Tsukishima Kikai Co., Ltd. (“Tsukishima Kikai”, President and CEO: Kazuhiko Yamada) and STX Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. of Korea announce that have signed the contract to supply Sea Water Flue Gas Desulfurization facility (hereinafter; SWFGD ) for Jorf Lasfar Coal Fired Power Plant (350MW x 2 ) in Morocco.

SWFGD has some advantages over other flue gas desulfurization in that SWFGD needs less investment for its facilities and that it does not generate by-product. Also SWFGD has less environmental burden because it does not discharge waste. Sea water after desulfurization is treated with aeration and return into sea directly.

Moreover, Moretana process introduced this time is the most suitable for long term operation. A lot of customers where reliability is emphasized the most such as power plant are highly reputed, especially.

SWFGD, the latest gas desulfurization technology, is expected positive adoption in many countries and areas as well as rising countries in Asia, Middle East and Near East and South America where electric power is in high demand.

Now Tsukishima Kikai is making number of bid for other SWFGD projects, the same as the one in Morocco, for mainly rising nations.

Tsukishima Kikai willingly promotes various equipments and systems in an electrical field in order to contribute to environmental conservation from now on.