Products
Special steel refers to steel that has added or extra
benefits, such as heat resistance, anti corrosion and anti
fatigue. Categorised by shape, special steel includes bar
steel, plate, strip steel, tube steel and wire steel.
Approximately 90% of CITIC Pacific Special Steel’s
products are bar steel, manufactured to order based on
customers’ specific requirements. These bars are sold to
manufacturers who use this steel to make products such
as gears, bearings and springs. Around 6%, or 400,000
tonnes of total annual production, was for seamless
steel tubes which are used in the oil and petrochemical
industry as well as for machinery manufacturing.
In 2008 high end products were 40% of the total
production, about 2.5 million tonnes and an 8%
increase from 2007.