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On the afternoon of December 7, 2023, the group standard launch meeting of the "Visual Management Standards for Enterprise On-site Lubrication" was successfully held in Room 309, the main building of Guangzhou Institute of Mechanical Science Co., Ltd. Cheng Benjun, general manager of the Industrial Intelligence Business Department of Baofu Armament Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., Liu Qian, deputy general manager of the equipment support department of Ansteel Lianzhong (Guangzhou) Stainless Steel Co., Ltd., Zhu Fengkun, deputy director of the cold rolling mill, Fu Haiping, manager of the machinery purchasing office of the equipment support department, Yu Xuewu, a full-time hydraulic engineer of the Equipment Department of Daye Special Steel Co., Ltd., Mei Xueqin, a full-time engineer of the Xiaobang Factory, Zuo Decheng, assistant to the director of the 170 Steel Pipe Factory, He Chengshan, a senior engineer of the Technology Center of Jiuquan Iron and Steel (Group) Co., Ltd., Beigang Xin, Guangxi Ruan Dihui, director of the power plant of Materials Co., Ltd., Chen Rongwei, deputy section chief of the equipment department, Jian Hua, chief expert of Ningbo Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., Chen Xiaoli, assistant to the president and director of the Economic Development Center of China Metallurgical News, Wang Zhi, deputy director of the equipment department of China Metallurgical News, Guangzhou Mechanical Science Relevant experts, department leaders, and technical representatives of the Research Institute Co., Ltd., other industry experts, business leaders, and mainstream media participated. The meeting was chaired by Zhong Longfeng, general manager of Guangyan Testing (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd., the editor-in-chief of Guangzhou Institute of Mechanical Engineering.   The participating experts discussed carefully and put forward specific requirements and modification opinions on the overall framework and chapter layout. Experts on the editorial board unanimously believe that it is necessary to use a relatively simple management method to help reduce on-site errors and improve work efficiency, which is in line with current actual needs and meets the requirements of the dual carbon goals. Visual management is precisely the most intuitive and effective management tool, and is very suitable for lubrication management at the production site of steel companies. Various enterprises have also carried out the practice of visual management of on-site lubrication. The overall system and standardization are different, and there is a lack of standards for on-site related work. Therefore, the formulation of a collective standard for corporate on-site lubrication visual management specifications is of great significance for the future large-scale and standardized promotion of on-site lubrication visual management in industries such as steel and metallurgy. Bao Zhongfeng, Secretary General of the Yangtze River Delta Steel Industry Development Association, summarized the...

On January 12, 2024, the 2023 Secretary-General’s Work Meeting of the China Steel Structure Association was held in Harbin. Yue Qingrui, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and president of the China Steel Structure Association, Liu Yi, executive vice president, Zhang Sumei, deputy secretary-general, Shi Gang, Wang Houxin, Dai Changhe, Liu Ting, vice president of Harbin Institute of Technology, dean of the School of Civil Engineering of Harbin Institute of Technology, Steel - Nearly 60 people including Wang Yuyin, Chairman of the Concrete Combination Branch, secretary generals of each branch and other relevant persons in charge attended this meeting. The meeting was chaired by Secretary-General Li Qingwei. This conference received strong support from Harbin Institute of Technology.   At the beginning of the meeting, President Yue Qingrui congratulated the convening of this meeting and expressed his gratitude to the leaders of Harbin Institute of Technology, the organizer, and the secretaries-general who participated in the meeting. President Yue highly affirmed the achievements of the association over the past year, and also gave important guidance on this year's work deployment and development direction.   On behalf of Harbin Institute of Technology, Vice President Liu Ting extended a warm welcome to all the guests present at the meeting and expressed his heartfelt thanks to the association for its long-term support. The Metal and Composite Structure Research Center of the School of Civil Engineering of Harbin Institute of Technology has been committed to the research of composite structures and steel structures for more than 40 years and has made outstanding scientific research achievements. President Liu said that Harbin Institute of Technology will continue to join hands with the China Steel Structure Association to gather momentum and go all out to promote new industrialization, lead the development of green, low-carbon and intelligent construction in the industry, and serve the country's high-level scientific and technological self-reliance.   2024 is the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the China Steel Structure Association. Executive Vice President Liu Yi has made detailed arrangements for the association's 40th anniversary. The 40th anniversary celebration of the association is the key work of this year. It is of great significance to publicize the development history of the association, continue the cultural inheritance of the association, and further enhance the influence of the association in the industry.   During the work discussion session, Wang Yuefeng from the General Office of the Association Secretariat introduced the use of the conference registration system. The conference registration system has been basically perfected after three years of gradual application and continuous debugging by the Secretariat. The use of this system will further improve the efficiency of the conferen...

On January 5-6, 2024, the seventh issue of the "Steel Structure Manufacturing Technology Standard and Steel Structure Manufacturing Practice Training Course" was successfully held in the beautiful flower city-Guangzhou. The training was co -sponsored by the China Steel Structure Association and the Guangdong Steel Structure Association. It was co -organized by China Huaxi Enterprise Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Shengxing Machinery Co., Ltd., and Shenzhen Junyi Laser Equipment Co., Ltd. The person in charge of more than 100 steel structure manufacturing enterprises and production technicians from all over the country participated in training. The leaders and guests who attended the meeting include Liu Yi, executive vice chairman of the China Steel Structure Association, He Mingxuan, senior expert of China Baowu Group's technical business, Liu Jingfeng, executive vice president of China Engineering Construction Welding Association Chen Zhenming, Wan Minfang, Secretary -General of the Guangdong Steel Structure Association, Dai Changhe, Deputy Secretary -General of the China Steel Structure Association, Long Shaozhang, chief engineer of China West China Enterprise Co., Ltd., Xie Fa Kui, deputy general manager of Steel Structure Company, Guangzhou Shengxing Machinery Co., Ltd. General Manager Sun Kechun.     Li Qingwei, Secretary -General of the China Steel Structure Association, presided over the meeting and briefly introduced the purpose, background and characteristics of formulating the "Technical Standards for Steel Structure Manufacturing". Wan Minfang, Secretary -General of the Guangdong Steel Structure Association, delivered a speech. She said that the steel structure, as an important part of the modern architectural field, has gradually become one of the favored buildings in the building industry today. We organize this training course to provide professional skills training and knowledge sharing for technical and managers engaged in the steel structure industry to enhance everyone's professional literacy and technical capabilities. It is hoped that this training will make everyone learn better, apply what they have learned into actual work, and devote themselves to the development of steel structure. During the training, the trainees paid attention and made notes, forming a strong learning atmosphere, showing the good spiritual appearance of the backbone and technical personnel of the steel structure.     After the training, the teaching experts and the leaders of the association issued a certificate of completion to the trainee students. Students generally believe that the training is very practical, and has strong pertinence, guidance and practicality. The rich curriculum content has enabled everyone to broaden their horizons and inspire thinking. It is very helpful to improve the management level of enterprises and improve product quality.   The successful holding of this training course not only promotes enterprises to im...

The just-convened Central Economic Work Conference pointed out that technological innovation should be used to promote industrial innovation and vigorously promote new industrialization. It is necessary to "give full play to the advantages of ultra-large-scale markets and strong production capabilities" and accelerate the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries. In fact, in the current national economic system, the two major industries of steel and construction have obvious characteristics of ultra-large-scale markets. In accordance with the work plan of the Party Committee of the Iron and Steel Association, on the day after the Central Economic Work Conference, He Wenbo, Secretary of the Party Committee and Executive Chairman of the Iron and Steel Association, led a team to launch some presidential units and cross-industry tours before the general meeting. In the field of construction, after leading a team to conduct on-site investigations at China State Construction and Yuanda Technology Group last week, starting this week, He Wenbo led a team to Guangdong to work with leaders of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development to conduct on-site investigations in Shenzhen on the city’s municipal construction and public facilities. , civil construction and other aspects of promoting the application of prefabricated buildings and steel structures. Leaders of Shenzhen Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau and leaders of China Construction Science and Engineering Co., Ltd. jointly participated in this research activity. After on-site inspections of multiple projects, the research team highly appreciated CSCEC’s years of efforts and exploration in the field of steel structure construction and its achievements. The two major steel structure building systems carefully built by the company: steel structure prefabricated building system (GS-Building) and steel structure modular building system (ME-House) have gradually become mature and industry-leading, and are in the field of intelligent manufacturing and intelligent construction. The road goes faster and faster. After He Wenbo and his party arrived in Shenzhen by high-speed rail, they went to the China Construction Steel Structure Intelligent Manufacturing Laboratory for on-site investigation. Through independent research and development of intelligent equipment products such as steel structure intelligent cutting, intelligent welding, surface treatment, warehousing and logistics technology, and intelligent construction, China Construction Steel Structure has made a useful attempt to give full play to the advantages of the company's entire chain industry. At the same time, it has also promoted the steel structure Structural architecture contributed. In the field of construction, steel structure buildings are the most typical future development space with growth potential, and they are also the most typical common tasks in the industry. The efforts of ente...

On December 21, the special technical docking meeting on converter system energy efficiency improvement for the ultimate energy efficiency project in the steel industry was successfully held in Yuquan District, Yingkou City     In order to better implement the "Ultimate Energy Efficiency" project in the steel industry, promote the rapid promotion and application of advanced and mature technologies and the collaborative research and development of common problem technologies, the China Iron and Steel Industry Association organized and held eight special technology docking meetings in accordance with the annual plan to provide "dual carbon best practices" "Energy Efficiency Benchmark Demonstration Factory" cultivates enterprises and technical units to build a communication platform to promote enterprise energy saving and improvement. This meeting is the eighth special meeting after seven matchmaking meetings on blast furnaces, electric furnaces, coke ovens, by-product gas, low-temperature waste heat, digital empowerment, and compressed air.   Huang said in his speech that China's steel industry "ultimate energy efficiency project" since its official launch on December 9 last year, has been the steel enterprises and upstream and downstream strong support from ecosystem companies. The project mainly completed the following tasks: First, the development of key workbench can save the benchmark data filling system, consolidate the data management foundation. The system is based on the enterprise energy balance sheet, combined with the cultivation of enterprise energy consumption, statistics, analysis and group standard regulations. The energy consumption calculation tables and energy consumption adjusting tables for coking, blast furnace, converter and electric arc furnace are established, which standardize the statistical boundaries and calculation methods of each energy medium to the greatest extent, and can not only realize the energy consumption standard among the main equipment of the enterprise, but also can analyze the influence accurately.   The important factors of the difference in index values provide a solid data basis for enterprise energy efficiency benchmarking and technical benchmarking. The second is to organize industry forces to improve the "three lists" work and actively play the guiding role of the association. The "three lists" refer to a technology list, a policy list and a capability list. The technology list contains 50 mature technologies, which is a summary of the experience of energy efficiency technological transformation of many enterprises over the years; The policy list contains a total of 26 documents, summarizing the policy incentives and support for energy efficiency improvement by national ministries and local governments. The capacity list (expected to be officially released in January next year) involves 139 technologies from 84 units, including outstanding suppliers of multi-process technologies...

On the evening of December 18, Beijing time, Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel jointly announced that Nippon Steel would make a pure cash acquisition of U.S. Steel at a price of US$55 per share. The offer represents a nearly 40% premium to last Friday’s closing price of $39.33. The transaction has been unanimously approved by the boards of directors of Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel.     According to U.S. Steel, the US$55 offer corresponds to an equity value of US$14.1 billion. Taking into account the debt assumed, the enterprise value corresponding to this acquisition will reach US$14.9 billion, equivalent to more than 2.1 trillion yen. In fact, U.S. Steel's stock price has been fluctuating in recent months following acquisition rumors. Since Cleveland-Cliffs, the largest flat steel producer in the United States, made an acquisition offer of nearly US$7.3 billion on the 8th of this year, the company's stock price has doubled.       Nippon Steel's Acquisition of U.S. Steel Faces Strong Opposition from Many Parties According to the merger and acquisition plan given by Nippon Steel, U.S. Steel is expected to hold a shareholders' meeting in March next year. Based on the approval of the company's shareholders and regulators, the transaction is expected to be completed in the second quarter or second quarter of next year. Michael Leiter, head of CFIUS and national security practice at Skadden, Arps, believes CFIUS is "unlikely" to block a deal with a country as close to a U.S. government as Japan, despite growing political opposition to the deal among politicians and unions. Allies reach a deal.     Asked about the proposed deal during a White House press briefing on Tuesday, White House press secretary Jean-Pierre declined to comment specifically on the acquisition.   CNN said that despite political opposition, the fate of U.S. Steel Corp. being sold to Japanese capital is basically a certainty. This has sounded the alarm to the current global corporate giants. The world is changing so fast that it is jaw-dropping.  

From December 6th to 8th, the 2023 Advanced Training Course for Professional and Technical Personnel of Steel Structure Enterprises was held in Changshu, Jiangsu Province. The meeting was hosted by the China Steel Structure Association and hosted by Jiangsu Longteng Special Steel Group Co., Ltd., with representatives from nearly 70 steel structure enterprises across the country. More than 140 business managers and technical leaders attended the meeting. Leaders and guests attending this meeting include Liu Yi, executive vice president of China Steel Structure Association, Li Qingwei, secretary-general of the association, Zhou Guangen, executive deputy general manager and chief engineer of Zhejiang Southeast Grid Co., Ltd., and chief engineer of Shanghai Construction Engineering Group Co., Ltd. Chen Xiaoming, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and President of Jiangsu Longteng Special Steel Group Co., Ltd. Xu Sheng, General Manager of Changshu Longteng Welding Materials Technology Co., Ltd. Zhang Po, General Manager of Changshu Longteng New Energy Equipment Technology Co., Ltd. Huo Xiaofei, etc. Chief Engineer Zhou Guangen titled "Steel Structure Processing and Manufacturing Technology" and focused on the current situation and development trends of steel structure processing and manufacturing, technical requirements and precautions for each link in the steel structure processing process, quality control measures during the processing process, common quality problems and preventive measures, steel structure Structural digital processing technology and other aspects, the knowledge related to steel structure processing and production was explained in detail. Chief Engineer Chen Xiaoming took "Steel Structure Installation Technology" as the title, covering conventional installation technologies such as large-span space structures and super high-rise buildings, overall installation, translation, and lifting technologies of steel structures, suspension structure installation technologies, and spoke-type tension structures. Installation technology, structural construction analysis and other aspects were explained to the students present in detail the relevant knowledge of steel structure installation. After the training course, the teaching experts, leaders of the association and Longteng Group issued completion certificates to the participants of the training course.  

On October 29, the 2023 Mining Whole Industry Chain Technology Conference and the 20th Anniversary Celebration of Tianzhou Group were held in Xi'an. The theme of the conference was "Being Gratitude, Steady and Long-term", aiming to promote practical cooperation, mutual benefit, and common development in the mining industry through technological innovation. develop. Li Tianen, chairman of Xi'an Tianzhou Mining Technology Group Co., Ltd., attended the meeting and delivered a speech. More than 500 representatives from all over the country, including geological exploration, mining, mineral processing, smelting, legal, financial and other mining enterprises and institutions, as well as relevant universities, scientific research institutes, industry associations, etc. attended the meeting on site or through online live broadcast.