CISDI and Zenith Steel are joining forces to build a world-leading green steel plant intelligently manned by robots.

The steel base will produce world-class bars and wire rods in Nantong City in the Jiangsu Province.

To ensure world-leading competitiveness on costs, the highly energy-efficient plant will be built with a wide-range centralised control system, an intelligent manufacturing control platform and automation control system, all manned by highly-advanced industrial robots.

The steel sector giants signed a co-operation agreement at Zenith Group’s HQ in Changzhou City in China’s Jiangsu Province, hot on the heels of a strategic agreement signed in May.

CISDI will provide EPC plus management services throughout the construction process.

At the signing, CISDI’s chairman, Xuewen Xiao, and Caiping Dong, the chairman and president of Zenith Steel, pledged to create a highly intelligent, energy-efficient, long products steel base with strong green credentials which would rival producers around the globe.

Hang Zou, the director of CISDI, and Guoquan Zhou, executive director and vice president of Zenith, are pictured signing the co-operation agreement to build a prime steel base

Fact file:

Zenith Steel was established in September 2001 and boasts an annual production capacity of 12 million tonnes. With its business revenue exceeding $18.3 billion in 2019, the company’s portfolio spans steel, modern logistics, foreign trade, education and sports.

Its core products are building steels, industrial bars and wire rods and hot-rolled strips. These products are widely used for rail tracks, automobile bearing and shipbuilding anchor chains and by the petrochemical, marine engineering, nuclear power and wind power sectors.