According to China’s Development and Reform Commission, WISCO's Liuzhou Distribution Center project has started construction at Liubei district of Liuzhou in Guangxi province.

A related official with the commission said that "The project was kept in record two months ago and now is under construction. He said that the first phase item will put into service in the end of this year and the second, late next April. Covering an area of 36,000 mm, the project specializes in processing and distribution of CR, galvanized and tinning products, silicon steel and stainless steel coils and sheets & plates and is projected to have a processing capacity of 150,000 tonnes annually.”

Liuzhou, one of China's auto parts production bases, assembled 610,000 cars in 2007 and will accomplish 1 million before the end of the 11th Five Year Plan. The needed CR automobile steel product in the city is registered over 400,000 tonnes each year.

(Source: Chutian Metropolis Daily)