Kobe Steel to Start Selling Upgraded Coal for Power Mills in May
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Kobe Steel Ltd., Japan’s fourth-largest mill, will start selling power-generation coal next month, using its technology to turn low-quality coal into a viable fuel.
The company is in talks with potential customers, including a power company in Asia, to supply the fuel produced at the coal-processing plant in Satui, South Kalimantan, Yukio Akazawa, general manager at the Kobe, Japan-based company’s coal and energy division, said yesterday in an interview in Singapore, without identifying the companies.