With the recent commissioning of the RMB 16.578 billion new stainless steel project from Taiyuan Iron and Steel (Group) Co. Ltd (Tisco), its capacity has become 3 million tonnes per annum making it the largest producer of SS in the world. Tisco has built a new steel melt shop which includes a 160tn super high power electric furnace, a 180tn AOD furnace, a 180tn converter furnace, a 180tn LF furnace and a slab continuous casting machine. As for hot rolling systems, Tisco’s newly built 2250mm hot rolling unit and skin pass finishing unit will be able to produce 1 million tonnes of SS HRC in thickness range of 2mm to 20mm with maximum width if 2100mm. Tisco has also built a new cold rolling complex with an annual of 0.5 million tons.
