Baowu Zhanjiang Steel’s latest construction project begins

Baowu Group’s Zhanjiang Steel plant has staged a groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of its blast furnace 3-centred systems.

Derong Chen, chairman of Baowu Group, announced the start of construction and Genghong Sheng, president of Zhanjiang Steel, hosted the ceremony.

Xuewen Xiao, chairman of CISDI Group, addressed attendees on behalf of the engineering companies involved in Zhanjiang’s projects. “CISDI has been a trusted partner of the Baowu Group for the last forty years. We are both innovation-driven Chinese enterprises and have worked side by side on a number of game-changing projects both at home and abroad,” said Mr Xiao.

“CISDI’s strides in technological research and development have created new processes, new materials and new methodologies for the steel industry.

“We are applying green and intelligent manufacturing expertise and products to the construction of Baowu and will be making pace-setting contributions to maximise the company’s competitiveness and further its pursuit of a top ranking amongst the world’s steel giants.

“It will be the most advanced, most efficient and most competitive green steelworks in China, and a real showcase of the talents of all contractors involved in the build.”

Zhanjiang’s BF 3-centred systems will cost $2.8 billion USD and will be created to full-process ultra-low emission standards, observing the principles of high efficiency, high quality, low cost and simplicity.

They will include a new sinter, coke oven, blast furnace, BOF, continuous caster, hot strip mill, cold mill and relevant utilities.

Blast furnace 3 is due to be blown-in during July 2021. On completion, annual hot metal production will have been increased by 4.02 million tonnes and liquid steel by 3.60 million tonne. Production of hot-rolled strips will be increased by 4.50 million tonnes and cold-rolled strips by1.66 million tonnes.

Zhanjiang Steel’s annual total hot metal production capacity will amount to 12.25 million tonnes, liquid steel to 12.528 million tonnes and rolled products to 10.81 million tonnes.

Zhanjiang Steel’s groundbreaking ceremony

Xuewen Xiao addresses attendees at the groundbreaking ceremony on behalf of the engineering companies who are working together on Zhanjiang Steel’s BF 3-centred systems