On February 22, 2017, after one month of start-up, a complete success was made on modernization of #3 Billet Caster contracted by CISDI for Xinyu Iron & Steel Co.. The approximately 90,000 tones of billets as produced were seen of good quality, fulfilling the desired target.

Proprietary technologies of CISDI have been applied to the modernization of the billet caster, including continuous straightening, cut billet length management, 3D dynamic control of secondary cooling zone. CISDI also supplied the straightener. Through the modernization, #3 Billet Caster is supposed to produce 1Mtpa 135mm´135mm and 160mm´160mm billets of quality carbon structural, low alloy, spring, cold heading, hard wire steels.