Wuhan Yiye Steel Structure Co., Ltd.

Located in Wuhan, Hubei, known as the "thoroughfare of nine provinces," Wuhan Yiye Steel Structure Co., Ltd. is the largest, most technologically advanced, and most comprehensive steel structure and pressure vessel manufacturing enterprise in Central China. It is a shining pearl invested and built in Central China by China MCC's China First Metallurgical Group Co., Ltd.
As a high-tech enterprise, the company holds Grade I qualifications for specialized steel structure contracting and installation; A2 and A3 pressure vessel qualifications and the special-grade steel structure manufacturing qualification of the China Steel Construction Society. It has also obtained ASME U and U2 stamp certifications, National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors (NBBI) certification, and certifications from China Classification Society (CCS), Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (NK), and Bureau Veritas (BV). It is China MCC's "National Steel Structure Engineering Technology Research Center Special Steel Structure Engineering Technology Research Pilot Base" and a designated examination and certification center of the China Classification Society Welder Examination Committee.
Relying on strong enterprise strength, the company has achieved fruitful results in expanding into pressure vessels, bridges, venues, high-rise buildings, power facilities, heavy-duty workshops, large special non-standard equipment, multi-story and high-rise steel structure buildings, and overseas markets.
I. A New Force in China's Bridge Steel Structure Market
The company closely seized the favorable opportunity of the state's vigorous investment in infrastructure construction and Wuhan's effort to build a "China Bridge and Steel Structure Industry Base," continuously strengthening and expanding its own strength. It has successively completed a large number of bridge steel structure construction projects, including the Hankou section of Wuhan's Second Ring Road, the Jinqiao Avenue Viaduct, the Cao'e River Railway Bridge on the Xiaoyong Line, the Zhongning Yellow River Bridge in Ningxia, the Suzhou Renmin Road and Guangji Road overpasses across the Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway, the Zhen'an Overpass on Guangzhou's Inner Ring Road, the Liuwu Bridge in Lhasa, Tibet, the viaduct on the extension line of Wuhan's Bayi Road, the Duofu Road pedestrian bridge group on Wuhan's Hanzheng Street, and the Changchun Guan pedestrian bridge in Wuhan. Among them, the Hankou section of Wuhan's Second Ring Road and the Jinqiao Avenue Interchange, with a total steel structure of more than 90,000 tons constructed by the company, are the urban interchange bridges with the largest span and longest route of steel box girders in China, accumulating rich experience for the company to expand its bridge market space, establishing its brand, and making it a new force in China's bridge steel structure market.
II. A Climber in the Fields of Venues, High-rise Buildings, and Heavy-duty Workshops
The company actively adapts to the trend of architectural development and has continuously made major breakthroughs in the steel structure markets of venue construction, tower and mast steel structures, high-rise buildings, and heavy-duty workshops. It has successively undertaken a number of key steel structure projects, including the National Stadium "Bird's Nest" project, the Tianjin Meijiang International Convention and Exhibition Center, the main venue of the 2010 Summer Davos Forum, the Guizhou International Convention and Exhibition Center, the Guangxi Fangchenggang Museum, Science and Technology Library, the Sichuan Chengdu Tobacco Logistics Center, the main venue and swimming pool project of the Wuhan Sports Center, Wuhan Railway Station, Wuchang Railway Station, Hankou Railway Station, Tianhe Airport, Qintai Grand Theater, Hubei Guishan TV Tower, Hubei Xianning Hot Spring Valley Resort Center, the steel structure building of Guangxi Nanning Bonded Logistics Center, the Hebei Caofeidian Political and Legal Affairs Building, Wuhan Iron and Steel's dual-line rolling high-speed wire rod, No. 3 Steelmaking, Guangxi Beihai Chengde Stainless Steel Plant, Fujian Haixia Textile Factory, etc. It has always maintained strong strength in the manufacturing and installation of "heavy, large, high, and precise" steel structures.
III. A Leader in the Metallurgical Engineering Shell Manufacturing Industry
The company actively responds to the call of the state to revitalize the equipment manufacturing industry and enhance its independent innovation capability. In the field of large special non-standard equipment such as metallurgical blast furnaces, hot blast stoves, heating furnaces, steel ladles, coking, and sintering, it relies on the overall strength of the group to form supporting manufacturing capabilities. It has successively undertaken blast furnace system steel structure shell manufacturing projects for a large number of large domestic and foreign enterprises such as Wuhan Iron and Steel, Xiangtan Iron and Steel, Guangzhou Iron and Steel, Shaoguan Iron and Steel, Zhujiang Iron and Steel, Liuzhou Iron and Steel, and Anshan Iron and Steel. It has now become one of the few enterprises in China's metallurgical construction industry with complete blast furnace construction capabilities.
IV. Actively Exploring the Power Facility Market and Achieving Major Breakthroughs
The company has also actively strengthened market development in the field of power station facilities. It has successively undertaken a large number of power station steel structure engineering projects, including 21 power plant projects such as the Songzi Power Plant of Kaidi Electric Power Co., Ltd., the Hubei Xianning Nuclear Power Station, the Guangxi Fangchenggang Nuclear Power Station, the Vietnam Mao Khe Power Plant, the Henan Nanyang Power Plant, and the Wuhan Yangluo Power Plant. With high-quality engineering quality and good corporate reputation, it has not only laid a solid foundation for the company's further development in the energy steel structure market, but also made positive contributions to the safe and stable operation and energy construction of various power enterprises, and has been widely praised by owners.
V. A Leader in the Domestic Pressure Vessel Market
The company has successively manufactured more than 300 large horizontal petroleum liquefied gas storage tanks for shipborne use for owners such as Fangchenggang Southwest Ocean Shipping Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Energy Group, Shenzhen Haihong Shipping Co., Ltd., Indonesia State Oil Company, and Denmark's Lauritzen-Kosan. Among them, the 6,900 cubic meter fully pressurized liquefied petroleum gas storage tank built for Shenzhen Haihong Shipping Co., Ltd. is currently the largest domestic liquefied petroleum gas ship tank in China; the 520 cubic meter carbon dioxide (CO2) transport ship low-temperature storage tank built for Zhejiang Zhoushan Dejin Shipping Co., Ltd. made the company the first enterprise in China to manufacture carbon dioxide ship tanks, filling this domestic gap.
At the same time, the company has built more than 500 spherical tank projects of various media ranging from 50 to 10,000 cubic meters and more than 10 (sets of) gas holder projects for metallurgical, energy, , shipbuilding, and chemical systems such as Wuhan Iron and Steel, Egang, Xiangtan Iron and Steel, Jigang, Kunming Iron and Steel, Liuzhou Iron and Steel, Pangang, Mianyang, and Xinjiang Kailianjie. Among them, the 2,000 cubic meter oxygen spherical tank project built for Qinghai Xining Special Steel Co., Ltd. set a new record for the largest volume oxygen spherical tank in China's special equipment manufacturing industry; the 5,000 cubic meter LPG spherical tank project built for the Surabaya storage and distribution station in Indonesia established the company's high-quality brand image of integrated manufacturing and installation in the overseas pressure vessel market; and the 10,000 cubic meter vacuum spherical tank currently with the largest volume in China built for a unit in Sichuan further established the company's leading position in the field of super-large spherical tanks, forming a situation where ship tanks, spherical tanks, and gas holders advance side by side as the "three carriages."
The company's actively carried out research project "Construction Technology for Cargo Tanks of Series Liquefied Gas Transport Ships" has formed independent intellectual property rights and received funding from the Ministry of Finance, formed a leading construction method, and filled the gap in this technology in China. The semi-refrigerated semi-pressurized cargo tank construction technology project has also entered the substantive development stage. The shipbuilding industry standard GB/T4240 "Marine Fully Pressurized Liquefied Gas Storage Tanks," edited by the company, also passed the review of the National Shipbuilding Machinery Standardization Technical Committee in December 2010. Up to now, with its strong technical strength in large LPG ship tank projects, the company firmly occupies more than 90% of the domestic market share of similar products, always leading the development direction of the domestic fully pressurized LPG transport ship tank market, and has become a leader in the domestic LPG pressure vessel industry.
VI. Competing in Overseas Markets
In terms of overseas market expansion, the company has successively undertaken steel structure manufacturing and pressure vessel manufacturing projects in many countries, including India's ESSAR and EIL blast furnaces, India's Utkal blast furnace, Turkey's Çolakoğlu metallurgical hot rolling plant, South Africa's Bateman chemical corridor, Canada's Algoma Steel hot blast stove, Indonesia's coal-fired power station main plant, Indonesia's Surabaya storage and distribution station 5,000 cubic meter LPG spherical tank, Malaysia's blast furnace, Vietnam's Mao Khe Power Plant, Norway's Skogen Group, Denmark's Lauritzen-Kosan fully pressurized LPG transport ship tanks, Germany's SMS large flue, Brazil's AMM No. 2 sintering plant, Turkey's Atlas Iskenderun thermal power plant, Belarus's Lukoml combined cycle power station, and Belarus's Berezovskaya power station project. It has signed overseas contracts worth more than 2 billion yuan, with product coverage in Asian, European, African, and North American markets, making important contributions to expanding the overseas visibility of China MCC's MCC brand.
VII. Technological Innovation, Never Stopping
The company has always adhered to technological innovation and has successively established joint research and development centers with universities and research institutes such as Wuhan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, and Hefei General Machinery Research Institute, promoting the optimization, adjustment, and diversified development of the industrial structure through technological innovation, and continuously cultivating and creating new economic growth points. The company not only hosted the 9th National Metallurgical Construction Industry Vocational Skills Competition, but also, with its strong technical strength in the field of welding, made its welding training center a designated examination and certification center of the China Classification Society Welder Examination Committee and the Hubei Province Special Equipment Welder Training and Examination Center. Among the projects the company has constructed or participated in, four projects including Wuhan Iron and Steel's No. 5 Blast Furnace and Tianjin Dagang Seamless Steel Pipe Plant won the China Construction Engineering Luban Prize, and five projects including the National Stadium Bird's Nest project and Wuhan Railway Station project won the National Excellent Welding Engineering Award. More than ten technological achievements, including the construction technology for large liquefied petroleum gas storage tanks, have won provincial and ministerial-level scientific and technological achievement awards. More than 20 construction methods, represented by the "Construction Method for Large Fully Pressurized LPG Transport Ship Tanks," have been rated as provincial and ministerial-level construction methods. The company invests tens of millions of yuan each year to support and promote enterprise technological innovation. It is China MCC's "National Steel Structure Engineering Technology Research Center Special Steel Structure Engineering Technology Research Pilot Base." At present, it has 138 authorized patents, including 43 invention patents and 95 utility model patents. Technological innovation is increasingly enhancing its role in improving the company's economic benefits.
VIII. Expand the Main Business, Refine the Strengths
In the steel deep processing industry, the company has always adhered to "technology as the leader, customer first