OREANDA-NEWS. December 20, 2011. Through five years of joint venture, Baoling Heavy & Industrial Machinery Co., Ltd of Baosteel Engineering has grown into a domestic well-known metallurgical products EP manufacturer. Up to now, BLHI has occupied the stable share in the high-end market of the four product serials such as continuous casting, hot rolling, cold rolling and spare parts etc.at home and abroad and also realized serialization, kernelization, complete set and best quality, in which, the continuous casting equipment manufacturing technology has created three "the most" such as the most complete varieties, the largest number and the highest technical content, and the cold continuous rolling mill units have been exported to the European countries for the first time, reported the press-centre of Baosteel.

Over five years, BLHI has been devoted to studying and introducing the foreign management philosophy and the benchmarking advanced technology and management, promoted with all efforts the group improvement activities etc, enhanced the on-site execution capacity, optimized the operation efficiency of the organization and system and realized the double jump of the independent design and manufacturing capacity and the employees' capacity of the independent innovation.

The continuous casting equipment is one of the leading products of BLHI. In recent years, BLHI has constantly absorbed the foreign advanced technology and developed independently the series of the products such as the round billet and profiled billet etc. including the core technology equipment such as crystallizer and cast flow guide device etc, occupying stably 70% share of the domestic key market. At the same time, the products such as the slab continuous casting and the thin strip continuous casting have been exported to Japan, India, Poland and the United States etc.

BLHI has seriously developed the five indicators benchmarking in quality, cost, delivery time, production efficiency and the design capacity etc with the benchmarking enterprise. In recent three years, the independent designed manufacturing equipment order amount taken by BLHI has increased from over 20 million yuan to over 240 million yuan, and the projects have been enlarged from the circular shears to Masteel levelers, Carrousel tension reels, Tangsteel heavy coils and CSC/APL etc.

BLHI has vigorously carried out the employees' innovative activities. In recent three years, the total of 1636 projects have been completed through the group improvement activities, which has brought about 11.2 million yuan in the economic benefits, and generated 39 patents at the same time.