Hebei province’s Tangshan Development and Reform Commission has detailed the city's major cold rolling projects in 2018. Four steelmakers plan to add a combined 20.15 million tonnes/year of cold rolling capacity in Tangshan in the coming years, Kallanish notes.

Tangshan Yanyang Cold Rolling Company plans to build a cold rolling base from 2019 to 2020. The steelmaker expects to have one 1,550mm and one 1,750mm cold rolling plant, each with two mills, and reach a cold strip capacity of 8.15m t/y. Tangshan Ruifeng Steel Group, meanwhile, plans to add three 1,050mm and two 950mm cold strip mills. 5m t/y of design capacity is expected to be added in total. These two projects are now underdoing preliminary work, and are expected to start construction within the year.

In addition, Hebei Donghai Special Steel started construction of its cold rolling project in March 2018, and expects to commission in 2020. It plans to build three cold rolling plants with 5m t/y of cold rolled product capacity.

Tangshan Ganglu Iron & Steel, meanwhile, previously announced it plans to commission its cold rolled steel plant with a design capacity of 2m t/y by the end of September (see Kallanish 20 June).