02
Dec
09:22
Bengang Plate resumes ironmaking at No.1 blast furnace
China's Bengang Plate has ignited its No.1 blast furnace after a 50-day overhaul.
The 4,747-cubic-metre blast furnace has a design capacity of 3.79 million tonnes/year, Kallanish notes. It now able to produce around 9,000-10,000 tonnes/day of iron.
The overhaul disrupted some 450,000t of iron output in the past two months. The firm also carried out maintenance on a round bar production line in November, cutting 40,000t of bar production (see Kallanish passim)…
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