Baowu Special Metallurgy Baote High-Alloy New Electroslag Remelting Furnace Project Enters Hot Commissioning Stage

Published: Aug 13, 2026 13:24

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After six months of round-the-clock efforts and rapid progress, and with close cooperation and coordinated efforts among all parties involved, the new electroslag remelting furnace project at Baote High-Alloy efficiently completed all phased tasks including civil construction, plant construction, equipment tendering, and installation, and officially entered the hot commissioning stage on the morning of July 28. Since it started production in 2023, Baote High-Alloy has been constrained by capacity in its electroslag remelting process, which has limited the market expansion and delivery capability of its high-end die steel products to a certain extent. As a key technological transformation project laid out in Baowu Special Metallurgy's "15th Five-Year" development plan, the new electroslag remelting furnace project is of far-reaching strategic significance for the high-quality development of Baote High-Alloy. The project precisely focuses on production pain points and development shortcomings and, through production line upgrades and process optimization, effectively removes the capacity bottleneck that has long constrained the enterprise's development.

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