CISDI has received a Letter of Award from Taiyuan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. (TISCO) by which CISDI is supposed to supply engineering design for overhauling #5 blast furnace of TISCO.

The #5 blast furnace of TISCO, with effective volume of 4,350m³, came on stream on October 13^th, 2006. In the late campaign life after having been operational for 11 years, it now encounters problems like increased operating cost, and decreased economic figures. Overhauling of the blast furnace has been planned to improve the competitiveness of TISCO. The scope of work by CISDI includes stock house system, blast furnace proper system, blast furnace top system, hot blast stove and blast supply system, gas cleaning system, water system, charging system, casthouse system, slag granulation system, dedusting system, pulverized coal injection system, material handling system and the ancillaries.

CISDI will do the utmost to overhaul the #5 blast furnace so that it will not only have a campaign life up to 18 years, but also operate with leading indices in China, with very low consumption figures, very high waste heat recovery and automation control level, able to perform ironmaking with low silicon content, high rate (even 100%) of pellets in the charge.