August 22, 2008

Xinyu Steel supplies 70% of steel strand for Hangzhou Bay Bridge

It is reported that Hangzhou Bay Bridge, the world's longest sea bridge, with a total investment of CNY 11.8 billion is formally open to traffic as of May 1st 2008. The bridge is designed to serve 100 years and boasts several No 1 records across the world.

Approximately 30,000 tonnes of pre stress stranded steel wire made by Xinhua Metal Products Co Ltd affiliated with Xinyu Iron & Steel Co Ltd were used in the bridge construction as much as 68% of total consumption of this resource.

The materials purchasing and bid invitation of this project are reported to have some different features from normal ones, with not only offer prices of producers to be taken into account, but strict bid process and quality products to be highlighted.

Xinhua company China's first pre stress stranded steel wire maker and the firstly certified enterprise with ISO quality assurance system has produced steel strand for over 20 years and formed their own sophisticated and stable production techniques. It now can provide 220,000 tonnes of products annually.

Apart from the Hangzhou Bay Bridge, pre stress wire product made by Xinhua has also been applied in a string of domestic key and large scaled items such as the Three Gorges Dams, Dock of Macao, Jiangyin Yangtse River Bridge, Beijing Kowloon Railway and Shanghai Oriental Pearl.