 50 per cent longer than normal and long
enough to be used even in deep waters without the need for
extensions and welding.

The Incheon Bridge represents the first use of these piles.
Nippon Steel did not disclose the value of the order, but it is
estimated to have been worth several billion yen.

To build the collision protection structures for the bridge,
the piles were connected in rings to form large cylinders,
which where then filled with sand.

Work on the Incheon Bridge began in 2005 and was just
completed in October of 2009. Nippon Steel made the piles at
its Yawata Works in Fukuoka Prefecture, which is near South
Korea, and began supplying them back in 2007.

(Nikkei)maz

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