Posted on 18 Dec 2024
Malaysia’s Eastern Steel has recently produced its first hot rolled coil through the new 1,450mm rolling mill, marking the official commissioning of the facility, Kallanish learns from Tim Ho, the company’s general manager of sales and marketing.
The project was completed after around 20 months of construction. This also means that Malaysia has seen the implementation of its first hot rolling facility.
The design capacity of the new hot rolling mill is 3.5 million tonnes/year, and can produce 4m t/y, according to Beijing Jianlong Group.
Eastern Steel has two slab caster to secure slab feeds to the new rolling mill. Now it has 2.7m t/y of slab capacity in total.
Eastern Steel intends to reach 5m t/y of crude steel capacity by 2027 (see Kallanish passim). It is an integrated iron and steel mill joint venture between Malaysian steelmaker Hiap Teck Venture Berhad (27.3%) and Chinese steelmaker Beijing Jianlong Group (68.8%), as well as Chinaco Investment (3.9%).
Source:Kallanish
