China South Steel’s stockyard is now eco-friendly and fulfilling ULE targets

Baowu’s China South Steel plant in the Guangdong Province now has an eco-friendly stockyard.

CISDI rebuilt the plant’s conventional stockyard to an EPC mode and its determination and experience enabled hot commissioning to be achieved ahead of the contractual schedule. 

Construction started in early January 2023 and hot commissioning was in October. This success came despite numerous challenges - including a severe storm, hot weather, complicated geological conditions and limited onsite space. 

The eco-friendly yard means the steel plant can now achieve its ultra-low emissions standards. 

CISDI modified one lump ore yard and built one new model-B sintering ore yard and two new steel-made pellet silos.

The sintering ore yard has a 149-metre span and encloses an area of around 70,000m². It is China’s largest single-span lattice structure with double cylindrical columns and has broken China’s records for the largest span building constructed with a sliding construction process.

The two pellet silos have steel structures, a groundbreaker for China’s mega ore silo sector. 

Aerial view of the eco-friendly stockyard at China South Steel

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China South Steel is held by Baowu Group and has an annual production capacity of eight million tonnes. With its predecessor, Shaogang in Guangdong, China South Steel has been advancing to diversified businesses in industrial production, research and development and trade. 

Focussing on steel manufacturing, it ranks as Guangdong’s powerhouse and encompasses three blast furnaces, five basic oxygen furnaces, two special steel bar rolling lines, three high-speed wire-rod rolling lines, three rebar rolling lines and one heavy plate rolling line. 

Its star products – special bars, commercial wire rods, building sections and flat products - are supplied to the automobile, mechanical manufacturing, energy, transportation, aerospace and nuclear power sectors.