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Shagang Group, China’s largest private steel producer in East China’s Jiangsu province, has revised its steelmaking facility upgrading plan by adding a 90-tonne electrical arc furnace (EAF) to be scrapped in exchange for a 130-t EAF in the latest notice for public review over December 12-18, an official from the Industry and Information Technology Department of Jiangsu (Jiangsu IITD) confirmed on Thursday.
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China’s production of raw coal for all uses from all coal mines nationwide increased by 4.9% on year to reach 3.7 billion tonnes for 2018, making for a second straight year of growth in coal production, according to a new report from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on December 9.
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Hebei Jinxi Iron & Steel Group (Jinxi), China’s leading section steel producer headquartered in Beijing, has secured another 1.35 million tonnes/year steel capacity for its final location to the Fangchenggang city, Southwest China’s Guangxi with a 10 million t/y greenfield steelworks, a company official confirmed on December 5.
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Rizhao Steel Holding Group Co, a privately-owned steel producer in East China’s Shandong province, will add on 5 million tonnes/year ironmaking capacity via building two 3,000 cu m blast furnaces, a company official confirmed on December 4.
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Bazhou City Xinya Metal Products Co (Xinya), a flat strip and tube maker headquartered in Langfang city in North China’s Hebei province, has started constructing its 1.5 million tonnes/year flat products works in Indonesia, which it expects to commission at the beginning of 2021, a company official supervising the project told Mysteel Global on November 29.
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Power generation from non-fossil energy sources across China picked up speed over January-October, with the growth of all major renewable energy sources outpacing that of thermal electricity generation, according to a report by the China Electricity Council (CEC) on November 27.
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Industry and Information Technology Department of Jiangsu is collecting public feedback over November 20-27 regarding the proposal from Shagang Group, its largest local steel mill to trade in eight old small-sized blast furnaces for two 2,350 cu m blast furnaces or 4 million tonnes/year steel capacity according to a bureau’s notice, which is for lower emission and at the same time cost effectiveness.
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Steel market sources in and out of China are divided on the recent news that Jingye Group, a privately-owned rebar maker in North China’s Hebei province, is mulling to acquire British Steel, arguing possible new markets will also bring along a series of uncertainties.
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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.
