The leader in ball wear-resistant material solutions
Jinan Haoyang Forging & Casting: The "Core" Evolution of a Steel Ball - From Zhangqiu Forging to the Global Leader in Wear-resistant Material Solutions
In the modern factory in Guanzhuang Sub-district, Zhangqiu District, Jinan, a 80-millimeter-diameter forged steel ball is undergoing a "thousand hammering and thousand tempering" transformation. As the flagship product of Jinan Haoyang Casting and Forging Co., Ltd., this wear-resistant steel ball, which adopts the "gradient forging process", has pushed the balance between hardness and toughness to a new level. Its service life has increased by 40% compared to traditional products. Recently, it successfully entered the European mining machinery market and has become a milestone in the company's global strategy.
This high-tech enterprise, established in 2011, has taken a "small but excellent" specialized and innovative path in the field of metal forging, writing a unique answer. With a registered capital of 10 million yuan, the company focuses on the research and manufacturing of castings, forgings, wear-resistant steel balls and flanges. It has a complete production line from raw material inspection to finished product precision processing. In 2025, relying on the "Jinan City Wearable Materials Engineering Technology Research Center" platform, the company achieved a breakthrough in its own research and development of "low-temperature isothermal quenching technology", increasing the impact toughness of steel balls to over 25J/cm², breaking the foreign technology monopoly at one stroke.
"Our steel balls not only need to be 'resistant to damage', but also 'smart'." Company General Manager Chen Jinfu explained that the team innovatively incorporated miniature stress sensors into the products, enabling full lifecycle monitoring through the Internet of Things platform. This "intelligent steel ball" technology has been applied to a large copper mine project in China, reducing equipment maintenance costs by 30%. Currently, the company's products cover three major fields: mining, cement, and metallurgy. The customers include global 500 companies such as German ThyssenKrupp and China Minmetals. In 2024, the export volume increased by 65%.
In the wave of industrial upgrading, Haoyang Forging has deeply integrated traditional forging techniques with modern intelligent manufacturing. Within the factory premises, the "human-machine collaboration" between industrial robots and experienced workers has become the norm: the robotic arms precisely complete the high-temperature forging at 1600℃, while the experienced workers, relying on their 30 years of experience, control the microstructural defects. This "old craftsmanship + new technology" model enables the company to maintain a single-piece product profit margin of 18% while shortening the delivery cycle to 60% of the industry average.
From the craftsmanship inheritance in the iron-smelting town of Zhangzhou, to the advancement of enterprises that are selected as national "Specialized, Technologically Advanced, and High-Quality" "Little Giants", Haoyang Forging interprets the new heights of Chinese forging through "powerful" innovation. In the future, the company plans to invest 20 million yuan to build a research institute for wear-resistant materials, focusing on developing special forgings for deep-sea engineering, so that the mark of "Zhangzhou Forging" can be engraved on more major national equipment.
