In March, Fangda Carbon's export sales increased by 19.23% month-on-month, and the ultra-large electrode increased by 11% in March compared with February......
In the face of unfavorable factors such as the low-level weak operation of the carbon industry and the increase in market volatility, Fangda Carbon, as the world's leading carbon enterprise, has continuously strengthened the construction of corporate integrity, adhered to the operation in accordance with the law and integrity, in-depth research and judgment of the market situation, and gave full play to the scientific and technological innovation ability, brand influence and market competitive advantage, showing the company's full development resilience.
Cultivate new quality productivity and forge core competitiveness
Speeding up the formation of new quality productive forces is an inevitable choice for cultivating and developing new kinetic energy and new advantages. In March, Fangda Carbon held a forum on the development of new quality and new domain, marking a solid step for Fangda Carbon to develop in the direction of new quality productivity.
The forum invited experts, professors and scholars from Central South University, Tsinghua University, Hunan University, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University and other universities and industries. At the forum, experts and scholars shared the latest technological achievements in the field of new carbon materials, as well as their understanding and thinking on the development of new quality productivity. They made special reports on the industry application direction and development prospects in the fields of carbon/carbon composite materials, special graphite, anode materials, graphene, and carbon materials for nuclear power. These reports have brought profound enlightenment and thinking to the researchers of Fangda Carbon and various enterprises in the carbon sector.
In the exchange session of the forum, the heads of various enterprises in the carbon sector had in-depth discussions and exchanges with the participating experts on the development trend and future vision of the carbon industry at this stage, which provided a theoretical basis for the development of Fangda Carbon's new quality and new domain industry.
For enterprises, the starting point for cultivating new quality productivity is to take innovation as the driving force, create new models, integrate new technologies, and give birth to new business formats. Fangda Carbon will actively implement the development strategy of new quality productivity, focus on the positioning of production-oriented and scientific and technological innovation-oriented enterprises, deeply excavate and cultivate new quality productivity, forge core competitiveness, and cultivate and develop new kinetic energy and new advantages.
Promote victory with advantages and keep an eye on the market to expand the territory
In March, Fangda Carbon's export sales increased by 19.23% month-on-month, of which the ultra-large electrode increased by 11% compared with February. This achievement not only reflects the strong international competitiveness of the company's products, but also establishes the market confidence that China's carbon industry is picking up.
The company takes the construction of integrity as an important starting point to enhance the core competitiveness of the enterprise, participates in market competition in accordance with laws and regulations, and successfully opens up iron and steel enterprises in Canada, France, Egypt, India and other countries by continuously strengthening fine management, optimizing product structure, strengthening brand building, and enhancing the market competitiveness of products, so that Fangda Carbon's influence in the international market is increasing day by day, and the export business has been significantly improved.
In the face of new changes in the market, the company seeks the market one step ahead of others, seizes the opportunity one step ahead of others, and grabs the sales volume by winning the others, and actively explores the sales field of new products by giving full play to the operational advantages of the "large corps", seeking breakthroughs in the predicament and seeking opportunities in the crisis, especially in large-scale electrodes and block products. At the same time, we should do a good job in the research and development and promotion of new materials such as carbon/carbon composite materials, nuclear graphite, graphene and other innovative work, give full play to the overall role of the carbon sector, and achieve better and faster development.
Promote the steady growth of business performance with refined management
Meticulousness is the attitude, fineness is the process, and the quality is the result. In the first quarter, in the face of severe market challenges, Fangda Carbon actively responded, continued to promote refined management, and started a tough battle to promote efficiency and development through management.
The party committee of the company launched the "fine management discussion and promotion activities" to create a strong atmosphere of attention to details, process and results in the whole company, and the concept of details determining success or failure and the thinking of fine management run through the whole process of production and operation, which is reflected in the thoughts and actions of the majority of cadres and employees. Through the refinement of the management process, the standardization of production operations, the systematization of internal control and the efficiency of coordination and cooperation, the management objectives of "precision, accuracy, detail and practicality" will be finally realized, enterprise management will be improved and strengthened, and business performance will be enhanced and promoted.
How to make production organization more efficient and collaborative, how to steadily improve technology research and development capabilities and product quality, how to further expand product sales and improve efficiency contribution, and how to further standardize the management of equipment and technological transformation projects?...... Fangda Carbon adheres to the problem-oriented, focuses on the problem, targets the treatment, and digs the potential inward through in-depth promotion of refined management, so as to maximize the efficiency of personnel and equipment.
Managers at all levels of the company go deep into the team to guide the situation of employees, clarify the situation, clarify tasks and responsibilities, and unify employees' thoughts into the company's production and operation decision-making and deployment. The implementation of this series of measures not only improves production efficiency and market competitiveness, but also fully demonstrates the achievements of Fangda Carbon's fine management, laying a solid foundation for the development of the enterprise.
Scientific and technological innovation will make further efforts to cultivate industry-leading advantages
The 600MW demonstration fast reactor project is a milestone in the development of the mainland in the field of nuclear energy, which is not only a key node in the mainland's three-step development strategy of "thermal reactor-fast reactor-fusion reactor", but also has far-reaching strategic significance. Boron-shielded graphite plays a crucial role in this project. As a special kind of nuclear-grade graphite, boron-containing shielding graphite is a key core shielding material for fast reactors. At present, the technology of adding boron carbide to graphite products in China is blank.
A few days ago, the Gansu Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, the Provincial Department of Science and Technology, and the Provincial Department of Finance jointly issued the document "Boron-containing Graphite Products for Fangda Carbon Fast Reactor", which was awarded the third prize of Gansu Provincial Industrial Excellent New Product in 2023.
After more than 10 years of technical research, Fangda Carbon has built a demonstration production line of boron-containing graphite, and successfully developed and large-scale production of boron-containing shielded graphite for 1# and 2# reactors of the 600MW demonstration fast reactor project. In June 2021, the boron-containing graphite produced by Fangda Carbon reached the domestic advanced level after the review and approval of the expert group organized by the Gansu Provincial Commission of Industry and Information Technology, and the new product was registered for the record;In December 2021, the boron-containing shielded graphite produced by Fangda Carbon was selected into the "Recommended Catalogue of High-tech Private Enterprises and Products", and in November 2023, the "Boron-containing Graphite for Fast Neutron Reactor" developed by Fangda Carbon won the "Excellent Product Award" of the 25th China International High-tech Achievement Fair.
High-tech products need to be backed by quality. In order to consolidate quality management, Fangda Carbon organized a carbon sector quality work meeting in March, which was attended by the heads of Fangda Carbon and its subsidiaries, and the heads of technical quality management. We focused on quality for in-depth exchanges and discussions, checked the pulse of quality, brainstormed, and promoted the quality management of the carbon sector to a new level.
In the first quarter, Fangda Carbon continued to improve its technology research and development system, and continuously improved its scientific research capabilities through "going out and inviting in". Strengthen the transformation and application of R&D achievements, focus on new materials, new energy, new technologies, and new business formats, and strive to build a number of new growth engines, and seize the commanding heights of development. It is understood that in the first quarter, the company continued to increase scientific and technological innovation, continuously injected the driving force for the development of the enterprise, and achieved fruitful results in technology research and development: 1 technology of the company was authorized by the national invention patent, and 5 technologies were authorized by the national utility model patent. The company's magnesium electrolytic graphite anode products with independent intellectual property rights were exported for the first time, the graphitized cathode for electrolytic aluminum was upgraded, and the 600KVA graphitized cathode for electrolytic aluminum tailored for a domestic customer was successfully rolled off the production line, becoming a new profit growth point for the company.
Make persistent efforts to reach new heights and strive to build a world-class carbon enterprise
As a subsidiary of Fangda Carbon, the development trend of Chengdu Carbon in the first quarter is particularly eye-catching. Under the influence of many unfavorable factors such as market downturn, reduced demand, and falling prices, all cadres and employees of Chengdu Carbon have worked together to continue to transform scientific and technological innovation capabilities into new quality productivity, and resolutely take the road of high-quality development.
In the first quarter, the comprehensive yield of carbon materials in Chengdu was completed beyond the plan, with a completion rate of more than 100%; the nuclear graphite project was smoothly promoted, and the self-developed "fourth-generation nuclear-grade graphite for high-temperature gas-cooled reactors" successfully passed the irradiation test with a result that exceeded the design requirements of graphite materials for the core support structure; the Ministry of Ecology and Environment publicized the approval of the civil nuclear safety equipment license applied by the company; the company successfully passed the supervision and audit of the integration of industrialization and industrialization management system, and passed the certification of high-tech enterprises again; The company participated in the annual meeting of the National Standardization Technical Committee of related industries, presided over and participated in the development of 7 industry standards and 4 group standards, and contributed to the healthy and high-quality development of the carbon industry in mainland China.
At present, with Fangda Carbon as the core, the carbon sector has achieved the world's largest grand goal in the production scale of carbon products, has the world's largest carbon enterprise in terms of monomer output, and has become the world's largest graphite thermal field supplier of straight-pull monocrystalline silicon photovoltaic enterprises, the world's top three isostatic graphite suppliers, and the largest domestic IC-grade semiconductor crystal pulling supplier.
Seek development in innovation and make new contributions to the revitalization of carbon national industry
Recently, Qin Song, Secretary of the Party Branch of China Carbon Industry Association, and Sun Qing, Honorary Vice President of China Carbon Industry Association, visited Fangda Carbon for investigation, fully affirmed the development achievements of Fangda Carbon as a leading enterprise in the global carbon industry, and expected the company to survive in change, seek development in innovation, and make new contributions to the revitalization of China's carbon national industry.
Looking forward to the future, Ma Zhuo, vice president of Liaoning Fangda Group and chairman of Fangda Carbon, said that he will deeply practice the corporate culture of "party building as the soul", closely follow the national policy guidance, carry the national "Belt and Road" initiative express, seize the "double carbon" development opportunity, abide by the business philosophy of "integrity first, people-oriented", improve the ability and level of resource creation value, continue to maintain and give full play to the competitive advantages of leading equipment, leading technology, leading talents, leading management and leading corporate culture, and continuously promote graphite electrodes, The high-quality development of carbon bricks, vigorously develop new carbon materials such as isostatic graphite and graphene, show great achievements in the transformation and upgrading of the iron and steel industry, reflect the new mission in energy conservation and consumption reduction in non-ferrous industries such as electrolytic aluminum, make new contributions to the accelerated development of new energy industries such as nuclear power, and strive to become a practitioner and vanguard of Chinese-style modernization. (Luo Yonggang, Liu Ziqi)