On Nov 26, the first cold rolling stainless steel product line of west China was put into operation in JiuSteel Co, which will obtain an output of 53 tons of High-grade 300 & 400 cold-strip steel.
Being the hardcore of the first-stage project of JiuSteel, the cold rolling stainless steel project, start on April 17, 2004, contains an investment of 2.4 billion, it was equipped from Oct 8, 2006. The project made use of two million cubic meters of ferroconcrete, 16 thousand tons of steel structure, as a result, the workshop of the project has a bulk of 110 thousand cubic meters with advanced equipment, including a set of hood-type annealing furnace, a set of hot band annealing pickling machine, a set of cold band annealing pickling machine, 20 reversing cold mills, etc. All the equipment and steel structure have a weight of 18 thousand tons. Its cold rolling products have been put into sales since this July when the first roll of stainless steel came out.
The cold rolling stainless steel project marks that Jiusteel has become the third Company in China which has a whole stainless steel manufacturing system from steel-making to steel-rolling, following Baosteel and Taisteel.