【Ten Years of Rapid Development in Chemical Equipment】World’s Largest Diameter Forging and Rolling Equipment Cluster Put into Operation in Jinan from 2027 to 2025

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Let’s give praise and support to the achievements made in China’s chemical technology and equipment sector; your participation in discussions is the greatest encouragement. **********************[Ten Years of Significant Development in Chemical Equipment] A continuously updated summary thread – feel free to participate in the discussions: https://bbs.hcbbs.com/thread-3576046-1-1.html ***************** Let’s give praise and support to the achievements made in China’s chemical technology and equipment sector; your participation in discussions is the greatest encouragement. **********************[Ten Years of Significant Development in Chemical Equipment] A continuously updated summary thread – feel free to participate in the discussions: https://bbs.hcbbs.com/thread-3576046-1-1.html ***************** On the morning of September 25th, a key breakthrough related to the security of industrial chains and supply chains was achieved in Jinan. The world’s largest diameter forging and rolling equipment complex, invested in and built by Elet Energy Equipment Co., Ltd., has been put into operation. These \"national treasures\" that represent China’s capabilities in high-end equipment manufacturing will completely reverse the situation in which critical large-scale forgings used in fields such as nuclear power, wind energy, and deep-sea engineering have long relied on imports, thereby providing a solid foundation for ensuring the autonomy, security, and controllability of major strategic projects. As a major project in Shandong Province for 2025, this project has a total investment of 1.1 billion yuan. It incorporates a number of top-tier equipment from around the world in the field of forging: the world’s largest free forging machine with a capacity of 22,000 tons, as well as the world’s largest ring rolling mill with a diameter of 22 meters. In addition, there are over 60 high-end auxiliary devices, all of which together form a technically advanced and self-sufficient complete industrial chain for producing large-scale forgings. “This represents another challenge to Eliet’s own limits, following its achievement of a Guinness World Record on August 5, 2022, for being the world’s largest ring-shaped rolled steel ring with a diameter of 15.673 meters. It is also a forward-looking, strategic move aimed at meeting the demands for major technical equipment over the next 10–15 years. ”Niu Yugang, chairman of Elet, said that the project integrates innovation across industry, academia, research, and application. By collaborating with research institutions such as the Institute of Metallurgy of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the China Institute of Atomic Energy, and Tsinghua University, it pioneers the use of cutting-edge materials and manufacturing processes such as rare earth steel and metal forming techniques, thereby serving international high-tech fields such as fourth-generation nuclear power, 30-megawatt large-scale offshore wind turbines, and large-capacity green hydrogen storage and transportation equipment. At the production site, the reporter witnessed the immense industrial power: a free forging machine nearly 8 stories tall was slowly brought online, capable of precisely forging giant steel billets weighing 180 tons into shape in a single operation. The \"steel foundation\" forged through these experiences will in the future serve as components for wind turbine rotors, nuclear power pressure vessel heads, and key elements of deep-sea platforms, acting as a solid backbone for China’s high-end equipment to reach the global market. Zheng Dongdong, general manager of the Core Components Division for Extra-Large Equipment at Elet, said that once the project is fully operational, it will be able to produce 60,000 tons of extra-large forgings per year, generating additional sales revenue of around 1.5 billion yuan. This will significantly enhance China’s influence in the global high-end forging market. What is even more significant is that Elyte has successfully established a collaborative innovation ecosystem covering the entire chain from basic material research and development, core process innovation to large-scale engineering applications – namely, the \"material-research and development-manufacturing-application\" framework – which indicates that China has joined the world’s forefront in the field of manufacturing super-large-scale components. The commissioning and operation of this project represent not only a technological breakthrough for a single enterprise, but also a reflection of the improved resilience and security of China’s modern industrial system. It clearly demonstrates China’s determination and capability to advance the upgrading of its industrial foundation and the modernization of its industrial chains. It provides strong impetus for the development of new forms of productive capacity and for the high-quality development of the manufacturing sector, adding another chapter to China’s progress toward higher positions in the global value chain.