OREANDA-NEWS. November 16, 2011. Since the beginning of this year, by means of process optimization, enhancement of service and other measures, Special Steel Business Unit has reinforced and optimized the key products of nickel based thermal resistant alloy of N80A. The sales of this product has exceeded 500 tons in the past 10 months with 10 fold growth on year-on-year basis. This has created the best record in history and won customers' praises, reported the press-centre of Baosteel.

This product is mainly used for the core component of engines, which raise strict requirements in terms of physical properties of the materials. In 2004, Special Steel Business Unit successfully developed this product, making Baosteel one of the few companies which are able to product such kind of products in the world. After the global financial crisis in 2008, due to the deterioting market performance, the sales of this product fell to the bottom in the history, and also because some of the indexes of the product were not stable and the market competitiveness was influenced, the total sales last year was less than 60 tons.

This year, the manufacturing management department of Special Steel Business Unit set up the philosophy of product managing and product realization, and performed process review and sorting for all products, and regarded this target as one of the keys to reshaping the competitiveness of Special Steel Business Unit. Based on the condition of some unstable indexes, the production, sales and research developments formed synergy and made reasonable work division and follow up in depth the production process of each batch of rejected products. By means of strong efforts, under the condition of no revamping of existing equipment and through adjustment of process, Special Steel Business Unit realized gradual improvement on quality. The average qualification rate of those indexes were raised from 82% in the past to the present 98%.

In the meantime, the business unit focused on customer needs, deepen customer service and add points to the product optimization. Since the beginning of this year, with respect to the big customer whose purchasing quantity taking up above 90% of the total production and sales quantity of this single product, the manufacturing management department conducted widespread communication and technical exchange, by making use of the combined efforts of each production unit and focusing on multiple emergent needs of the customer, Special Steel Business Unit adjusted resources distribution and organize its priority production and guarantee the logistics, and finally satisfied customer's requirements on precision of delivery.