Handled by 650t crawler crane, 360t crawler crane and one 220t truck crane lifting, the upper tower steelwork for BF#1 of Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Plant were properly installed on December 29, 2013.

The whole pile works was smoothly completed when the last PHC pile for water pipe support foundation of BF No.2 was driven into the ground, after 13 months since December 2, 2012. The pile works have overcome numerous challenges on site, including the maritime transport of piles, terrible weather conditions on site (scorching sunlight, typhoons and storms, continuous rain) as well as various construction activities in parallel (foundation excavation, main structure and roads, pile construction), and totally 153,133 meters of prefabricated PHC piles are installed for BF #1, #2 and their supporting systems, pig casting machine system. .

The dome for hot stove checker chamber #1 of BF#1 was properly installed on January 24, 2014, putting an end to shell installation for four checker chambers of hot stove #1.

The last delivery of shell equipment for BF#1 made in China failed to arrive at the port of departure due to heavy haze in Yangtze river, posing difficulties to the scheduled on-site installation. With great efforts from CISDI logistics management people, the shell equipment began to arrive at the site from n January 8. The project team organized shell assembly over day and night for half a month to finish the shell dome assembly welding for four checker chambers, stress-relief heat treatment, weld anti-corrosion painting.