Hebei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hebei Iron and Steel Group has announced that in January of the current year its subsidiary Xuanhua Steel exported 1,292 mt of 500 MPa high-strength rebar to Ecuador, marking the first time Xuanhua Steel’s high-strength rebar has entered the South American market.Meanwhile, Wuyang Steel, another Hebei Steel Group subsidiary, has successfully obtained a contract for the supply of the first batch of 1,906 million mt of steel plates for the Jiangshun Bridge.
The bridge will be the first long-span cable-stayed bridge in Guangdong Province, with a length of 2,290 m and a width of 36.9 m. Construction commenced in November 2011 and is expected to be completed by the end of 2014.
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http://www.steelorbis.com/steel-news/latest-news/xuanhua-steels-high_strength-rebar-enters-south-american-market-742096.htm
