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Hoa Phat Group, the largest steel manufacturer in Vietnam, has hot commissioned the second of four converters that will form the core of the company’s new 4 million tonnes/year steel works under construction at Dung Quat in Quang Ngai province in South-central Vietnam.
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China has just put the longest 1,813.5 km Haoji Railway (originally Menghua Railway), a heavy-duty railway line for coal transportation, into operation on September 28, according to a release by the China State Railway Group Co on the very day.
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“Qingdao Port can dock the largest iron ore vessels in the world,” officials from Dongjiakou port, part of Qingdao port operations in East China’s Shandong province, said matter-of-factly. They were leading a field trip of around 20 local and international delegates from the 19th China International Steel & Raw Materials Conference which Qingdao hosted where two recurring themes had been safeguarding China’s voracious appetite for steelmaking raw materials and the challenge the country’s steel industry faces to protect the environment. The visit to Dongjiakou port showed that at this facility anyway, the industry is successfully achieving both.
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It will be by no means easy for China to realize its target to have its top ten steelmakers contribute to 60% of the country’s total steel output by 2020, though all the leading producers are sparing no efforts to work towards the goal, officials from China Baowu Steel Group admitted at the 19th China International Steel & Raw Materials Conference on September 26.
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Baoshan Iron & Steel Co (Baoshan Steel), the Shanghai-listed arm of China Baowu Steel Group, is striving to achieve “green” and “smart” manufacturing to speed the qualitative development of China’s steel industry, Baoshan Steel President Hou Anhui disclosed at the 19th China International Steel & Raw Materials Conference on September 26.
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China Baowu Steel Group Co (Baowu), China’s largest steel producer, is actioning a plan to advance electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmaking, with many EAF steel projects currently under study at its subsidiaries nationwide, a Baowu official confirmed.
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India, now the second largest steel production country in the world, is expected to see its rude steel output grow by about 6% on year to 113 million tonnes in 2019, slightly higher than the 5.1% year-on-year rise for 2018, Nishtha Mukerjee, Head of Research from SteelMint – an Indian steel market intelligence provider, shared at the Asia Steel Forum 2019 on September 19 in Shanghai, China.
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More details have emerged about the major expansion being planned by Baosteel Desheng Stainless Steel Co (Desheng) that could see the company’s capacity triple to nearly 6 million tonnes/year. But crucially, the project’s timeline remains vague, Mysteel Global has learned.
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China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) has approved a new coking coal project in Lvliang city in North China’s Shanxi province, according to a recent notification the administration has released. Named the Wujiamao mine and expected to have a raw coal capacity of 3 million tonnes/year, the project is one of very few new coking coal mines Beijing has approved this year.
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Donghai Steel Group in Tangshan city in North China’s Hebei province, is planning to build a new 4 million tonne/year electric arc furnace-based steel mill in South China’s Guangdong province, a company official confirmed on Tuesday.
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Handan Iron & Steel Group Co (Hangang), a subsidiary of China’s second largest steel producer Hebei Iron & Steel Group (HBIS) and located in Handan city, North China’s Hebei province, is shutting the older of its two steelworks in the city centre and using the scrapped capacity to build a new works in a county nearby, a company official confirmed on Tuesday.
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Hebei Jinxi Iron & Steel Group (Jinxi), China’s leading section steel producer headquartered in Beijing, is planning to relocate its steelworks in Tangshan, in North China’s Hebei province, to Fangchenggang city in South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, according to a recent announcement from Jinxi’s controlling shareholder, China Oriental Group Co (Oriental) on September 3.
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China will adopt “carrot and stick” approach to accelerate the closure of coal mines with their raw coal capacity at or lower than 300,000 tonnes/year so as to curtail their number of such coal mines within 800 by 2021, according to a recent joint statement released by six related ministries responsible for the mission.
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A greenfield steel project in East Malaysia backed by Chinese interests is progressing, albeit very slowly, suggests a recent post by the project’s prime contractor, Metallurgical Corporation of China. MCC was announcing that it had just visited the planned site for the works in Sarawak, and had exchanged views with local officials, Mysteel Global notes.
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Hebei province in North China aims to eliminate 9.99 million tonnes/year of iron and steel capacity within 2019, provincial government officials confirmed on Tuesday, suggesting that the largest steel production province in China is on a steady path to curb its steel-related capacity.
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By the end of December this year, North China’s Shanxi expects to have permanently removed another 19 million tonnes/year of surplus raw coal capacity for both thermal and metallurgical coal by closing 18 mines, according to a plan released by its provincial authority on August 26.
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Three top Chinese administrative organizations – the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), National Development and Reform Commission, and National Energy Administration – will next month launch a campaign of nationwide checks to determine the status of capacity reduction efforts in the country’s steel, coal and power industries, Mysteel Global has learned.
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Four privately-owned steel firms in Wu’an, a county-level city in Handan in North China’s Hebei province, are planning to merge into a single company, sources at the mills confirmed Wednesday.
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Anyang Iron & Steel Group Co (Anyang Steel), a 10 million tonnes/year producer in Anyang city in Central China’s Henan province, has revealed detailed plans for its greenfield steelworks in Zhoukou city, also in Henan, through its subsidiary Angang Zhoukou Iron & Steel Co (Zhoukou Steel).
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Hunan Valin Steel Co (Valin Steel), the Shenzhen-listed arm of Hunan Valin Group in Central China’s Hunan province, saw its sales of premium-quality steel increase by 20.4% on year to 4.48 million tonnes, according to the company’s semi-annual report released recently.
