On June 30, the small bar production line of the primary rolling mill, part of the Baosteel Steel Pipe and Special Steel Division's Special Steel Plant, successfully completed its hot commissioning as part of the product structure optimization and upgrading project.

With the smooth rolling of high-quality bars and the successful unveiling of finished products, this high-end bar production line, bearing the heavy responsibility of structural upgrading, efficiency breakthroughs, and market breakthroughs, officially commenced hot commissioning. This marks a new stage in the optimization of the Special Steel Plant's product structure, a leapfrog improvement in its core competitiveness in the high-end special steel market, and lays a solid foundation for the company to deepen its presence in the high-quality special steel sector and promote the high-end, intelligent, green, and efficient transformation of its industry.

For a long time, the special steel plant has relied on its mature high-speed wire rod production line to build a complete production, sales, and research system for categories such as bearing steel (Prices), cold heading steel (Prices), and spring steel (Prices), accumulating a good reputation and stable market share within the industry. In line with the development trends of high-end equipment and new energy industries, and to meet the market's upgrading demand for premium special steel, the special steel plant has launched a small steel wire (Prices) project, focusing on product structure optimization to further broaden product boundaries, improve the product matrix, and reshape the production pattern.
The new production line focuses on the high-end bar stock market, forming a complementary and synergistic production layout with the existing lines. This creates a differentiated production system, enabling product category differentiation, flexible order allocation, and efficient production scheduling, significantly improving operational efficiency and delivery responsiveness. The production line adheres to a high-end development orientation, focusing on high value-added and import-substitute products, continuously upgrading its product structure towards high-end and refined products, strictly implementing lean management principles, and forging a path of quality and efficiency improvement.


Intelligent and green upgrades are the core support for the new production line to solidify its competitive foundation. The new production line integrates cutting-edge rolling processes and intelligent equipment, driving a dual improvement in product quality and production efficiency through technological innovation. The performance of core products benchmarks international best practices, effectively helping to reduce costs, increase efficiency, and shorten delivery cycles.
The production line constructs a closed-loop management system covering the entire process, achieving full traceability and ensuring stable and reliable product quality. The complete set of green and low-carbon equipment ensures that the entire production process complies with low-carbon and environmental protection requirements, achieving both maximum cost reduction and efficiency improvement while meeting global green procurement and carbon footprint management standards. This opens up access channels for expanding into overseas high-end markets and lays a solid foundation for domestic substitution in terms of quality.

In the import substitution sector
Leveraging its integrated rolling and heat treatment processes, the company can stably supply core materials for high-end equipment in large quantities, providing solid material support for the self-sufficiency and controllability of China's high-end industrial chain and continuously capturing incremental market share in domestic substitution.

In terms of user services
The small bar mill focuses on multiple high-growth sectors, balancing standardized and customized needs, cultivating deep relationships with leading industry users, and continuously increasing its market share in the high-end market. Relying on the complete industrial chain resources of the business unit, it has built an integrated collaborative service system, forming a differentiated competitive barrier and steadily consolidating its leading advantage in niche sectors.


The Steel Pipe (Prices) Special Steel Division will take the successful hot test as a new starting point, steadily promote process optimization and capacity release, continue to cultivate the high-end special steel (Introduction) product track, continuously amplify the competitive advantages of product structure and technology, and strive to build a leading domestic and world-class high-end special steel bar manufacturing base, injecting new momentum into Baosteel's creation of its third major strategic product of high-quality long products.