Valin Iron and Steel focuses on high-end automotive steel to lead the development of automotive lightweight.

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Valin Steel said in response to a question on the investor interactive platform a few days ago that the automotive plate products jointly developed by the company and ArcelorMittal focus on the high-end automotive steel market, and the patented second-generation aluminum-silicon coated hot-formed steel Usibor2000@ strength reaches 2000 MPA, realizing mass production application and leading the development trend of automobile lightweight. In the future, the company will continue to maintain close contact with ArcelorMittal and join hands to expand the areas of cooperation.

Valin Iron and Steel is a manufacturer and seller of iron and steel products, focusing on cold and hot rolled ultra-thin plates, wide and thick plates, seamless steel tubes of all sizes and caliber, fine wire rods and other characteristic products. The company's subsidiary Automotive Plate Co., Ltd. focuses on the high-end automotive steel market. The patented product mentioned above, the second generation aluminum-silicon coated hot-formed steel Usibor2000@ is its main patented product.

In recent years, automobile lightweight has become a major trend in the development of the global automobile industry chain. at present, as a key field of the automobile industry, new energy vehicles urgently need to reduce energy consumption through body lightweight because of the large inherent weight of the battery. extend mileage. At present, the main products of new energy vehicles in the automobile plate field are automobile aluminum plate, which has the advantages of light weight and corrosion resistance, but iron and steel, as an important functional material, still occupies a major position in the automotive industry.

In addition, when referring to the current domestic iron ore sources, Valin Iron and Steel said that the iron ore supply of steel companies mainly comes from four major mines, which are purchased according to the Changxie mining model, and Changxie mines are priced according to the monthly average Platts index.

The big four iron ore producers are Australia's Rio Tinto, BHP, FMG and Brazil's Vale (Vale). According to previous data, among the four major mines, Vale ranked first in output in the third quarter, followed by Rio Tinto, BHP and FMG.