According to the "Management Measures for the Recognition of Provincial Enterprise Technology Centers in Hunan Province" (Xianggongxin Technology [2022] No. 275), after voluntary application by enterprises, review and recommendation by municipal (county) industrial and information departments, and expert evaluation, the Hunan Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology has determined that the technology centers of 373 enterprises, including Xiangtan Huajin Heavy Equipment Technology Co., Ltd. (including 307 for production and manufacturing, 66 for research and development and design), will be the first batch of Hunan Provincial Enterprise Technology Centers in 2023.
Xiangtan Huajin Heavy Equipment Technology Co., Ltd. Technology Center was established in 2018, and the general manager of the technology center is directly led by the company's general manager. The company adheres to the development concept of technology first and always regards technological innovation and independent research and development as important measures to improve the company's core competitiveness. In terms of technological innovation and design research and development, we have established industry university research cooperation relationships with multiple domestic research institutes and universities, and established the "Hunan Province Expert Workstation" with Professor Wan Buyan from Hunan University of Science and Technology as the core. In order to ensure the smooth implementation of the technology center, the company has developed a comprehensive set of organizational management measures, focusing on controlling and managing work progress, fund utilization, and technology center assessment. Since the establishment of the enterprise technology center, the enthusiasm of the technical center personnel has been fully mobilized, their innovation potential has been stimulated, and a series of difficulties and strategic development related issues in innovation have been solved for the company. This has accelerated the company's key technological breakthroughs and transformation of scientific and technological achievements in the core technology and equipment of deepwater oil and gas development. The enterprise technology center established by the company was recognized by the Xiangtan Engineering Technology Research Center in 2022; The key technology and equipment for high-temperature and high-precision forming of large-diameter and ultra-high strength welded pipes won the second prize of the 2022 Hunan Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award.
In the future, Huajin Heavy Equipment Technology Center will continue to deepen its cultivation in the high-end manufacturing equipment market based on its current technological advantages, enhance its major core equipment manufacturing capabilities, and focus on creating a development path of "industry deepening and grasping market trends, technological progress driving complete set development, equipment complete set extension engineering contracting, and complete set development promoting single machine ordering". It will comprehensively increase investment in the research and development of key technologies for complete sets of projects, connect the entire industry chain, carry out full life cycle services, and focus on supplying all equipment for the entire production line or general contracting of projects (turnkey projects), accelerate the transformation and upgrading from single machine equipment providers to complete line equipment, complete set engineering, and system service providers, and steadily move towards the goal of providing system engineering, services, and technical solutions.