Yesterday from WISCO News, on the 23rd of this month, Wuhan Iron & Steel successfully won the contracted operation right of the core technology of Chery Automobile's Henan vehicle production base, and will supply automotive stamping parts. This means that Wuhan Iron & Steel officially entered the deep processing of automobile parts. field.

Chery Automobile's Henan production base will be put into production by the end of this year. It will be equipped with four major processes of stamping, painting, welding and assembly, with an annual production capacity of 300,000 units. Among them, the stamping shop covers an area of ​​50,000 square meters and plans to have 4 advanced production lines.

Compared with the general auto vehicle production by the manufacturers, the Chery will openly bid for part of the production line, and Wuhan Iron & Steel will show itself at the cutting center in Wuhu. After this “one battle,” Wuhan Iron & Steel from the past pure supply of steel, turning to auto parts, the industrial chain to the depth of the depth extension.

In the WISCO plan, automotive steel has always been the main product and it has to be the core pillar. In recent years, Wuhan Iron and Steel has exerted many ideas for the development of automotive steel.

In 2007, Wuhan Iron & Steel and Chery reached a strategic cooperation agreement. The two sides will interact in the aspects of steel supply, development of service methods, new product development and application, high-level visits, etc., and establish a special research and development institute for automotive steels in a timely manner, and decide to jointly invest in processing and distribution. business. After the east wind, add a second auto industry allies.

In 2009, Wuhan Iron & Steel completed construction of a new steel distribution center in Wuhu, Anhui Province. It was specially designed for Chery Automobile and cut steel on site. In just one year, it could “digest” 400,000 tons of steel at Wuhan Iron and Steel Company.

This time, WISCO won the stamping parts processing production orders from Chery Automobile and Henan Base. It truly involved the automobile production chain. It not only played an important role in the development and promotion of WISCO automotive steel, but also opened up new profitable space.

In the semi-annual report of the listed Chinese steel companies that have just been announced, the “reports” of steel companies are not pretty. They are included in the member companies of the China Steel Association statistics, and after deducting investment income, non-operating income and expenses and other factors, the main business profit margins Only 2.55%, a year-on-year decrease of 0.47 percentage points. Because of this, steel companies have “looked right and left” and looking for other profit points.