Source mill · Since 2007 · 100+ countries
Eight production stages inside one fence, under one heat number, run by the same 280 people. Four signatures decide whether a batch leaves, and the last one does not belong to production.
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Fucheng Tool Steel has run as a tool steel factory since 2007, on one site of 60,000 m². The works produces 25,000 tonnes a year and holds around 10,000 tonnes of finished stock.
That position fixes what the company is built to do. A distributor is judged by the certificate they forward and the consistency of what arrives, so the plant is arranged around producing both, rather than around selling small quantities to whoever asks.
Three buying patterns, three different things asked of the mill. The tool rooms and die shops downstream of you stay yours.
Buy across the range against enquiries passed up from tool rooms, often under a grade name that arrived from somewhere else in the chain.
Buy the five stock grades on a replenishment rhythm set by their own turnover, and plan the next quarter against the last one.
Arrive with project orders on the other nine grades and the heavy sections, where the answer turns on the press and the ingot size.
Fourteen grades in five families. Cross-references are confirmed in writing before an order is accepted, so the confirmation can be forwarded.
| Family | Grades | Delivery condition |
|---|---|---|
| Hot work | H13 · 1.2367 · H11 · H10 · 1.2714 | Annealed |
| Cold work | D2 · DC53 · D3 · D6 · O1 | Annealed |
| Plastic mould | 1.2316 · 1.2085 · 420 | Annealed; 1.2085 and 420 also pre-hardened |
| High speed | M2 | Annealed |
| Cross-reference | AISI · DIN and W-Nr · JIS · GB · ASSAB · BÖHLER | Confirmed in writing before acceptance |
See our supply range on the tool steel manufacturer home page. Current stock and lead times are confirmed on enquiry. The two highest-volume grades have their own pages: H13 tool steel and D2 tool steel.
Eight production stages stand between an order and a shipment, and all eight are on this site.
One shop, two 15-tonne medium-frequency induction furnaces, three shifts.
A second shop of ten furnaces in continuous operation.
No building of its own — carried on the forging lines and in the annealing furnaces.
Three lines on two shifts: 2,500 t and 1,600 t fast forging, plus radial precision forging.
Eight bogie hearth annealing furnaces plus a quench-and-temper line for pre-hardened grades.
Four areas: sawing, grinding, milling, and turning and machining.
Laboratory, non-destructive testing and metallography in one building, not spread among the shops.
The quality department signing release on the EN 10204 3.1 MTC.
The seventh stage holds the physical and chemical laboratory, the non-destructive testing area and the metallography room in one building rather than distributed among the production shops. The eighth is certification, which is the quality department signing release.
Each step is here because it let the works do something it could not do the year before.
One 1,600 t fast forging press and two annealing furnaces, buying ingot from outside. Grades could be delivered, but composition and cleanliness were decided in somebody else’s furnace.
Shipping moved from domestic supply to export, and orders started being written to EN, AISI and JIS designations in parallel rather than one national standard.
Two 15-tonne medium-frequency induction furnaces on three shifts. From that point the analysis printed on a certificate was measured on steel made here.
The first four electroslag furnaces opened alongside a 2,500 t press, which brought Ø 300 to 600 mm and 500 mm thick sections into range with the core soundness to support them.
Annealing reached eight bogie hearth furnaces and the EFS regime was written per grade, which turned grain refining from shop-floor experience into a repeatable instruction.
Certification was granted and inspection was brought together in one building, making 100% ultrasonic testing to SEP 1921 Class D/d or E/e the gate every bar passes rather than a sample check.
The radial precision forging machine, two gantry grinders and four gantry mills arrived, so small sections are forged rather than cut down and 1,200 mm wide plate leaves at finished size.
Stock rose to around 8,000 tonnes, which is what makes 7 to 10 day despatch possible on the five stock grades and lets buyers order to a replenishment rhythm.
Carbon footprint certification and EU CBAM data preparation were added, so declaration figures for European buyers come from the mill that made the steel.
The instructions that decide structure are not written on the shop floor. Sixteen metallurgical and process engineers issue the regime for each grade and section before the order reaches production.
That regime fixes the forging ratio, held to a minimum of 4:1, and the annealing curve, including the soak and the controlled cooling rate.
| On a heavy section | A works without its own melt shop | This works |
|---|---|---|
| Ingot size | Ingot size agreed with the producing mill | Cast to suit, 3 to 12 tonnes |
| Forging ratio | Forging ratio specified for the grade and section | Held at a minimum of 4:1 |
| Composition on the certificate | Measured on somebody else’s heat | Measured on steel melted here |
| Shortfall on a rejected heat | Replacement arranged under the agreed supply terms | Remade from our own melting |
Where a section is heavy, the ratio is not relaxed. The ingot is made larger instead, which is what the 3 to 12 tonne range exists for. The reduction, the annealing curve and the hardness windows that come out of them are set out on the fine grain tool steel page.
Independent of production, reporting directly to the general manager, holding the authority to stop a line and to refuse release.
Three documents, three different jobs. Each is sent on request, matched against whatever list your quality department works from.
Certifies the management system: how procedures are written, how records are kept and how deviations escalate across the whole works. It says nothing about any individual batch.
Carries the measured composition, hardness, ultrasonic result and structure ratings for your heat, signed by the quality department.
Covers the reporting side, together with EU CBAM data preparation for European buyers.
Visits are welcome and are best booked five working days ahead. Six areas are open.
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