ASSB’s high-speed wire rod mill and No.2 bar mill were successfully started up and put through a test run at the end of last year.

This successful startup occurred only twelve months after order placement.

During the test run, the high-speed wire rod mill’s maximal rolling speed was set at 105m/s and the No.2 bar mill’s speed at 45m/s, which compete with global mill statistics.

Project-based company ASSB - Alliance Steel (M) SDN BHD - is the first project in the Malaysia-China Kuantan Industrial Park.

Once completed, it will be the biggest steelworks in Malaysia and the most competitive producer of high-quality long products in Southeast Asia.

Its production target of 3.50 million tonnes a year of high-end bars, wire rods and H sections will supply demand in Southeast Asia.

CISDI is responsible for the process design and package equipment supply of the mills as part of its contract to produce ASSB’s overall design, logistics management and core equipment package supply. The project is a prime example of the Chinese engineering company’s excellence in design, manufacture, automation commissioning and system integration.

The automaton-controlled mills are the most technologically advanced in Malaysia and were completed to a tight construction schedule significantly shorter than timescales for similar projects around the world.

CISDI’s independently researched and developed equipment installed at ASSB includes short-stress path rolling mills, flying shears and DC main drives. Applied key technologies include direct rolling, groove-free rolling, no-twist rolling, high-speed rolling and TMCP (Thermo Mechanical Control Process).

CISDI-supplied mill stands at ASSB

The laying head test run takes place at ASSB’s high-speed wire-rod mill

CISDI engineers and SV employees give commissioning guidance at the ASSB site