TISCO was approved as a qualified supplier of hydropower steels, specifically including 750MPa high magnetic yoke steel, magnetic pole steel, and high grade silicon steel, to the Baihetan hydropower station, well known for its worldwide largest single unit capacity and second biggest construction scale, and the Wudongde hydropower station, China’s third and worldwide seventh biggest hydropower station. The qualification reflects TISCO’s capability in supplying complete steel varieties for big-scale hydropower units. It lays a solid foundation for China to maintain the leading role in the hydropower sectors globally.
The total installed capacity of Baihetan Station is 16 million kW; with designed electricity generation output 62.443 billion kWh per year. And the total installed capacity of Wudongde Station is 10.2 million kW; with designed electricity generation output 38.91 billion kWh per year. As important power supply sources for the national energy strategy of “Transmission of Power from West to East”, the two stations will play significant roles in driving the growth of Yangtse River economic belt, optimizing the state energy structure, promoting energy conservation and emission cut, improving the state manufacturing capability, improving flood control and disaster prevention, assisting poverty alleviation and economy and society developments in areas where dams are built.
Material to manufacturing industry is as critical as bones to a body. Facing strict requirements to hydropower steel, TISCO promptly set up a professional team that has technical superiority in terms of special steel R&D. They visited customers and manufacturers form time to time to understand thoroughly users’ demands and requirements, repeatedly analyzed the critical indicators and made experiments, until the hydropower steel with high strength, high flatness, high surface quality and low internal stress was finally developed. The products have world leading quality and have been accepted by many hydropower machinery manufacturers.
In recent years, TISCO’s high end hydropower steels have obtained certificates or qualifications issued by China Iron and Steel Industry Association, Harbin Electric Corporation, Dongfang Electric Machinery Co., Ltd., Tianjin GE, and Shanghai VOITH. The company is actively responding to the “Road and Belt” initiative and assisting the infrastructure construction along the “Road and Belt” by supplying high quality hydropower steels. This move has dramatically elevated the competitiveness of Taigang brand and influence of Made-in-China products.