Recently, the "China Quality Innovation and Quality Improvement Achievements Presentation and Exchange Activity" hosted by the magazine China Quality was successfully held in Zhengzhou. The achievement titled "Technological Innovation and Application of High-strength and Ultra-high Cleanliness Cold-heading Steel for New Energy Vehicles" demonstrated by the representative of Xingtai Steel Co., Ltd. (Xingtai Steel) was honored with the "Demonstration Level" award of the 2024 China Quality Innovation Achievements.
The purpose of this event is to share advanced cases of achievements in quality innovation, Six Sigma, reliability, digital management, etc., and to draw on each other's successful experiences to achieve the effect of common growth. More than 300 achievements from various industries such as automobiles, electricity, telecommunications, tobacco, and steel from all over the country participated in this event.
During the exchange activity, the representative of Xingtai Steel Co., Ltd. (Xingtai Steel) fully demonstrated the novelty, effectiveness and exemplary advantages of the achievement of "Technological Innovation and Application of High-strength and Ultra-high Cleanliness Cold-heading Steel for New Energy Vehicles", as well as the enterprise's innovative strength in the field of quality management, and received high praise from the expert judges present. With the advantages such as complete materials, rigorous logic, prominent highlights, a clear innovation path, appropriate application of tools and methods, remarkable achievements, and full consideration of customer needs, this achievement finally stood out among numerous achievements and won the highest-level "Demonstration Level" honor of this event.
There is a large demand for high-strength steel for fasteners in the future market of new energy vehicles. Against the backdrop of the dual-carbon goals, green environmental protection, and energy conservation and emission reduction, the advantages of new energy vehicles are becoming more and more obvious, and their rapid development has become inevitable. The technological innovation project mainly researched by Xingtai Steel Co., Ltd. (Xingtai Steel) has successfully developed cold-heading steel for high-strength and ultra-high cleanliness parts used in new energy vehicles, solving the current problems such as low cleanliness, poor structural uniformity, and high cold-heading cracking rate of high-strength steel for fasteners in domestic automobiles, and achieving the localization of imported materials. The successful research and development and mass application of the product have greatly enhanced the popularity and brand influence of Xingtai Steel's products in the automotive field, and are conducive to the healthy and sustainable development of the domestic new energy vehicle parts industry.