The largest component of Cominco’s new lead smelter at Trail, B.C., will be built by ebco Industries, a company from Richmond, B.C. Lurgi Canada, a subsidiary of Lurgi GmbH of West Germany, has placed an order worth about $1 million with ebco to build a 210-tonne steel shell for the smelter. Lurgi, which developed the technology for the new smelter, is under contract to Cominco Ltd. When the smelter goes into production in 1989, it will be one of the most- efficient and environmentally clean lead-smelting operations in the world. The new technology for the smelter — called qsl — uses oxygen at high temperatures to perform all the smelting functions in one vessel, a reactor that replaces the sinter plant and blast furnaces used in the old smelter.
Ebco will build a 41-m- long cigar-shaped shell for the reactor. It will be built and shipped in eight sections, the largest reaching a diameter of 5.28 m. The thickness of the steel will vary from 30 to 50 mm. Because of the oversized dimensions of the sections, they will be shipped by rail and special trucks to Trail during the first quarter of 1988.
Cominco Engineering Services, a subsidiary of Cominco, is providing the engineering, procurement and construction of the $171-million modernization project now under way.
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