Hebei Iron & Steel Group Handan Steel signed 30,000 tons X52 pipeline steel supply contract recent days, and those pipes will be applied to the south Xinjiang natural gas people-benefit project.
It is learnt that 30,000 tons pipeline in only the amount required in the earlier stage, and this project will required over 70,000 tons more follow-up stage.
At present, Handan Steel can batch produce X42-X80 pipeline steel, and it also can manufacture the thicker X100 pipeline.
Handan Steel produced 0.3 million tons pipeline steel in 2011.