Chinese equipment maker to supply galvanizing plant to Saudi power and telecoms firm

Xuzhou RITMAN Equipment Co., Ltd. (RITMAN), a Chinese maker of ‘niche’ metal surface treatment equipment based in Jiangsu’s Xuzhou city, north of Shanghai, has contracted to supply galvanizing facilities to a Saudi supplier of steel long products used in electricity and telecommunications applications, Riyadh-headquartered Al-Babtain Power & Telecom.

RITMAN is supplying hot dip galvanizing plant including a 9 m × 1.8 m × 2.8 m cubic metre zinc pot equipped with RITMAN's advanced automation controls that will boost Al-Babtain's output of corrosion-resistant angle steel used in power transmission towers, telecom infrastructure, and renewable energy projects, according to a RITMAN release.