Recently, Taigang Stainless Steel Pipe Company successfully developed a batch of large-size square pipes, becoming the first company in China capable of mass-producing square pipes used in the residual heat removal system of the third-generation nuclear power technology AP1000.
According to reports, this product has large specifications and high requirements, with a safety level of Nuclear Level One. The manufacturing process is relatively difficult, and it was mainly dependent on imports before. In order to seize the market high ground, Taigang boldly committed to extrusion molding. Without any existing experience to refer to, after repeated experiments and continuous improvement of the process, they finally successfully produced more than 4 tons of large-sized square pipes, which have been delivered in full 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 a unified production cut or limit across the entire industry. Recent policy awareness or policy indications show that advanced productivity projects and their products from some state-owned large and super-large key national 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 "require" the entire industry to implement a unified "production cut" as they did in the past. Instead, they may take this opportunity to create a true market "survival of the fittest" environment to balance supply and demand as well as capacity.