CISDI creates eco-friendly stockyard at Pingxiang Steel

Pingxiang Steel’s stockyard in China’s Jiangxi Province has been rebuilt to eco-friendly standards and successfully started up.

A covered stockyard with a total area of almost 200,000 square metres has been created by rebuilding the east primary, blending and coke yards and the west yard and relevant process and blending bins.

CISDI carried out the work to an EPC mode and innovatively applied a method of sharing one intermediate rail track between two stacker-reclaimers.

The process has improved the storage areas for raw materials, reduced building spans and created annual cost savings.

CISDI’s project team dealt with numerous challenges along the way. The biggest issue was a very tight time schedule, and during the rebuild, the spread yards and peripheral existing facilities posed difficulties. In addition, the east primary yard needed to be covered but had a span of around 120 metres with arched lattices.

Every milestone was met, however, and the engineering work was completed in under four months.

CISDI’s solutions included an accumulative sliding method of construction. And to minimise impact on production, CISDI transferred the large stacker-reclaimer to its new location in one piece, a process which took only 40 days. 

CISDI designed the blending yard with flat lattices, covering at least 70 metres.

Construction had to be carried out in a tight space hemmed in by existing facilities, so CISDI made the decision to put the middle starting frame arched and enable the extended structures upward to both sides. It created a safe and efficient construction.

CISDI’s innovative methods and high quality construction won great praise from Pingxiang Steel and its parent company Fangda Group.

The eco-friendly covered stockyard at Pingxiang Steel