ASSB’s steelworks in Malaysia is now on track to produce 3.50 million tonnes of high-end wire rods, bars and H sections for the ASEAN and surrounding markets.

Its BOF1 and Continuous Caster 2 were successfully hot-commissioned in mid June.

The completion of the production chain from Blast Furnace 1 to BOF 1 and Caster 2 marks the successful building of all units supplied by CISDI on an EP basis. The whole line now enters its pilot production stage.

Steelmaking shop: Having designed and built over 100 BOFs for steelmaking clients, CISDI used its vast experience to ensure dramatically improved efficiency, guaranteed equipment performance and a well-run project schedule at ASSB.

Applications include CISDI’s self-adaptive constraint system, the 4-Point Linkage Suspension System. Its advantages include the ability to absorb a large degree of deformation. It has lightweight facilities, simple structures and is easy to maintain.

Continuous casting shop: The hot-commissioned caster 2 is a seven-strand billet caster which adopts a hot-charge process.

Billet is cut at a high temperature and charged into the hot mill by the high-speed roller table.

This direct hot charge and rolling process reduces heat loss, and means billet does not need to be reheated by the reheating furnace.

Other installations feature a high degree of automation and improve safety and product quality - including tundish continuous temperature measurement, automatic control of the mould level, automatic addition of mould’s protective slag, secondary cooling automatic control and strand’s surface temperature measurement.

ASSB Steelmaking and Casting Shop has thanked CISDI for the effectiveness of its project team, who had to manage a tight schedule and the complex co-ordination of overseas partners.

The first heat of liquid steel is produced

Qualified billets being cast by Caster 2 at ASSB

CISDI’s site supervision services team at ASSB