Lianyuan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. (LY Steel), a core enterprise under Hunan Steel Group—one of the world’s Fortune Global 500 companies—is a major high-end steel production base in Central and Southern China.
With an annual capacity exceeding 12 million tons, LY Steel is the world’s largest production base for medium and thin-gauge heat-treated plates and China’s leading supplier of silicon-steel substrates. Its products are widely used in national key projects such as the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macao Bridge and Tesla manufacturing facilities.
To modernize its molten-metal handling process and enhance operational safety, LY Steel introduced its YZ180t Foundry Overhead Crane, achieving a breakthrough in intelligent and heavy-duty lifting within high-temperature metallurgy environments.
Project Overview
To improve the efficiency of molten-metal transportation in the steelmaking workshop, Lianyuan Steel deployed the YZ180t Foundry Overhead Crane.