Construction of steelmaking and strip mill begins at Baosteel Zhanjiang’s Phase II

Baosteel Zhanjiang has begun construction of its steelmaking and strip mill projects.

CISDI has been tasked with the design of the continuous casting plant, and will package-supply the equipment for the casting platform, the mechanical maintenance area, strand ejection and finishing area.

At Phase II, the steelmaking shop will feature BOF 4, mechanical stirring desulphurisation facility 1 and auxiliaries. The continuous casting shop will be built with a 1,650mm caster 3 and auxiliaries. The annual production capacity of qualified slab will be 3.60 million tonnes by this single phase.

Phase II’s steelmaking and casting shops will be started up by February 2021 and will feature intelligent equipment, smart quality control, unmanned operation and a management centre.

After startup, Zhanjiang’s steelmaking will reach a total production capacity of 12.35 million tonnes a year, the world’s largest. The per capita productivity will be greatly enhanced.

The strip mill at Phase II will reach a designed capacity of 4.50 million tonnes a year, and is expected to start up in August 2021. The main products will be high-strength hot-rolled and cold-rolled strips, and high-strength pickled strips.

Big data expertise will be employed to achieve model-based fully automatic rolling.

The strip mill is on the way to becoming a highly automatic, efficient, flat structured, and digital production line.