Yunmanman's Specialized Aluminum Industry Service Lands in Gongyi, Activating New Momentum for Bulk Logistics Through Digitalization

On September 17, "Upstream Seeing the Source 2026 Yunmanman Industry and Digital Logistics Integration Development Conference" was successfully held in Gongyi, Henan, the country's largest aluminum plate, strip and foil processing base. The event brought together local government, the Henan Nonferrous Metals Industry Association, leading aluminum industry enterprises, and media from within and outside the province to analyze the logistics links of Gongyi's hundred-billion-yuan aluminum processing industrial cluster from the perspective of freight circulation. At the event, digital freight logistics platform Yunmanman released for the first time its interpretive report "Aluminum in Freight Data," and simultaneously launched a million-yuan specialized service policy for Gongyi's aluminum industry. Hundred-Billion-Yuan Aluminum Industrial Cluster: "Both Ends Abroad," Logistics Becomes a Key Variable for Transformation and Upgrading Gongyi is China's largest, most comprehensive, and best-supported aluminum plate, strip and foil industrial cluster. Public data shows that one out of every 10 beverage can bodies worldwide comes from Gongyi; one out of every 3 beverage can lids in China is produced in Gongyi. The area is home to more than 200 local aluminum processing enterprises, 4 of China's top 10 aluminum plate, strip and foil enterprises, and over a thousand upstream and downstream supporting enterprises. Currently, Gongyi's aluminum processing products account for more than 30% of the domestic market share, with an output value exceeding 140 billion yuan in 2025, making it a core calling card for Henan's high-quality manufacturing development. L Yan, deputy director of the Aluminum Processing Industry Department of the Henan Nonferrous Metals Industry Association, said at the conference that affected by adjustments in domestic industrial layout, Henan's aluminum industry exhibits the characteristics of "both ends abroad, large inflows and outflows": raw materials are brought in from external regions in large quantities, and processed finished products are sold to markets nationwide. The logistics supply chain directly affects enterprise costs, efficiency, and core competitiveness. "The space for cost reduction on the production side is gradually narrowing, and the digitalization of the logistics supply chain is becoming a new blue ocean for cultivating new quality productive forces in the aluminum industry," L Yan said. Large aluminum enterprises with their own fixed fleets can guarantee regular planned transportation, but when facing order peaks and temporary increases, capacity gaps still emerge. Digital freight platforms do not replace enterprises' own logistics, but serve as an effective supplement, filling capacity shortfalls during fluctuating periods and helping optimize the overall logistics costs of the industry. Viewing the Industry from a Freight Perspective: "Aluminum in Freight Data" Outlines the National Circulation Map of Aluminum Goods At the event, Ni Haixia, senior expert in business analysis at Yunmanman, released the interpretive report "Aluminum in Freight Data," drawing on real freight orders on the platform from January to August 2026 to reconstruct a complete picture of cargo flows for the national and Gongyi aluminum industries. Data shows that Gongyi ranks first among all counties and districts nationwide in aluminum plate, strip and foil shipments. On the raw material side, alumina and aluminum ingots flow into Gongyi across regions from raw material production areas such as Xining, Baotou, Changji, and Binzhou; on the finished product side, aluminum products made in Gongyi are shipped to major manufacturing provinces including Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, and Hebei, with Shangqiu, Binzhou, Shanghai, Xuzhou, and Qingdao becoming core destination cities. Platform data shows that in 2026, Gongyi's farthest single order of aluminum products traveled more than 2,700 kilometers directly to Nyingchi, Tibet, demonstrating the broad market depth of the Central Plains industrial cluster. From the perspective of transport vehicle types, Gongyi's aluminum product freight shows diverse characteristics. 4.2-meter high-sided trucks, 13-meter high-sided trucks, 6.8-meter high-sided trucks, 13-meter flatbeds, and 9.6-meter high-sided trucks constitute the main vehicle types, accommodating both small-batch transfers and large-volume transport of dozens of tons, with an average transport distance of 629 kilometers for aluminum goods. Different categories and volumes of aluminum materials have highly prominent differentiated vehicle-type needs. As one of the "barometers" for observing the real economy, freight data reflects that Gongyi's two-way activity of "raw material input, deep processing, finished product output" is a vivid manifestation of the industrial cluster's deep integration into the national unified large market. Three Special Policies Land, Addressing Pain Points in Bulk Logistics for the Aluminum Industry In response to industry-wide practical difficulties such as high cargo damage risk in aluminum transport, complex scheduling, and fragmented systems, Yunmanman officially released three special service policies for Gongyi's aluminum industry at the event, empowering local manufacturing enterprises across multiple dimensions including cost, digitalization, and dedicated services: First, over one million yuan in freight subsidies. Yunmanman will invest real money to directly reduce the logistics costs of aluminum enterprises' shipments and ease their freight burden. Second, Yunmanman API system direct connection, opening up the full business loop of logistics. The platform's complete capacity capabilities will be embedded into enterprises' own TMS/ERP systems, so that everything from price inquiry, order placement and shipment, in-transit vehicle management, to settlement and invoicing can all be completed within the enterprise's internal system, without the need to switch back and forth between multiple platforms. This drives another upgrade in the digitalization of aluminum industry logistics and achieves cost reduction and efficiency improvement. Third, establishing a dedicated service team for the aluminum industry to achieve full business custodianship. Dedicated liaison personnel will be assigned to aluminum industry clients, providing one-stop support for the entire process including shipment coordination, freight follow-up, cargo damage dispute handling, and transport guarantees, safeguarding the transportation of high-value aluminum materials. "The self-built fleets of large aluminum enterprises and digital platforms are in a complementary and collaborative relationship. Own fleets safeguard stable planned transportation, while Yunmanman serves as the enterprise's 'spot market for capacity' and intelligent scheduling middle platform. Enterprises do not need to configure large amounts of heavy assets for business peaks, achieving optimal overall logistics costs," a Yunmanman business leader explained the platform's positioning during the roundtable forum. Digital Tools Improve Efficiency: Shortening Vehicle Search Time, Continuously Reducing Empty Running Losses Under the traditional model, manufacturing enterprises rely on acquaintances and information departments to find vehicles, and shipping often takes days. After connecting to a digital platform, shippers can dispatch goods and complete vehicle matching in as little as a few minutes. It is reported that the AI intelligent vehicle search function powered by the Manyun large model is being piloted, saving an average of 30.5 minutes of communication time per order. Wang Weifeng, general manager of the supply department at local manufacturing enterprise Pengl Curtain Wall, has deep personal experience with this. He has used Yunmanman for five or six years, and his company ships two to three vehicles per day on average. "From small 3.8-meter box trucks to 13-meter high-sided trucks, we need to dispatch all types of vehicles on the platform. At the fastest, a driver arrives about 10 minutes after placing an order. The entire transport trajectory is traceable, making shipping more reassuring," Wang Weifeng said. Efficient capacity matching has become an important support for enterprises' daily production and shipping. Extending from efficiency at the individual enterprise level to the entire road freight industry, digital freight continues to drive overall transport efficiency improvements. From 2020 to 2025, the "three empty rates" (empty driving rate, idle rate, and empty load rate) of trucks on the Manbang platform dropped from 38.97% to 34.88%. The improvement in vehicle utilization has also brought considerable carbon emission reductions and socioeconomic benefits. Visiting Leading Enterprises On-Site, Observing the Real Freight Scenarios of a Hundred-Billion-Yuan Industrial Belt After the conference, the media group visited local aluminum enterprises for research and inspection. At the finished product cargo yard, shiny silver aluminum coils were neatly stacked, and the full process of hoisting, padding, bundling, and loading for outbound transport was presented on site. The enterprise logistics manager introduced on site that for each coil of high-value aluminum material, every detail of hoisting and securing must not be careless, as even a slight mistake can cause cargo damage. They look forward to digital logistics continuing to deepen its presence in bulk manufacturing scenarios and solving real logistics challenges on the front lines of the industry. According to reports, Gongyi is a key sample of Yunmanman's "Upstream Seeing the Source" industry traceability initiative. In the future, Yunmanman will replicate this set of industry service methodologies to more bulk manufacturing clusters, relying on its national capacity network and API digital capabilities to continuously serve the real economy and help more Chinese-made products reach broad markets.