A wire.
Light as a feather, as thin as a hair, as soft as a silk worm.
But can withstand the test of 1000 ℃ high temperature!
Gitane’s “Silkworm Steel”.
Is not just a fine art.
It’s an agent of the manufacturing industry.
State Grid high-voltage power transmission cable core materials,
City clean heating energy storage materials,
Solar photovoltaic power generation wafer heat treatment materials,
Chip wafer heat treatment materials.
Since its establishment in 1956
From a small factory in Haidian
to a global leader in the field of electric heating alloys.
Shougang Gitane’s development history
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Electrothermal alloys–
A factory, a road, a spirit of convergence
Electrothermal Alloys.
Howwould a company that produces it define it?
A product or a brand?
For Shougang Gitane
Electrothermal alloy is more like a kind of hot brand
Born from it, live because of it.

2001.
Tao Ke, who majored in materials
joined Beijing Shougang Steel Wire Factory as soon as he graduated and
became a technician in the factory.
More than 20 years later
Tao Ke, who has become the deputy general manager of Shougang Gitane
Recalling those days.
Still vivid in his memory.
Losses, “to yellow”, is the true picture of the enterprise at that time.
was the true picture of the enterprise at that time.
The toughest time.
The hardest time was when we didn’t pay wages for 3 months.
The worried old men in the factory, facing the new college students.
Turned out the enterprise decades accumulated,
Dusty materials accumulated by the enterprise over the decades.
They taught them in a heartfelt manner.
To utilize their intelligence.
To doa good job of the enterprise’s products.
From these materials
they felt the charm of this enterprise for the first time.
They also had a vision and confidence in the future of the enterprise

1926.
The world’s first patent for an iron-chromium-aluminum alloy
arises in Sweden.
1935-1945.
Sweden, the Soviet Union, the United States and Japan
successively realized the industrialization of ferrochromium-aluminum electric
heating alloy.
1960.
the Soviet Union imposed an economic blockade on China and
tearing up contracts, cutting off technical assistance, and withdrawing experts
that
brought great challenges to our country’s nascent economy.
In the difficult period of national economic construction.
Haidian Electric Wire Factory’s hundreds of employees
Carried forward the spirit of hard work and self-reliance.
Starting from nothing.
Overcoming the difficulties together with metallurgical experts, they
Successfully test-produced the iron chrome-aluminum electric heating alloy
Iron-chromium-aluminum electric heating alloy, which was discontinued by the
Soviet Union at that time.
Filling the blank of China’s metallurgical industry production.
After that, the factory was formally reorganized as Beijing Steel Wire Factory.
(the predecessor of Beijing Shougang Steel Wire Factory, in 2008 the enterprise
restructuring
(the predecessor of Beijing Shougang Steel Wire Factory, which was
restructured in 2008 and renamed Beijing Shougang Gitane New Materials Co.)
Specializing in the production of electric wire, resistance wire
welding rod steel and other special alloy steel industrial raw materials

In those days.
In order to make sure that nothing goes wrong.
The factory had a strong research and development team.
Even each workshop had a technical group
And there were process supervisors for each process position.
Against this background
In the 10 years from 1970 to 1980 alone
they achieved more than 200 scientific research results
For China’s chemical industry, transportation, military
instrumentation and other infrastructures in China.
Became the metallurgical industry front
A banner of hard work and vigor in the metallurgical industry

There used to be a dirt road in front of Beijing Steel Wire Factory.
Every rainy season, the road is muddy.
In order to production and transportation and staff travel convenience.
Also in order to recognize the contributions made by the factory.
In 1965
Under the cordial care of Chairman Zhu De.
Beijing Municipal Government built a road from Ganjiakou to the entrance of
the factory
An asphalt road was built from Ganjiakou to the entrance of the factory.
Zengguang Road starts from Sanlihe Road in the east and
West to West Third Ring North Road, 2000 meters long.
After the completion of the construction, Mr. Zhu De, the chairman of the
Chairman Zhu De called the road
“Zengguang Road” for the glory of the country.
and “Enhancing the glory of the country” became the badge of honor of the
enterprise.
and in the following decades
and in the following decades, it has become the cultural heritage of the
enterprise

constrained by its regional location.
In 2000
Beijing Shougang Steel Wire Factory moved from Haidian Zengguang Road
to Fusheng Road, Changping.
In the years before and after the relocation
the factory suffered losses for several years.
Some old people in the factory blamed the factory’s losses on this.
But in the eyes of the new generation of Gitane people, the
The real problem they faced at that time was
The enterprise had not kept pace with the progress of the times

In the 1970s.
advocating great socialist collaboration.
Steel wire factory sent many engineers to the south to help build factories.
The new factory and the steel wire factory have
the same technology and the same products.
After the reform and opening up
The rapid development of the market economy in the south
led to a number of private enterprises, the
Steel Wire Factory’s shortcomings were immediately exposed.
At that time, the steel wire factory still holds the planned economy way of
thinking.
As long as the country’s lack of products this factory do.
Even made mechanical watch winding steel.
But the market demand for these products are not big.
By the 1990s.
Steel Wire Factory has become a
small-scale multi-species production enterprise.
And many of the factory’s products can not compete with the southern
enterprises.
For a while, the steel wire factory how to develop
Became a problem for them

2002.
Shougang Gitane’s customer representative
While visiting customers in the south, it was found that
electric heating wires, resistance wires and other products mainly used in
electric heating equipment
were very popular in the household market.
At that time, some cities in the south
had just popularized small coffee pots for home use, which
The electric heating materials put forward a new demand- the
to a more fine-grained development.
More importantly, the
new demand brought about technological development and a new direction
for product upgrading,
new direction of product upgrading.
Therefore
change the business structure of small-scale and multi-species
Focus on the field of electric heating alloy
At the same time closely follow the market to strengthen research and
development
Became the steel wire factory try to answer
The development of the positioning of the problem of a new choice.

The first thing they did.
It was to benchmark themselves against the industry’s leading company
a Swedish company.
For Shougang Gitane.
In order to have development.
Wemust cultivate the future of the “seed” products- the
High-performance electric heating alloy.
After years of dedicated research and development
In 2017.
Shougang Gitane independently designed
high-performance electric heating alloy samples
into the Shanghai market for experimentation.
And the following two years
is the time for customers to test on the furnace.
It is also a big test for the future of Shougang Gitane.
In those two years.
They called to inquire about the experimental results in a month.
Through the efforts of both sides.
Two years later.
Customers reflect the quality of their products,
performance are the same as the international industry leader’s
and the same kind of material of the international leading company in the
industry.
Finally, it can be marketed and promoted

Cultural and Creative Products
Silk steel
Today.
Shougang Gitane high-performance electric heating alloy’s
high-end market share has ranked
second in the world and first in China.
China’s electric heating alloy material industry has also formed
With Shougang Gitane as the leader and
more than 30 private enterprises in Jiangsu and Shanghai areas
as the main suppliers of the pattern

“Spark”and the people…
The “small giant” grows into a giant’s expectations
With the development and growth of China’s equipment manufacturing
industry
The current national standards
Can be used in the temperature environment of 1300 degrees Celsius and
above
Lack of high-quality electric heating alloy
China mainly relies on Swedish imports.
In 2017.
Shougang Gitane“Spark”one of the series of products
SGHYZ high-performance iron-chromium-aluminum alloy successfully
developed and
Successful industrialization in 2020.
This product can serve for a long time in
1400 degrees Celsius high temperature environment.
There are only a few companies in the world that can produce it

High-technology enterprises.
Cannot be “accounted for” in terms of resources.
The value comes from the scarcity of technology.
The cost of raw materials for the production of SGHYZ high-performance
ferrochromium-aluminum alloy is not high.
The cost of raw materials for producing SGHYZ high-performance
iron-chromium-aluminum alloy is not high.
But before Shougang Gitane’s successful research and development of
imported products of the same type
In China, the price of the same type of imported product reached
560,000 yuan per ton.
After the successful development of Shougang Gitane
the price of this imported product fell off a cliff, the
The highest price of 280,000 yuan per ton.
However, for the fledgling
China’s high-performance electric heating materials industry
This “50% off” price reduction.
Is undoubtedly a huge pressure.
Onthe one hand, the
High value-added attracted some domestic special steel enterprises
Strong intervention in the iron chrome aluminum alloy market;
Onthe other hand
Shougang Gitane’s own development there is a “short board”- the
Although the restructuring has been to maintain growth
However, it still faces the problem of “not growing fast and not growing big”.

The sudden shift in the competitive landscape that
made Shougang Gitane realize that
competition among enterprises does not only come from the
the scarcity of technology, but
It lies more in the comprehensive ability.
In 2019.
In the face of fierce market competition
Shougang Gitane put forward the
“Employee first, customer first,
quality first, and add glory to the country” development concept.
began to deepen the reform, optimize the product structure and
Enhance the comprehensive competitiveness of the enterprise.

In addition to deepening its own reforms, the
Shougang Gitane through
Combination of “industry-university-research” and “production-industry”
cooperation.
Cooperating with colleges and universities to cultivate their own talents.
Cooperating with research institutes to utilize R&D resources.
With relatively low cost, relatively short time
Solve the pain point problems in the process of process upgrading.
In addition to decades of practice accumulated
Deep understanding of the characteristics of electric heating alloy materials.
Shougang Gitane developed high-performance electric heating alloy products.
With a selling price of 150,000 yuan per ton
Stood firm in the price competition.
Even let the international competitors feel the pressure

Since 2020.
Shougang Gitane’s operating results showed a trend of rising against the trend.
Looking at the new pattern of global industry development, the
Shougang Gitane Party Committee combined
Carbon peak, carbon neutral era background.
The total demand for electric heating materials will continue to shrink, and the
demand for materials related to the clean energy industry will appear.
clean energy industry related material demand will grow”.
The basic judgment.
Determined to replace the imported high-performance electric heating alloy
technology development and industrialization
and industrialization of high-performance electric heating alloy technology
development and industrialization of the strategic goal.
After more than two years of efforts
Their products serve the photovoltaic
chip, energy storage and other emerging fields.
The quality of enterprise development is also rising

Currently.
In the field of high-performance electric heating materials
ShougangGitane“Spark”is the only domestic brand that can “wrestle” with
the international leading brands.
International leading brand “arm wrestling” brand.
From a steel wire to a brand
Shougang Gitane“silk steel” is not only a breakthrough in technology
but also the inheritance of the spirit
Their story
is the best interpretation of the concept of “adding glory to the country”.
From a “small giant” to a real giant.
Shougang Gitane may still have a hard road to travel.
But this does not affect their confidence and ambition
According to the planning of Shougang Gitane
By July of this year, their output value will realize a
by July of this year, their output value will realize a leapfrog growth.
Strive to be listed by the end of 2025
Become a strong national team of the world’s top in the field of R&D and
production of electric heating alloys
a strong national team in the field of R&D and production of electrothermal
alloys.
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