Recently, Baosteel Co Ltd Heavy Plate Customer Forum was held in Xiamen.

79 heavy plate customers from across the nation including CPMC, Sinopec, CSSC, NACKS discuss upstream and downstream win win model in the steel low profit era around the Baosteel heavy plate product quality cost and supply chain.

Baosteel Co Ltd deputy general manager Mr Li Yongxiang attended the meeting.

Mr Yongxiang said that Baosteel progress has gained by way of support and help from the customers. He asked every department of Baosteel Co Ltd to systemize customer views, adjust the operation and organization mode according to the customer industry actuality, increase technical marketing and service efforts, select reasonable material for the customers, increase mutual cooperation and understanding, continuously improve techniques and create value for customers.

At the forum, based on the production and operation of their respective companies, ship plate, structural steel and energy steel plate customers offer comments and suggestions on Baosteel heavy plate products' quality and cost and discuss upstream and downstream win-win model in the low profit era.

In the next phase, Baosteel Co Ltd will continue to implement the differentiation strategy and promote cost improvement. It will carry out preliminary cooperation with customers on high end heavy plate products or domestic alternative products and promote internal quality improvement and enhance the product bulk supply capacity stability; carry out performance studies carry out specification development and technical support focusing on the customer needs.