At present, the southern intelligent manufacturing base located in Wangcheng Economic Development Zone, Changsha is an important industrial base for CITIC Dicastal in central and southern China. It plans to build a wheel industrial park and a casting industrial park, and plans to achieve double 10 billion sales.
It is understood that the CITIC Dicastal South Intelligent Manufacturing Base is managed and operated by CITIC Dicastal Co., Ltd. (“CITIC Dicastal”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of CITIC Group. The project settled in Wangcheng Economic Development Zone in 2017, and successively started the construction of Changsha Daika and Daixiang projects. Among them, the new plant area of the Daixiang project is 56,000 square meters, which can produce 6 million personalized aluminum wheels per year. The project will be completed and put into operation in April 2021.
Wu Youbing, director of CITIC Dicastal Southern Intelligent Manufacturing Base, introduced that since the project started in 2017, the CITIC Dicastal Wheel Industrial Park has completed four phases of construction, with a cumulative annual production capacity of 12 million aluminum wheels. According to statistics, in 2021, the wheel industrial park has achieved a year-on-year increase of 35% in the production and sales of wheels, and the sales revenue will exceed 3.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 100%. In the first quarter of this year, wheel production and sales increased by 39% year-on-year, and sales revenue increased by 92% year-on-year.
Wu Youbing introduced that the CITIC Dicastal Wheel Industrial Park covers an area of about 700 acres and has a planned production capacity of 20 million aluminum wheels. In the future, it will build the world’s largest R&D and manufacturing base for the world’s largest individualized wheels and the world’s largest vehicle supporting production unit. At present, the aluminum wheels produced by CITIC Dicastal account for 33% of the global wheel market share. In China, CITIC Dicastal’s wheel hub market share is about 50%.
Wu Youbing said that CITIC Dicastal has been engaged in aluminum deep processing for many years, and has accumulated and accumulated rich production experience and production technology. As a representative of light metals, the use of aluminum products is gradually infiltrating into various fields of the automotive industry.
Headquartered in Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province, CITIC Dicastal is an internationally renowned manufacturer and exporter of automotive aluminum wheels. Through continuous development, the company has gradually developed from single aluminum wheel manufacturing to automobile chassis, powertrain, body aluminum parts manufacturing, equipment manufacturing, mold manufacturing, product surface engineering, and many fields, pioneering and leading new technical fields. . The company has a variety of mainstream aluminum parts forming technologies, including low pressure casting, spinning, forging, differential pressure casting, high pressure casting, high vacuum casting and other production processes.