July 25, 2008

Laiwu Steel benefits from backward elimination

It is reported that Laiwu Steel has shut down three 25 tonnes electric furnaces, four 128 cubic meter blast furnaces and two 58-II coking ovens since December 2005 with outdated capacity crackdown of 2.11 million tonnes. In the process of facilities elimination, the mill was shaking off rotten legacy while updating and optimizing its facilities and processes.

Laiwu spent CNY 2.17 billion on the reforms of energy conservation and emissions reduction, and developed a series of new technologies, pushed for advanced clean production mechanism and introduced 14 world class facilities and technologies.

The mill was well programmed from the very beginning by building five 6 m large coking ovens, three 600,000 tonnes grate rotary kilns, three 265 square meter sintering machines, two 1880 cubic meter blast furnaces, three 120 tonnes converters, 1500mm hot rolled strip mill, continuous casting machine for profiled billet and large H-section rolling mill. It passed national environmental assessment for its technical reform projects last year.