2021 is a year of full recovery of the global economy. Under the synchronous demands of both domestic and international market, China's economic growth remained stable in the first half of the year. Demands for steel products grew at a high speed and the consumption was robust, mainly due to the prosperous development of downstream industries such as infrastructure construction and industrial m...

Our industry’s history in many ways reflects the societies in which we operate, and since the industrial revolution, iron and steel production has been powered by coal. This is now changing, and the steel industry, like the rest of society, is transforming to provide products and services in a future in which the emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases is severely curtailed.  ...

On April 23, 2021, more than 260 members of PKU PIONEER held the 2020 work summary meeting in Beijing. It is a long-awaited reunion after the ups and downs last year. The general manager Tang Wei made the annual work management report in the meeting and announced the 2020 sales exceed $101 million, which is another record high. This is the third consecutive year that PKU Pion...

At the beginning of March 2021, shortly after the Lantern Festival, Hunan Valin Lianyuan Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "LY Steel") has already been in intensive production and construction. After a short three-day break during the Spring Festival holiday, the construction team on the expansion line was even more motivated to shorten the schedule and speed u...

In February 2021, the VPSA oxygen plant built by PKU PIONEER in ChangShu LongTeng Special Steel Co., Ltd. (Longteng Special Steel) entered the test run phase and was officially put into operation before Feb 10th,2021 after several months of hurried construction. Longteng Special Steel's medium and long-term strategic planning project for cost reduction and efficiency...

On December 12, 2020, the first phrase of the Tai’an special steel capacity replacement project of Shiheng Special Steel Group Co., Ltd. (Shiheng Special Steel) was officially put into operation in Feicheng City. Recently, as the production links in the factory started successively, the vacuum pressure swing adsorption(VPSA)oxygen plant (25,000/80) set up by PKU Pioneer for...

The oxygen blast furnace (OBF) of Baosteel Group Xinjiang Bayi Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Bayi Iron & Steel), which opened on July 15, 2020, has made ground-breaking progress in the first phase of its industrial experiment early this year. The blast oxygen content has reached 35%, marking that with the first OBF entering the industrial test stage...

2020 is a year full of challenges for the global iron and steel industry- Demands for iron & steel have seen a sharp fall, and relevant manufacturers have been confronted with huge difficulties in their regular production and operation, resulting in a dramatic drop in worldwide iron and steel output. In the second half of this year, as the epidemic in China and other countries was brought u...

1. Preface In the past 20 years, China’s economy has been in a steady and rapid development stage when the production processes of industries such as iron & steel manufacturing, non-ferrous metallurgy, chemical industry, furnace energy saving, environmental protection, glass and paper making have been continuously upgraded and innovated. The process optimization and production capacity ex...

Zezhou Golden Autumn Foundry Co., Ltd (hereinafter referred to as Golden Autumn Foundry) completed its technological upgrading project in 2019 for the cast iron manufacturing with an annual output of 100,000 tons. In order to achieve cost reduction and efficiency enhancement, Golden Autumn Foundry equipped the foundry blast furnace with an oxygen-rich PSA oxygen unit (2500Nm3/h,80...