The kicking-off ceremony of TISCO high-end cold rolling grain oriented silicon steel project, one part of the Shanxi province transformational upgrade campaign, was held on November 18th. Mr. Li Hua, the standing member of TISCO CPC Committee and general manager of STSS, Mr. Shi Lairun, the director in charge of equipment of STSS, Mr. Wang Liming, the general manager of Shanxi Province Industry Equipment Installation Group, Mr. Yuan Xudong, vice general manager of China MCC 5 Group, as well as about 200 from Shanxi Taigang Engineering Technology, TISCO Project Management Department, TISCO Cold Rolling Silicon Steel Mill and construction company attended the ceremony.
The project is a respond to the national strategy of supply-side reform and innovational development, an answer to Shanxi government’s call for transformational development, and a step to realize the company’s product structure optimization and quality improvement. It is of great significance for TISCO to accomplish its silicon steel product structure, lift its role in silicon steel industry, and increase its market competitiveness.
Representatives from project management department, project designing company and construction company delivered speeches. It is stated that, they will attach great importance to the project construction, make full use of advanced intelligent management methods, strengthen project organization and meticulous management, build "intelligent application site" and "green energy-saving site", complete the project construction with high level, high standard, high quality and high efficiency, and turn the project into another benchmark project of TISCO.
Shi Lairun thanked all parties involved in the project for their efforts in the early stage. To ensure the orderly progress of the project, he asked all parties concerned to strengthen scientific management, allocate resources rationally, strengthen target supervision and process control, and carefully organize the construction in strict accordance with the standards and norms. He stressed safety in work, especially in intervention operation. Safety supervision must be strengthened to ensure accident free. He asked strict compliance with the relevant requirements of the provinces, cities and the company for civilized construction and environmental protection construction, to achieve "six hundred percent", create a first-class construction site, and build the project into a benchmark project in Shanxi province and Taiyuan city with high-quality project organization.
High-end cold-rolled grain-oriented silicon steel, as a steel product with high added value, is one of the most important functional materials for power industry, being mainly used for making transformer and large generator iron core. It is praised as the pearl in the crown of steel product, due to its long production process, complicated technology and strict manufacturing technology. TISCO is a pioneer producer to develop and produce silicon steel sheets in China. It has fully mastered the low temperature heating technology for producing high-magnetic oriented silicon steel, which represents the highest technical level and is mastered by only a handful of steel players all around the world.
Constrained by insufficient capacity of the company’s existing production line, the market demands could not be met, and market competitiveness was impaired.
With a total investment of RMB 2.58 billion Yuan, a new production line with annual capacity of 160,000 tons of HiB will be constructed. The line is consisted of a normalized pickling line, a 20-high rolling mill, an annealing line, a rotary oven, a bell furnace, a hot drawing flat coating line, and so on. The project will be carried out in two phases. For Phase I, the factory building will be built up and equipment installation will be started at the end of June of 2020, and the commissioning will be started by the end of the same year.