Chinese heating furnace, which one!

The Past and Present Life of WBC in China's Metallurgical Furnace Industry

The steel industry in New China has gone through a transformation path from scratch, from low-end products to high-quality engineering, from relying on foreign technology to independent development and application, from foolish and crude open production to intelligent and green production. The metallurgical industry furnace, as an important process equipment in the steel rolling process, has also experienced the same ups and downs as the steel industry.

Nowadays, there are numerous service providers active in the Chinese metallurgical industry furnace market, including engineering companies restructured by state-owned design institutes, private manufacturing plants, and universities that combine industry, academia, and research. However, industrial furnace engineering companies that occupy the market and lead the industry's development have always been occupied by three companies restructured by state-owned design institutes, namely:

Located in Wuhan, Jiangcheng (W), Wuhan Institute (currently MCC South) is a thermal engineering company that is inclusive and unique every day;

Located in the imperial capital of Beijing (B), with a calm and relaxed demeanor, the Phoenix Furnace under the Beijing Courtyard (currently MCC Jingcheng), a national window;

Located in the mountainous city of Chongqing (C), CCID, a subsidiary of Chongqing Institute (currently MCC CCID), is tenacious and brave, traveling thousands of miles to reach the vast area.

Jianghu people call it WBC, also known as "I'm good"! The three companies firmly occupy the top three positions in the current metallurgical industry furnace market in China. The three companies are among the top in China in terms of technology accumulation, management system, R&D strength, and talent team.

Wuhan Thermal Engineering Company:

Since the development of Wuhan Institute Building Furnace Technology in 1955, Wuhan Thermal Power Company has continuously adjusted its main business according to market development, from focusing on industrial furnaces to developing into three major business segments of "thermal products+engineering technology+intelligent services" to adapt to the trough period of the steel industry. Wuhan Thermal Power Company always adheres to state-owned sole proprietorship and technological innovation. Although sometimes appearing weak in market competition, independent innovation has always been the goal of Wuhan Thermal Power Company.

Wuhan Thermal Power Company's traditional advantage in cold rolling engineering continues to maintain its leading position domestically and internationally. In recent years, Wuhan Thermal Power Company has made frequent efforts in the hot rolling field, and has successively won heat treatment furnace projects such as Xianggang 3 # heat treatment line and Liangang 4 # transverse cutting heat treatment line in the heat treatment furnace market; In the heating furnace market, Wuhan Thermal Power Company's heating furnace business is increasing at a rate of 100% annually.

The core technology of Wuhan Thermal Engineering Company is not limited to thermal engineering technology, but also extends to thermal products and intelligent services. Thermal products rely on national combustion and heat treatment laboratories and their own thermal manufacturing bases to provide full manufacturing cycle services for development, design, and manufacturing. Intelligent services are centered around thermal mathematical models, adding various automatic functions to the furnace and improving its intelligent operation level.

Beijing Phoenix Furnace:

In order to comply with market development, Beijing Phoenix Furnace has become a state-owned holding company. In the context of the overall weakness of the domestic steel industry, introducing foreign investment is not only technology introduction, but also risk transfer. At the same time, the introduction of technology has also allowed Beijing Phoenix Furnace to make a breakthrough in the field of cold rolling. But in the face of the wave of Chinese manufacturing, the introduction of technology has never been able to take permanent root. The story of Huawei is also an example of how China cannot always rely on foreign technology. Independent development, design, and manufacturing are the direction for Chinese engineering companies to move forward.

Speaking of Beijing Phoenix Furnace's main business, it still mainly focuses on hot rolling heating furnaces and heat treatment furnaces. We have completed the heat treatment furnace projects of Wuyang and Nangang, as well as the heating furnace projects of Taiyuan and Masteel. As early as 2012, Beijing Phoenix Furnace launched the "Heating Furnace Doctor" service to conduct testing and diagnosis for heating furnaces. In recent years, Phoenix Furnace has been implementing projects in the heating furnace market at a "super low price" with its unique management and operation model. The unique management and operation model has also maintained a good reputation for Phoenix Furnace in the heating furnace market.

Chongqing Thermal and Environmental Protection:

Like Wuhan Thermal Power, Chongqing Thermal Power Environmental Protection has also extended and expanded its focus from industrial furnaces to the outside. But the difference is that Chongqing's thermal and environmental protection industry is not integrated upstream and downstream in the thermal industry ecological chain, but has expanded from the market field. At present, Chongqing Thermal and Environmental Protection not only focuses on metallurgical industrial furnaces, but also includes thermal power plants and environmentally friendly rotary bottom furnaces. The transfer of target markets has also led to a shift in Chongqing's thermal and environmental protection technology and talent reserves.

In the field of industrial furnaces, Chongqing Thermal Environmental Protection mainly focuses on heating furnaces, heat treatment furnaces, and cold rolled carbon steel annealing furnaces. The cold rolling annealing furnace has established a joint venture with foreign companies, taking foreign technology as its technological advantage. We have undertaken the cold rolling annealing furnace project of private enterprises such as Shandong Shengyang and Yehui.

Since 2018, Chongqing Thermal Environmental Protection has continuously made efforts in supporting thermal products and intelligence for metallurgical industrial furnaces. Especially under the overall layout of Saidi Group's intelligent centralized control business, with blast furnace centralized control as the entry point, Zebei's various subsidiaries' businesses. However, due to the lack of independent manufacturing bases for thermal products, their strength in controlling the manufacturing process is slightly weak.

Throughout WBC, each has its own strengths, but the commonality is that they all belong to MCC of MCC Group. Backed by the big tree of MCC Group, WBC has always had a background in state-owned enterprises as an endorsement in market competition. Compared with private enterprises in the industry, universities, industry and research institutions, and other companies, WBC has achieved standardized operation in terms of management system, quality control, and business openness. The implemented projects have also received unanimous recognition from customers.

The market is surging forward, and various industrial furnace companies have also gone through waves of sand washing. Some companies are gradually disappearing, some are shifting positions, and some are still strong. WBC has witnessed the rise and fall of China's metallurgical industrial furnaces and also led the development direction of the industrial furnace market.