小型焊管的出路在于技术创新

2002年上半年全国焊管产量上升,而焊管价格指数却回落,主要是北方“大路货”小焊管大举南下,形成“价格大战的新一轮怪圈”,中小焊管结构调整的方向在于生产专用管,承德钢铁集团有限公司采用“高频焊接一炉式退火－张力减轻”工艺生产中低压锅炉焊管,达到国外同类标准,超过国内同类无缝管的质量水平,几年来的生产,使用实践说明,焊管企业的生命线在于告别“初级阶段”,进行技术创新。

Technical innovation: a survival way for small-gauge welded tube producers

In the first half of 2002, the national output of welded tube was increased, but its price index went down appreciably, mainly due to the large amount of small-gauge welded tubes produced in northern China being sold to the South at a relatively low price, thus launching a new price-cutting race. The production structure adjustment of small- and medium-gauge welded tubes should therefore focus on producing speciality tubes. The welded tubes for medium- and low-pressure boilers produced by Chengde Iron & steel Group Co. Ltd. utilizing the composite procedure of "induction welding + furnace annealing + diameter reduction by stretching" have reached the international standards for the same kind of welded tubes, while being superior to the domestic seamless tubes for the same purpose. The production and application practice of the past years show that the survival way for a welded tube producer in the market economy is to put emphasis on technical innovations, while leaving behind the "preliminary stage of production