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China: The rise of the private steel sector

15 April 2013

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15 April 2013

China: The rise of the private steel sector

Report summary

Government policy inadvertently created rapid capacity growth in the Chinese steel industry. The introduction of a minimum size threshold led to a refurbishment programme in Tangshan's private steel sector in which small blast furnaces were replaced with much larger ones to avoid being shut down. Wood Mackenzie recently visited seven privately owned Tangshan steel plants where capacity has more than double since 2007 – something representative of the region. In contrast to state-owned...

Executive Summary
Tangshan’s capacity increases driven by privately owned plants
Government policy led to upgrades
Not all privately owned steel plants are high cost
Private sector increasingly pivotal in the Chinese steel industry

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This report includes 7 images and tables including:

Tangshan region
Most of the Tangshan plants visited have doubled iron making capacity
Examples of blast furnace size upgrade

Some private steel plants are operating in the bottom quartile of the Chinese cost curve
Weighted average iron making C1 cash cost for private and SOE plants (US$/tonne, 2012)
Distribution of BF size
BF coke quality requirements