Chongqing-based Chinese steelmaker Chongqing Iron and Steel has lately inked a strategic cooperation agreement with Beijing-based Chinese state-owned shipbuilder
China State
Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC).
According to a press release by CSSC, Chongqing Steel will supply wide steel plates to CSSC within the framework of their long-term stable cooperation agreement. Details regarding the supply volumes involved have not been disclosed.
Chongqing Steel has been modernizing its steel
plate production facilities in recent years. The steelmaker recently started the commissioning of its 4,100 mm wide
plate production line. In June 2010, Chongqing Steel's 1,780 mm hot rolled
plate (HRP)
production line was put into operation.