Strengthen the production and supply of strategic mineral resources

The technology project for efficient recovery and high-value utilization of vanadium and titanium in vanadium-titanium magnetite was launched

Report from our newspaper (Correspondent Wang Yunfu, Reporter Meng Xianglin) The key special project of "Development and Utilization of Strategic Mineral Resources" of the "14th Five-Year Plan" National Key R & D Plan led by Angang Iron and Steel Group-"Efficient Recovery and High-value Utilization Technology" project launch and implementation plan demonstration meeting was held in Chengdu, Sichuan on March 22. The formal implementation of this project will strengthen the production and supply of strategic mineral resources, promote original and disruptive scientific and technological achievements from laboratories to production lines, comprehensively improve resource development efficiency and high-value utilization of high-end materials, and ensure the security of industrial and supply chains. play a major role.

According to reports, in order to break through the limitations of traditional vanadium-titanium-magnetite resource development, raw material extraction, and material preparation, and solve the key scientific problems and technical bottlenecks faced by the efficient development and high-value utilization of complex vanadium-titanium-magnetite resources in China, Panzhihua will take the lead. The "14th Five-Year Plan" national key R & D tasks jointly undertaken by 10 units including Zhengzhou University, Central South University, Changsha Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, and the Institute of Process of the Chinese Academy of Sciences will form a fine separation of titanium-magnetite concentrate, The key core technologies of the entire industry chain, including efficient recovery of fine-grained ilmenite, clean extraction of vanadium from vanadium slag, and high-value preparation of vanadium-based materials, provide scientific and technological support for the efficient recovery and high-value utilization of China's vanadium-titanium strategic resources. At the kick-off meeting, Pangang awarded expert appointment letters to 10 project experts, and the top forces in the United Nations jointly contributed to the safe supply of national strategic mineral resources.

At the implementation plan demonstration meeting, more than 60 experts, professors and project participation representatives from relevant fields across the country listened to the overall goals, research content and expected results of the project, as well as the status reports on the implementation plans of the five topics; the project experts combined the content of the plan, fully questioned and discussed the project and formed demonstration opinions.

The opinion is that the project takes vanadium-titanium magnetite in the Panxi area as the research object, carries out systematic research on core issues such as the dissociation and difficulty in recycling fine-grained ilmenite, and forms an efficient recovery and high-value utilization of vanadium-titanium resources in vanadium-titanium magnetite. Technical plan, and relying on industry leaders to build a series of demonstration projects or create project demonstrations. This will greatly improve China's technical level and R & D capabilities in the development and utilization of vanadium and titanium resources. It will have significant social benefits in ensuring the supply and demand pattern of China's strategic resources, and is of great significance for Pangang to accelerate the formation of new productive forces to support economic development. The project implementation plan is systematic and holistic, with reasonable technical route, prominent research content, sufficient risk analysis, appropriate research methods and response measures, and sound organizational and management systems. Experts attending the meeting unanimously agreed that the project and project implementation plan passed the demonstration. In response to the demonstration opinions and suggestions put forward by the expert group, the project team then conducted in-depth discussions on the implementation plan and made further modifications and improvements.

The industrial economy maintained steady growth in the first two months

The future focus is to stabilize growth, expand demand, cultivate momentum, and improve the environment

Report from our newspaper (Reporter Zhao Ping) On March 26, at a press conference held by the State Council Information Office, the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology introduced the development of industry and informatization from January to February, and answered questions from reporters.

The meeting introduced that the industrial economy maintained steady growth in the first two months of this year. First, the industrial economy is picking up for the better, mainly showing three major characteristics: accelerated growth of industrial production, sustained and stable growth of manufacturing investment, and significant recovery in the growth rate of industrial exports. Among them, exports of downstream steel industries such as machinery and home appliances all achieved double-digit growth. Second, new momentum continues to be cultivated and grown. In the first two months of this year, the added value of high-tech manufacturing above designated size increased by 7.5% year-on-year, accelerating growth for three consecutive months. Third, the information and communication industry has maintained steady growth, and 5G applications have been deeply promoted in the industrial field. Fourth, the production of small and medium-sized enterprises has improved.

Next, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will focus on the following four tasks. First, steady growth. We will continue to do a good job in leading the growth of 10 key industries, such as iron and steel, and give full play to the role of major industrial provinces and cities. The second is to expand demand. In terms of investment, we will speed up the implementation of policies such as large-scale equipment renewal, and implement the project of technological transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry. In terms of consumption, we will continue to implement the "three products" action of the manufacturing industry to optimize supply and promote the upgrading of consumption, and actively explore new consumption growth points such as smart homes and domestic products. In terms of exports, we should seize the opportunities such as the warming of the global electronics industry and the rising demand for equipment to open up overseas markets and expand trade in intermediate goods. The third is nurturing kinetic energy. We will speed up the development of new-quality productive forces, promote the upgrading and upgrading of traditional industries, consolidate and enhance the competitiveness of key industries such as new energy vehicles and nuclear power equipment, and promote technological innovation and large-scale development of emerging industries such as intelligent network-connected vehicles and new materials. we will make forward-looking arrangements for future industries such as artificial intelligence and quantum technology. Fourth, excellent environment. We will promote various policies to benefit enterprises to achieve results, continue to promote the work of reducing the burden on enterprises, and help enterprises to reduce costs and increase efficiency. We will promote the high-level opening up of the manufacturing sector to the outside world, and strive to create a first-class business environment that is market-oriented, legalized and internationalized. Strengthen financial services and promote the virtuous circle of "science and technology-industry-finance".

In addition, in promoting investment growth in the manufacturing industry, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will make efforts from four aspects. First, in accordance with the deployment of the State Council's "Action Plan to Promote Large-scale Equipment Renewal and the Exchange of Old Consumer Goods for New Products", focusing on promoting new industrialization, taking large-scale equipment renewal as the starting point, implementing manufacturing technology transformation and upgrading projects, focusing on digital transformation and green upgrading, and promoting high-end, intelligent and green development of manufacturing. The second is to accelerate the implementation of major projects in the "14th Five-Year Plan" for the manufacturing industry, make every effort to promote high-quality development actions of key manufacturing industrial chains, and break through a number of landmark equipment. The third is to accelerate the construction and development of new information infrastructure such as 5G, Gigabit optical network, and computing power. The fourth is to guide financial institutions to increase investment in manufacturing.

Integrated solution for steel for new energy vehicles

###TAGAL digital body platform and low-carbon emission steel released

Report from our newspaper (Reporter Luo Zhonghe) On March 20, Angang ThyssenKrupp Automotive Steel Co., Ltd.(TAGAL) held a TAGAL digital body platform and technical solution conference with the theme of "Smart Green Motion and E-Creating the Future" in Chongqing City.

TAGAL Digital Body Platform and Technology Solutions (TAGAL eInvention ®) and four low-carbon emission steels (TAGAL greenS) were released at the conference. It is understood that the digital body platform is an integrated steel solution for new energy vehicles that integrates TAGAL's latest products, technologies and services, including the digital all-steel TCB body system, providing a variety of complete engineering technology solutions and customer-oriented service innovation. TAGAL greenS low-carbon emission steel is the implementation of the company's green development strategy. Through two major process paths, raw material production achieves carbon emission reductions per ton of steel by more than 30% and more than 60% respectively.

It is reported that since its establishment more than 20 years ago, TAGAL has always been at the forefront of product research and development and technological innovation, and has successively developed and produced a variety of advanced products, such as middle-coating free high-quality outer plates, zinc-magnesium coatings, hot-rolled substrates, AS-Eco high-toughness thin aluminum-silicon coated hot-formed steel, higher-strength outer plates and third-generation ultra-high-strength steel products.

The digital body platform and technical solutions released this time will further promote the future development of safer and lighter bodies, and help China's steel and automobile industries develop green, low-carbon and high-quality.

Xingang's new products seize overseas markets

Recently, the Silicon Steel Sheet Business Department of China Baowu New Steel Group implemented customized orders and successively developed and produced new products XG65MnCrTS high-strength alloy steel and S45C-Cr high-quality carbon structural steel, which were sold to Russia and Indonesia respectively. The picture shows operators of Xingang Group packaging new products. (Photo by Lei Furong/Wen Lan Ruoyang)

###New dual-phase steel products for automobiles of Shangang Rizhao Company fill the gap in Shandong Province

Recently, Shangang Group Rizhao Company successfully developed and produced 1.5 mm thick cold-rolled dual phase steel CR700/980DP for automotive use for the first time. The product's composition, performance, size and other indicators are better than the national standard requirements, reaching the limit of equipment capacity for cold rolling and continuous annealing products, filling a gap in Shandong Province, marking a new breakthrough in the R & D and production of Rizhao Company's cold-rolled dual phase steel products.

With the development of the automobile industry, the design trend of the new generation of passenger cars is energy conservation, consumption reduction, environmental protection and safety. While achieving lightweight, the requirements for strength are also becoming higher and higher. DP980 steel is a high-strength dual-phase steel for cold-rolled automobile structures. It is mainly used for high-end automobile outer panels, structural panels, and automobile anti-collision and other components. It has comprehensive competitive advantages such as good impact resistance, formability, and low cost. Under the current development trend of lightweight automobile manufacturing, it has broad application prospects.

In order to achieve the smooth development of CR700/980DP steel grades as soon as possible, the company established an APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) research team to design the composition and hot and cold rolling process parameters of CR700/980DP, and carried out laboratory experimental analysis and research before process trial production. After repeated verification by continuous annealing simulation experiments and combined with the equipment reduction capacity limit of the acid rolling line and the cooling capacity limit of the continuous annealing line, a trial production plan for the continuous annealing process was formulated. After smooth production in the continuous annealing process, the company successfully developed a cold-rolled dual-phase steel CR700/980DP with a thickness of 1.5 mm, further broadening the market for cold-rolled automotive high-strength steel and enhancing the competitiveness of the product market. (Sun Yunli Ding Mingkai)

#Global crude steel output increased 3.7% year-on-year in February

(Reporter Zhu Xiaobo) On March 22, the World Steel Association (WSA) released global crude steel production data for February 2024. In February, crude steel output in 71 countries and regions around the world included in the statistics of the World Steel Association was 148.8 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 3.7%.

In terms of regions, in February, Africa's crude steel output was 1.8 million tons, an increase of 8.1% year-on-year; Asia and Oceania's crude steel output was 109.7 million tons, an increase of 3.9% year-on-year; the EU (27 countries) crude steel output was 10.6 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of 3.3%; the crude steel output of other European countries was 3.7 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 32.5%; the crude steel output in the Middle East was 4.2 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 10.8%; North American crude steel output was 8.7 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of 1.3%; Russia and other CIS countries + Ukraine crude steel output was 6.7 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of 2.5%; South American crude steel output was 3.5 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 10.5%.

Judging from the world's top ten steel-producing countries (regions), in February, the mainland of China's estimated crude steel output was 81.18 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 3.5%; India's crude steel output was 11.8 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 11.4%; Japan's crude steel output was 7 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 1.1%; the United States 'crude steel output was 6.5 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of 1.2%; Russia's estimated crude steel output was 5.7 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of 4.4%; South Korea's crude steel output was 5.1 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of 1.5%; Turkey's crude steel output was 3.1 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 46.6%; Germany's crude steel output was 3.1 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 4.4%; Brazil's crude steel output was 2.8 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 13.1%; Iran's crude steel output was 2.2 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 14.3%.

In February, based on blast furnace pig iron output, the pig iron output in 37 countries (regions) in global statistics was 101 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 2.2%. In terms of regions, pig iron output in the European Union (27 countries) was 5.41 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 1.4%; pig iron output in other European countries was 1.24 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 49.2%; pig iron output in Russia and other CIS countries + Ukraine was 4.73 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of 0.8%; The expected pig iron output in North America is expected to be 2.3 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 6.4%; pig iron output in South America is 2.36 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 6.5%; Asian pig iron output was 84.6 million tons (68.02 million tons in the mainland of China), an increase of 1.6% year-on-year; Oceania pig iron output was 310,000 tons, a year-on-year decrease of 3.7%. From January to February 2024, the world produced a total of 209 million tons of pig iron, a year-on-year increase of 0.6%.

In February, direct reduced iron (DRI) production in 13 countries around the world was 8.6 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 7.6%. Among them, India's direct reduced iron output was 4.24 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 17.9%; Iran's direct reduced iron output was 1.44 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 3.3%. From January to February, direct reduced iron production in 13 countries around the world was 18.28 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 13.5%.

(Note:Algeria, Morocco, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, and Yemen are the latest countries included in the statistics in October 2023.)

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