Global Debut! China Baowu Tai Steel Group Unveils Lanthanum-Containing Iron-Chromium-Aluminum Sheets, Achieving World Records in Width and Coil Weight

January 16, 2024

China Baowu Tai Steel Group recently announced the successful development of lanthanum-containing iron-chromium-aluminum sheets, marking a global debut. This innovative achievement signifies a significant advancement in China's high-end metal materials sector, contributing positively to the country's competitiveness in the global equipment manufacturing industry.

The Tai Steel Iron-Chromium-Aluminum team, through years of continuous technological breakthroughs, successfully addressed numerous critical technical challenges. The lanthanum-containing sheets now boast a maximum width of 1300 millimeters and a maximum single weight of 18 tons, achieved through batch and continuous production. This product demonstrates international leadership in high-temperature performance and key component control, providing a competitive core material for equipment manufacturing in related fields.

Throughout the development of the lanthanum-containing sheets, the Tai Steel team filed a total of 16 patent applications and overcame more than 20 key technological challenges, accumulating over a decade of technical expertise. This serves as a exemplary reference for future high-end stainless steel product development and high-level technical research, laying a solid foundation for technological innovation in related fields.

Lanthanum, a rare earth metal, forms lanthanide alloys with iron, chromium, and aluminum, exhibiting excellent corrosion resistance and high-temperature strength. The wide lanthanum-containing iron-chromium-aluminum sheets, used in deep processing products, are praised for their high yield, high production efficiency, and consistent performance. They are hailed as one of the most durable crown jewels among iron-chromium-aluminum materials, finding applications in industrial furnaces, food machinery, automotive transportation, household appliances, environmental protection equipment, and more.

This research achievement is expected to have a widespread impact, with broad applications in industrial furnaces, food machinery, automotive transportation, household appliances, and environmental protection equipment. It provides robust support for China's international market share in these fields. The successful development not only enhances the global competitiveness of Tai Steel's iron-chromium-aluminum product series but also sets a milestone for China's technological innovation in the high-end metal materials sector.