CISDI and Shaogang unite their strengths for a brighter steel future

Shaogang Steel has signed a strategic co-operation agreement with CISDI.

At the signing, Xuewen Xiao, CISDI’s chairman, expressed his appreciation for the two decades of trust shown in his company by Shaogang.

CISDI was awarded the contract to create an intelligent manufacturing centre at Shaoguan Steel in late 2018. The first of its kind in China, the centre will redefine Shaogang as a modernised and intelligent steel producer.

CISDI is tasked with creating a big data centre, a series of online intelligent mathematical models and an upstream-BF integrated management and control platform, which will enable intelligent production of upstream-BF units and energy media.

“Both parties are cementing the mutual trust they have built by working together on the groundbreaking project, Shaogang Intelligent Centre,” commented Mr Xiao.

“We are merging our respective strengths to meet the challenges and opportunities ahead in steel transformation, upgrading and intelligent manufacturing.

He added: “We will be working together to research and develop new technologies and new methodologies which will transform the future steel industry.”

Operating under the Baowu Group, Shaogang is a major steel base in southern China.

The hi-tech enterprise is an important producer of steel plate for shipbuilding and its annual output of plates, wire rods and bars can reach six million tonnes.

During the signing of the new agreement, Shaogang’s chairman, Shiping Li, described CISDI as a critical partner and praised the role CISDI is playing in the creation of its intelligent centre.

He commented: “Shaogang and CISDI need to work on the great progress they have already made on intelligence to seize steel development opportunities and push the steel industry forward to ever higher quality production.”

The agreement is signed between CISDI and Shaogang