Dexin Steel ignites 1st blast furnace in Indonesia

The Chinese-Indonesian joint venture PT Dexin Steel Indonesia (Dexin Steel) blew-in the first of a pair of 1,780 cu m blast furnaces at its steelworks in the Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park (IMIP) in Central Sulawesi province on February 21 after nearly two years of construction, according to a release the same day from WISDRI Engineering & Research Incorporation (WISDRI), the project’s building contractor.

Construction on the two blast furnaces started in April 2018. The twin furnaces are a key part of Dexin Steel’s new 3.5 million tonnes/year integrated steelworks in Morowali, which also includes two 230 cu m sintering machines, three 600 tonnes/day lime kilns and two 5.5-meter coke ovens, Mysteel Global