Posted on 23 Aug 2021
Malaysia is scheduled to see production of hot rolled coil by year-end, Kallanish understands.
Lion Industries Corp announced on 18 August that repair and refurbishment works was taking place at its 3.2m tonnes/year capacity strip mill located at Banting, Selangor, according to press reports. The company expects that HRC production will start in December and plans to ramp up plant production to full capacity by February 2022. Lion announced its plans to recommission strip production at its moth-balled plant late last year. It also said that it was planning to invest in a blast furnace project which included a 3,000-cubic-meter furnace in the first phase.
In the recent statement, the group said that it is aiming to produce billet, bars and sections in January or February at its EAF steel plant in Pasir Gudang, Johor. Modification works are currently taking place at the plant which has a rated 720,000 t/y capacity.
Source:Kallanish
