The main production equipment of Zhugang was imported from Germany, Italy, Japan and other countries, including the largest 150 ton energy-saving ultra-high power AC electric arc furnace, ladle refining furnace, vacuum treatment furnace, CSP thin slab caster, roller-hearth soaking furnace, six-stand hot tandem mill, coiler and flat coiler. The whole production line is controlled by three-level computer system, and the management is controlled by ERP system.
Zhujiang Iron and Steel adheres to the principle of "synchronous design, synchronous construction and synchronous investment" in the construction of environmental protection facilities and main projects, and organizes production in strict accordance with the requirements of "clean production", and the water reuse rate reaches 98%. The first phase of the project was awarded the title of "National Top 100 Environmental Protection Project" by the State Environmental Protection Administration, and the continuation project was awarded the title of "Quality Project in Metallurgical Industry".
The products produced by Zhujiang Iron and Steel are mainly container plates, carbon plates, diamond slabs and automobile plates. Nearly 100 brands of hot-rolled coils in thirteen categories are widely used in container, pipeline, automobile, highway construction, shipbuilding, machinery, cold-rolled plates, household appliances, hardware, pressure vessels and other industries, filling the gap that hot-rolled steel sheets are not produced in South China.
In 2000, Zhujiang Iron and Steel Company developed container plates with independent intellectual property rights, and successfully replaced container plates that needed to be imported in large quantities by continuously improving product specifications and expanding market share. Since 2003, the annual output of container plates produced by Zhujiang Steel accounts for one-third of the national and even global output, which has attracted the attention of the global industry. In 2007, Wuyang brand container board produced by Zhujiang Iron and Steel Company won the titles of "China Famous Brand Product" and "Guangdong Famous Brand Product".
While digesting and absorbing CSP technology, Zhujiang Iron and Steel has formed a unique CSP production technology know-how by relying on independent innovation. The composition, properties and flatness control level of molten steel have reached the advanced level at home and abroad, and the product properties have three characteristics: thin specification, high strength and low carbon. The technological innovation ability of Zhugang has been recognized by governments at all levels. Since it was put into production, it has won four national science and technology progress awards, including 1 and 3 national science and technology progress awards. He also won the National Metallurgical Science and Technology Progress Award for four times, including two grand prizes and two first prizes of provincial science and technology awards.
Pearl River Iron and Steel has made great achievements in the construction of intellectual property rights, aiming at domestic leading and even international advanced technology and product development. As of May 2009, 70 patents have been applied (including 44 invention patents) and 37 patents have been authorized (including 15 invention patents). It has successively won the titles of "Intellectual Property Advantage Enterprise" in Guangdong Province, "First Pilot Intellectual Property Enterprise of Import and Export Advantage Enterprise" in Guangzhou, and "Intellectual Property Demonstration Enterprise" in Guangzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone.
In 2003, the CSP Applied Technology Research Institute and Postdoctoral Research Center of Guangzhou Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. were established in Zhugang, which provided strong support for the product development, basic research and process innovation of Zhugang to be at the forefront of domestic and foreign peers. Zhujiang Iron and Steel has also cooperated with universities such as University of Science and Technology Beijing to tackle key technical problems, comprehensively promoted the combination of production, learning and research, and formed a virtuous cycle mechanism of "putting one into production, reserving one and developing one" for new product development. In 2006, the newly developed high-strength container plate series and high-strength automobile plate series have been put on the market one after another, which will promote the upgrading of professional materials for containers, automobiles and trains and the reform of industry standards.
At the end of 1999, Zhujiang steel passed the ISO9002 quality system certification audit of China Classification Society only four months after it was put into production; In 2005, Zhujiang steel container plate won the title of "Golden Cup Award" for the physical quality of metallurgical products in China. In 2006, the container board successfully passed the on-site production audit certification of BV Classification Society of France, and the quality of the container board was also inspected and recognized by international container ship owners such as NYK Company of Japan and Maersk Company of Denmark. In 2006, Zhugang was entrusted to organize the formulation of Guangdong container plate production standards and participated in the formulation of national weather-resistant steel standards, which indicated that the process technology and management ability of Zhugang had moved from the manufacturing field to the formulation of industry standards.
Zhujiang Iron & Steel has been rated as "National Excellent Equipment Management Unit" for many times, and it has been listed as an information demonstration unit in Guangdong Province and the first batch of circular economy pilot units in Guangdong Province. In 2007, Zhujiang Iron and Steel passed the national laboratory accreditation site audit, occupational health and safety management system and environmental management system certification audit, and obtained the certification certificate; It was also awarded the title of "Model Factory for Safe Production" by Guangdong Province.
In the process of production, operation and development, Zhujiang Iron and Steel not only absorbs the successful experience of traditional enterprises, but also actively draws lessons from international advanced management models, vigorously promotes specialization and cooperation and social cooperation, and completely simplifies the management structure and labor organization structure. Except for high-tech requirements or core work, other businesses are managed by outsourcing, so that the number of employees in the whole factory is controlled within 655, with 70% employees with college education or above, and the per capita labor productivity is over 3,000 tons of steel/person-year, which is at the advanced level in the international industry and second to none in China.
In recent years, Zhuhai Steel has fully implemented the enterprise value creation strategy, built a value creation system with the characteristics of Zhuhai Steel, actively guided employees to adapt to the enterprise values, and constantly stimulated employees' creativity, and formed the enterprise spirit of "thriving Zhuhai Steel, pursuing Excellence", the business philosophy of "creating value, achieving you and me" and the value concept of "performance first, efficiency first".
As the representative of a new generation of iron and steel enterprises, Zhujiang Iron and Steel is leading the cutting-edge production technology of contemporary CSP with strong innovation power, creating the process value of CSP, creating a model of short-process competitiveness of China electric furnace, and striving hard to build a world-class team, first-class enterprise and first-class product.