On January 30, Liaoning Province-based Chinese steelmaker Anshan Iron and Steel Corp. (
Angang) successfully produced the first batch of high carbon drawing quality wire rods of 5 mm diameter at
production line No. 2 of its
wire rod plant.
Angang has thus become the first Chinese steelmaker to produce drawing quality wire rods of the given specification.
Production line No. 2 of
Angang's
wire rod plant, which was commissioned on November 25 last year, has an annual
production capacity of 600,000 mt of
wire rod.