Datong, Shanxi Province-based Chinese company Datong Coal Mine Group has announced that its daily output capacity of crude steel has increased from 1,100 mt to 2,600 mt following the resumption of operations of two blast furnaces and two converters. Datong Coal Mine Group, formerly Datong Steel Mill, was restructured by Tongmei Group and Tianjin Building Materials Group, in November 2011.
Tianjin Building Materials Group invested RMB 500 million ($79.62million) to upgrade the facilities in question. By the end of 2015, Datong Coal Mine Group plans to achieve an annual finished steel product output capacity of 4 million mt and an annual operating revenue of RMB 20 billion