Magnificent Seven - star CISDI projects get recognition

Seven of CISDI’s most outstanding projects star in a publication launched by China’s Association of Construction Enterprise Management.

“Glorious 40 Years: Celebrating the 40^th Anniversary of China’s Outstanding Project Awards” is filled cover to cover with details of gold medal-winning construction projects.

In the metallurgical sector, seven out of 11 gold medal-winning projects feature CISDI’s innovation-driven designs and scientific management.

The company has long been an active player in China’s steel modernisation and technological advancements. The star projects featured in the publication are:

ü Baosteel Shanghai phase I project 1986

ü Baosteel Shanghai phase II project 1991, involving cold rolling, hot rolling and continuous casting projects

ü Baosteel Shanghai Plant 1’s stainless steel and carbon steel flat rolling upgrades 2007

ü Baosteel Shanghai’s blast furnace 2 relocation project 2007

ü TISCO 1.50Mt/a stainless steel project 2009

ü Baosteel Zhanjiang steel plant 2018-2019

ü Formosa Ha Tinh Steel’s blast furnace project in Vietnam 2020-2021.

 

Contributions to Baosteel

Baosteel was the largest industrial project in New China’s development, which began in 1949.

Its construction was a significant marker in China’s drive for modernisation.

CISDI was tasked with Baosteel’s master-planning management, and was the engineering and construction service provider for many of its major plants.

When Phase I was constructed, the project was entirely reliant on imported concepts and equipment. But Phase III was created entirely from designs and constructions developed in China.

CISDI improved the master plan created by a foreign engineering company, enabling Baosteel to find and reserve space for its scale-up at phase III.  

Since then, China’s steel complexes have been able to carry out their own master plans and work out integrated solutions. These new abilities in design and integration have enabled Chinese construction companies to rapidly advance their management, skills and equipment.

 

An aerial view of Baosteel in Shanghai

Phase I and II won gold medals for excellence and phase II’s primary designs were awarded a Grand Prize.

 

Innovative process for TISCO

CISDI undertook the plant and technological process designs for TISCO’s stainless steel plant, which is capable of producing 1.50 million tonnes a year. This plant was a classic transformation of China’s stainless steel production technology and products.

CISDI suggested a new production process, using 50 per cent of dephosphorised hot metal plus 50 per cent of scrap as the basic oxygen furnace’s raw materials, in contrast to conventional electric arc furnace melting around the world which at the time relied on all-scrap charging.

This method enabled TISCO’s BOF melting plant to adapt flexibly to feedstock price fluctuations, which enhanced its market competitiveness.

The BOF melting plant became a world record-holder, achieving the biggest production capacity by a single producer.

 

 

The TISCO BOF steelmaking plant

The BOF steelmaking project was awarded China’s Construction Lu Ban Prize for quality.

The BF ironmaking project, created with CISDI’s design services, won a national survey and engineering gold medal.

 

Tech lead for Baosteel Zhanjiang

Baosteel Zhanjiang is the most competitive green, high-quality steel plant in the world.

CISDI was the plant’s master planner and its main engineering service provider.

CISDI’s patented tech and equipment bestowed Zhanjiang plant with the world’s first intelligent, eco-friendly stockyard, the best-performing large blast furnaces, the first solid waste treatment centre, and a star slab caster producing the best quality slab in China.

All CISDI’s services have been major contributors to the transformation of Chinese steel’s sectoral layout and product, flow and energy structures.

 

 

An aerial view of Baosteel Zhanjiang

The gold medal-winning Zhanjiang plant has been awarded a FIDIC prize - the “Nobel award” for global engineering and construction projects.

 

Leading role at FHS

Formosa Ha Tinh Steel in Vietnam is the largest overseas Greenfield plant to be created over the past two decades.

It was China’s first export of systematic steel design and of the full industrial chain.

CISDI master-planned the plant and built a number of its major projects.

FHS’s two 4,350 cubic metre blast furnaces were built by CISDI to an EPC mode. The furnaces stand as a benchmark achievement on the Belt and Road Initiative.

 

 

FHS’s blast furnace ironmaking plant

Both blast furnaces built by CISDI won gold medals and the Lu Ban prize.