In early April, in Wan’an Industrial Park, Gangji Town, Changfeng County, Hefei Province, covering an area of more than 80,000 square meters, trucks, forklifts and excavators are carrying out construction work in an orderly manner. This is Anhui Province. Wan’an 1 million sets of new energy vehicle lightweight aluminum alloy chassis project construction site, the project covers an area of more than 120 acres, the new plant is 60,000 square meters, and the total investment exceeds 1 billion yuan. It is currently in the stage of land leveling and is expected to be completed in December 2022. end of the month.
According to the overall schedule of the project, it is planned that the batch of equipment will enter the factory for installation in September this year. A full set of automated production lines imported from Europe, including 24 low-pressure casting production lines, peripheral automation and post-cleaning lines for low-pressure casting equipment, core making equipment, core shakeout equipment, X flaw detection equipment, T6 heat treatment equipment, five-axis machining center, MTS Eight-channel parts testing system and other international and industrial equipment.
After the completion of the project, it will increase the production scale of an annual output of one million sets of lightweight aluminum alloy chassis for new energy vehicles, which can effectively alleviate the actual contradiction between the current explosive growth of market demand and the bottleneck of its own production capacity. Many customers such as Weilai and BYD provide more supporting services. This is the further deepening of the company’s localization strategy, which is conducive to the company’s continuous increase in market share and a greater level of market confidence.
Today’s continuous investment is for tomorrow’s market. Zhao Yongda, general manager of Anhui Wanan, said that relying on strong talents and advantages of R&D platform, the company has mastered the design and process technology of aluminum subframe and has reached the international level. Through a lot of investment, we have always forced ourselves to carry out positive research and development to match more main models. It is precisely because of years of technical reserves and cost advantages that the company’s aluminum alloy lightweight chassis products have won many mainstream new energy vehicles. The high recognition of the enterprise has now begun to enter the harvest period. The construction of this project is to prepare production capacity in advance for the mass production of related new model supporting projects.
Chairman Chen Feng attached great importance to the project. He believes that the aluminum subframe, as a lightweight optimal solution, can be said to have a huge market potential. The construction of the company’s 1 million sets of aluminum alloy lightweight chassis projects for new energy vehicles is in line with the development needs of the market and the industry’s “new four modernizations”. Looking into the future, we will also serve the strategic development of the vast number of new energy vehicle companies with more technology, more reliable products, and better services, and achieve a win-win situation for all parties.
The construction of the new project has also won the keen attention of Changfeng County Party Secretary Li Mingshan and Gangji Town. In order to serve the company, Secretary Li made a special trip to inspect the Wan’an headquarters to learn more about the overall situation of the project, the main supporting customers, and related matters that need government coordination, and he came to provide the company with babysitting services. Secretary Li said on the spot that the Changfeng County Party Committee and County Government will provide adequate resource support for companies with core competitiveness such as Wanan, and do their best to support their local development.
It is understood that under the background of national carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, the standards for energy conservation and emission reduction of automobiles are constantly improving. How to achieve the standards has become a common problem of the entire industry. Among the many emission reduction routes, vehicle lightweighting is one of the directions that is easy to achieve and has great potential. Relevant data shows that 60% of the energy consumption of a car comes from its own weight. For every 10% weight loss of the vehicle, the fuel consumption can be reduced by 10% to 15%. In the selection of lightweight materials, aluminum alloys are valued due to their low density, good formability, and corrosion resistance. Therefore, international mainstream car companies have gradually selected aluminum alloys instead of steel subframes, such as BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, etc., which have been widely used in their models.