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China: HBIS Laoting Steel has signed a US$247m contract with US-based Harsco for mill services. The 15-year agreement expands Harsco’s partnership with HBIS. The company has provided steel mill services to Tangshan Steel Group, a subsidiary of HBIS, for over a decade previously.

Under the expanded agreement, Harsco will deliver on-site mill services, including under furnace cleaning; slag transport and metal recovery; scrap and tundish cutting; and desulphurisation and ladle slag processing. Harsco also plans to partner with Chinese design institutes to design and build metal recovery and slag processing plants when the steel mill is put into operation. Upon completion, the Harsco-designed system will be able to process 1.42Mt/yr of slag at Laoting Steel. Additionally, Harsco intends to use ‘waste to resources’ technologies to transform slag into products for construction and other purposes.

India: Loesche has provided an update on the operation of a slag grinding mill it sold to Sri Balaha Chemicals in 2016. The LM 35.2 +2 S cement mill was supplied in 2016 and installed and commissioned by March 2017 at the customer’s site in Hindupur, Andhra Pradesh. The mill produces 50t/hr of granulated ground blast furnace slag (GGBFS) at 4000cm²/g Blaine. Subsequently the mill has achieved a production rate of 52t/hr and a specific power consumption rate as low as 27.2kWhr/t.