OREANDA-NEWS. July 10, 2012. In the first half of 2012, Baotou Steel produced 4.73 million tons of pig iron, 5.01 million tons of crude steel and 4.71 million tons of merchant billet and steel products.

Output of crude steel and steel products surpassed its planned targets by 16,100 tons and 15,000 tons respectively.
 
The company produced 3.96 million tons of iron concentrates, hence increasing its self-supply ratio by 3.91 percentage points to 57.76 percent.

It plugged the gap in the area of seamless pipe by using its seamless pipe machine with 159 mm in diameter to make drilling pipe S135 and G105, high temperature pressure pipe P235GH and high pressure fertilizer pipe 20H.