Chongqing- The Sichuan and Chongqing regions in southwestern China plan to cultivate a group of leading enterprises with global influence, carry out further cooperation in an all-around way, and build an aluminum industry cluster with international competitiveness.
The Sichuan and Chongqing regions aim to achieve an output value of the aluminum industry of 400 billion yuan (about USD 58.96 billion) by 2025, building a solid high-end aluminum material manufacturing base in China.
As a leading domestic aluminum processing enterprise, Southwest Aluminum Co., LTD. saw potential opportunities for this.
In 2022, Southwest Aluminum (Group) Co., LTD. witnessed the explosive growth of new energy vehicles and deepened into the automotive panel market. The company made a breakthrough in the automotive light-weighting industry, with the sales volume of automotive panels increasing by 43.5% year-over-year.
A Southwest Aluminum(Group) Co., LTD. employee is transferring finished aluminum alloy thick plates. (Photo/ Southwest Aluminum (Group) Co., LTD. )
The company provides foreign customers with automotive aluminum materials such as Auto-bodies, bumpers, wheel hubs, automotive battery case materials, busbars, etc.
“Southwest Aluminum has been engaged in the import and export business for nearly 30 years,” said Li Yong, vice president of Chinalco Advanced Manufacturing, party committee secretary, and chairman of Southwest Aluminum.
Li Yong, vice president of Chinalco Advanced Manufacturing, the secretary of the party committee, and chairman of Southwest Aluminum (Group) Co., LTD. (Photo/ Southwest Aluminum (Group) Co., LTD.)
Li continued that apart from exporting some traditional aluminum materials, it mainly promotes global green and low-carbon development by “replacing steel with aluminum, replacing wood with aluminum, and replacing copper with aluminum.”
In terms of aerospace, Southwest Aluminum has passed the certification of qualified suppliers such as The Boeing Company, Airbus, Safran, Antonov Company, and Elal Israel Airlines at the earliest in the country and reached the supply in batch.
Regarding ships, the company’s comprehensive ship certification system has successfully obtained the recognition and certificates of ship products from the United States, France, Norway, the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, and China classification societies. The company has steadily supplied tens of thousands of tons of ships to well-known overseas shipyards.
“The construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle will boost the rapid development of new energy vehicles and other industries,” Li added.
Through strengthening the construction of the platform, especially on the supply and demand of the automobile industry chain and the key products industry chain of electronic information in the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle.
Both places will add columns for automobiles, new energy batteries, and electronic aluminum products, encouraging automobile and electronic complete machine enterprises to prioritize purchasing aluminum products from both places.
(Zhang Zhiying, as an intern, also contributed to this report.)