After transfer to the P.R. of China and modernization in many respects of the installation
of a former German steel plant, the Chinese steel producer Shagang will also be able
in the future to make high quality flat products. Many important modernization projects
are carried out by VOEST-ALPINE Industrieanlagenbau (VAI, Austria). In the case of the
hot strip mill, these projects concern in the first place the implementation of high
standard technical solutions for rolling technology, automation and process optimization.