Chinese steel producer Yanbo Prepainted Sheet Co., which is based in the city of Qian'an in Hebei Province, has announced that it has finished the packaging and loading of a batch of 50 mt of pre-painted galvanized iron (PPGI) for delivery to Russia. This marks the first export of PPGI products from the Qian'an area. Yanbo Prepainted Sheet Co. also stated that it expects to export 6,000 mt of PPGI per month to Russia in the future.
Yanbo Prepainted Sheet is a subsidiary of Tangshan-based Weike Dope Chemical Co. In March this year, the first stage of the steelmaker's 400,000 mt capacity PPGI project was put into production. In June, construction work began on the second stage of the project.