Nanshan Aluminum: China's leader in aluminum processing

Actively promote Boeing and Airbus certification, sign contracts with partners, open up overseas markets, complete high-speed rail orders, and enter the Nanshan Aluminum industry. Everywhere there is a busy figure and an intense and orderly rhythm, there is a thriving industry industry passion.

The 2,000-acre Nanshan Aviation Materials Industrial Park was energetic and vibrant under the sun in June. The company's three companies, medium plate, extrusion and forging, have been successively put into production. They have been manufacturing magnificent buildings, high-end imported equipment and top-notch products. As the new engine for the transformation and development of Shandong Nanshan Aluminum Co., Ltd., carrying Nanshan Aluminum's international vision, building core competitiveness and realizing the glory and dream of the Chinese aluminum industry from chasing to leading.

Cheng Renze, chairman of Nanshan Aluminum, said that Air Products' products cover aviation, shipbuilding, nuclear power, rail transportation, automobiles, containers and tanks, and will become the world's largest aluminum processing base for automobiles and aerospace after they are completed and put into production. This is the benchmark project of Nanshan Aluminum's transformation and upgrading, and taking the road of quality and efficiency. It is also the right of the company to implement supply-side reform and lead the industry.

Dare to take the lead, boldly develop

Nanshan Aluminum was founded in 1992. In the 1990s, Nanshan Aluminum, with its sensitive market sense, began to target the construction aluminum market. With the development of China's urbanization and real estate industry, the first pot of gold was harvested. After going public in 1999, the company responded more quickly to changes in the market and gradually implemented the entire industrial chain layout in the fields of energy, alumina, electrolytic aluminum to aluminum profiles, high-precision aluminum plates, belts, foils, and aluminum forgings, and took up industrial development heights. .

The company adheres to the concept of sustainable development based on "a high starting point, using high technology, and creating high quality." The products always pursue high-end and refinement, from high-speed rail car bodies to lightweight cars, from cans to mobile phone backshells, and Nanshan Yam. Open fierce competition for primary products, chose innovation to lead the way. Especially when the upstream electrolytic aluminum companies shrouded in the overcast of overcapacity, Nanshan Aluminum's mid- to high-end products thrive, and supply exceeds demand, driving upstream production capacity.

Nanshan Aluminum Co., Ltd., which has continuously benefited from transformation and innovation, has begun to develop top-notch products such as aviation materials, vehicle materials and marine materials in recent years, and has signed contracts with aircraft manufacturers such as Boeing and Airbus, as well as many of the world's top car manufacturers. The strategic agreement is dedicated to filling the gaps in domestic aerospace and automotive panel manufacturing.

“We must dare to take the lead,” Cheng Renze said. “Improve the degree of marketization, increase the supply of high-end products, and continuously improve the core competitiveness with an international perspective. The goal is to become an excellent supplier of automobiles and aerospace materials. A world-class aluminum company."

With a high starting point, distinctive characteristics, and innovation, Nanshan Aluminum's development model sets a benchmark for the development of China's aluminum industry.

Aluminum ingots are magically deformed here

If a worker wants to do good, he must first sharpen his tools. The Aviation Materials Park takes a step forward and aims at high precision and superb quality. Extrusion, sheet strip and forging production lines are all equipped with world-class advanced production equipment such as SMS, abb, and so on. They have simultaneously built a research and development base, introduced a high-level professional R&D team, and vigorously promoted high-end technology research and development.

The aluminum alloy strip rolling production line has a design capacity of 200,000 tons. It has introduced the “1+5” hot continuous rolling production line, supporting advanced equipment such as roller hearth heat treatment furnace, 80mn stretching machine, continuous air-cushion furnace production line, whether it is aviation, The 2nd, 5th, 6th, and 7th aluminum alloy plate and sheet required for shipbuilding, transportation, or electronics, are all unique features of this production line.

The "watching equipment" of large-scale extrusion production lines is the world's largest tonnage 150mn forward and reverse extrusion presses, designed a production line with a production capacity of 20,000 tons, supporting the introduction of electromagnetic heating of ingots and vertical and horizontal quenching furnaces, pulling Stretcher and other advanced equipment, products cover the 2 Series, 5 Series, 6 Series, 7 Series aluminum alloy large extruded material. At that time, the wing of a large aircraft will rely on it.

In the forging shop, the 500mn die forging press imported from Germany is already in place. The huge figure is like a Transformer, allowing reporters standing in front of it to look up. The 25mn and 60mn free-forging production lines and the 125mn forging press production line allow the forging company to have a production capacity of 14,000 tons. The forging tasks of key components for aero-engines will be completed here.

From rolling, extrusion to forging, the company now has all the deformed aluminum product processing capabilities. "With these tall equipment, any aluminum ingot of different tonnages can magically transform into the product you want through this place." Cheng Renze said that this means that we can process a full range of aluminum products. Provide customers with a full range of solutions.

Nesting and attracting phoenix, leveraging “outside the brain”

New equipment and new technologies will inject new energy into Nanshan, but the birth of new things will also require time and experience. Nanshan people understand that foreign old aluminum processing companies have a long history of development, and their years of accumulated technology and experience are difficult to duplicate. It is not easy to compete with them and realize the leap from imitation to lead. To take this step, building nests and attracting phoenixes and leveraging the “outside the brain” is a shortcut. As a result, more and more foreign faces appeared in Nanshan, becoming a symbol of internationalization here.

Dragours Yogurion is part of Nanshan’s talent strategy. With 35 years of experience in the world's top aluminum industry, he praised Aerosol Park: "From the factory layout, equipment configuration to the team's ability, we are satisfied." He is currently responsible for the certification of Airbus and Boeing. Work goes smoothly. "The preparation of program files is very demanding, but the hardest thing is the final implementation process. The important thing is to train the employees." He said, how to enable employees to complete the daily work in full accordance with the requirements of the program files, enhance the execution capacity and Risk awareness is a challenging task. “Nanshan is a domestic company that is brave enough to try to produce aviation materials. I am full of confidence.” Dracius, famous in the foreign aluminum processing industry, confidently stated: “If you don’t feel confident, you won’t accept this project. I’m in my life. The project that was done has never failed.” When he said this, the reporter read out from his eyes full of sincerity and determination.

In Nanshan Aluminum, there are more than a dozen foreign experts like Draco Goss. They injected international thinking and ideas here and used their experience and technology to bring Nanshan closer to the world.

At the Nanshan Testing Center, there is a Ph.D. candidate in materials science from the United States. Starting from the Detroit automobile manufacturing industry, he worked in aviation, defense, satellite and other related departments. He is good at metal aging analysis, and he has always been interested in high-precision testing equipment. . “One of the reasons why I came to China at the time was because the facilities here were particularly high-end. I have visited so many laboratories. There are so many good facilities. It is very rare. Even Boeing people are impressed with this.”

He particularly agrees with Nanshan culture and believes that as long as everyone works together, everything is possible. "I will teach them everything I know without reservation. We have been making progress." He told reporters that the prospects for cooperation between Nanshan and Boeing in the future are very bright. "Last three Boeing engineers came and they are optimistic." In the future, Boeing and Nanshan will cooperate."

He likes Chinese culture and has no disguised love for this place. He humorously stated that he had been engaged in metal detection work for more than 30 years, but he still wanted to do another 30 years until he retired in Nanshan.

Rise on the world stage

"If you don't do it already, you must do it first." This development philosophy that Nanshan people stick to shows them their ability on the world stage.

Nanshan Aluminum established an aluminum extrusion plant in Lafayette, Indiana, USA, and vigorously explored the North American container trailer, light rail high-speed rail and other industrial materials markets. In October 2014, Nanshan Aluminum was the largest exhibitor in China with “green, The theme of “Environmental protection and sustainable development” participated for the first time at the Aluminum Industry Exhibition in Dusseldorf, Germany. In the future, Nanshan Aluminum will participate in the world’s top air shows in Paris and London as an aerospace material supplier to further enhance Nanshan’s aluminum industry. The influence of the world aluminum processing industry.

Innovation is endless. Nanshan Aluminum has established a close cooperative relationship with CRRC Group and is the main supplier of Sifang Plant. Currently, high-speed train body profiles such as 200km/h, 300km/h, 350km/h, and 380km/h have been successfully developed. Currently, the Aeronautical Medium Park Heavy Plate Project is actively trialing 7n01/5083 plates for rail transit to replace imports. The forging project has also mastered the production process plan for rail vehicle axleboxes.

In automotive aluminum, the company's products such as large-section thin-walled profiles and heat-treated thin sheets have been successfully used in the transportation of automobiles, refrigerated trucks, trucks, and trailers. Combining with the current demand and trend of commercial vehicle lightweighting, the company focuses on R&D and production of medium-strength, weldable, fatigue-resistant, corrosion-resistant 5 series and 6 series large-size aluminum alloy profiles and wide-width heat-treated aluminum alloy sheets for transportation. Actively promote the certification of many of the world's top automotive plants and supply in small quantities.

The objective of Nanshan Aluminum Aviation Industrial Park is to provide qualified aviation materials for the development of China’s aviation industry. To this end, Nanshan Aluminum actively develops airworthiness certification and promotes pilot production of aviation products. Now it has achieved support for beijing aviation seating products. And passed the as9100c aviation system certification, is actively promoting the special process certification.

At present, Nanshan Aluminum Aviation Industry Park has been recognized and supported by mainstream aircraft manufacturers such as Boeing, Airbus, China Merchants Flying, Bombardier, etc. Nanshan Aerospace Park has successfully piloted air extrusions such as double cross beams and Boeing and Airbus. The cross-section of the material has initially reached the quality standards of Boeing and Airbus, and it has signed strategic cooperation agreements with Boeing, Airbus and China Commercial Aircraft. It has taken a solid step in the development of aviation material manufacturing industry.