CISDI Expertise

Consulting – leading metallurgy to even higher quality development

An expert consulting services provider, over the last decade CISDI has created outstanding results for some of the world’s biggest steel enterprises – JFE, Baowu Group, TATA Steel, Gerdau Acominas, Formosa Ha Tinh Steel and dozens more, providing services ranging from consulting to design, project management and production and operations management.

Its expertise:

•        Financing feasibility studies: CISDI’s exacting assessment reports are carried out to the standards and international practices determined by top financial institutions.

•        Master plans: CISDI provides expert master plans for the creation of steelworks which are highly cost-effective, performance-advanced and eco-friendly.

•        Project management: CISDI’s globally-sourced integrated supplier management and purchase system conducts digital and internationally-recognised EPC-based project management. It provides tailored consulting services for strategic decision-making, investment control, management of design, procurement and construction and production preparations.

•        Systematic optimisation: CISDI’s toolkit of technology-economy analyses are able to study iron flow, mass flow, energy flow, information flow and emission flow among procedures, interfaces and process flows. MCC’s systematic solutions achieve a dynamic and co-ordinated control of capital and running costs and enhance operation.

•        Operations management services: CISDI’s consulting expertise in operational diagnosis, evaluation and optimisation delves into a steelworks’ systems and an individual plant’s management and technology. CISDI provides practical solutions which improve quality and efficiency and consistently reduce operation costs.

CISDI star project:

Formosa Ha Tinh Steel, Vietnam (10Mt/a Greenfield)

FHS is Southeast Asia’s largest steel enterprise. It has achieved world-class economic and environmental indicators and product competitiveness.

CISDI is the technological lead for FHS’s plan, design, construction, supply and operations management.

China’s 10Mt/a-level green steel system design and full-industrial-chain supplies were exported to the plant over a five-year period.

Full-process core expertise and products:

CISDI provides full-function and full-life-cycle services throughout the steel process.

As a pacesetter for China’s steel engineering sector, CISDI has provided patented technologies and equipment to clients in China and around the globe.

•        Stockyard: Over the last decade, CISDI has undertaken over 170 stockyard projects, supporting around 500 million tonnes of steelworks production capacity, accounting for over 70 per cent of similar projects around the world.

CISDI’s patented ECIA stockyard design and technology creates enclosed storage, which is safer for the environment. The Brownfield stockyard can be upgraded to the ECIA without interfering with production.

•        Blast furnace: CISDI has designed 30 per cent of the world’s mega blast furnaces with volumes of over 4,000 cubic metres. It is a leading supplier of blast furnaces with vanadium-titanium magnetic ores and of blast furnace rebuilds with modular fast revamp expertise.

•        Steelmaking: CISDI is an inventor of the world-leading 4-point linkage suspended BOF (SACS – self-adaptive constraint system). It has created the intelligent, unmanned locomotive for hot metal transport from ironmaking plant to steelmaking, has designed world-class compact hot metal-liquid steel interface arrangements and is an originator of CISDI-AutoARC™.

•        Continuous casting: CISDI has a vast amount of experience, having supplied at least 600 casters of over 2,000 strands to an EPC mode.

Its strengths also run to the design and supply of high-speed special steel continuous casting technology for bloom and round billet, multi-strand billet continuous casting, near-net-shape heavy beam blank continuous casting and full-series slab continuous casting.

•        Flat and long products mill: CISDI’s full-function flat and long product hot-rolling services span design to manufacture, construction, commissioning and operations management.

Record results are being achieved. Wide strip hot-rolling lines can be ramped up in as little as three months and the maximum output exceeds 6Mt/a. The product strength from CISDI-designed skin-pass mill and coil dividing line is China’s first to reach 800MPa and a maximum of 1,500MPa.

CISDI has advanced the wire-rod rolling core process with its equipment and automation control expertise and 2-roll and 3-roll bar mill reducing and sizing expertise. High-speed work-piece charging technology can operate at 40 metres per second as a result.

CISDI’s developments for breakdown mills and short-stress path-rolling mills, slab reheating furnaces and thin-plate heat treatment are enabling product quality to reach world-leading levels.

•        Tubular products mill: CISDI has designed and built over 30 tube mills during the last 15 years - half of those created around the world during that period. Its expertise includes highly-efficient, high-precision 3-roll mandrel pipe mill package supply, high-response hydraulic servo roll gap control, a high-speed heavy-duty mandrel retaining system and online and offline tube heat treatment solutions

CISDI star project:

Online rebuild of Baosteel Shanghai stockyard, China

Annual receiving capacity: approximately 50.95Mt/a

The enclosed rebuild of 13 stockyards has increased efficiency, reduced land coverage by at least 25 per cent and shortened the total length of belt conveyors by at least 10 per cent

CISDI star project:

Formosa Ha Tinh Steel’s blast furnace 1 and 2, Vietnam

This project was China’s first export of mega blast furnace expertise and equipment. CISDI lead on the EPC-based construction and technical assistance.

CISDI star project:

Baosteel Meishan 280-tonne CISDI-SACS BOF, China

Fully home-made, the largest tonnage of SACS BOF in China