Echoing the "Jinglei" in China's Metal Materials Industry - A Side Story of Sichuan Thunder Technolo

Sichuan Jinglei Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Jinglei Technology) stands in Yibin, the "first city of the Yangtze River". It is a model for inspiring national spirit, revitalizing national industry, and achieving self-reliance and self-improvement in the field of new metal materials in China.

Jinglei Technology was founded in 1988 and is a well-known domestic enterprise specializing in the design and manufacturing of metal explosion composite materials and pressure vessels. With total assets of 800 million yuan, it achieved a total industrial output value of 2.18 billion yuan in 2012. For over 20 years, the company has produced over 3400 tons of metal composite materials for the world-renowned Three Gorges Project, and has produced various metal composite materials and devices for major oil fields, refineries, and petrochemical enterprises in China.

Jinglei Technology is a typical research and production enterprise. The company has been rated as a "National High tech Enterprise", a "National Recognized Enterprise Technology Center", and a "Key Enterprise of Major Technical Equipment in Sichuan Province". The company's "Jinglei" trademark has been recognized as a "China Famous Trademark".

During the 11th Five Year Plan period, Jinglei Technology invested 500 million yuan in capacity expansion technology transformation, and the annual production capacity of metal composite plates increased from 6000 tons to 90000 tons, and the annual production capacity of heavy technical equipment increased from 3000 tons to 30000 tons. During the 12th Five Year Plan period, enterprises are also striving to seize opportunities, seize the commanding heights of a new round of development, and build a leading research and production base for ecological and environmentally friendly explosive welding metal composite materials in China; We will focus on the three major sectors of "energy conservation and environmental protection industry", "high-end equipment manufacturing industry", and "new materials industry", further enhance characteristic industries, promote the linkage of new industrialization, agricultural modernization, and urbanization, and strive to achieve the goal of a total industrial output value of 5 billion yuan by 2015.

Targeting emerging industries and composing a new chapter in the market

Since the 1980s, Thunderbolt Technology has opened up a new era of industrialization and domestic production of metal composite materials, ending the history of Japanese composite material products dominating the Chinese market.

When the Thunder Company was first founded in 1988, domestic metal composite materials were monopolized by Japanese companies, with high prices ranging from several hundred thousand yuan per ton. "At that time, China was still in a research and development stage, and state-owned enterprises were unwilling to do so. Small and micro enterprises of the company aimed to target blank markets, and even segmented markets could make big contributions," said Wang Diancan, Chairman of Jinglei Technology. They still remember the difficulties in promoting, "Opening up new markets is not easy, and many state-owned enterprises have not used this new material. They would rather use expensive pure materials than metal composite materials, even if the latter is 2/3 cheaper."

The Three Gorges Project has brought the opportunity for Thunderbolt Technology to become famous in World War I. Due to its good quality, high technological content, and relatively low price, Thunderbolt's metal composite plates are used in the construction of gates, sand discharge holes, flood discharge holes, and other projects in the Three Gorges Dam. The company has produced over 3400 tons of multi metal composite materials for the Three Gorges Project. Later, the company's products were also adopted in major national engineering projects such as the West East Gas Pipeline and the Xiluodu Power Station.

In recent years, Thunder Technology has rapidly occupied the market and developed rapidly with its advantages of high technological content and good quality. The company's products have entered the international market and are exported to countries such as the United States, Italy, India, Mexico, Iran, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Taiwan. The products involve multiple industries such as petroleum, petrochemicals, salt industry, water conservancy, hydropower, light industry, and environmental protection With the development of strategic emerging industries in the future, there will be an increasing demand for metal composite materials for new materials, and Jinglei Technology is equivalent to finding a gold mine.

Relying on technological innovation to dominate the industry

The rapid development of Thunder Technology depends on a high level of emphasis on technological innovation. The company's technology center enjoys high authority and strong economic and technological strength. Among the 162 employees of the technology center, there are 38 senior experts (including 12 PhDs), and 8 specialized laboratories have been jointly established with domestic and foreign universities, research institutes, and large enterprises; The company's annual technology development expenses account for over 4% of its annual sales revenue, and have exceeded 6% since 2009.

Jinglei Company is one of the main enterprises that formulate technical standards for the metal composite industry in China. The enterprise has advanced technology and strong progressiveness and supporting production equipment; The company has established a metal materials research institute, with advanced and reliable inspection and testing methods; The enterprise has superior production and transportation conditions, with over 100000 square meters of production plants, more than 200 sets of main production equipment, and also has railway dedicated lines. The original value of the company's technology center equipment and facilities is nearly 80 million yuan, including more than 160 sets of instruments and equipment for physical and chemical testing, mechanical performance testing, corrosion testing, heat treatment, and inspection and testing, which can fully meet the various performance testing of various metal composite materials and the research and development testing of new materials.

The Thunder Technology Center has achieved a large number of research and development achievements, with a leading level in scientific research and new product development among its peers in China, and some even reaching international advanced levels. Some new technologies and products have been listed as strategic emerging industry projects at the national and provincial levels, as well as national key industry revitalization projects.

The bimetallic composite pipe is a new product developed by Jinglei Company in recent years after years of research and repeated testing. In October 2012, the first phase of industrialization of shale gas and high sulfur natural gas production and transportation bimetallic composite straight seam steel pipes by Jinglei Technology officially began. The total investment is 198 million yuan, achieving an annual production of 30000 tons. In the first half of this year, the project construction will be completed and qualified products will be produced.

Three dimensional ribbed tubes and high-efficiency heat exchange devices are another key product of Jinglei Company. This new type of heat exchange material was jointly invented by the company's chairman Wang Diancan and Professor Liao Guangya from Chongqing University. Received the International Invention Gold Award at the 39th Brussels World Expo. Compared with traditional light tube and plate fin heat transfer materials, the heat transfer effect of three-dimensional ribbed tubes is 3-6 times that of them. Especially its fins and the turbulence generated during operation greatly enhance the energy-saving effect.

Explosive composite technology and products have attracted international attention to Thunder Company. In recent years, internationally renowned enterprises such as Dynamic Materials of the United States, Japan Steel Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of Japan, and Kemisa Co., Ltd. of Mexico have visited the company for inspection and technical exchange.

Implementing environmental protection work and sincerely repaying society

The environment is the material foundation for human survival, and enterprises have the obligation to restrain their unlimited demands on the environment in order to achieve sustainable development of human society. Thunder Technology has always regarded maintaining the natural environment as an important responsibility of the company.

One of the main production processes of Thunder Technology is "explosive welding", which uses explosives as a medium and the enormous energy generated by explosive explosions as a means to cause two different metal bodies to undergo strong physical and chemical reactions in an instant, thus tightly combining together. This process will generate significant sound waves and shock waves, both of which will have an impact on the surrounding environment.

Chairman Wang Diancan believes, "The company must fulfill its social responsibility and cannot unilaterally expand its production scale regardless of the ecological environment."

A few years ago, Thunder Technology was seeking an "environmentally friendly" expansion and reproduction path that could both protect the environment and develop production. After repeated research, testing, and investigation in various aspects, and collaborating with the Provincial Academy of Forestry and Agricultural University for research and development, it was finally decided to focus on the company's seven explosion sites, transfer tens of thousands of acres of barren mountains in the surrounding area, and plant a domestically excellent fast-growing bamboo species, forming a new bamboo sea of tens of thousands of acres. It can not only absorb the sound waves generated by explosions, but also eliminate the shock waves generated by explosions, making it the best "ecological barrier" and a component of the ecological barrier in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River advocated by the country. This new bamboo sea not only has environmental protection functions, but also economic functions. Thunderbolt Technology plans to complete the greening and cultivation of 500000 acres of barren mountains in about 15 years.

Make strategic planning and seek sustainable development

Jinglei Technology proposed its "Twelfth Five Year Plan" development strategy in 2008, which aims to become the largest, most technologically advanced, most cost-effective, and sustainable research and production base for explosive welding metal composite materials in China and even globally. The technological innovation strategy formulated based on this development strategy is to "explore the market with new technologies and processes; consolidate the market with new products and services; develop enterprises with low energy consumption and low emissions; and repay society with high quality and efficiency.".

According to this plan, the company will implement technological innovation and development in three major areas: new product field, equipment technology field, and energy conservation and environmental protection field. In the near future, "Thunder Technology" will have a globally leading, technologically advanced, significantly beneficial, and sustainable research and production base for explosive welding metal composite materials.