The shell construction for a new blast furnace at Liuzhou Steel’s Fangchenggang Plant is now complete.

The shells have been finished and all weldings and cooling staves have been installed.

Some 60 per cent of the furnace proper has now been completed and CISDI is about to begin the next stage of work - installing the furnace top equipment and bricking up the refractory.

CISDI is the EPC contractor of this new blast furnace 1, which will have a volume of 4,150 cubic metres.

To meet the target for start-up at the end of 2019, detailed milestone plans have been drafted. This will ensure a safe, quality-controlled and on-schedule construction process. CISDI’s construction subcontractor, MCC 11, began construction late last November.

CISDI has successfully overcome various difficulties during the process, including limited workspace, a tight time schedule, periods of extremely hot weather, storms and even a typhoon. 

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Liuzhou Steel’s new steel plant is located on the Jinsha Industry Zone of Economic Development Area in Fangchenggang city.

The city lies in China’s Guangxi Province.

An investment of $4.2 billion has gone into Phase One, which will fund the construction of an integrated steel plant with output targets of 10 million tonnes of crude steel production a year.

For ironmaking, CISDI is undertaking:

- the design, equipment and material procurement and supply, and

- the civil construction, equipment installation, commissioning and ramp up technical assistance services

for the charging and stockhouse, feeding, top, proper, tuyere platform and casthouse, raw gas cleaning and water treatment systems, pump house and main control room

The shell construction has been completed at Fangchenggang‘s blast furnace1. The top cone is pictured.