On June 7, Inner Mongolia-based Chinese steelmaker Baotou Iron and Steel Co. (Baogang Group) announced that its Qinghua coal chemical project, located in the city of Bayannur in Inner Mongolia, successfully produced coke at its coke oven No.1 on June 5, marking the start of production operations at the project in question.
The Baogang Qinghua coal chemical project involves the construction of a total of four 5.5 m tamping coke ovens with an aggregate annual coke output of 2.1 million mt. Baogang and Inner Mongolia-based Qinghua Group are the investors in the project. Construction work on the project started in July 2011.