On the morning of March 4, the groundbreaking ceremony for the high-end titanium alloy full industrial chain project invested by Baoji Topda Titanium Industry with a total investment of RMB 320 million and the high-performance aerospace structural parts new material project invested by Baoji Xinnuo New Metals Co., Ltd. with a total investment of RMB 210 million was held in Baoji High-tech Zone. The commencement order was issued by Xu Qifang, Vice Governor of Shaanxi Province and Secretary of the Baoji Municipal Party Committee, marking the official start of the construction of the two titanium metal industry projects.
Topda Titanium's new investment and construction project: the entire industrial chain of titanium and titanium alloy products for high-end equipment will focus on consolidating the company's titanium and titanium alloy radial forging processing and manufacturing capabilities. Topda Titanium was registered and established 10 years ago. The company's chairman, Wang Yongjin, came from Germany to Baoji, which has a strong industrial foundation, and gave up the good conditions of settling in Germany and returned to his motherland. Before that, he did not know titanium or titanium processing. He started from scratch and learned bit by bit. He invested in Baoji, purchased bar radial forging equipment, and installed a titanium and titanium alloy radial forging production line. He took root in the Baoji titanium industry cluster and started as a "young OEM" in the titanium industry. After nearly 10 years of development, it has grown into an "industry pioneer" in the application fields of high-end titanium metal products such as deep-sea equipment and weapons and military industry. The company registered a special subsidiary for the new project: Shaanxi Tuobing Defense Equipment Technology Co., Ltd., which will build a new plant of 30,000 square meters, an office building of 9,500 square meters, and supporting power, warehouse and other auxiliary facilities. New dedicated production equipment will be installed to form an annual production capacity of 2,000 tons of titanium alloy ingots, 3,000 tons of titanium bars, 1,000 tons of pipes, and 200 tons of deep-processed parts. The project will create internationally advanced and domestically first-class titanium and titanium alloy radial forging equipment and advanced radial forging manufacturing and processing technology, and provide high-quality, high-performance titanium and alloy bars, forgings, and deep-processed parts and other key products for international and domestic aerospace, military equipment, marine engineering, medical equipment and other industries. After the project is completed, it will add an output value of 500 million yuan, create 200 new jobs, and realize a profit and tax of 21 million yuan.
Baoji Xinnuo New Metal Co., Ltd. is a domestic professional manufacturer and processor of medical titanium and titanium alloy plates, rods and wires. Its products account for more than 30% of the medical titanium material market. Its titanium alloy plates, rods and wires are not only widely used in the medical field, but also widely used in cutting-edge high-performance equipment such as aerospace, national defense and military industry. After more than 10 years of growth and development, the company has become a private enterprise with unique characteristics and rapid annual growth in the Baoji titanium industry cluster. The company's turnover has grown from several million yuan per year at the beginning of the period to 130 million yuan in 2019. At present, the company has strong research and development and production capabilities of titanium and titanium alloy materials and products. The project to be built this time: new materials for high-performance aerospace structural parts. Focusing on the requirements of high-performance titanium and titanium alloy structural parts for aerospace equipment, the company will strive to improve the smelting capacity of titanium and titanium alloy ingots, introduce advanced smelting furnaces, form the company's own high-quality titanium and titanium alloy ingot production and processing technology, and better solve the various grades of titanium ingot raw materials used in product production; introduce advanced precision bar and wire hot and cold rolling production lines, further improve the processing equipment of bars and wires, ensure the stability and optimization of processing parameters, and ensure the quality consistency and good process mechanical properties of titanium and titanium alloy bar and wire products; install new inspection and testing equipment for titanium products, build and improve the company's product quality inspection and testing capabilities, and ensure the basis for the formulation of process parameters in the intermediate process of production and processing and the quality control of factory products. Through the introduction and improvement of production and processing equipment and testing equipment, the company's new product research and development capabilities will be further enhanced, market opportunities will be better grasped, key titanium products urgently needed in the market will be developed, and a good foundation will be laid for the company's development. The project also includes research on 3D printing forming technology for titanium alloy materials.
The commencement of the two titanium and titanium alloy high-end materials and high-performance titanium metal structural parts projects symbolizes that the huge momentum accumulated by Baoji's titanium industry over the years is being released in the direction of high-quality and high-end development, and the characteristic high-quality backbone titanium enterprises are moving towards better and higher goals in their respective "specialized, specialized, refined and innovative" product positioning. The construction and development of these two characteristic titanium alloy product projects will see a group of excellent backbone enterprises in the Baoji titanium industry cluster make progress in the research and development of characteristic titanium products and high-quality development. The rapid development of more backbone titanium enterprises will further strengthen and improve the overall strength of the titanium industry in "Baoji China Titanium Valley".
The Science and Technology New City in Baoji High-tech Zone is being built with a high starting point and a good business environment. It is centered around strengthening the "three major economic sectors" in Baoji City and creating "three 100 billion-level industrial clusters". It is gradually gathering a group of enterprises with good development momentum and strong growth momentum in the old industrial areas of Baoji. In the past two years, there have always been several titanium enterprises at the groundbreaking ceremony of each key project, and new titanium and new materials projects have been unveiled. The Science and Technology New City will plan and introduce more and more large and medium-sized titanium enterprises. Enterprises in the cluster with distinctive product positioning, promising market product research and development, and good development strength will be rapidly built and developed on this land. The new enterprises will be the reborn of the original old enterprises, and will move towards the road of high-end and high-quality development in the processing of titanium and titanium alloy materials and titanium products. The future prospects of "Baoji China Titanium Valley" will be even better.
