China’s total output of castings has been ranked first in the world for 9 years in a row, which can be described as the deserved world’s big casting producer, while China is faced with a serious overproduction at the same time, because of overproduction of low-end castings. However, there is still a huge market space for high-quality, large-scale and high-end castings, for example, large cast-steel gear ring, slag pot, steel ladle, cinder ladle, cast-steel node and other non-standard large steel castings manufactured by Great Wall Steel Casting.

All kinds of large casting products manufactured by Great Wall Steel Casting are exported to more countries yearly and have been favored by more and more domestic and international customers, especially cast-steel gear ring and slag pot, which is closely connected with the following reasons:

(1) Continuous improvement of technology and professional production experience

Large casting industry is a technology-intensive industry. Through decades of development, Great Wall Steel Casting has experienced development process of technological introduction, absorption and re-innovation and gathered rich technology and professional production experience in various links of technological process. Great Wall Steel Casting has its own proprietary technology in many aspects and forms its own core competitiveness.

At the same time, because of accelerating pace of industry technology innovation and shorter upgrade cycle of products, large-scale casting enterprises need meet challenges of new materials and new technologies. Currently, only Great Wall Steel Casting has the capability of independent innovation, which can develop high-performance, low-energy, environmental and durable new products according to the changeable market and the needs of customers and occupy the market firstly.

Professional production experience includes excellent production equipment, fine field management and long-term accumulation of technical experience, which are the core factories to manufacture large castings, especially high-quality large castings. The ability of accurate control related technical parameters, mature product technology management and fine field management are needed when the advanced production equipment is in using. Great Wall Steel Casting has formed a set of perfect and mature production and management experience, such as steel-cast gear ring, in the long-term practice.

(2) Steady growth of customer resource

Large casting manufacture has the features of multispecies, small batch and non-standard production. The requirements of customers are the production standards of enterprises. Most of large-scale equipment production enterprises build independent quality management system and assessment criteria. The certification process for qualified suppliers of spare parts includes site inspection, critical process assessment, quality control and inspection and pilot production, which is a long period. Because of high cost of assessment and long period, equipment production enterprises will not easily change suppliers if they can provide standard quality products. The long-term and steady cooperative relations provide steady customer resource for Great Wall Steel Casting.

(3) Mature talent team

Because of multi-production links and complex technical process, large casting industry not only need excellent scientific research personnel and engineering technical personnel in process research and development, but also need skilled workers with production technologies and tricks in manufacturing shop. It need proper facilities and a long period of time to cultivate a qualified technician, which is the foundation of steady development of Great Wall Steel Casting with decades of production experience.