China’s Hunan to build a 5 mln t/y bar rolling mill

A new factory for producing small-diameter bar-in-coil is being built in Central China’s Hunan province, with the first phase of the eventual 3-stage project to commission by the end of September, an official from Anyang Heli Techtronic Co, the project’s major investor, said Tuesday.

Significantly, the plant will incorporate new technology developed by Heli Techtronic to cold-roll the BIC from ordinary carbon steel rounds. Stage 1 will host eight cold-rolling machines and will have a capacity of 800,000 tonnes/year, Mysteel Global learned from a company official. The mill, located in the Chenglingji new port