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Nov 24, 2025 14:57
The Asian stainless steel market has traded its era of symbiotic cooperation for a brutal zero-sum game. A tidal wave of low-cost capacity from China and Indonesia has shattered the old supply chain order, forcing traditional powerhouses like Japan and Korea into retreat. As the region scrambles to cope with this structural imbalance, the response has been a sharp rise in trade barriers and protectionism. In short, the days of integrated growth are over; the new reality is a fractured landscape defined by chronic oversupply and fierce survivalism.
![Under the background of lightweighting, magnesium alloy lightweighting track achieves dual-line breakthroughs! [SMM Research]](https://imgqn.smm.cn/production/admin/votes/imagesEDXEh20240307083313.png)
Nov 21, 2025 17:12
Amid the global wave of lightweight and low-carbon transformation in high-end manufacturing, magnesium alloy has emerged as a key material leveraging its core advantages such as high specific strength, shock absorption, and heat dissipation. Recently, the industry has witnessed two major breakthroughs: Mingmei Magnesium Industry, a specialist in the semi-solid magnesium alloy track, has achieved mass production, with its first batch of products meeting performance standards and empowering upgrades across multiple sectors; Xinbo Co., Ltd., a leader in the photovoltaic aluminum frame niche market, has made cross-border forays, successfully completing the mold opening of magnesium alloy structural components for robots and preparing to sample them to leading robot customers by the end of November. Through "deepening specialization" and "cross-border breakthrough" models respectively, the two enterprises are injecting new momentum for lightweight development into high-end manufacturing fields such as new energy vehicles and intelligent robots.










