Scientific & Technological Result Assessment of Technological Development and Industrialization
of NEUI600kA Aluminum Reduction Potline Technology Project Achieved Complete Success
The NEUI600kA high energy efficiency aluminum reduction potline technology that NEUI developed since 2009 began being utilized in Shandong
Weiqiao Aluminum & Electricity Co., Ltd.’s aluminum strip project in 2011. Since it was put into operation on 11th December 2014, the technology
has drawn a great deal of attention in the aluminum industry both home and abroad. Recently, the technology reported another great success.
On 5th June 2015, the project scientific & technological result assessment for the Technological Development and Industrialization of NEUI600kA
Aluminum Reduction Potline Technology organized by the China Non-Ferrous Metals Industry Association achieved complete success.
The meeting is held in Shandong Weiqiao Aluminum & Electricity Co., Ltd. and is presided over by Chen Quanxun, the president of the China Non-
Ferrous Metals Industry Association. Nine top experts of Chinese aluminum industry are invited by the organizing committee to form an expert
assessment panel, including academicians Qiu Dingfan and Gui Weihua from Chinese Academy of Engineering, chief engineer Li Wangxing from
Aluminum Corporationof China Limited, vice-president and secretary general Jia Mingxing from China Non-Ferrous Metals Industry Association,
and dean Li Jie from Central South University Graduate School, etc. NEUI chairman of board Tu Ganfeng, NEUI vice-chairman of board and NFC
vice-general manager Qin Junman and NEUI president Lv Dingxiong, etc. attend the meeting. Prior to the assessment meeting, the panel made an
field investigation to the NEUI600kA aluminum reduction potline that is in operation and are very impressed by the quiet and clean working environment
inside the potroom and the good operating status of the pots. The NEUI600kA aluminum reduction pots are highly praised by all the experts attending
the meeting for their outstanding performance.During the meeting, first, doctor Ban Yungang delivers a speech on the development history and the
technological application of the NEUI600kA aluminum reduction potline technology on behalf of NEUI and Weiqiao Pioneering Group to the experts
and representatives. In his speech, doctor Ban explains the profound technology in simple language and adequately demonstrates the pots’ characteristics
and how they are advanced by means of comparison using a large amount of detailed and accurate data, through which the experts get a deeper
understanding of the NEUI600kA aluminum reduction potline and express full approval for the technology roadmap adopted for the NEUI600kA aluminum
reduction potline development. After his speech, NEUI chairman of board Tu Ganfeng, NEUI president Lv Dingxiong and NFC vice-general manager
Qin Junman make supplementary description to the project and express their gratitude to Weiqiao Pioneering Group for its great support and to the experts
for their presence at the meeting. Then, inquiry about the technological development speech is made by the assessment experts and NEUI president Lv
and other NEUI experts make clarifications to the assessment experts.
Finally, after discussion and comprehensive grading by the assessment experts, the following main assessment comments are made on the NEUI600kA
aluminum reduction potline technology:
1. A high degree of innovation
2. Internationally advanced main indicators
3. A high degree of technological difficulty and complexity
4. Good technological reproducibility and a high degree of maturity
5. An important role of technological innovations in driving the scientific & technological advance and improving competitiveness.
6. Good economic and social benefits
Conclusion of comprehensive assessment:
The overall technology of the Project reaches the world-leading level.
Recommendation: accelerate the promotion and applications of the NEUI600kA aluminum reduction potline technology.
With its longterm commitment to “Undertake the Mission of Advancing the Aluminum Industry” and “Drive Technological Advance in the Aluminum
Industry” in mind, NEUI not only achieves brilliant success one after another, but also creates numerous miracles in China’s aluminum industry. The
experience in the successful development of the NEUI600kA aluminum reduction potline technology again proves that the enormous sense of mission
and responsibility has been the inexhaustible motive force for the brilliant success achieved by NEUI and NEUI’s inborn and excellent innovation genes
are the great sources that allow NEUI to be constantly an invincible technological leader in the aluminum industry. With the economy in its “new normal”
and fierce competition in the market, scientific innovation & technological advance is the first rule and the fundamental way for NEUI to survive and
develop through the means of transformation.Building on this and making best use of its successful experience, NEUI will apply the technological
innovation mode of “Numerical simulation +” in the overall improvement of its level of technological innovation and strive to complete its transformation
development and go global toward a new level as early as possible.