Infrastructure - Business Overview
The Nile flowing through the city of Cairo. Every autumn, masses of toxic air pollution, known as "black clouds" appear and settle over the Egyptian capital. There is an urgent need to introduce effective technologies to fight such environmental deterioration.
Kureimat Power Plant, which was completed in 2008. Construction of a thermal power station usually takes three to four years.
Thermal power plants are an essential part of energy infrastructure that underpins modern life and industry activities by stably generating and supplying electricity. The role of thermal power generation is expected to remain as vital in the future, whereas this generation system faces a critical challenge: to reduce CO2 emission by taking effective measures, including improved generation efficiency.
Against this backdrop, global attention is focusing on technology for super-critical thermal power generation. This technology allows power plants to achieve higher generation efficiency than the current steam-power generation method by creating higher temperature and higher pressure steam conditions using a boiler designed specially for that purpose, thus reducing the amount of CO2 emitted. This environment-friendly method has recently received greater recognition and has begun to be introduced in power stations worldwide.
Sumitomo Corporation won a contract jointly with Hitachi, Ltd. in September 2009 to supply steam turbine generators for the first super-critical thermal power plant in Egypt. The plant is to be constructed in the Ain Sokhna area located 120 kilometers east-southeast of Cairo, to accommodate domestic electricity demand in Egypt, which is rising every year as the economy and population steadily grow.
This rapidly developing nation expects the Japanese providers of power generating facilities to promote and introduce new technology to protect the environment as well as to help develop essential energy infrastructure across the country at affordable prices.
Staff from the Cairo office, together with Mr. Fukuzawa, the former general manager (third right in the middle row). A total of nearly 30 workers are locally employed or assigned from Japan.
Over 50 years since the 1954 establishment of an office in Cairo, Sumitomo Corporation has been involved in a variety of business projects in Egypt. Achievements we have made over the half century, in particular, in the fields of telecommunications, tubular products and electricity have made significant contributions to the development of modern infrastructure, which is indispensable to the growth of Egyptian power.
Sumitomo Corporation entered the business of thermal power generation facilities in Egypt in 2002, when it received orders from Egyptian client for steam turbine generation units. Following this first contract, the Company has successfully managed six projects in eight years dealing with the provision of a multiplicity of facilities and products used for electricity infrastructure, ranging from steam boilers to substation facilities and power transmission lines.
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