Japanese steelmaker
Nippon Steel Corporation has announced that
WISCO-
Nippon Steel Tinplate Co., Ltd. (WINSteel), its
tinplate joint venture with
China-based Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Corporation (
WISCO), is building a tin mill comprising of one continuous annealing and processing line and one electrolytic tinning line in Wuhan city, Hubei Province,
China.
The expansion project with an investment of RMB 1.85 billion ($290.52 million) will double the annual
production and sales capacity of the joint venture to 400,000 mt of
tinplate and 400,000 mt of tin mill black plate.
Nippon Steel stated that all the lines are scheduled to come into operation successively in September to December 2013.