The commissioning of a special steel mill, whether in any city, is a relatively important event.

Although Nanshan Special Steel Plant does not have a blast furnace and is not a full-process steel mill, it is also the largest enterprise put into operation in 2003 for Shaozhou.

Naturally, leaders at all levels will attend this commissioning ceremony.

And this news quickly spread in the industry.

"Gormo, I heard that Nanshan's bearings are ready to switch to their own bearing steel."

"Their sales have begun to communicate with the procurement of OEMs such as Modu Volkswagen and Modu General Motors."

"I think it's a good opportunity, a good opportunity to snipe at Nanshan Bearings."

Xue Wenqiang was thinking about whether to change jobs to other companies, or even go to Nanshan to be a sales manager.

But people don't look down on him at all.

This made Xue Wenqiang's resentment towards Nanshan a few points more.

It used to be a hatred for business, but now it is even a personal grudge.

So for blocking Nanshan, he is more active than anyone else.

As if he didn't collapse Nanshan Bearing, he would feel uncomfortable.

"When will Nanshan be able to produce its own bearing steel?"

"Didn't they buy it from Baosteel?"

Golmo also knows a lot about Nanshan.

There is no way, Nanshan Bearing not only grabbed their orders in Huaxia, but also grabbed a lot of shares in the United States.

Today, SKF has become the number one enemy in the world.

"Yes, the special steel in Nanshan was either purchased from Baosteel or from Xingcheng."

"However, the level of special steel of any company in China is like that, and there is no way to meet the demand for high-performance auto parts."

"Nanshan should also use special heat treatment and surface treatment processes to alleviate this problem."

"Some of the demanding parts are even made with imported materials purchased from traders."

Nanshan is probably also aware of this, so he invested in the construction of a special steel mill, which is located in Shaozhou, Lingnan Province. It is said that Shaogang helped build it. ”

"One can imagine what the performance of the special steel produced by this special steel mill will be."

Xue Wenqiang was very excited.

He felt like he had finally found a breakthrough.

What's even happier is that this breakthrough was sent to the door by Nanshan himself.

"Shaogang?"

"I don't think I've ever heard of it?"

Gormo thinks that he is also a Huaxia pass, but in Huaxia for so many years, he has really never heard the name Shaogang.

Nanshan Special Steel was built with the help of Shaogang, and the level should be about the same as Shaogang.

"This is a local steel mill in Lingnan Province, and their bearing steel level is not to mention compared with us, even with Baosteel and Xingcheng."

"In this case, they push forward with the material switching, and then there will definitely be problems in terms of wear resistance and corrosion resistance of the bearings."

Xue Wenqiang said very surely.

His judgment is also based on his level of Huaxia special steel industry.

Under normal circumstances, there is really no big problem.

However, no matter what the judgment is, when it comes to Nanshan, it may not be accurate.

"If you keep in communication with the procurement of these OEMs such as Modu Volkswagen, it is best to be able to obtain samples after Nanshan switches materials, and we will test and compare them."

"In addition, find a way to find some agents to see if they can buy the bearing steel produced by Nanshan Special Steel Factory, and I also ask my colleagues in the technical department to compare and analyze it."

SKF is not only a bearing manufacturer, they are also a special steel manufacturer.

The special steels used in SKF bearings are almost exclusively produced by SKF Special Steelworks.

So their technical team has a very in-depth understanding of special steel.

"No problem, I'll arrange it now!"

"This time, we must let Nanshan fall a lot!"

"It's better to interrupt their pace of expanding the market!"

……

Zheng Dong is a graduate of metallurgical engineering.

The material major is originally a sinkhole major for employment.

Metallurgical engineering graduates have mainly worked in various steel mills in the past.

But this year's steel industry ......

So although he was a 985 graduate, he had no choice when he was recruited by the school last year, and he "wronged" himself to a private enterprise called Nanshan Technology Co., Ltd.

In his opinion, this is completely a professional mismatch.

Although after signing the "Tripartite Employment Agreement", he got to know it well and knew that Nanshan and Shaogang were cooperating to build a special steel mill.

But he is not very optimistic about the project's prospects.

As a student majoring in metallurgical engineering, he still has a good understanding of the situation of the domestic steel industry.

Even Baosteel, a large steel plant, is not having a good time, and the special steel is not very good.

A large amount of special steel needs to be imported from abroad.

Now a manufacturer of auto parts in Nanshan actually wants to build a special steel mill?

If you want to do it, you can find an internationally renowned iron and steel company to cooperate, but they chose to cooperate with Shaogang.

This......

It's not a waste of money.

Originally, fresh graduates would normally join the company in July this year, but the second half of his senior year was fine, and he came to the company for an internship in advance.

Now it is arranged in the laboratory of Nanshan Special Steel Plant.

Specialized in testing for various projects.

Relatively speaking, this task is not so difficult, as long as you follow the operation process to carry out the test.

Besides, he's not the main engineer, he's just helping out with chores and putting together some data.

It's just that when he summarizes the data today, he always feels that his "master" is not mistaken.

"Zhang Gong, I think the parameters of this die steel are a bit strange, this performance is better than the parameters of the imported Datong Steel Mill, Nippon Steel and Kobe Steel's SKD11."

"Is there some confusion in the data?"

After all, he is also a graduate student in metallurgical engineering, and he chose the research direction of ferrous metals.

After this period of practice, Zheng Dong still has a good understanding of some of the properties of special steel.

In front of him, he could see at a glance that something was wrong.

"You think the data of the mold steel produced in our factory is too good, right?"

Zhang Hui glanced at Zheng Dong, and continued without reading the experimental report: "This product itself is SKD11 that is benchmarked against Datong, with high hardness, high wear-resistant eutectic carbide uniformity, good toughness, not easy to crack, and > hardness after quenching62HRC。 ”

"At the same time, the nitriding treatment time at 525 °C is 20h/30h/60h, and the nitride layer depth is 0.25mm/0. 30mm/0. 35mm, part surface hardness 1250HV; The nitriding treatment time at 570°C is 2h, the nitriding layer depth is 10~20μm, and the surface hardness of the parts is 950HV. ”

"Our die steel is smelted by electric furnace and redissolved by electroslag, with high purity, better toughness, uniform structure, good high-temperature strength, toughness and high-temperature fatigue resistance, and can withstand sudden temperature changes."

"In this case, the performance is better than that of Dongying imported die steel, which is also within my expectations."

Zhang Hui is the chief engineer recruited from outside by Nanshan to be responsible for setting the process parameters of special steel.

He also had a lot of questions about the various process modifications made by Nanshan at that time, and he studied them specifically.

Although I don't fully understand the reasons behind the process parameter setting, theoretically those parameters are fine.

And the end result proves this.

So he's confident now.

"This is also a very big breakthrough for our domestic special steel industry."

"Although if the die steel is studied seriously, whether it is Baosteel or Anshan Iron and Steel, it should not be impossible to produce."

"But from the actual situation, most of the automobile stamping dies, in addition to the mold base is domestic steel, the insert part is generally used imported mold steel."

"In terms of cost, there is a huge difference."

"According to our preliminary calculations, the cost of our die steel is more than half cheaper than that of imports."

Zheng Dong suddenly felt that he had come to Nanshan, which seemed to be a good choice.

Before the official entry, I witnessed the miracle created by Nanshan Special Steel.

With Nanshan Special Steel alone, it can produce die steel comparable to imported materials, and the capacity utilization rate will not be low in the future.

After all, the mold center in Nanshan now consumes a lot of special steel every year.

The entire mold industry in China has a very strong demand for die steel.

It is entirely possible to use die steel as a breakthrough to make Nanshan Special Steel quickly famous in the industry.

"The production cost of the mold steel imported by others is higher than ours, plus import tariffs, transportation costs and traders' management fees, it is normal to be twice as expensive as us."

"Our domestic rebar only costs more than 2,000 yuan per ton, but imported die steel can be sold for four or five hundred thousand yuan per ton."

"It's definitely a huge profit."

As an old man in the steel industry, Zhang Hui still has a good understanding of the special steel situation in China.

Don't look at the domestic steel output has reached 450 million tons, which is the world's first, but the profit of the steel industry is estimated to be inferior to Dongying.

"It seems that the company has made the decision to invest in special steel mills, and it has also made full preparations."

"Nowadays, the performance of die steel is so good, and the data of bearing steel and gear steel is said to be very good."

"In the future, I really don't have to worry about not being able to sell."

As an intern, Zheng Dong naturally couldn't let him be in charge of too many things.

But even so, he is full of confidence in the future of the special steel mill.

"I also know the situation of the bearing steel and the gear steel."

"For example, bearing steel, even if it is against SKF's bearing steel, we are not bad at all."

"The gear steel is similar, and the performance is comparable to the gear steel of thyssenkrupp."

"Now it's just a little bit of popularity, and in the future, after everyone recognizes the technology of Nanshan Special Steel, I'm afraid there will be a situation where supply exceeds demand."

"Maybe the annual profit of the special steel mill is higher than that of the entire Shaogang."

Ninety percent of the personnel in Nanshan Special Steel Plant are Shaogang people.

As the largest local enterprise in Shaozhou, Shaogang's treatment is still okay.

That's why Zhang Hui compares like this.

"It's possible."

"Now that there is an overall overcapacity of domestic steel production, the pressure on Shaogang should be quite large."

"However, there are a lot of special steel that need to be imported from abroad, and we replace this part of the imported market, which is not only not affected by steel overcapacity, but also can obtain high profits."

Zheng Dong couldn't help but smile on his face.

According to Nanshan's style, if the factory benefits are good, the bonus will be very generous.

He can't wait to get started.

(End of chapter)