The proposed Project will be the first integrated steel mill plant in Sarawak. The proposed Project is envisaged to produce wire rod, bar, strip, section, hot rolled coil, cold rolled coil, hot dip zinc galvanised coil, hot dipped galvalume coil, colour coated coil, cold rolled coil (without annealing) and welded tube.

The proposed project will employ close to 5,230 skilled workers and staff during full operational phase and with an estimated total investment of US $3 billion, it is expected to bring economic and technology benefits to Bintulu, the State of Sarawak and Malaysia as a whole.

As the Project is a prescribed activity under the Environmental Quality (Prescribed Activities) (Environmental Impact Assessment) Order 2015, a report on the impacts of the proposed Project on the environment is to be prepared for the approval of the Department of Environment (DOE). The objective of the EIA is to ensure that all impacts, direct and indirect, especially environmental, social and economics associated with the proposed development are fully examined and addressed.

A multi-disciplined team of sector-specific specialists gathered data and conducted field studies on all aspects of the physical, biological and social environment, documenting the current situation and highlighting the core environmental issues.

The key project elements included the following:

• A profile of the existing environmental condition within a 5 km radius of the Project site. This element focussed on the identification and mapping of the existing environmental conditions in the immediate area, highlighting the existing land capability, the land use, Environmentally Sensitive Areas (ESA) and the key environmental issues. This included a review of the institutional and legal set-up and identification of the main issues, opportunities and constraints.
• Dispersion Modelling was conducted with the USEPA’s AERMOD model (Version 16218, December 2016) and three years of meteorological data generated by the Mesoscale Meteorological Model (MM5). Air pollutants that were assessed were particulate matter (PM) as PM10, sulphur dioxide (SO₂), nitrogen dioxide (NO₂), lead (Pb), volatile organic compounds (VOC) and dioxins. 
• Outlining the Waste Management strategy during the operation stage.
• Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) that identified possible major accident hazards in the proposed project.
• Groundwater contaminant transport modelling was conducted to simulate and investigate the potential movement of contaminant compounds through groundwater systems in the study area. The basis for modelling is the three-dimensional groundwater flow and contaminant transport modelling package consisting of MODFLOW, MODPATH, MT3D/RT3D, and PEST and graphically interfaced by GMS was used for the modelling exercise.