SHANGHAI, Jul 24 (SMM) – Some 3,500 mt of daily production of molten iron daily will be affected for around 60 days as Pangang Group Vanadium Titanium & Resources put its #4 blast furnace into maintenance on Sunday July 22.
Maintenance is scheduled to last until September 20. Molten iron will be produced at the furnace on September 27, SMM learned.
The plant is a subsidiary of Panzhihua Iron and Steel in Sichuan province, the largest steelmaker in western China.