China Zhongwang making great strides in turning all-aluminium vehicle dream into a reality

China Zhongwang, the world’s second largest and Asia’s largest aluminium extrusions producer is fiercely pushing for the trend of replacing steel with lightweight aluminium in cars. The company, which began making foray into the all-aluminium car part domain last year, has lined up some serious strategic plans in R&D and operations to achieve the target within the next five years.

China Zhongwang has supplied advanced aluminium-alloy made car parts and all-aluminium car body sheets to a number of renowned automotive manufacturers such as Volvo, Mercedes-Benz, and BYD.

In last year November, Liaoning Zhongwang Group Company Limited produced “Zhongwang Transportation Equipment Aluminium Extrusion” was certified as the Protected Eco-origin Product by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the PRC.

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The Group ordered two ultra-large 225MN extrusion presses earlier in 2016, of which the first one is undergoing testing and will commence production in Q2 FY 2017-18. The second one is currently being installed. Additional extrusion presses that were purchased last year will also be put into operation in the next couple of years.

China Zhongwang is capable of producing all-aluminium car body for 25,000 commercial vehicles and passenger vehicles, and one million pieces of car parts annually.