Chinese long steelmaker Guangxi Guixin Iron & Steel is to start up a new, more environmentally friendly, electric-arc furnace (EAF) in mid-2019.
It will have a tapping weight of 80 tonnes and will replace several smaller EAFs.Guangxi Guixin has a total long steel capacity of 8 million tpy, including 7 million tonnes of bar production and 1 million tpy of wire rod capacity.It runs three 1080 cubic meters...