Recently, Taigang Stainless Steel Pipe Company successfully developed a batch of large-scale square pipes, becoming the first enterprise in China that can mass-produce square pipes used in the residual heat removal system of the nuclear island for the third-generation nuclear power technology AP1000.
It is understood that the product has a large specification and high requirements, with a safety rating of Nuclear Grade 1, making its production quite difficult, and it was previously mainly dependent on imports. In order to seize the market high ground, Taigang boldly committed to extrusion molding, without any ready-made experience to refer to. After repeated trials and continuous improvement of the process, they finally succeeded in producing more than 4 tons of large-scale square pipes, which have all been delivered recently.
Stainless steel square pipes are currently in the process of industrial structure adjustment. If they encounter a sharp drop in steel market prices due to overcapacity, it might be difficult to fully emphasize and call for unified production cuts or output restrictions across the entire industry. Recent policy awareness or policy indications show that advanced productivity projects and their products owned by some state-owned large and extra-large national key backbone steel enterprises will not easily reduce production during future industrial structure adjustments. This may mean that enterprises or capacities will achieve "survival of the fittest" based on their ability to withstand market pressure, gradually creating an effective competitive environment that truly relies on the market to optimize resource allocation.
Relevant industry organizations may not concentrate on "requiring" the entire industry to implement unified "production cuts" as they did in the past. Instead, they may possibly take this opportunity to strive to create a true market "survival of the fittest" environment to balance supply and demand as well as capacity.
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