Successful Hot Run of No.2 Steel Making Plant (Phase-III Project) at Hyundai Steel Dangjin Works, South Korea

5. Nov, 2013

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A successful hot run was held in early September 2013 of No.2 Steel Making Plant (Phase-III, 4 million ton/year expansion) carried out as a follow-up to the construction of No.1 Steel Making Plant (Phase-I & II, 8 million ton/year) at Hyundai Steel (head office, Seoul) Dangjin Works, which was completed between 2010 and 2011. This brings the total capacity of the Dangjin Works to 12 million ton/year.

This Phase-III project, just 20 months of the unprecedented shortest delivery period was required, started the simultaneous construction of OG equipment on November 2012 and the commissioning work of each equipment had been started from May 2013. All the equipment had been started up in sequence, beginning with secondary refining facilities (RH, LF), hot metal pretreatment system (KR) on August 2013, and finally successful hot-run of No.4 & No.5 BOF was achieved on September 2013.

With the completion of Phase-III project, Hyundai Steel has realized integration of No.1 Steel Making Plant and No.2 Steel Making Plant in the form of a Compact Integrated Steel Mill (CISM) with mutually complementary logistics and processing functions thanks to a globally pioneering layout whereby the hot metal pit is shared with No.1 & No.2 Steel Making Plant.

For Hyundai Steel, its steel making plant is the most important process in deciding the quality of the automotive steel sheets it supplies to Hyundai/Kia Motors, and this high-efficiency, high-quality steel production process, which was achieved due to the knowledge and hard work of all involved parties, has attracted much attention from the steel industry. For Steel Plantech, aside from representing an invaluable experience, this project is also an invaluable asset in the trust relationship built with Hyundai Steel over many years from Phase-I to Phase-III.

 

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