Nippon Steel and WISCO Tinplate Joint Venture Begins Operations in China
01/15/2014 - Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. and Wuhan Iron and Steel (WISCO), announced the start-up of its WISCO-NIPPON STEEL Tinplate Co., Ltd (WINSteel) joint venture in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, on 31 December 2013.
WINSteel manufactures high-quality tinplate and includes the following state-of-the-art equipment: an 800,000 tonne per year continuous descaling and cold rolling mill, two 400,000 tonne per year continuous annealing and processing lines (one began operation in December 2013 and the other is under construction), and a 200,000 tonne per year electrolytic tinning line.