Daming aims at high-end materials for chemical tankers

In recent years, the ship market has continued to slump, and the voice of domestic shipbuilding enterprises has become more and more high. Although everyone is still slow to upgrade to high-end, some domestic supporting enterprises have seen business opportunities and took the lead in improving the matching capacity for ships. The upgrade of the manufacturing industry. Jiangsu Daming Metal Products Co., Ltd. is one of them, and is aiming at the high-end market, focusing on the processing and distribution of the ship's cabin channel plate for chemical tankers.

Technological innovation

Jiangsu Daming is a large-scale stainless steel circulation enterprise in China. In order to deepen its service, the company began to establish a stainless steel processing center in 2002. It has become the largest stainless steel processing center in China, with stainless steel cutting, grinding, cutting, welding and machining imported equipment. Multiple sets.

From January to June, Jiangsu Daming signed a new supply of six chemical tank bulkheads with stainless steel materials. In addition to last year's orders, it has completed the supply of nearly 10 vessels in the first half of this year, and processed more than 3,000 tons of stainless steel sheets. Although the processing of stainless steel sheets on the bulkhead and the bending of different thicknesses are only a small part of the business of Jiangsu Daming, in the overall sluggish situation of the domestic market, it has created a lot of profits for the company.

Bending the ship plates of different thicknesses, if the traditional process is used, not only the processing cost is high, but also the progress is slow. To this end, Jiangsu Daming combines the experience accumulated in the past 20 years to carry out scientific research and innovation. In 2011, the company organized the technical strength to carry out research and development for the blank of the technology of “different plate thickness of different plate thicknesses before welding”, and at the end of the year overcome this technical difficulty and formed a unique set of process plans. It is reported that after the implementation of this process, the ship's channel plate can be used to achieve the "first welding and bending" between different plate thickness without grinding the weld, and the tooling can be directly carried out without correction. The processing cost is only three abroad. One of the points, at the same time, processing accuracy and quality are better than foreign countries. At present, this technology has been successfully applied to the production of trough plates for two 30,000-ton chemical tankers of Jiangsu Mingde Heavy Industry Co., Ltd.

In order to further increase production capacity, Jiangsu Daming has introduced large-scale laser cutting machines, plasma cutting machines, 3000-ton CNC bending machines and edge-cutting machines from Japan and Europe in recent years to meet the needs of large-scale shipboard processing. The investment of the enterprise immediately received the effect. The company successively provided complete shipboard trough-shaped plate matching services for domestic chemical tanker construction enterprises such as Chongqing Chuandong Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Co., Ltd., Chongqing Zesheng Shipyard and Jiujiang Shipyard. At present, the company's machining center cutting and processing ship board can be more than 4 meters in width and more than 32 meters in length. The maximum processing length of the planing edge is 16 meters, the bending length can reach 15 meters, and the maximum bending thickness can reach 100 mm.

The two parties work together to "inventory"

Since the beginning of this year, as steel prices continue to fall, how to digest the high-priced steel that was previously purchased has become a headache for the head of Jiangsu Daming.

In order to alleviate the pressure of “inventory”, the person in charge of the company said that in addition to open source and expenditure, on the one hand, the company speeded up the flow rate of funds, reduced the proportion of debts, and reduced losses to a minimum. Moreover, some of the small “workshop”-style stainless steel enterprises that have emerged during the peak period of the market have already been eliminated by the market. The markets that these small enterprises once shared were absorbed by Jiangsu Daming, which drove the sales of the company's stainless steel. According to statistics, the monthly sales of stainless steel sheets have increased from 52,000 tons last year to 61,000 tons this year. Although profits are no longer the same, but small profits but quick turnover, help companies reduce inventory. On the other hand, the company provides zero-material sheet processing services in accordance with the needs of enterprises to achieve on-demand processing. This not only allows shipbuilding companies to avoid the use of inventory funds due to the purchase of monoliths, improve material utilization, but also helps them to increase the added value of products in the processing of raw materials and digest some of the inventory. In particular, its professional processing and distribution model helps the public to occupy the market at a lower cost. In addition, the model also helps ship companies save labor costs in equipment investment and processing costs.

Yuan Kang, Assistant Minister of Processing Business of Daming, Jiangsu Province, was full of confidence when talking about the supply of chemical tankers. He said that from the information currently available, more and more shipbuilding companies are capable and willing to build chemical tankers. This will be a direction for the transformation of domestic shipbuilding enterprises in the future. From the perspective of the international shipping market, the construction of chemical tankers also has a tendency to concentrate in China, which is a good for domestic shipping companies and supporting enterprises. Opportunity. He said that the company is now fully prepared to serve more shipbuilding companies.