November 22, 2008

WISCO sets world record in BF productivity

It reported that the daily output of No 6 blast furnace in WISCO for June 2008 reached 9,600 tonnes and the blast furnace utilization coefficient was 3.0, which broke the world record.

As per report, utilization coefficient of WISCO’s No 7 blast furnace in April last year reached to 2.887 and seven months later, it broke the world’s record to 2.940.

Iron output of No 6 blast furnace in WISCO reached to 276,500 tonnes in June and the average daily output reached to 9,617 tonnes. Utilization coefficient was above 3.0, far more than the designed 2.3.