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Eight projects across China, Southeast Asia and West Africa — the equipment, the scope, and the outcomes.

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Blue Reconditioning — anonymised project. Customer-identifying details are omitted from this summary.

About Blue Reconditioning
Client
Customer details withheld
Equipment
Not published with this record
Condition
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Service
Blue Reconditioning
Delivered by
Ducheng Industrial (Thailand) Limited
China · Shandong — 2026

43 Siemens S120 drives overhauled in under a month

During the section-mill overhaul at Shiheng Special Steel, DUCHENG took over the full maintenance cycle for 43 Siemens S120 drives — accepted December 29, 2025, delivered complete by January 26, 2026. The rolling-mill equipment department followed up with a formal letter of appreciation for the work's professionalism and discipline.

Scope per drive

Environment assessment · parameter backup & safety briefing · disassembly & deep dust removal · thermal-paste renewal · board cleaning & insulating-varnish coating · DC-capacitor replacement · full component performance testing

43
Siemens S120 drives, full maintenance cycle
<1 month
project acceptance to complete delivery
Apr 2026
client letter of appreciation received
China · Hangzhou — Multi-Year Contract

Hangzhou Iron & Steel: from first outsourcing to the last contract

After more than fifty years of running its own electrical maintenance, Hangzhou Iron & Steel Group handed imported equipment to a third party for the first time — DUCHENG took over every ABB drive at the converter steelmaking plant, a fleet already 7–12 years into service.

Two months of professional maintenance later, trip and failure events fell from two to three per month to roughly one every six months. The cooperation grew: high- and low-voltage drives of multiple brands across the plant, an equipment and spare-parts database, emergency-response plans and a periodic inspection system — then three-year contracts covering the coking plant, EAF plant, ironworks and power company.

DUCHENG was the only external technical team serving Hangzhou Steel's main production right up to the Banshan base's final day — when the converter plant signed one last supplementary contract with DUCHENG, settled the same day, marking the end of more than 50 years of operation.

Project outcome
BEFORE
2–3
trip / failure events per month, ABB drive fleet
AFTER TWO MONTHS OF CONTRACTED MAINTENANCE
≈1
failure every six months
Scope growth
  • — Converter plant ABB fleet → multi-brand HV & LV drives
  • — 3-year contracts: coking, EAF, ironworks, power company
  • — Spare-parts database · emergency plans · periodic inspection
Furnace ignition glow at the Hanrui nickel project in Indonesia
Scheduled ignition — Hanrui nickel project, Indonesia
DUCHENG engineers at the Hanrui Cobalt site entrance in Indonesia
DUCHENG engineers — Hanrui site
First-ignition ceremony group photo at the Hanrui nickel project
First-ignition ceremony — project teams
Indonesia — 2026

Commissioning for a scheduled first ignition

Two DUCHENG engineers travelled to the Hanrui nickel project — a 20,000-tonne-per-year nickel-matte facility — to bring the drive systems to readiness: parameter calibration, performance testing and operating-risk inspection, completed so the project reached its first ignition on schedule.

West Africa · Niger–Benin Pipeline — 2024–2025

Four medium-voltage drives commissioned at the Sèmè terminal

At the Atlantic end of the CNPC Niger–Benin pipeline (WAPCO), four imported-brand medium-voltage VFDs drive the crude loading pumps. DUCHENG engineers commissioned them into service in 2024 under high-salinity, high-humidity coastal conditions — resolving transit-damaged components together with the EPC contractor ahead of the terminal's first crude loading. In February 2025, the project operations department sent a formal letter of appreciation.

Project
CNPC Niger–Benin pipeline (WAPCO) — Sèmè terminal
Equipment
4 imported-brand MV loading-pump VFDs
Conditions
High-salinity, high-humidity coastal site
Milestone
Commissioned 2024 — first crude loading completed
Recognition
Letter of appreciation, February 2025
DUCHENG engineer troubleshooting medium-voltage VFD cabinets at the Sèmè terminal
MV drive work — Sèmè terminal
Project site entrance on the Niger–Benin pipeline route
Pipeline project site
Crude storage tank under construction at the Sèmè terminal site
Sèmè terminal tank site
China · Jiangsu — April 2025

Shagang tilting converter: VFD upgrade completed in 96 hours vs 7-day plan

Shagang Group converter furnace #1 tilting VFD upgrade. The DUCHENG team replaced the original Siemens S120 series drives with the ES70 series and upgraded the PLC control system, completing the full project in 96 hours — three days ahead of the seven-day planned window. The factory and logistics leadership issued a formal commendation on project completion.

Client
Shagang Group, Jiangsu
Equipment
Siemens S120 → ES70 series VFDs
Scope
Tilting converter VFD + PLC upgrade, full-load test and handover
Delivered
4 days / 96 hours vs 7-day plan
DUCHENG crew beside the new VFD cabinet lineup in the Shagang electrical room
Shagang · new VFD cabinets on site
Interior of Siemens S120 cabinet at Shagang steelworks during upgrade
S120 cabinet interior — Shagang
China — October 2024

Tengyue New Materials: emergency capacitor renewal across 179 drives

Tengyue New Materials faced an urgent failure across its DC600-502 and DC1500/07 drive fleet. DUCHENG deployed a workshop team to carry out batch capacitor replacement and performance testing across all 179 units, returning the line to operation within the emergency response window.

Client
Tengyue New Materials
Equipment
DC600-502 / DC1500/07 series, 179 drives
Service
Emergency capacitor replacement + performance test
Timeline
Completed October 2024
DUCHENG workshop team at Tengyue New Materials during batch capacitor replacement
Workshop team — Tengyue New Materials
DUCHENG commissioning team at the Qixia plant during SM150 maintenance campaign
Qixia plant — commissioning team
China — 2019 · 2025

Qixia plant: SM150 drive maintenance partnership, 2019–2025

A long-running maintenance relationship with the Qixia facility, covering its SM150 VFD fleet. DUCHENG carried out structured maintenance campaigns in 2019 and again in 2025, building a cumulative service record across the drive population and establishing a preventive care baseline for the plant's production continuity.

Equipment
SM150 series VFDs
Service
Preventive maintenance campaigns — 2019 and 2025
Model
Long-term maintenance partnership
Client letters on record

Recognition in the clients’ own records

Original documents remain in their published language. Localized text below is a factual summary, not a replacement for the original.

CNPC Niger–Benin pipeline project (WAPCO)
Original letter of appreciation · 25 February 2025
Original Chinese appreciation letter for DUCHENG’s support on the Niger–Benin pipeline projectOpen the original letter

The letter records the on-site team’s response to transit-damaged components and its support for commissioning four medium-voltage loading-pump drives at the Sèmè terminal.

Localized factual summary
Shiheng Special Steel Group
Published commendation record · April 2026
The rolling-mill equipment department commended the team after maintenance of 43 Siemens S120 drives was completed and accepted within the planned overhaul period.

A readable original scan is not currently published on this site; no substitute document has been fabricated.

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