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Posted on 16 Dec 2013

Technical News from Thailand

Mill Con Steel Industries (MCSI) plans to invest new melt shop

 

 

Source: Steel Business Briefing

 

 

 

 

Thailand ’s Mill Con Steel Industries (MCSI) plans to invest THB 2.9bn ($87.6m) on a melting shop to support its long products rolling operations.

 

 

 

 

The investment will be made through its 83.78% subsidiary, BRP Steel, while MCSI also plans to spend THB 200m to purchase an additional 10.1% of BRP. These plans are expected to be ratified by shareholders at an extraordinary meeting on 25 February.

 

 

 

 

Both MCSI and BRP are re-rollers in Rayong, eastern Thailand , that do not have their own steelmaking capacity. MCSI operates two rolling mills with a combined capacity of 580,000 tonnes/year. One produces structural steel, the other round and deformed bars.

 

 

 

 

The new EAF will provide MCSI with cost savings, increase its competiveness and reduce the risk of raw material shortages. The upstream capacity will also allow MCSI to broaden its product range. In addition to producing commercial grade billet, the firm has plans to produce special-grade billet for high value-added long products.

 

 

 

 

Tata Steel Thailand moves into SBQ

 

 

Source: Steel Business Briefing

 

 

 

 

Tata Steel Thailand will raise long products capacity with the start-up of its new 500,000 tonnes/year mini blast furnace plant in Chonburi, east of Bangkok . The hot metal will provide energy savings to the 70t EAF at Chonburi’s steel plant located adjacent to the blast furnace, while two sister plants – at Rayong and Saraburi – will be fed with pig iron from the mini blast furnace. The three steel plants have a combined 1.3-1.4m t/y melting capacity.

 

 

 

 

Tata Steel Thailand aims to use hot metal to reach the maximum 40% of feed in order to make better long products such as special bar quality (SBQ) steels.

 

 

 

 

Siam Yamato’s No.2 mill receives approval to start operation

 

 

Source: Steel Business Briefing

 

 

 

 

Siam Yamato Steel, the Thai sections maker owned by Japan’s Yamato Kogyo, received approval from Thailand ’s administrative court to begin operations at its new No.2 sections mill on 23 December, Yamato Kogyo announced on 24 December.

 

 

 

 

The No.2 mill is located at Map Ta Phut in Rayong province, and was one of 65 projects which needed to apply for government approval under the Thai government’s new environmental guidelines. This delayed the opening of the mill from October to December 2009.

 

 

 

 

All facilities at the No.2 mill are ready to start operation at any time, but when commercial production will begin is not known as the mill needs to begin its trial runs and submit the trial products to its customers for approval.

 

 

 

 

Siam Yamato currently operates its No.1 section mill which is located 5km from its new No.2 mill and has a 600,000 tonnes/year capacity. The No.2 mill will have a 400,000 t/y capacity.