Doosan Vina begins with the first Power Shipment to Vinh Tan 4 TPP in 2016

The shipment had a total weight of 354 tons and included: coils, panels and headers.  This is the twelfth of seventeen planned shipments that will be required to send the nearly 35,550 tons of “Made in Vietnam” power plant equipment to the VT4 project.  All the boiler manufacturing for VT4 is being carried out in Vietnam by Vietnamese.  Nearly 2,500 skilled Vietnamese Engineers and Technicians at Doosan Vina’s state-of-the–art heavy industrial complex in Vietnam’s Central Province of Quang Ngai’s have been working on the project.  The final shipment is due to take place at the end of June, right on schedule.

Kim Yong Soo - Deputy General Director of Doosan Vina. said: "With this first shipment of 2016, the Year of the Monkey is off to a great start, I want to thank and congratulate all the employees of the Boiler Shop who have worked so hard to meet the deadlines and deliver the product on time, they also deserve high praise for their excellence in workmanship that has produced a high quality product that was made by Vietnamese in support of the country’s industrialization goals."

The Vinh Tan 4 thermal power plant broke ground on March 9th 2014 and is a project of Electricity of Viet Nam (EVN). The project consortium includes Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) and Power Generation Corporation 3 (EVNGENCO3), Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction (DHI, Korea), Mitsubishi Corporation (MC, Japan), Pacific Corporation (PAC, Vietnam) and Power Engineering Consulting Joint Stock Company 2 (EVNPECC2, Vietnam),

The project consists of two 600 MW units, for a total installed capacity of 1,200 MW (2x600MW).  The annual power output is expected to be about 7.2 billion kWh. The total investment for the project is over 36 trillion VND or $1.7 billion.

Doosan Vina is a high tech industrial complex in the Dung Quat Economic Zone of Central Vietnam’s Quang Ngai Province employing nearly 2,500 Vietnamese. The company supplies the mega infrastructure products that make modern life a reality. Doosan Vina’s products include: Boilers for thermal power plants, Heat Recovery Steam Generators that increase the efficiency of a typical power plant by over 30%, Desalination plants the size of a football pitch that turn sea water into fresh, Material Handling Systems like the cranes that are the heart of logistics at ports around the world and Chemical Processing Equipment that turns the earth’s natural resources into the useful products we use every day.

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