Messages from other heads:

John Lester, president of CISDI UK

As a New Year begins, we at CISDI UK would like to take the opportunity to thank all our customers, suppliers, partners, friends and colleagues across the globe for their custom and co-operation during 2018.

The past year brought numerous challenges and opportunities and we appreciate the time and effort everyone spent with our team from the UK.

We look forward to continuing and strengthening our friendships throughout 2019, taking the opportunities to grow our business and at the same time growing and adding value to the businesses of our customers.

2018 saw the business of the UK office grow substantially and we look forward to creating new friends and partners as we continue our growth and further globalisation in the year ahead.

Robert Smith, president of CISDI USA

Over the past year, CISDI USA has made strong inroads into the North American market.

Our focus has been the integrated producers for capital projects, replacement parts, modernisations and upgrades, and engineering/feasibility studies.

The company successfully completed an important project for a major client this year, to the customer’s full satisfaction.

We look forward to continued cooperation with our customers and clients within the North American market, and improving and strengthening our relationships in the coming year.

With this perspective, we will take new opportunities to expand our business by adding value to our client base, addressing their specific requirements and market demands, and tailoring CISDI’s technical solutions for their most immediate needs.

Hatee Ram Pattanayak, president of CISDI India

In 2019 CISDI India will be pursuing its assistance in marketing and promoting CISDI’s technology, products and services to the Indian market.

Most eminent Indian steel-makers today (TSL & JSW in particular) recognise CISDI as one of the world leaders in the design, manufacture and supply of a full range of environment-friendly technological solutions for the iron and steel industry. 

CISDI has made entry into medium-scale steel enterprises such as TSIL, ASL, AISRM and others, providing engineering consultancy to assist in the setting up mini-steel plants, and EP services for setting up downstream mills and finishing facilities.

CISDI India’s team is devoted to supporting CISDI’s technical and commercial efforts to win more and more business in India’s emerging market. This includes assistance in exploring possible partnerships on an exclusive basis with Tata Steel, and sourcing local services and equipment to enable Indian projects for to be more competitive. 

India is poised to enhance its crude steelmaking capacity to 300 mtpa by 2030 (currently capacity is around 125 mtpa). This will create immense opportunities to tap into.

In 2019, CISDI India will organise and strengthen itself for the possible local sourcing of items to serve CISDI.

China is seizing the opportunities, responding to enquiries for steel plant projects and turning them into orders. 

Xin Yan, president of CISDI Brasil

As we begin a new year, CISDI DO BRASIL celebrates eight years of success in Brazil.

We thank all our Brazilian clients for giving us the opportunity to work together in 2018 and hope that this year CISDI will provide you with even more services and share with you their successful experiences in China and other countries.

We aim to promote economic exchanges between Brazil and China and together make valued contributions to the development of the BRICS countries.

Lei Ai, general manager of CISDI’s Iron & Steel Business Division

We celebrated CISDI’s 60^th anniversary in 2018 and in that remarkable year, we saw major success at ASSB with all process units up and running.

In addition, a bid was awarded to us by Liberty Primary Steel for its project in Whyalla, Southern Australia, which has a target production capacity of 10 million tonnes a year.

The year also saw an EPC-based contract signed for Xin Wu’an Samalaju’s 3.50million-tonne steel plant in Eastern Malaysia - two projects which are boosting CISDI’s brand image in global steels.

In the New Year, we continue our commitment to becoming an innovation-driven provider of total solutions and advanced technology for the global metals industry.

The corporate business will be led by consulting and focussed on intelligence, to give our integration competitiveness full-play. We are resolute in our determination to contribute to building new-generation steelworks which are green and intelligent.

Xinku Fan, general manager of CISDI Consulting Business Department

My department is tasked by CISDI’s corporate front-end engineering and consulting business. My department employs cross-disciplinary full-process technologies to create designs that result in major economic savings for steel plants, industrial parks and economic zones.

Our systematic solutions can be applied throughout the full life-cycle of an industrial complex. Our dynamic and accurate design methodology is constantly looking forward and keeping abreast of trending developments.

2018 was a fruitful year for our department. We worked on numerous feasibility studies and consulting projects, including those for the Xin Wu’an Samalaju steel plant in Eastern Malaysia, GHP Suroyam’s 1rmillion-tonne vanadium-titanium magnetic steel plant in Russia, and now Liberty Primary Steel’s Whyalla project, a 10-million-tonne steel plant in Australia.

In addition, we continued our consulting services for Baosteel Zhanjiang in China and Formosa Ha Tinh Steel in Vietnam.

Internally, we made an in-depth composition of master design target system and methodology model with system and economy as the guideline.

We also established an intelligent consulting work platform, integrating big data, a GIS database and model tools. We developed smart logistics solutions to multiple LiveApps for the unmanned management of stockyards, final products warehouses and mixed transportation systems, which will reduce labour costs across steel plants.

We carry all of this expertise and scrupulous workmanship in 2019, putting clients’ needs first and providing ever-greater tailored solutions to new and rebuild projects.

Shichang Xiao, president of CISDI Thermal & Environmental Engineering

CISDI Thermal made major progresses in technological breakthroughs and applications in 2018.

Keen to transfer our process and intelligent expertise into products and respond to ultra-low-emission environmental requirements, we have developed dual-regenerative reheating furnace back-blowing expertise, applying it successfully for Tangshan Ganglu Steel and Yanshan Steel.

We vigorously promoted the de-nitration technology for conventional reheating furnace plants, and put the latest developments for fuel burners and LPG+BFG dual-regenerative burners into use in India and Vietnam.

We are pushing forward with developments for radiant tube and self-preheating burners, which are soon to be verified at our trial plant.

To drive new business for CISDI, we have launched enriched oxygen and pure oxygen combustion developments and ultra-low NOx technology.

This was developed for a hazardous waste treatment EPC order from the East Junggar Basin Economic and Technological Development Area in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

Our consulting services are keeping multiple metallurgical solid waste treatment projects on track.

A highlight of 2018 was our technological development for the smoother, faster and more economical running of rotary hearth furnaces.

Yanshan Steel’s Phase II RHF saw tangible benefits from our development, and our solution to core equipment bottlenecks won us contracts for Jingtang Steel’s RHF to an EPC mode and Baosteel RHF’s design and technological integration.

Creating savings for clients is always our goal and in 2019 we will be creating more advanced and market-oriented technologies and products.

Xingli Zhong, president of CISDI Research & Development

Making CISDI R&D a world-renowned centre of innovation is our agenda.

Through years of investment and development, we have broken through the barriers that have hindered corporate access to the markets. Our leading technologies and products are now widely recognised by the steel industry.

We are now at a crucial stage, meeting the challenges posed by the new technology revolution which is driving industrial transformation and economic reform.

Our dedicated team is researching and developing the new processes, new equipment and new materials which will meet our clients’ requirements, while also strengthening our reputation for innovation.

In the New Year we are setting ever-higher targets for ourselves, ensuring we stay ahead of market needs.