ناقابل یقین! باوجی ٹائٹینیم

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.

حالیہ برسوں میں، اعلی-ٹائٹینیم کی مصنوعات کی فراہمی کم رہی ہے، اور ٹائٹینیم کی صنعت کو سرمائے کی حمایت حاصل ہے۔ یہ بنیادی طور پر بنیادی شعبوں میں سرمایہ کاری کرتا ہے جیسے دھاتی مرکب مواد اور ٹائٹینیم الائے سمیلٹنگ اور فورجنگ پروڈکشن لائنز، جس سے Baoji کو جدید مواد اور مضبوط آلات کے لیے ایک اہم بنیاد بنایا جاتا ہے۔

"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".

Yixin Titanium Industry Company کے سٹاک یارڈ میں اب بھی فضلہ مواد کا ڈھیر ہے۔ یہ نااہل ٹائٹینیم مواد ہے جسے فارچیون 500 کمپنی ناروے اکرسولیشن سے رضاکارانہ طور پر واپس منگوایا گیا تھا۔ اب مواد کا یہ ڈھیر ایک پس منظر کی طرح ہے، جس نے Yixin کو دیکھا ہے۔ کوالٹی مینجمنٹ سسٹم کی مرحلہ وار اپ گریڈنگ کو نئی Fortune 500 کمپنیوں کی طرف سے پسند کیا جا رہا ہے۔

▲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

تاریخی موقع نے باوجی کا انتخاب کیا تاکہ ٹائٹینیم کی صنعت کو اس سرزمین میں جڑیں پکڑنے دیں۔ باوٹی گروپ نے اپنی تکمیل کے بعد فوری طور پر زیادہ تر گھریلو ٹائٹینیم پروسیسنگ مواد کی تیاری، ترقی اور آزمائشی پیداوار کا آغاز کیا، جس سے چین امریکہ، روس اور جاپان کے بعد مکمل ٹائٹینیم صنعتی نظام والا چوتھا ملک بن گیا۔

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)

غیر متوقع، غیر متوقع، غیر متوقع موسم عام بازار ہے۔ پروسیسنگ کمپنیوں کی مسلسل آمد اور ٹائٹینیم مصنوعات کی پروسیسنگ ٹکنالوجی، آؤٹ پٹ اور کوالٹی کے حوالے سے مارکیٹ کی بڑھتی ہوئی مانگ کے ساتھ، کمپنیوں کا ایک گروپ جو سیلز کے جنون میں مبتلا ہے اور ٹیکنالوجی کا مطالعہ نہیں کرتی ہے، مارکیٹ سے آہستہ آہستہ ختم ہو رہی ہے، اور کچھ انٹرپرائز مسلسل ٹیکنالوجی کا تعاقب کر رہا ہے، اور جتنا زیادہ زوردار، اتنا ہی بہتر ہے۔

"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

جب ٹائٹینیم کی صنعت 2000 کے آس پاس عروج پر تھی، سو چینگ نے ٹائٹینیم پروسیسنگ کے لیے ایک چھوٹی فیکٹری لگائی۔ 2006 میں، ایک جاپانی گاہک نے فیکٹری کا دورہ کیا اور دیکھا کہ ان کی مصنوعات کی پروسیسنگ کا طریقہ کار معیاری نہیں تھا، تکنیکی معیارات کا فقدان تھا، جگہ جگہ مواد کے ڈھیر لگے ہوئے تھے، یہاں تک کہ بیت الخلا بھی بدبودار تھے، یہ کہتے ہوئے کہ وہ تعاون نہیں کر سکتے۔

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

اس وقت، ایرو اسپیس، بحری جہاز، وغیرہ جیسے ڈاؤن اسٹریم ایپلی کیشنز میں اعلی-ٹائٹینیم مواد کی مانگ بڑھ رہی ہے۔ Baoti گروپ کی طرح، اس کے موجودہ اعلی-ٹائٹینیم مصنوعات کی فراہمی کم ہے۔ مارکیٹ کی طلب کو پورا کرنے کے لیے، گروپ 2020 سے 5 بلین یوآن کی سرمایہ کاری کرنے کا ارادہ رکھتا ہے۔ 6 بلین یوآن تک، ٹائٹینیم سپنج کی اپ گریڈنگ اور صلاحیت میں توسیع، ٹائٹینیم ایسک کے وسائل کی ترقی، اور اپ گریڈنگ کی تکنیکی تبدیلی جیسے منصوبوں پر عمل درآمد کرے گا۔ اور میرین انجینئرنگ آلات کی تیاری کی صلاحیت میں توسیع۔ ان میں، اعلی-کارکردگی والے ٹائٹینیم اور ٹائٹینیم الائے شیٹ انڈسٹری کو اپ گریڈ کرنے والے پروجیکٹ بڑے پیمانے پر پر امید ہیں۔

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

شہری مصنوعات کی مارکیٹ نے تصور کے لیے سرمائے کو مزید گنجائش فراہم کی ہے۔ فی الحال، کھانا پکانے کے آلات اور روزانہ استعمال کی ہارڈویئر صنعتوں میں بالغ مصنوعات ہیں اور ان کے پاس صارفین کی بنیاد ہے، جو زیادہ لوگوں کو ٹائٹینیم مصنوعات کی طرف توجہ دینے کی طرف راغب کر رہی ہے۔

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)

باوٹائی کے ایک ٹیکنیکل مینیجر نے رپورٹر کو بتایا کہ مادّے کی دنیا میں فزکس اور کیمسٹری کا لامحدود علم ہے، اور محققین کو اس پیش رفت کو سمجھنے اور استعمال کی سمت کے مطابق پروسیسنگ کا اچھا کام کرنے کی ضرورت ہے۔ ہر ایک مواد. روابط کی تحقیق اور ڈیزائن پر عمل کریں۔ نسبتاً سائنسی قدر حاصل کرنے کے لیے لیبارٹری اور ورکشاپ میں جانے اور جانے کے لیے لاتعداد دوروں کی ضرورت ہوتی ہے، اور اسے حاصل کرنے میں بہت زیادہ وقت اور پیسہ لگتا ہے۔

بہترین مواد تمام صنعتی مینوفیکچرنگ کے لیے بہترین رہنے کی شرط ہے۔ صنعت تکنیکی جمع پر زور دیتی ہے، اور جرمن مینوفیکچرنگ مضبوط ہے۔ وجہ یہ ہے کہ کمپنیوں نے RD سے لے کر پیداوار تک کسی پروڈکٹ پر اچھی طرح تحقیق کی ہے، اور اس کی لمبی عمر کو برقرار رکھنے کے لیے اسے سینکڑوں سالوں تک سختی سے تیار کیا جا سکتا ہے۔ کئی کاروباری ایگزیکٹوز کا خیال ہے کہ نجی ادارے اعلیٰ-معیاری مصنوعات تیار نہیں کرنا چاہتے، لیکن ان کے پاس اپنی RD صلاحیتوں اور تکنیکی رہنمائی کی کمی ہے۔ وہ صرف رف پروسیسنگ کرتے ہیں اور پروسیسنگ فیس کماتے ہیں، اور گہرے علاقوں میں ڈرل نہیں کر سکتے۔

▲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?

حالیہ برسوں میں، دیگر جگہوں پر ٹائٹینیم کی صنعت کی سرمایہ کاری اور ترقی بھی توجہ کے لائق ہے۔ باوجی میں نجی اداروں کی غیر ملکی سرمایہ کاری کا رجحان 2018 کے آس پاس شروع ہوا۔ باؤجی ٹائٹینیم انڈسٹری ایسوسی ایشن اور متعلقہ کمپنی کے رہنماؤں کے مطابق، 2019 سے، ٹائٹینیم میٹل کمپوزٹ میٹریلز اور انیٹ میڈیکل ٹائٹینیم سمیت 10 سے زیادہ کمپنیوں نے لگاتار سرمایہ کاری کی ہے اور پنزیہوا میں فیکٹریاں بنائی ہیں۔ شہر، صوبہ سیچوان، اور یہاں تک کہ اپنی پوری فیکٹریوں کو Panzhihua میں منتقل کر دیا۔

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

ان کی ظاہری سرمایہ کاری کی بنیادی وجہ یہ ہے کہ انہیں باؤجی کی ترقی میں رکاوٹوں کا سامنا کرنا پڑا۔ Baoji مقامی ٹائٹینیم ایسک وسائل کی کمی ہے. جیسے جیسے ٹائٹینیم کمپنیاں ترقی کرتی ہیں اور بڑھ رہی ہیں، انہیں خام مال کے معیار اور لاگت کے کنٹرول کے تناظر میں اوپر کی صنعتوں تک توسیع دینے کی ضرورت ہے۔ ماحولیاتی تحفظ کی پالیسی کے تقاضوں کی وجہ سے کچھ کمپنیاں مقامی طور پر تبدیلی اور اپ گریڈ نہیں کر سکتیں۔ رک جاؤ، تو باہر کے مواقع تلاش کرو۔ کچھ کمپنیوں کو باوجی میں زمین کی ضرورت ہے۔