ASSB’s wire rod mill in pilot production stage

The reheating furnace for ASSB’s high-speed wire rod mill 2 has discharged its first hot billet, triggering the mill into pilot production.

The walking-beam reheating furnace has been built by CISDI on an EPC basis. Its rated hourly output is designed to achieve 140 tonnes, producing carbon steel, standard and cold-charged billets.

It runs on an air-gas dual regenerative combustion method and distributes a single row of stock billets. Its inlet and outlet roller tables enable side charge and side discharge of billets and its posts and beams are evaporation-cooled.  

ASSB is now Malaysia’s largest and most automated integrated steelworks. Since its full-process start-up last August, the site has achieved lower emissions than local standards and achieved ZLD targets and 100 per cent slag recycling. The current production capacity has exceeded design expectations.

ASSB has become Malaysia’s emerging foreign-funded enterprise. Products are oriented to Southeast Asia‘s demand for local building materials.

CISDI is ASSB’s general designer and core equipment package supplier.