On April 23, 2024, Baoshan Base successfully held the hot load trial ceremony for the color-coated substrate structural optimization project at the cold rolling mill. Cai Yanbo, Assistant General Manager of Baosteel and General Manager of Baoshan Base, unveiled the 'first coil.' Baosteel's cold rolling division sees this successful trial as a new starting point and continues steadfastly along the path of green and low-carbon development.

Embracing new concepts

Facing severe challenges from a long downturn cycle in the steel industry, how to tackle present and future challenges? How to manage the present while planning for the future? Baosteel's cold rolling division always remembers its mission and responsibility, continues on the path of innovative development, actively responds to challenges, and strives to seize opportunities and take the initiative in the new round of development.

Baosteel Color-Coated, relying on the trusted "TRUSTEEL" brand, is committed to developing high-end coated products for environmental protection, greenness, and high performance in the field of architectural enclosure. This brand concept complements the intelligent upgrade of the color-coated substrate structural optimization project, jointly promoting continuous innovation in Baosteel's color-coated products.

Baoshan Base's cold rolling mill vigorously promotes the upgrading of color-coated substrates by establishing a new dedicated production line for color-coated substrates, integrating advanced equipment technology, and blending modern management concepts, actively practicing the core concept of "high-end, intelligent, green, and efficient" development leadership, and actively developing new productive forces.

Toward new intelligent manufacturing

In the new era of iterative upgrading of intelligent manufacturing, the CB08 unit fully utilizes the achievements of intelligent manufacturing from the hot-dip galvanizing unit, achieving highly automated and intelligent production processes, reaching the benchmark level of the lighthouse unit.

The unit achieves centralized control through one-line one-room operation, reduces 3D workstation workload with advanced robotics, monitors multiple application scenarios round the clock through visual AI technology, and ensures the intelligence and precision of unit operation through sophisticated furnace temperature model control, coating closed-loop control, and other model development and control, ensuring the stability and safety of the production process and promoting cold rolling from "manufacturing" to "intelligent manufacturing."

At the same time, in the construction of the cold rolling project, this project achieved digital design and digital delivery from the source for the first time, setting a new benchmark for project construction iterative upgrades.

Opening up new prospects

The color-coated substrate structural optimization project is an important project in the development plan of cold-rolled color-coated products, meeting the growing demand for high-end markets for color-coated products. Positioned as a high-aluminum-zinc-aluminum-magnesium hot-dip galvanized color-coated substrate, it is a cold-rolled color-coated product upgrade project that helps further enhance Baosteel's color-coated product brand image.

The new unit is the youngest unit in Baosteel's cold rolling division, and the team is also the youngest team in Baosteel's cold rolling division. These energetic young people, under the guidance of experienced masters, are full of enthusiasm for their work and hope for the future. After successfully completing the commissioning work and entering the hot load trial, the cold rolling team will closely coordinate production and project management efficiently around market demand and production management requirements, striving to achieve the shortest production cycle and lowest production cost while ensuring product quality, injecting new vitality into the future development of cold rolling.

Standing at a new historical starting point, Baoshan Base's cold rolling mill will embrace future challenges with a new attitude, deeply cultivating the foundation of high-quality development, continuously promoting the scale production and application of color-coated substrates, and striving to provide customers with higher quality and more environmentally friendly products and services. At the same time, guided by green development, it will adhere to the path of sustainable development, actively fulfill social responsibilities, and make greater contributions to achieving the national goals of "peak carbon emissions" and "carbon neutrality.