Henan Jiyuan Iron & Steel (Group) Co. Ltd, located in Jiyuan, Province Henan, China, will expand their production facilities with a bar mill for special steel (SBQ) thus increasing their rolled products capacity to more than 3 million tons per year. The core of the completely new SBQ mill with a nominal annual production capacity of 600,000tns is a 3-roll Reducing & Sizing Block (RSB) in “Heavy Duty” design. The order for the design, the supply, the installation and commissioning of the 4-stand RSB 370++ including associated equipment was placed with Friedrich Kocks GmbH & Co KG based in Hilden, Germany. The 3-roll “Heavy Duty” RSB will be installed in the new bar mill as finishing block and will roll finished bars in the range from 14 to 42mm in coils as well as bars from 20 to 90mm in straight lengths onto the cooling bed. The start-up of the new KOCKS 3-roll Reducing & Sizing Block in “Heavy Duty” design is scheduled for the second half of 2008.