On September 23, Chinese leading manufacturer of Aluminum-lithium alloy, magnesium alloy castings, ultra-slender variable-wall thickness aluminum alloy castings,complex thin-walled castings, high-strength heat-resistant rare earth magnesium alloy castings
The new light alloy industrial base invested by ZGHT Light Alloy Technology Group was officially put into operation. This move marks ZGHT's ability to produce 1,000 tons of high-performance magnesium alloy castings per year. The completion of the base makes ZGHT a first-class magnesium alloy material and structure research and intelligent manufacturing base in China integrating design, manufacturing and service, laying a solid foundation for the realization of green manufacturing and intelligent manufacturing of key light alloy components.
Light alloys mainly refer to titanium alloys, magnesium alloys and aluminum alloys, which have the advantages of high specific strength and specific rigidity, and low density. The use of casting instead of forging and light alloy instead of steel has become a new trend in the development of equipment manufacturing. In recent years, high-end military and civilian equipment has put forward an urgent need for lightweight, and the demand for light alloy structural parts such as magnesium and titanium has steadily increased.
"Take launch vehicle manufacturing as an example. The weight of the rocket structure of China's launch vehicle accounts for more than 50% of the total weight of the rocket (without propellant). Light alloys have obvious advantages in reducing the weight of the rocket structure, which is important for improving the efficiency of rocket delivery. Way.” said Yang Xueqin, deputy director of ZGHT in charge of process technology. Last year, ZGHT's first aluminum-lithium alloy test tank was formed, achieving a weight reduction of more than 10% in the arrow body structure.
ZGHT has a light alloy precision casting process technology center, a metal material near net shape engineering technology center, and has more than 60 young alloy development history accumulations, with light alloy structural parts "material research and development, casting forming, precision CNC machining, non-destructive testing, surface protection , Service Reliability Evaluation" full-link core technology and research and development capabilities, which can provide an overall solution for the development of light alloy structural parts throughout the process.
In the casting of super large magnesium alloy castings, ultra-slender and variable wall thickness aluminum alloy castings, large and complex thin-walled cabin anti-gravity casting, and new high-strength heat-resistant rare earth magnesium alloy material casting, ZGHT is at the leading level in China. There are more than 30 industry standards for aerospace and aviation light alloy material castings, and more than 50 scientific and technological achievements and invention patents. It has successively won the "Golden Tripod Award for Casting Materials", "Special Gold Award for High-quality Castings" and the First Prize of National Defense Science and Technology Progress at the International Foundry Expo. , "First Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress", and Second Prize of Provincial and Ministerial Scientific and Technological Achievements.
According to the plan, the new light alloy new material industry base covers an area of more than 180 acres. It is expected that through the third phase of the project, it will eventually be built into a domestic light alloy casting, machining, surface treatment, testing, collaborative design and technical service. A first-class R&D and manufacturing base for lightweight materials and structures, realizing green and intelligent manufacturing of light alloy structural parts, and promoting the upgrading of national equipment.
The ZGHT light alloy industry has a solid industrial foundation in military fields such as aerospace, aviation, shipbuilding and electronics, and now has more than 70 high-end customers in China's aviation, aerospace, transportation, and medical fields.
The company will focus on the lightweight needs of high-end civilian equipment such as vibration equipment and rail transit, build market-oriented technical systems, product systems, and industrial ecological alliances, explore new models of collaborative manufacturing, and continue to deepen the research and development platform for new light alloy materials engineering applications Construction to accelerate the transformation of research and development results of light alloy materials.