OREANDA-NEWS.  November 19, 2012. “As the first domestic manufacturer producing automobile exposed sheets with the super width over 1800mm by low cost, high efficiency and standardized production, WISCO successfully filled the domestic blank and broke the foreign monopoly”, reported the press-centre of WISCO.    

The reporter got the information from WISCO R & D Center that WISCO project of super wide automobile exposed sheets manufacturing technology has successfully passed the scientific and technological achievement identifying conference held by Hubei Provincial Science and Technology Agency, the product manufacturing technology and product performance have reached the domestic leading level and international advanced level.

Under the difficult conditions with no existing domestic experience as reference and foreign blockade of key technologies, WISCO did not select to set up joint venture with foreign steel producers, but independently developed full process manufacturing technologies in concern of smelting, continuous casting, continuous hot rolling, continuous cold rolling, high speed continuous annealing and continuous hot dip galvanizing, etc. for high grade automobile exposed sheets with the width of over 1800mm and max. width of 2070mm fully depending on its own technical forces, therefore formed 39 items of patent technologies, technical knowhow, technical specifications and procedure designs with independent intellectual property rights, which are significantly innovative and motivate a big stride of technical development for the production of wide automobile sheets for WISCO and even for China.

It is reported that WISCO has successfully developed more than 170 brand products, and automobile exposed sheets fulfilled the full coverage of 700~2070 specifications and varieties. Meanwhile wide sheets over 1800mm produced by WISCO have been successfully applicated in Citroen, FAW-VW, Chery and other automobile producers, and substituted steel products of the world leading steel producers from Japan, Europe, and etc. for multi-vehicle models and well received by customers.