Recently, SZXD Light Alloy Technology Co., Ltd. announced the completion of a 200 million yuan A round of financing.
The main focus is on high-end lightweight technologies such as high-performance alloy material design, vehicle lightweight design, and aluminum alloy integrated hot stamping technology, which are used in the fields of new energy vehicles, aerospace, ships and containers. The company has a research and development center and two modern production bases.
At present, the scale of China's automobile lightweight market exceeds 80 billion, and the electrification of automobiles has accelerated the transformation of automobile enterprises to lightweight. The aluminum alloy hot forming material and hot forming process developed by the company can make the whole vehicle lighter to improve the endurance and handling performance. On the other hand, the integrated forming technology can greatly reduce the cost of automobile manufacturing. By reducing the material thickness, the cost of parts can be reduced. 20% lower than cold stamping aluminum alloy; by reducing the number of processes, the mold cost is ~40% of cold stamping; reducing the number of welding, reducing assembly labor and equipment costs.
The new aluminum alloy material is a material originally used in aerospace and has high strength. It has been applied to new energy vehicles through research and development and changes in materials and processes. The strength, formability and processing performance of aluminum alloy hot forming materials are good, and SZXD's hot forming materials can reach the world's leading level in terms of the main technical indicators of strength limit, formability, and size and accuracy of parts. The strength has been increased by about 3 times, and the size and accuracy error of the company's hot forming technology has also been reduced from a few millimeters in traditional aluminum alloy molding to a few tenths of a millimeter.
At the same time, in the field of carbon neutrality and environmental protection, compared with traditional steel, aluminum alloy hot forming materials can reduce carbon emissions by up to 50% throughout the cycle.
The core of SZXD's underlying technology-"material genome" thinking, is equivalent to comparing various materials to the double helix structure of human DNA. According to previous research, the different characteristics of materials at the macro level and the micro composition and structure Is corresponding. Based on the in-depth combing and comprehensive understanding of the material's micro-level genes and material generation processes, the macro-level performance of the material can be controlled directly by editing the micro-level "gene points". By ascertaining the basic composition of materials, changing their structure and arrangement, reforming existing materials and processes to "enhance strengths and avoid weaknesses", or develop more ideal new materials and processes.
At present, SZXD's cooperation customers mainly include: new energy vehicles, commercial aerospace, ships and containers. At present, the company's customers have covered a number of leading OEMs in the global electric vehicle field.
The company's newly built production line has several world-leading high-precision, high-speed aluminum alloy hot stamping production lines.
Vehicle products using SZXD's aluminum alloy hot forming materials and technology will be available next year.
The company`s R&D team has more than 70 people, among which CTO Dr. Zhang is a Ph.D. in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London and a post-doctoral in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic University in the United States. , who Led a number of aviation and automotive metal materials development projects for Rolls-Royce, General Electric, Pratt & Whitney, General Motors and other companies, the other core members of the team come from Tier 1 companies, the head of the automotive field, and have rich experience in aluminum alloy stamping parts projects.