OREANDA-NEWS. October 25, 2011. At present, "International thermonuclear fusion experimental reactor (ITER) plan" is in hot debate, which is an international big science engineering that ranks only second to the international space station, and the largest international cooperation project so far involved by China. Seven parties like China, Japan, South Korea, India, Russia, United States and the European Union joint participate in it, whose construction site locates in Provence - south of France. In the near future, TISCO products are expected to apply in the project, reported the press-centre of TISCO.

ITER Unit is commonly referred to as "Artificial Sun." Nuclear fusion is an emerging energy which is clean, pollution-free, huge reserves, no geographical position limit and economy reliable, and scientific feasibility of fusion has been confirmed. ITER mainly makes hydrogen produce nuclear fusion relying on magnetic confinement, and use the energy produced by fusion to generate electricity. At the beginning of 2007, TISCO had participate technical communication and development of stainless steel materials for ITER Plan, and set up a problem tackling team composed of technology, marketing, production and related units. In 2010, according to the requirement of ITER plan, TISCO successfully developed specimen of stainless steel plate, forging, steel pipes and other products, which were passed through evaluation and approval.

At present, TISCO stainless steel plate, forgings have been provided with production and delivery ability, stainless steel irregular tube with square-outside and round-inside has been trial produced in a small batch, which is ranked in the suppliers name by Chinese Academic of Science. With high attention, the Company actively carried out mass trial production of new extrusion machine, compared with the two small batch of trial production in 2009 and 2010, this time all works was done from laboratory to processing line, and completed from by the technical personnel formerly to by cooperation of technology and operation personnel, which will be a big test for process, operation, flow, management and other aspects.

Recently in the mobilization meeting held by Stainless Steel Pipe Co. LTD., vice General Manager Chai Zhiyong expressed that ITER Plan is a long time project, only the construction stage will take 10 years, as the global stainless steel industry leader, TISCO should play the leading role in high end product, each units should make achievement in the high-end market and show the image and strength of TISCO.

Stainless Steel Pipe Co. Ltd., Technology Center, the Marketing Department, Shanxi Steel Construction and related units show their determination that they will try their best to breakthrough the bottleneck on process, technology, production and other aspects, to be worth of the trust from Chinese Academy of Sciences and all circles of the society, to ensure successfully trial-production according to product standard and time limit, to achieve the ITER plan supply right and promote TISCO brand entered into the international advanced market as soon as possible.