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G Steel Public Company Limited (“G
Steel”) was founded in the late of 1995 by Dr. Somsak
Leeswadtrakul , a key leader nationally recognized
in this industrial sector and a pioneer of Thai
and Southeast Asian steel industry with more than
40 years of experiences. G Steel is a producer and
distributor of Hot Rolled Coil (“HRC”) aiming at
substituting imports and meeting domestic customers’
demands. Its products serve as raw materials for
such downstream industries as cold-rolled coils,
galvanized steel, steel pipe, structural steel products
for construction, LPG container, automobile, electrical
appliance as well as steel furniture industries. |
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Equipped with the world’s most advanced and top integrated
technology, its HRC mill spent Baht 40,000 million capital
investments promoted by BOI, combining steel melting,
slab casting and hot rolling processes in the compact
mini mill. The total annual production capacity was
designed at 3.4 million tons per annum. The production
capacity of its first phase presently on operation is
1.8 million tons per year with the production efficiency
for mixed product outputs to meet varied market requirements
consequently ran at 1.5 million tons annually. The plant
is located on the area of 650 rais in Bankhai district,
Rayong province about 175 kilometers from Bangkok.
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The aforementioned continuous process
merely takes 3.5 hours in conversion of steel scraps
and pig iron into the HRC, conforming to the international
quality specifications for domestic as well as international
markets. It is the sole mill in Thailand and one
of very few in the world that is able to produce
HRC at the lowest thickness of 1.0 mm.
At present, G Steel has the de-bottlenecking investment
plan to increase the annual production capacity
from 1.8 million tons to 3.4 million tons. It will
also introduce production lines for high quality
products, i.e., a skinpass line and a pickling and
oiling line to thoroughly respond to customers’
demands.
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With promotional privileges from the Board of Investment
(BOI), the construction and production line installation
are scheduled to complete in 2007.
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