Good News! "SANY Silicon Direct Pulling Monocrystalline Silicon Growth Furnace" Wins SANY Science and Technology Progress Award!

On March 31st, the 2024 SANY Technology Festival arrived as scheduled. Over 11,000 SANY technology workers from around the world gathered online and offline to celebrate this festival. Xiang Wenbo, Party Secretary and Acting Chairman of SANY Group as well as Chairman of SANY Heavy Industry, and Directors of SANY Group, Yi Xiaogang, Yu Hongfu, Qi Jian, and others attended relevant activities.

The 2024 SANY Technology Festival encompassed a series of events such as technology achievement exhibitions, a main technology forum, sub-forums for technical committees, and an award ceremony dinner, providing all SANY technology workers with a technological feast themed "Leading with Digitization, Globalization, and Decarbonization, Pursuing Dreams Globally."

New Mission: Accelerating the Development of New Productive Forces

At the opening ceremony of the technology achievement exhibition, Xiang Wenbo extended festive greetings to all SANY technology workers and expressed heartfelt gratitude for their hard work and outstanding contributions.

Addressing all technology workers, Xiang Wenbo delved into the concept of new productive forces. He stated that SANY Group's three strategies of "globalization, digitization, and decarbonization" are highly compatible with the development requirements of new productive forces.

Xiang Wenbo emphasized that new productive forces have pointed the way for high-quality development in China's economy and also for SANY's technology workers. "As one of the largest and most innovative enterprises in China's equipment manufacturing industry, we must make SANY's contribution to the development of new productive forces. This is the new mission for all SANY technology workers and also a new opportunity for the future development of SANY's business."

Xiang Wenbo called on all SANY technology workers to rethink and plan SANY's technological work, giving full play to SANY's advantages, and making SANY's contributions in the process of building new productive forces and promoting high-quality development in China's economy.

A Feast of Technology: Gathering of Experts to Discuss the Future

The technology achievement exhibition at Changsha Industrial Park's Plant 5 was packed with people. Over 170 high-tech products and technologies from various business units were showcased in various forms such as physical objects, models, graphics, and videos, setting a new record in scale and fully demonstrating SANY Group's annual R&D achievements and style. The exhibition covered all award-winning projects from 18 categories of the technology festival and the latest R&D achievements from various business units, including intelligent solutions for mines, ports, and wind farms, new energy equipment such as wind and photovoltaic power storage and hydrogen, and self-developed core components, attracting a large number of technology workers to gather and exchange ideas.

Concurrently, the main technology forum of the SANY Technology Festival was successfully held. Experts and scholars such as Yang Huayong, Member of the National Committee of the CPPCC, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Dean of the School of Mechanical Engineering at Zhejiang University; Su Zimeng, President of the China Construction Machinery Association; Professor Xu Bing from Zhejiang University; Professor Lin Cheng from Beijing Institute of Technology; and Professor Cao Dongpu from Tsinghua University participated in the forum. Yi Xiaogang, Chief Engineer of SANY Group, delivered a speech, and Liu Kui, Director of R&D Management Headquarters, presided over the forum to discuss industry development.

In addition to the main forum, SANY Group's seven professional technical committees held thematic sub-forums on topics such as "Innovative Application of Construction Machinery Technology," "Intelligent Control Hydraulics, Leading the Future," and "Practices in Construction Machinery Intelligence and Engineering Control Technology," showcasing intellectual clashes and exchanges of wisdom.

Awards Announcement: Fruits of SANY's Innovation

As the highlight of the annual technology festival, in the afternoon of the same day, Yu Hongfu, President of SANY Heavy Industry, announced the winners of 18 annual awards, including the "Science and Technology Progress Award," "Excellent Component Award," "Product Market Performance Award," "Decarbonization Technology Innovation Award," "Intelligent Technology Innovation Award," "Digital Technology Innovation Award," and "Core Basic Technology Innovation Award." A total of 58 outstanding technology projects, 6 excellent collectives, and 31 advanced technology individuals were recognized.

Among them, the "Czochralski Silicon Single Crystal Growth Furnace" project declared by SANY Silicon Energy stood out and won the grand prize of the evening - the "SANY Scientific and Technological Progress Award."

As the first star product introduced by SANY Group in the field of photovoltaic equipment, the "Czochralski Silicon Single Crystal Growth Furnace" has gained widespread market favor with its advantages of high efficiency, high quality, high safety, low energy consumption, and digital intelligence. In its first year of production, 121 units were sold, generating sales revenue of up to 167 million yuan.

In 2023, SANY continued to optimize its R&D methods and enhance its R&D achievements. Throughout the year, it launched over 750 new products and technologies, filed nearly 4,000 new patents, with the proportion of invention patent applications increasing by 18.6% year-on-year. The number of high-tech projects and invention patent applications reached record highs, demonstrating achievements in globalization, digital intelligence, and low-carbon development.

In the new year, SANY will closely follow the "three-in-one" strategy, persist in R&D innovation, continue to increase efforts in this area, and accelerate the development of new productive forces to inject new momentum into SANY's high-quality development. SANY Silicon Energy will also seize the opportunities of the times, embrace the new wave of the global energy revolution, and make greater contributions to the development of clean energy.