The operating performance of "good start" of Echeng Iron and Steel in the first quarter reached the best level in history.

Published: Apr 13, 2022 11:52 (GMT+8)
[Echeng Iron and Steel "good start" business performance reached the best level in history in the first quarter. In the first quarter, the whole line of Echeng Iron and Steel production and operation was red: the output of iron, steel and timber exceeded the planned volume, and the whole line broke 37 records of daily production and monthly production. the self-power generation rate reached 80%, an increase of 42.5% over the same period last year, and the business performance reached the best level in the same period in history.

2022 is the year of speeding up and surpassing the green and high-quality development of Echeng Iron and Steel in South China. In the first quarter, all the staff of Echeng Iron and Steel made concerted efforts, worked hard and worked hard, and actively sought change in the adjustment of production and management strategy. adhere to agile management to seize opportunities, deepen the standard to find differences to improve efficiency, continuous reform and innovation to increase vitality, the whole line of production and operation is popular: the output of iron, steel and materials all exceed the planned volume. The whole line broke 37 records of Nissan and monthly production, with a self-power generation rate of 80%, an increase of 42.5% over the same period last year, the best business performance in the same period in history, a continuous improvement in the green development index, and a "good start" for the whole system. Stride forward to build an excellent enterprise with extreme efficiency, green wisdom and wisdom.

Deepen the alignment and find the difference, and improve the flexible manufacturing capability significantly.

In the first quarter, Echeng Iron and Steel focused on extreme high efficiency, closely followed the management theme of "comprehensive benchmarking, finding differences and creating a world-class", comprehensively promoted it as a whole, continued to dig deep internal potential, and each production line gave full play to its own advantages and full drive. Go all out to grasp production, quality and management, and the flexible manufacturing capacity has been significantly improved.

Echeng Iron and Steel insists on taking advanced enterprises in the industry as the benchmark, improves the "five-level and four-dimensional" benchmarking system with full staff, whole process and full coverage, and relies on "uncovering the list" and the value-creating team to launch 31 key projects. We will make every effort to promote scientific and technological personnel to strive to take the lead, overcome a number of major production technical problems or bottlenecks, and promote the continuous improvement of quality, cost, efficiency and the level of production technology.

According to the "four obedience" principles, such as "partial obedience to the whole, technical service to the economy, manufacturing to the market, and indicators to efficiency", the management interfaces of coking, ironmaking, steelmaking, rolling, energy and production are brought into full play. We have initially formed an efficient operation pattern of "vertical and horizontal connection" of the management system, "coordination" of main and secondary processes, and "up and down linkage" of departmental units.

In the first quarter, the ironmaking plant broke 14 daily production records and 2 monthly production records, and the utilization coefficient of the blast furnace increased by 13.2% compared with the same period last year; the steel material consumption of the steelmaking plant decreased month by month, reaching the lowest level under the production mode of low iron and steel in March; the output of the rolling mill exceeded the plan by 55000 tons, of which 7 items were recorded for the bankruptcy line, 8 for daily production and 2 for monthly production, and the equipment operation rate reached an all-time high of 92.1%. The hot loading ratio of the wide and heavy plate factory exceeded 61%, of which the hot loading rate in February and March increased by 13.7% and 1.85% respectively over the previous month, constantly setting a new record, and the operation rate was more than 91% for three consecutive months, all of which achieved the challenge value target.

Efficient response to the market, agile management ability greatly improved

In the face of the uncertainty of the market, Echeng Iron and Steel adheres to the concept of stability, seeking progress in stability and agile management, and constructs a market-oriented linkage mechanism of "production, supply, marketing and research" to enhance the rapid response ability of the market and ensure to outperform the market.

The seller actively responded to the complex and changeable market environment, strengthened the development of the terminal market of building materials, actively expanded the cooperation with the central enterprises, and successively visited more than a dozen central enterprises, including the third Bureau of China Construction and the third Bureau of China Railway, to further deepen strategic cooperation. Relying on the existing value creation team of Echeng Iron and Steel, deeply promote differential marketing, select and cultivate customers with the ability and strength to develop high-strength thread market segmentation, support such customers to become bigger and stronger, and enhance the market share of high-strength thread in Hubei region. In the first quarter, the project achieved a direct supply ratio of 60.1% of the sales of high-strength threads of HRB500E and above to 35% of the annual target.

The purchasing side takes the initiative to strengthen market research and channel construction, overcome the influence of unfavorable factors such as transportation tension, the intensification of COVID-19 epidemic situation, and the large increase in raw fuel prices during the Spring Festival transportation, seize market opportunities, strengthen resource organization, and timely implement strategic procurement to reduce costs by more than 2500 million yuan, to ensure low inventory and high-frequency operation, and to achieve cost-effective supply.

The manufacturing R & D end is close to the market and customers, and increases the development of green products such as high strength, corrosion resistance and high performance. In the first quarter, it launched new varieties of high construction steel, container steel, high strength steel and other series of products, and completed the development of TMCP high performance atmospheric corrosion resistant bridge steel and the trial production of θ 6mm630MP snail for the first time to create invisible champion products in subdivided fields.

Chuang An is speeded up in an all-round way, and the ability of green and low carbon continues to improve.

"Green" is the life background of Baowu. Echeng Iron and Steel has actively and deeply implemented Xi Jinping's ecological civilization thought and the Yangtze River protection strategy, focused on green and low carbon, implemented pollution reduction and carbon reduction, promoted the transformation from "green manufacturing" to "manufacturing green", and embarked on a road of characteristic ecological development.

In the first quarter, the establishment of ultra-low-emission A-level enterprises of Echeng Iron and Steel has been comprehensively accelerated, making every effort to achieve the A goal by the end of 2022: the proportion of clean transportation has been raised to more than 50%, laying a solid foundation for the establishment of environmental protection ultra-low-emission A-level enterprises; the zero discharge project of waste water has won the honorary title of "Industrial circulating Water Transformation and Water Saving demonstration Project" in Hubei Province, adding new momentum to green and low-carbon development.

Echeng Iron and Steel promotes the implementation of hot metal can capping project to reduce the loss of hot metal temperature drop, while saving energy and reducing emissions, create conditions for reducing steel material consumption. The first batch of 28 thermal insulation hot metal tank cars have been put into operation, which is expected to reduce the temperature of hot metal by more than 15 ℃ and save more than 2500 million yuan in production cost.

Under the good production environment of overall high yield and stable production of iron, steel and timber system, the spontaneous electricity system of Echeng Iron and Steel has hit new highs one after another, with a total self-generating rate of 80% in the first quarter, an increase of 42.5% over the same period last year. Among them, the self-generating rate in March was 82.67%, and the 80MW ultra-high temperature subcritical generator set was fully generated for 20 consecutive days, with a utilization rate of 98%, all of which set a new record.

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