Top Chinese award for Malaysia’s new steel giant

Malaysia’s biggest and most advanced steelworks has won a top award.

ASSB’s 3.5-million-tonne plant is situated on the Belt and Road Initiative route and has created many local jobs. It has now been awarded China’s Lu Ban prize for overseas construction achievement.

The award is named after an ancient Chinese master carpenter who was the originator of Chinese architecture.

CISDI was the master designer and core equipment package supplier for the steelworks. The first project implemented on the Malaysia-China Kuantan Industrial Park, it fills a void in Malaysia’s steel sector.

The plant features the country’s first integrated mill and is a prime example of trade co-operation between Malaysian and Chinese governments, suppliers and constructors.

ASSB is meeting its performance and quality indicators and achieving world-leading levels.

Its current production capacity is surpassing design targets and its environmental emissions are much lower than Malaysia’s standard levels. Targets for zero liquid discharge and the comprehensive re-utilisation of scrap have been achieved.

CISDI has already been awarded the prize for China’s Excellence in Metallurgical Surveys and Engineering for its systematic, cost-effective master plan for ASSB, which was tailored to the steelworks’ sustainable development and created a compact integrated mill plant.

Production units at the 710-acre site are arranged as two blast furnaces, each with a 1,080-cubic-metre volume, two BOFs, each with 120 tonnes, three continuous casters and four long products mills.

The plant features many of CISDI’s innovation-driven, core products – the eco-friendly and intelligent stockyard, high-efficiency and low-consumption blast furnace technology, a one-ladle hot metal transport system, direct hot rolling system and plant-wide intelligence.

CISDI’s multi-disciplinary integrated capacity and leading techs have contributed to improvements in overall competitiveness and green and intelligent manufacturing levels and have won CISDI two customer-awarded accolades – Best Designer and Best Package Supplier.

An aerial view of ASSB Kuantan in Malaysia

The CISDI team, pictured at the entrance to MCKIP