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The project won the
Project Management
Institute Project of
the Year Award in
Québec. UGS is
at Sorel-Tracy,
Québec, on the
St. Lawrence River.
The project was then entered
into the International Project of
the Year competition, against
competitors from more than 60
nations, and Rio Tinto captured
that honor as well.
It was a global project:
• All the main production
equipment was designed at
Hatch Mississauga in Canada;
• The preliminary design studies
were completed in Hatch
Montréal and Hatch Sorel-
Tracy; and
• The structural engineering
and steel detailing of the
Slag-Preparation Plant were
assigned to the team at
Woodmead, South Africa.
Hatch's scope of services were
engineering, procurement and
construction management, i.e.
the “full EPCM.”
Hatch also designed the process
equipment including the
reactor, dryer, and classifier; and
programmed the controls.
More than 400 piping,
mechanical, and electrical tie-ins
were needed.
A dozen major pieces of
equipment were installed.
Through it all, production
continued without interruption.
The Acid-Leach Plant was on
stream after two days. The
Slag-Preparation Plant was
operational in a week.
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