Honors to Baosteel Co.,Ltd. and Its High Grade Automotive Sheet

In the 4th Session of the 3rd Executive Council of CISA held on July 30, Baosteel Co.,Ltd. was awarded the honorary title of "China Iron & Steel Industry Clean Production and Environment-Friendly Enterprise", and its high grade steel sheet for passenger car won "China Iron & Steel Industry Product Development and Market Pioneering Award". These are two new awards set up by CISA for the first time in the industry.

According to the requirements of the central government on building innovative country, in order to guide the development of the iron & steel industry with the scientific view of development, adjust and optimize the industrial structure, strengthen resource saving and environment protection, encourage the enterprises to actively carry out independent innovation, and to achieve fast and good development, CISA decided in 2006 to set up the honorary title of "China Iron & Steel Industry Clean Production and Environment-Friendly Enterprise" and "China Iron & Steel Industry Product Development and Market Pioneering Award".

The application, examination & appraisal works for the 2 awards was started in May, 2007.

It is the direction of development that Baosteel Co.,Ltd. sticks to for a long term to build the resource saving & environment-friendly enterprise by the road of sustainable development. The core enterprise Baosteel Branch aims at the world level and explores a new road of industrialization development by adopting clean production technology and controlling strictly the formation and effluent or release of contaminations, which set up an example for sustainable development of the domestic steel makers.

After the additional issuing and merging, the various branches and affiliates of Baosteel Co.,Ltd. established respectively scientific and normative environment management systems, relying on the advanced management and techniques of Baosteel Branch. As a result of effort of more than 2 years, the branches and affiliates of Baosteel Co.,Ltd. have passed successively the external examination for ISO14001 Environment Management System and reached the requirements on environment-friendly enterprises.

To fulfill the needs of the development of automotive industry of China and to promote steel sheet manufacturing level, Baosteel developed cold-rolled and zinc-plated sheet with excellent mechanical properties and surface quality that meets the requirements on medium to high grade inner/outer sheet of passenger car body as a result of years of effort in innovation of R&D mechanism and improvement of technical equipment, etc.

Currently Baosteel has more than 270 designations of high grade automotive sheet. Among them the high strength IF steel, bake hardened steel, isotropic steel, cold-rolled & CGL duplex steel and TRIP steel filled the domestic gap in this field. The smelting control technology of super-low carbon, nitrogen and oxygen, and the technology of improved accuracy in hot-rolled strip temperature control in these products have helped to reach world level in the stability of strip performance, as well as formed 102 items of technical know-how and 56 patents, including 16 invention patents.