Work on hot strip mill starts at Zhanjiang Steel

Construction of the hot strip mill for Zhanjiang Steel Phase II has begun.

CISDI’s CEO Zhaohui Yu attended the ground-breaking ceremony on behalf of the hot mill and downstream cold mill suppliers.

CISDI is the engineering company responsible for the hot mill, which has a designed production capacity of 4.50 million tonnes a year and is scheduled to start up in August 2021.

Phase II’s rolling mills will produce hot-rolled high-tensile strips, cold-rolled high-tensile strips and high-strength pickled strips.

CISDI will apply model-based fully automatic rolling technology and design the mill as a highly-automated and ultra-efficient, eco-friendly digital production line.

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CISDI will implement the general design for Phase II, plus plant designs for the stockyard, blast furnace, continuous casting, hot strip mill and utilities and part of package supplies.

Blast furnace 3 will be blown-in by July 2021, enabling Zhanjiang Steel Phase II to produce 4.02 million tonnes of hot metal a year, and 3.60 million tonnes of liquid steel, 4.50 million tonnes of hot-rolled strips and 1.66 million tonnes of cold-rolled strips. 

By July 2021, the entire steelworks will have a production capacity of 12.25 million tonnes of hot metal, 12.528 million tonnes of liquid steel and 10.81 million tonnes of strips a year.