China’s Guangzhou Lianzhong Stainless Steel Corp (Lisco), a subsidiary of Taiwan's Yieh United Steel Corp (Yusco), announced to have a trial run for its new 800,000 tpy stainless meltshop in this February or March, said an official of the company .

Lisco had commissioned an hot rolling mill in the August of 2006 with capacity of 800,000 tonnes per year and it produced about 240,000 stainless cold rolled coils last year. The company has produced cold rolled stainless steel coils with width of 1,500mm successfully in last December. The company can make 450,000 tonnes of cold rolled coil per year, 300 series occupied 70 percent while 30 percent for 200 series.

Current market is weak in China, and it is expected to last in the first half this year, said by the company.