CISDI’s expertise and its numerous successful references for V-Ti magnetic iron ore smelting have won the company work at Russia’s Suroyam mining project.

CISDI and GHP Russia have now signed a feasibility study contract for the development of the vanadium-titanium magnetic iron ore smelting complex in the Chelyabinsk region.

The studies will examine methods of mining, beneficiation, sintering, bulk material handling, blast furnace ironmaking, vanadium-extracted converter, continuous casting, vanadium production and plant-wide utilities.

The complex aims to produce 1.20 million tonnes of blooms a year.

CISDI will bring to the project its expertise gained from independently designing China’s first large steel complex, Panzhihua Steel (also known as Pangang). Its blast furnace 4, designed by CISDI, is renowned across China for its smelting of V-Ti magnetic iron ore.

CISDI has now designed almost all of China’s blast furnaces for V-Ti magnetic iron ore smelting.

The CISDI-designed Pangang blast furnace 4, smelting V-Ti magnetic iron ore