en.Wedoany.com Reported - From January to May 2026, product output of Southwest Aluminum (Group) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Southwest Aluminum") in China increased by 10.1% year-on-year, reaching the highest level for the same period in history. Output of products serving national strategies rose by 0.5 percentage points, and operating profit achieved the set target. Against the backdrop of intensified competition in the aluminum processing industry and volatile market conditions, Southwest Aluminum achieved counter-trend growth through extreme operations and lean management, maintaining a 100% sales-to-production ratio.
Southwest Aluminum (Group) Co., Ltd., established in 1965 and headquartered in Xipeng Town, Jiulongpo District, Chongqing, China, is a core aluminum processing enterprise of Aluminum Corporation of China (Chinalco) and a key R&D and production base for aluminum alloy materials in China's aerospace, national defense, military, and high-end civilian sectors. Southwest Aluminum boasts a full industrial chain capacity from smelting, hot rolling, cold rolling, forging to precision processing, with products covering aerospace, transportation, packaging containers, electronic information, and other fields.
From January to May, the capacity efficiency of Southwest Aluminum's main production plants improved significantly. The smelting plant integrated internal ingot casting capacity resources, established cross-process coordination mechanisms, and formed a closed-loop control system covering procurement, acceptance, feeding, and production. The rolling mill optimized rolling processes, reduced rolling passes, and achieved a 3.4% year-on-year increase in output. The forging plant implemented a refined management mechanism of "daily tracking, weekly assessment, and monthly review," resulting in a 5.9% year-on-year output increase. The plate and strip company, leveraging full-detail order scheduling, saw output rise by 8.4% year-on-year, with the hot tandem rolling line output up 5.1% year-on-year to a record high, can body stock output up 6.4%, and the new 2800 production line output up 106.8%. The precision processing company focused on its core business, achieving a 72.3% year-on-year output increase. In the new energy and marine material sectors, Southwest Aluminum showed particularly strong growth, with automotive sheet output up 72% year-on-year and ship plate output up 174.1%.
In recent years, Southwest Aluminum has continuously advanced extreme operations and lean production management, optimized production organization, and deepened its presence in the high-end aluminum material market. At the critical juncture of striving to achieve the "half-year target" in the first half of 2026, Southwest Aluminum has laid a solid foundation for completing its first-half goals and will continue to focus on production-sales coordination, resource integration, and full-chain cost control to drive simultaneous improvements in capacity release and operational efficiency.
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