Baosteel wins China national award
Chinese based Baosteel has been recognised for a project which looked at the research, development and application of two-piece steel can tinplate.
Baoshan Iron and Steel and Baosteel Metal won the Second Grade of National Science and Technology Progress Award for the project which highlighted energy savings, environmental friendliness and low cost.
The National Science and Technology Progress Award is the highest award in the national science and technology field, and consists of five award categories. The awards are granted to Chinese citizens and organisations.
Chinese can maker Baosteel reports that the project of research and development and application of two-piece steel can tinplate was started in 1998 through self-R&D, and took 10 years to complete. The project eventually succeeded in several key technical breakthroughs such as clean steel smelting technology with low O2, low N2 and low inclusions, two-piece steel can making and forming technology.
Baosteel developed a complete set of DI material production and two-piece steel can making technology which is unique within the country and filled up the domestic blank in this field. Through continuous innovation, Baosteel DI material thickness has been reduced up to 0.225mm with single can weight reduced up to 22.5g.
Since Baosteel developed the first two-piece steel can in the country, it has established four two-piece steel can production lines in Shanghai, Sichuan, Guangdong, Hebei etc, and has become one of the major suppliers to renowned brands like Coca Cola and Pepsi. In 2011, the quantity of the two-piece steel cans made by Baosteel reached 2.82 billion, which makes up around 25% of the two-piece can market share in the country.
By the end of 2011, Baosteel had produced a total of 480,000 tons of DI materials and achieved total sales of 14.05 billion steel two-piece cans.
