Sci-tech innovations have always been CISDI Group’s prime strategy.

CISDI closely follows market needs and cutting-edge tech trends and has created benchmark core tech and products which are now driving steel developments around the world.

In the words of the Group’s chairman Xuewen Xiao, spoken the company’s recent sci-tech innovation conference: “An enterprise will not be able to develop or win a market unless it holds core, top-level and creative tech.”

 

²  Innovation - Our Commitment and Achievements

CISDI’s research and development centre pools the expertise of high-calibre, full-time R&D teams. It works across? 20 national and provincial innovation platforms and 7 integrated industry-university-research institute platforms;

We hold over 1,700 patents, six times the number we held a decade ago;

More than 650 sci-tech results have been achieved and 76 awards have been received. Over 85 per cent of the results have been transformed into products and applications;

Our benchmark achievements include some of the world’s most influential projects -Baowu Zhanjiang in China and Formosa Ha Tinh Steel in Vietnam.

 

CISDI’s research and development centre in Chongqing

 

Intelligent robot testing in a CISDI laboratory

 

²  Expert solutions for full steel processes, driving sectoral advancements

CISDI has built world-leading consulting models and methodologies based on the five flows of a steel plant. The consulting solutions are proven optimisers of a steel plant’s systematic, cost-effective and sustainable developments.

Baowu Zhanjiang and Formosa Ha Tinh Steel are outstanding references.

 

Formosa Ha Tinh Steel in Vietnam, which was master-planned by CISDI

 

CISDI’s ECIA stockyard expertise is a world-leader for transforming bulk material handling and storage to unmanned, intelligent and eco-friendly credentials.

Stockyard innovations have won CISDI the number one market share of the globe’s 10Mt/a steel plants.

 

ASSB stockyard in Malaysia, built by CISDI

 

Critical blast furnace tech – our process, design, equipment and control has enabled CISDI to achieve a strong position in the global market. Over 50 per cent of the world’s large blast furnaces with a volume of 4,000 cubic metres have been designed and built by CISDI.

A national sci-tech achievement prize has been granted for this critical tech and applications of high-efficiency, low-consumption blast furnaces.

Baowu Zhanjiang 5,050-cubic-metre blast furnaces, designed by CISDI

 

The CISDI-SACS BOF, with a 4-point linkage suspension system, is China’s first tech of its kind enabling Chinese enterprises to avoid the need for international imports.

CISDI-AutoARC^TM green electric arc furnace expertise features a world first – cascade continuous charging.

Both technologies have been widely used around the world and are achieving world-class performance indicators.

 

A model of CISDI-AutoARC^TM

 

The world’s thickest slab caster (475mm) has been supplied and started up at Minmetals Yingkou.

A super-production quality 2,300mm slab caster has been supplied and started up at Baowu Zhanjiang.

A CISDI-designed billet caster can reach a casting speed of 4.2 metres per second when producing 160mmx160mm billets.

Baowu Zhanjiang’s 2,300mm slab caster features super-quality production. It was supplied by CISDI

 

Through its continual advancements in mill equipment manufacture and control tech, CISDI has become a major supplier for hot rolling mills and automation models.

CISDI has exported core hot mill equipment to the UK, which is now operating smoothly onsite.

 

The hot mill rebuild at the TATA Steel UK Plant, supplied by CISDI

 

CISDI is China’s only supplier for cold rolling line equipment and control models.

The unique cantilever cold rolling mill for producing high-ductility, ribbed bars, designed and manufactured by CISDI

 

CISDI is a leading force in the design and manufacture of 3-roll mandrel pipe mill core equipment for seamless steel tube rolling.

This tech and equipment has successfully applied to multiple Chinese projects.

The 3-roll mandrel pipe mill, designed and manufactured by CISDI

 

The BDCD breakdown mill is a stand-out rolling mill developed by CISDI for long products. CISDI has over 2,000 sets references, including exports to steel plants in Malaysia and India.

A short-stress path rolling mill being manufactured and assembled at CISDI Equipment Co.

 

✧         Intelligent, green manufacturing

Our specialist information and intelligent tech company CISDI Information Tech has built a five-pronged capability system, encompassing an intelligent platform, intelligent methods and products, big data and cloud computing, automation and digital design.

CISDigital is a world first for the steel sector and has contributed to multiple steel production processes, including:

•        Pan-ironmaking centralised control centres

•        Intelligent and eco-friendly stockyards

•        Autonomous locomotives for hot metal transport

•        Intelligent hot-rolled coil warehousing

•        Intelligent wharf systems

•        Intelligent integrated mills

The tech’s first landmark application was for Baowu Shaogang’s pan-ironmaking centralised control centre.

 

The Baowu Shaogang pan-ironmaking centralised control centre, the first implementation of CISDigital products and also a world steel sector first

 

The Baowu Zhanjiang autonomous locomotive for hot metal transport, the world’s first reference for applying AI at a steel plant

 

CISDI is firmly focussed on finding new green methods for steel manufacturing.

Substantial investment has been made to further the company’s research into industrial energy conservation, efficient energy and the treatment of waste gas, waste water and waste solids.

Clients around the world have already benefited from CISDI’s unique green tech and equipment, including the intelligent, eco-friendly stockyard, rotary hearth furnace for solid waste treatment and the efficient utilisation of resources.

Carbon emission reducing developments for new process, flow, material and product are on the agenda and will result in more harmonious relationships between steel plants and cities.

 

 

The rotary hearth furnaces at Baosteel Shanghai, designed by CISDI