July 25, 2008

Tiantie CRM project to commission in May

It is reported that the cold rolling mill project of Tianjin Tiantie Metallurgical Group will be completed and put into production in May 2008. As per report, the trial run of pickling line has been successfully completed.

The project is one of the 20 major industrial projects in Tianjin. It was approved on May 23rd 2005 by the National Development and Reform Commission and started on October 28th 2006.

It would have annual output of 1.5 million tonnes of cold rolled products and 600,000 tonnes of galvanized steel. Its products would be suitable for use in automobiles and home appliances segments.

When the first stage is finished and put into production, the second stage of the project will continue, including the construction of a continuous annealing line and a continuous electro galvanizing production line. It will also have galvanizing line, color coating line and cold rolled silicon line.