The World Standards Day campaign was held in Taiyuan on Oct 14th, under joint sponsor of State Administration for Market Regulation, State Standardization Administration and Shanxi Province People’s Government. The event, themed with “protecting the planet with standards”, is a vivid reflection to the idea of ecological civilization and the outlook for standards raised by Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. It is of great significance to implement standardization strategy, deepen reform in standardization, and guide the high quality development with standards. Gao Xiangming, the general secretary of TISCO CPC Committee and the chairman of TISCO, was invited to deliver a speech as a model role in terms of standardization strategy.
In recent years, TISCO has always followed the guidance of standardization in its green development strategy to build a modern factory of higher level. The company proactively leads and participates into the draft of industrial standards, national standards, and international standards.
TISCO has made concrete effort in developing green products with long lifetime, and transferring itself from a product maker into a standard maker. A great number of light, long-life and recyclable green steel products are widely used in sectors like railway, automotive, ship building, electric power, petro-chemical, aerospace, precise machinery and so on. The company has made considerable contribution to the country in terms of energy-conservation and environmental protection. It has 28 steel products, including steel for nuclear power use, super-pure ferrite and high-grade pipeline steel, that topped the Chinese market share; it has more than 40 steel products, including super-pure ferrite, super duplex, stainless steel for exhausting system and steel for tips of ball pens, that replace import supplying sources and fill the Chinese market void. More than 70% of all standards for stainless steel plate and strip products in China are drafted under leadership or participation of TISCO. At present, the company is leading the draft of Precision Stainless Steel Foil, a national standard, as per the approval of the State Standardization Administration. And the company is also appointed by the ISO Nickel and Nickel Alloy Technology Committee (TC155) as the drafter of an international specification named “a method of measuring FeNi with spark spectrum”.
TISCO consciously applies the latest and strictest national standards to improve the level of green manufacturing in all directions. In terms of energy saving, the company has established a sound and complete energy-saving standardization organization and operation mechanism that covers all aspects of energy consumption and production capacity, with all working procedures meeting the limit standard or access value standard, and key procedures meeting the advanced value standard. The demonstrative standardization project for energy conservation in smelting was identified by the State Administration of Standardization as one of the first batch of national demonstration projects for energy conservation standardization, and also as one of the only two in steel industry. In terms of environmental protection, TISCO closely followed the latest national industrial policies and environmental protection policies, eliminated all outdated equipment, completed the technological transformation and upgrading to the whole process flow, and greatly improved the green manufacturing level of the today’s stainless steel industry. The company took the lead in integrating the world's most advanced technologies, and implemented a large number of projects, formed a complete recycling industry chain for solid, liquid and gaseous waste to efficiently recycle waste water, waste acid, waste gas, waste slag and residual heat. The company implemented the national ultra-low emission transformation standard from a high starting point, established an outstanding environmental performance goal, achieved ultra-low emission target one year ahead of the time limit required by the state before the end of last year, which met the most stringent ecological environmental protection standards and led the green development of the steel industry.
“Protecting the planet with standards” is rather a guideline for action than a simple propaganda. TISCO will follow Xi’s idea of ecological civilization, comply with the standard of a good enterprise which includes being effective and energy conservative, technology-intensive, green and low-carbon, ecology friendly, as well as harmonious, and speed up its pace in building a green steel mill that co-exists and thrives together with the city, creates value, shoulders responsibility, and deserves respect.