Guangzhou JFE Steel Sheet commissions its cold rolling mill

Guangdong Province-based Guangzhou JFE Steel Sheet Co., Ltd (GJSS), a joint venture between the Japanese steelmaker JFE Steel Corporation and the Chinese steelmaker Guangzhou Iron and Steel Enterprises Holdings Ltd, has announced that it has commissioned a new cold rolling mill as part of an integrated production system encompassing cold rolling to hot dip galvanizing, which the company is constructing to meet the increasing demand for high-end steel in China.
 
In addition to the cold rolling mill with an annual output capacity of 1.8 million mt, GJSS will add a continuous annealing line with an annual capacity of one million mt and a second continuous galvanizing line (CGL) with 400,000 mt capacity under a major expansion program.
 
The cold rolling mill will enter commercial production in July after test operation. The continuous annealing line is scheduled to start operating in June and commercial production will begin in August, after which shipments of cold rolled steel sheet mainly for automobiles and electrical appliances will move into full gear.
 
When the second CGL is completed by around the end of the year, GJSS's two CGLs will have a combined annual processing capacity of 800,000 mt.