Entering the Enterprise || From Manufacturing to Intelligent Manufacturing: How Did Shanghai Shaozheng Break Through?

In a fully competitive state, it is actually beneficial for our process equipment manufacturers. When clients face cost pressures, they tend to pay more attention to our pelletizing equipment and thoroughly study its value and cost in the production line. Based on our doubled growth data over the past two years, the market demand for high-quality equipment is robust.

So far, our first-quarter data has increased by 244.77% year-on-year. For 2025, the market's head effect will become more pronounced, and we still conservatively expect our performance to double. We can maintain excellent growth, thanks to the support and inspiration of a group of high-quality clients: not only meeting the requirements for import substitution but also having the capability to provide practical on-site solutions. Here, I am very grateful for the current market opportunities and such a group of hands-on clients!

Yes. Everyone is exploring and establishing modified smart factories. Based on market demand, we are currently developing an intelligent strip cutting and pelletizing system. During the development, we considered using big data to help customers solve formulation processes, but through understanding the customer's site and conducting research, we found that the current market acceptance and expectations focus on adapting to on-site conditions, achieving real-time data monitoring, optimizing processes, and optimizing energy efficiency.

The determination of this important direction also comes from discussions with the end users, which is invaluable to us; otherwise, we would waste a lot of human, financial, and material resources on inappropriate directions.

This is something I have always wanted to do. Through technical collaboration and data sharing, I can obtain a large amount of quantitative production data on materials. As a manufacturer of process equipment, the data obtained from laboratories is very limited and has low reference value. If we have enough quantitative production data, we can truly develop the pelletizing process and equipment performance to the extreme. The aggregation of data inevitably involves process formulations, which is the objective reason I mentioned earlier. Currently, the equipment is not yet capable of adapting to formulated processes; it can only adapt to feedback and optimization of on-site process data.

We have already implemented some customized digital service solutions. For example, our pelletizer can now display the usage time of wear parts and provide maintenance reminders. Customers can even view the production line speed and output on their mobile devices. These features help customers perform preventive maintenance on-site. Additionally, customers can evaluate equipment more objectively, avoiding subjective or human factors, and making decisions more impartially.

Polycarbonate (PC) recycled plastic is an environmentally friendly material made from discarded PC products such as plastic bottles and electrical appliance casings through processes like crushing, cleaning, melting, pelletizing, and drying. This recycled plastic retains physical and chemical properties similar to virgin polycarbonate but is more cost-effective. For virgin PC, we have collaborations with domestic companies like Wanhua, Luxi, Cangzhou Dahua, and Teijin, and our technology is well-established. Our focus in the pelletizing stage is still on cost reduction. Using recycled polycarbonate can reduce reliance on virgin plastic and help lower environmental pollution. In this regard, we will actively contribute our part to environmental protection.

Currently, there is indeed a trend of relocation, but the investment in the modification industry abroad is still in the trial phase, with a cautious approach, resulting in relatively low-quality equipment investments. Given our company's product positioning, we are currently in a wait-and-see mode. Of course, the market is being explored through various channels, but there are no immediate plans to establish a factory.

Our technological innovation cycle in the process equipment industry is not that fast. The products we showcased this time are actually based on technology from two years ago, and they have received excellent market feedback. Our NAIMO PLUS series is called "Zero Glue Explosion, No Pollution, Precise Delivery, High Output," addressing the market demand for completely avoiding glue roller explosions that contaminate materials and increasing production output. Additionally, our latest intelligent strip-cutting pelletizing system will be unveiled at our factory. We look forward to meeting both new and old friends. Thank you!