Fighting High Temperature To Ensure Progress Baoji 10,000 Tons Titanium Industrial Park Is in Sight To Be Put Into Operation in October
In recent days, the construction of Shaanxi Province's key new materials industrial park project has been accelerated and is expected to be completed and put into production in October this year.
Recently, reporters at the project construction site observed the completion of the main structure of the Phase I factory and R&D office building. Inside the production workshop, several gantry cranes operated back and forth, assisting workers in assembling and commissioning equipment. Meanwhile, road hardening and landscaping projects within the park were also progressing simultaneously, creating a bustling scene.
Entering the golden summer construction period, the 10,000-ton titanium materials industrial park in Baoji, Shaanxi Province, is accelerating its construction in a "day-and-night" mode. As a key provincial new materials project, the park's first phase has completed its main structure topping-out, with the R&D office building now erected. Intelligent equipment installation and commissioning are underway in the production workshops, along with the laying of outdoor pipe networks and landscaping. The park is expected to begin production as scheduled in October of this year.
At six in the morning, at the construction site, a gantry crane traced a smooth arc, precisely hoisting precision-machined components into place. Workers, wearing reflective vests, shuttled between steel frames, their sweat-soaked uniforms glistening with salt in the morning sun. "The titanium alloy production line requires extremely high cleanliness levels. We're currently completing the final dust removal process," explained the project's technical lead, pointing to the already-installed vacuum melting furnace.
The project, a provincial key project in the titanium and titanium alloy industry chain, covers an area of 180 mu (approximately 1.5 billion yuan) and has a total investment of 1.5 billion yuan. The project will be constructed in two phases, encompassing 15 production lines for aerospace-grade wide-width titanium alloys, titanium-nickel composite plates, and titanium alloy structural components. The goal is to create a complete industry chain from titanium ingot casting to deep processing and high-end equipment manufacturing.
The project manager explained that since construction began in April last year, local authorities have provided dedicated "nanny-style" services, effectively ensuring the smooth progress of all work. The first phase of construction, consisting of a double-span standardized factory building and R&D office building, is currently scheduled to be completed and put into production in October of this year.
The project leader said:
The production workshop is equipped with China's largest 20-ton and 8-ton vacuum melting furnaces, as well as a Kaiping production line. Once operational, the project is expected to produce over 10,000 tons of aerospace-grade, high-quality titanium plates and over 6,000 tons of aerospace-grade titanium alloy structural parts annually, achieving an average per-acre output value of approximately 9.8 million yuan and creating 300 new jobs.
It is understood that the project is at the national leading level in key processes such as electrode welding and arc furnace melting, and is expected to solve the "bottleneck" problem in the production of high-precision titanium plates, thereby promoting the widespread application of titanium and new materials in aerospace, marine engineering and other fields, and assisting the modernization of the country's national defense industry.
Regarding the current construction tasks, the project leader emphasized:
At this stage, the construction period is tight and the task is heavy. We will go all out to speed up the pace of construction and strive to complete and put the project into production ahead of schedule while ensuring safety and quality, so as to contribute to the high-qualitydevelopment of the local titanium industry.
