Zoo kawg! Baoji Titanium

incredible! "Baoji Titanium"!

Baoji's titanium production and processing volume accounted for 65 percent of the country and 33 percent of the world. In 2019, Baoji's advanced structural materials industry cluster entered the first batch of national strategic emerging industrial cluster development projects, marking the inclusion of "Baoji Titanium" into the national strategy.

Nyob rau hauv xyoo tas los no, high -titanium cov khoom lag luam tau poob qis, thiab kev lag luam titanium tau txais txiaj ntsig los ntawm peev. Nws tsuas yog nqis peev hauv cov chaw yooj yim xws li cov khoom siv hlau sib xyaw thiab titanium alloy smelting thiab forging ntau lawm kab, ua Baoji yog ib qho tseem ceeb hauv paus rau cov ntaub ntawv siab heev thiab cov khoom siv zog.

"Foreign Titanium" will not shake Baoji's status as "China Titanium Valley" for the time being. The reason is that at present, all other places are "single-point breakthroughs" and have not formed a comprehensive and overall advantage in the industrial chain. The advantage of Baoji's titanium processing center has not changed.

This year, the municipal party committee and the municipal government decided to build a key industrial chain around the city's advantageous industries and emerging industries. The titanium and titanium alloy industrial chain has become the top priority. Hui Jincai, secretary of the municipal party committee, will serve as the leader of the industrial cluster, and Wu Yong, member of the Standing Committee of the municipal party committee and director of the Propaganda Department Exceeding the length of the industrial chain, focusing on the implementation of the "Eight Major Projects", to promote Baoji from "China Titanium Valley" to "World Titanium Capital".

▲Titanium alloy manned spherical shell developed by Baoti Group

From the "Deep Sea Warrior" with a dive depth of 4,500 meters to the "Struggle" with a new record of 10,909 meters for China's manned deep diving, the titanium alloy manned spherical shell developed by Baoti Group serves as the core of the manned submersible. The components signify that China's deep-sea manned detection equipment has achieved a historic leap from "running side by side" with the world to "leading". This is another "masterpiece" of "Baoji Titanium" as an "industry pioneer".

Nyob rau hauv lub stockyard ntawm Yixin Titanium Industry Company, tseem muaj ib pawg ntawm cov ntaub ntawv pov tseg. Nws yog cov khoom tsis tsim nyog titanium uas tau yeem rov qab los ntawm Norway Akersolution, lub tuam txhab Fortune 500. Tam sim no cov ntaub ntawv no zoo li keeb kwm yav dhau, uas tau pom Yixin. Cov kauj ruam-los ntawm- kev txhim kho cov txheej txheem kev tswj hwm zoo tau txais kev pom zoo los ntawm Fortune 500 tuam txhab tshiab.

▲In Baotai Industrial Park (Photo: Li Nan)

As the world's largest gathering area for the development of the titanium industry, Baoji presents the myth of titanium wealth every day. You can think of it as a wave in the development of the titanium industry, but they are even more important for Baoji to build the "China Titanium Valley" and "world". The vigorous and upward force of "Tidu".

Baoji's titanium production and processing volume accounted for 65 percent of the country's total and 33 percent of the world's total. In 2019, Baoji's advanced structural materials industry cluster entered the first batch of national strategic emerging industrial cluster development projects, marking the inclusion of "Baoji Titanium" into the national strategy. Its advantages are beyond doubt. As a key area, Baoji has been given a new historical mission in the titanium and titanium alloy industry chain promotion plan laid out across the province this year. So, how can Baoji take advantage of the trend and occupy a favorable "niche" in the high-end titanium alloy and civilian titanium market? Recently, the reporter visited various parties and conducted research.

▲The products stored in the strip factory in Baotai Industrial Park.

The "Past and Present" of "Baoji Titanium"

Titanium is a representative of "gentle and firm" in the metal kingdom. As a material with low density, high strength, and corrosion resistance, titanium has outstanding application advantages in light-weight, high-strength, and severe high and low temperature changes. It is known as "Space metal" and "ocean metal" are important strategic metal materials in the 21st century.

The world's titanium industrial production began in 1948. The landmark event was that DuPont of the United States produced 2 tons of sponge titanium using the magnesium reduction method. The application of titanium began in the 1950s, starting from the aerospace industry in the United States, the Soviet Union and other countries. With the rapid development of the aerospace industry in our country, it is necessary to produce "lightweight, high-strength, high-temperature and corrosion-resistant" titanium alloys to solve the bottleneck problem, so Baoti Group, established in 1965, took on this important task.

▲Bao Titanium Group demonstrates the wide range of applications of titanium products

Keeb kwm lub sijhawm xaiv Baoji tso cai rau kev lag luam titanium los pib hauv thaj av no. Baoti Group tam sim ntawd tau txais kev tsim, kev tsim kho thiab kev sim ntau lawm ntawm feem ntau ntawm cov khoom siv hauv tsev titanium tom qab nws ua tiav, ua rau Tuam Tshoj yog plaub lub teb chaws nrog kev ua tiav titanium kev lag luam tom qab Tebchaws Meskas, Russia thiab Nyiv.

For more than 50 years, Baoti Group has undertaken more than 8,000 trial production tasks of new materials for China's material manufacturing and cutting-edge technology. The 4500-meter titanium deep-sea vehicle manned spherical shell produced here has broken the European and American deep-sea exploration Technological monopoly; precision-forged titanium alloy materials help the vehicles to be fast and fast; new-type titanium materials allow China's large aircraft to soar in the clouds...

▲Large titanium equipment

The history of Baoti's development is the history of riding the wind and waves of "responsibility for the country". It is precisely because of a series of "ice-breaking journeys" in the titanium field, such as anchoring the direction, cultivating technology, and opening up the market. A private enterprise that sprouts like small trees and grasses.

In the tide of reform and opening up, private titanium companies in Baoji have experienced a journey from barbaric growth to refined growth. Guo Jianfeng, general manager of Baoji Ouyuan New Metal Technology Co., Ltd., was an early group of people who caught up with the "sales of titanium materials to make money". He told reporters: "The titanium market was'crazy' in 2008. There is a paragraph describing Maying Town. People do business and negotiate the price with customers at noon. In the afternoon, the price of titanium material rose by several hundred yuan per ton, and the boss regretted that the price was set too fast. At that time, people who sold titanium materials easily made tens of millions of yuan a year. "

▲Titanium product display (Photo: Zhao Binrui and Xie Keqiang)

Cov huab cua tsis zoo, tsis muaj kev cia siab, huab cua tsis tuaj yeem yog lub lag luam ib txwm muaj. Nrog rau kev nce zuj zus ntawm cov tuam txhab ua lag luam thiab kev xav tau ntawm kev ua lag luam ntawm kev ua cov cuab yeej technology, cov khoom tsim tawm, thiab cov khoom lag luam titanium zoo, ib pawg ntawm cov tuam txhab uas xav tau kev muag khoom thiab tsis kawm txog kev siv tshuab tau maj mam tshem tawm los ntawm kev ua lag luam, thiab qee qhov. Lub tuam txhab yog niaj hnub nrhiav kev siv tshuab, thiab lub zog ntau dua, qhov zoo dua.

"The plant you see now is the third place I changed!" In the high-end equipment industrial park of Baoji High-tech Zone, the reporter saw Xu Cheng, general manager of Baoji Jinhaiyuan Titanium Standard Parts Products Co., Ltd., his factory was clean. It is neat and tidy, showing the demeanor of industrial aesthetics. The materials can be traced from storage to processing. It is normal for the finished product rate to reach 100 percent . The management is so meticulous that it is not a "overnight" effort.

▲Workers are processing titanium forgings

Thaum lub titanium kev lag luam tau booming nyob ib ncig ntawm 2000, Xu Cheng teem ib lub Hoobkas me me ua titanium ua. Xyoo 2006, ib tus neeg siv khoom Nyij Pooj tau mus xyuas lub Hoobkas thiab pom tias lawv cov txheej txheem ua cov khoom lag luam tsis yog tus qauv, tsis muaj cov qauv txheej txheem, cov ntaub ntawv tau muab tso rau txhua qhov chaw, thiab txawm tias cov chav dej muaj ntxhiab tsw, hais tias lawv tsis tuaj yeem koom tes.

Xu Cheng didn't want to lose foreign orders. He started from training the quality of skilled workers, to equipment improvement, process control, rectification one by one, and even the toilet was refurbished twice. By the third year, they will be able to produce qualified products for Japanese companies, and they will have stable international orders in the eighth year. Xu Cheng believes that this kind of experience is worthwhile: fasteners are known as "the rice of industry". Fasteners are used in any manufacturing industry. What Jin Haiyuan is proud of is that the company's products use Baotai's 4,500 meters manned depth. On submersible vehicles and 10,000-meter-class manned submersibles, and the company is now the world's largest fastener stocker German Würth, and the United States quick button company's cooperative enterprises, its competitiveness is different from the past.

▲Product display of large-size thin-walled ring

Private enterprises such as Jin Haiyuan are today a typical representative of Baoji Titanium Enterprises' persistence and resilience. Facts have proved that after several rounds of market cyclical fluctuations in the titanium industry, companies that are able to prepare "winter clothes" when the market is good, and those companies that have survived difficulties when the market is bad are all powerful private enterprises left behind by the "big waves".

According to the reporter's investigation, some companies have opened up new territory in product serialization; some companies only make standard parts and become well-known suppliers in the industry; some companies specialize in serving foreign companies and manufacture various titanium processed parts; Although some companies continue to use old equipment, but the cost is well controlled, there is still market space; some companies have become invisible champions in a certain segment of the outdoor product market...

▲Workers are inspecting plates

At present, there are more than 590 titanium production and processing enterprises in Baoji, including 104 regulated enterprises (more than half of the country), 26 enterprises with a value of more than 100 million yuan, and 1 enterprise with a value of more than 20 billion yuan. In 2020, the production and processing capacity of Baoji Titanium is about 50,000 tons, Baotai has 21,300 tons, and private enterprises have 28,300 tons. Baotai's absolute leadership is evident.

After more than 50 years of accumulation, the Baoji titanium industry has formed a unique industrial "landscape": The country's largest leading enterprise, Baoti, has achieved more than 600 scientific and technological achievements here. Baoji Titanium is available for research on submersibles from 4500 meters to 10909 meters. It has the most complete industrial chain in the country and can produce more than 5,000 specifications of materials; it has the right to speak in the industry and is the high ground for the formulation of national titanium industry standards. The country's important titanium testing institutions and research institutions are gathered in Baoji.

"China Titanium Valley" is striding forward to "World Titanium Capital"

In recent years, the titanium industry has been favored by capital, and Baoji's investment boom began in 2018. Several business executives told reporters: "The supply of foreign titanium ore resources has become scarce, and the domestic demand for titanium dioxide and titanium metal has increased. The output of sponge titanium products is increasing and the price is rising. New equipment and new processes can be used. Catch up with this wave of development!"

▲Customer-to-business certification product quality

Tam sim no, qhov kev thov rau siab -cov ntaub ntawv titanium kawg hauv cov ntawv sau qis xws li aerospace, nkoj, thiab lwm yam yog nce. Zoo li Baoti Group, nws cov khoom uas twb muaj lawm siab - kawg titanium cov khoom tsis txaus. Txhawm rau ua kom tau raws li kev xav tau ntawm kev lag luam, pab pawg npaj yuav nqis peev 5 billion yuan los ntawm 2020. Txog 6 billion yuan, siv cov haujlwm xws li kev txhim kho thiab muaj peev xwm nthuav dav ntawm titanium daim txhuam cev, kev tsim cov khoom siv titanium ore, thiab kev hloov kho thev naus laus zis ntawm kev hloov kho dua tshiab. thiab muaj peev xwm nthuav dav ntawm marine engineering khoom tsim khoom. Ntawm lawv, siab -kev ua tau zoo titanium thiab titanium alloy daim ntawv kev lag luam kev kho dua tshiab yog qhov zoo tshaj plaws.

In February 2021, the additional issuance project of Baoti Co., Ltd. was officially implemented, mainly for the construction of high-end titanium alloy material production lines and testing centers. After the project is put into operation, it is expected that the company's titanium product production capacity is expected to exceed 30,000 tons in 2023.

▲Titanium belt display

Kev lag luam pej xeem cov khoom lag luam tau muab peev ntau chav rau kev xav. Tam sim no, cov khoom siv ua noj ua haus thiab niaj hnub- siv cov khoom lag luam kho vajtse muaj cov khoom lag luam paub tab thiab muaj cov neeg siv khoom lag luam, uas tau nyiam ntau tus neeg los saib xyuas cov khoom siv titanium.

This year, a large number of "titanium" super projects have started construction in Baoji, focusing on Baoji's industrial ambition to build "China Titanium Valley" and "World Titanium Capital", as well as the titanium industry's ability to produce and process and gather elements. In particular, Zhengwei International Group, a Fortune 500 company, was attracted by Baoji's complete titanium industry cluster and the advantages of the entire industrial chain. The materials industry park, the Northwest headquarters of Zhengwei and the three supporting sub-projects strive to optimize and upgrade the supply of the element platform with Baoji Titanium Industry, and promote the integration of Baoji Titanium Industry into the global industrial chain supply chain.

▲Large titanium equipment

In addition, including the investment of 1 billion yuan in metal composite materials and titanium alloy smelting and forging production line construction projects, it is necessary to realize the entire industrial chain of metal composite materials, closed intelligent production and manufacturing; and the high-end investment of Baoji Topuda Titanium Industry Co., Ltd. The whole industry chain project of titanium and titanium alloy products for equipment, the newly developed "Titanium Kou" series of titanium daily necessities project by Baoji Jucheng Titanium Industry Co., Ltd., and the "Shaanxi Hercules Aviation Industrial Park Technology" under construction by Baoji Goxinxinglong Titanium Industry Co., Ltd. Projects, etc., have made new developments in improving technology and supplementing production capacity.

Baoji plans to reserve 60 projects in the library, with a total investment of 29.92 billion yuan, which will promote the development of titanium industry clusters and parks. These titanium and new materials industry projects will help "China Titanium Valley" integrate into the global industrial chain supply chain and move towards the "world titanium capital", realizing the transformation from an industrial cluster to an industrial community.

▲Civilian titanium products (Photo: Zhou Shuli)

Reflections on the "Pain of Apple Silk"

Now that the market is good, companies are busy with projects, but while chasing the heat, they must also make a calm judgment and avoid blind investment. In the mind of the person in charge of the titanium company, the "pain of apple silk" cannot be forgotten. Eight years ago, the screws used inside Apple mobile phones were made of titanium alloy. At that time, an order from a screw processing company to Baoji was more than a dozen tons, while private companies only sold dozens of tons a year.

▲The first line of titanium equipment production (Photo: Kou Minghu)

Companies that have been doing titanium wire instantly became "sweet and sweet". Customers demand as many products as there are. The market is "thirsty". This triggered Baoji Titanium Enterprises to quickly install new wire equipment, and everyone flocked to supply them, resulting in titanium wire The output continues to increase, and customers change from "hungry for food" to "picking the bones in the egg": it turned out to be a cash-on-delivery product, which becomes a cash-on-delivery, and then returns to the situation after use and returns at every turn. Companies that are late to install equipment and lose millions or tens of millions of dollars abound.

According to analysis by Qi Haigang, executive chairman of the Baoji Titanium Industry Information Council, this heavy blow has exposed the problems of low technology, low innovation capabilities and low quality in the Baoji titanium industry, except for the leading and backbone enterprises. Once the big market opportunity comes, many companies can't catch it.

▲Titanium products displayed at the Titanium Expo (Photo: Zhao Binrui and Xie Keqiang)

Tus thawj saib xyuas kev lag luam ntawm Baotai tau hais rau tus neeg sau xov xwm tias muaj kev paub tsis kawg ntawm physics thiab chemistry yuav tsum tau xyaum ua hauv ntiaj teb ntawm cov ntaub ntawv, thiab cov kws tshawb fawb yuav tsum nkag siab txog qhov kev tawg, thiab ua haujlwm zoo ntawm kev ua raws li kev coj ua ntawm kev siv. txhua yam khoom. Txheej txheem kev tshawb fawb thiab tsim kev sib txuas. Tau txais ib qho txiaj ntsig kev tshawb fawb yuav tsum tau suav tsis txheeb mus thiab los ntawm chav kuaj thiab rhiav, thiab nws yuav siv sij hawm ntau thiab nyiaj txiag kom ua tiav.

Cov ntaub ntawv zoo heev yog qhov yuav tsum tau ua ua ntej rau txhua qhov kev tsim khoom lag luam kom nyob twj ywm zoo. Kev lag luam qhia txog kev tsim cov thev naus laus zis, thiab kev tsim khoom German muaj zog. Qhov laj thawj yog vim li cas cov tuam txhab tau tshawb fawb txog cov khoom lag luam los ntawm RD mus rau kev tsim khoom, thiab tuaj yeem ua nruj me ntsis rau ntau pua xyoo los tswj nws txoj kev ua neej ntev. Ntau tus thawj coj ua lag luam ntseeg tias cov tuam txhab ntiag tug tsis xav tsim cov khoom lag luam siab - zoo, tab sis lawv tsis muaj lawv tus kheej RD peev xwm thiab kev taw qhia. Lawv tsuas yog ua cov txheej txheem ntxhib thiab khwv tau cov nqi ua haujlwm, thiab tsis tuaj yeem tho rau hauv qhov tob.

▲A private enterprise in Baoji is issuing a new batch of titanium products (Photo: Kou Minghu)

In recent years, through the continuous policy guidance of the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government and the support of RD institutions, Baoji has successfully introduced the Shaanxi Branch of the National Numerical Control System Engineering Technology Research Center, the Intelligent Manufacturing Innovation Center, the Rapid Manufacturing National Engineering Research Center, and the Baoji Innovation Center. The Baoji Special Aircraft Engineering Research Institute and other national RD centers have realized the rapid flow of talents and technical services, and greatly enhanced their innovation capabilities. Baoji, Tsinghua University, Xi'an Jiaotong University and other universities as well as foreign research institutes such as Russia, the United States, Germany and other foreign research institutes have implemented more than 30 RD projects, and have successively obtained a number of representatives in the fields of nuclear power transmission equipment, manned submersible spherical shells, and deep-sea materials. Major scientific and technological achievements of the world's advanced level.

Will "foreign titanium" shake Baoji's status?

Nyob rau hauv xyoo tas los no, kev nqis peev thiab kev loj hlob ntawm kev lag luam titanium hauv lwm qhov chaw kuj tsim nyog rau kev mloog. Kev nqis peev txawv teb chaws ntawm kev lag luam ntiag tug hauv Baoji tau pib nyob ib ncig ntawm 2018. Raws li Baoji Titanium Industry Association thiab cov thawj coj ntawm tuam txhab, txij li xyoo 2019, ntau tshaj 10 tuam txhab xws li Titanium Hlau Composite Materials thiab Innet Medical Titanium tau ua tiav nqis peev hauv thiab tsim cov chaw tsim khoom hauv Panzhihua. Lub nroog, Sichuan Xeev, thiab txawm tau hloov lawv cov chaw ua haujlwm tag nrho rau Panzhihua.

▲The first line of titanium equipment production (Photo: Kou Minghu)

Qhov laj thawj tseem ceeb rau lawv cov peev txheej sab nrauv yog tias lawv tau ntsib teeb meem hauv kev txhim kho Baoji. Baoji tsis muaj peev txheej titanium ore hauv zos. Raws li cov tuam txhab titanium txhim kho thiab loj hlob, lawv yuav tsum tau txuas mus rau kev lag luam nce toj los ntawm kev xav ntawm cov khoom siv raw zoo thiab kev tswj hwm tus nqi. Qee lub tuam txhab tsis tuaj yeem hloov pauv thiab hloov kho hauv zos vim yog txoj cai tiv thaiv ib puag ncig. Nres, yog li nrhiav lub sijhawm sab nraud; qee lub tuam txhab xav tau av hauv Baoji