OREANDA-NEWS. August 09, 2011. In the first half of this year, Baosteel cold rolling mill integrates quality and variety advantages and improves automotive outer panel quality around the market and customer needs. Automotive outer panel integrated yield hits record, which steadily promotes the production, reported the press-centre of Baosteel.

This year, the automobile plate market is faced many uncertainties. In the first quarter the  demand is high, but since the second quarter, automobile plate production and sales growth has slowed down and automobile plate homogeneity competition is fierce.Cold rolling mill insists on the principle of the market and customers, adjusts manufacturing operation tempo and focus, askes the whole staff to meet the challenges and puts work focus on quality and variety advantages. On the basis of 12 key indicators hitting the best record in history in the first quarter, cold rolling mill continues to tap the potential ability, evoke the variety advantage, improve quality and application system capacity and seek further breakthrough.

As for evoking variety advantage, on the one hand, cold rolling mill relies on production line optimization, evoking host group production capacity and producing more high-grade automotive outer panels. On the other hand the mill speeds up new product line improvement, open up the bottleneck in production capacity and meets customer needs.

As for enhancing the quality, the cold rolling mill establishes a comprehensive, systematic defect research system. For example, starting from the key species, the mill does a comprehensive analysis of the procedure defects' impact on the yielding and forms inter-related and specialized defect research teams, which carry out key technology research and innovation targeting the top three defects. In the first half of this year, the whole mill's waste and inferior rate is historically lowest.

As for evoking system capability, focusing on key automotive panel varieties, key users and key contracts, the cold rolling mill strengthens the whole production process efficiency and management optimization. Led by the production technology office, the mill refines process, clarifies responsibility and assures that market and customer needs are timely responded and satisfied in aspects of automotive board certification, contract tracking and material management.

Currently, automobile plate market situation is still not optimistic. In order to maintain competitive advantage in the second half of this year, cold rolling mill will further focus on cost improvement, quality improvement, actively develop new products and expand into new markets based on strengthening strategy varieties.