[From Shantou, one of the earliest open special economic zones in my country, to Hangzhou, which integrates history and innovation, to Linyi, the logistics capital of China... Recently, our reporter and mainstream media such as People's Daily, Xinhuanet followed the China Dairy Industry Association to Guangdong Guangdong Guangdong Guangdong Guangdong Machinery, Hangzhou Central Asia, Yongchuang Intelligent, and Shandong Bihai for in-depth research and interviews. Through several days of interviews, the reporter learned that over the past 20 years, with the transformation and upgrading of China Dairy , China's dairy equipment manufacturing industry has achieved leapfrog high-quality development, providing strong support for the rise of the dairy industry. Domestic dairy processing technology and equipment continues to break foreign monopoly, bringing closer and surpassing the world's advanced equipment level. Dairy machinery has been completely reliant on imports to now exporting to more than 100 countries in the world. Some domestic core equipment not only has price advantages compared with similar products in the world, but also has independent intellectual property rights, patents and pricing rights. 】
Innovative research and development and implementation of "import substitution"
In the early 1990s, China's food packaging machinery basically relied on imports. In 1995, in Shantou, Guangdong, one of the earliest special economic zones to open in my country, Li Yueyun started his business with 50,000 yuan borrowed to establish Guangdong East Machinery. The local leader at that time told him earnestly that just producing one equipment would save the country a lot of foreign exchange.
Therefore, innovation and R&D have continuously improved the process level, implemented "import substitution", created national brands, and expanded the international market while increasing the domestic market. Introduction, digestion and absorption have become the development strategy of the milk machine industry in this period.
is developing and investing every day. As the general manager of the company, Li Yueyun often travels on business trips by backpack alone, and his business footprints are spread across more than 60 countries. The filling and rotary valve is the core component of the sterile filling equipment. Dongdong of Guangdong has paid a huge R&D price for this. The independently developed and designed filling ceramic rotary valve can be free of sealing rings, which reduces the problem of baggage increase caused by pollution and improves filling accuracy. A well-known domestic snack food customer eventually replaced the Japanese equipment that he had been using with mechanical equipment from eastern Guangdong. Hangzhou Zhongya Machinery Co., Ltd. has also made innovations with independent intellectual property rights in filling and rotating valves. After four years of research and development, it has tested more than 20 valve body structure materials, transforming the original regular disassembly and washing into fully automatic cleaning, and greatly improving the service life, and changing the replacement cycle from 1 month to 6 months.
In the initial stage of Central Asia machinery, Chinese dairy machinery is still very simple, and can only produce plastic bags, bottles and other products, without sterile packaging equipment. In 1997, Central Asia entered the field of dairy packaging machinery, became a supplier of Danone in France in 2004, and began to process OEM for internationally renowned enterprises in 2007... As a result, with the help of European technology, standards and concepts, Central Asia has been comprehensively improved.
Chinese dairy machinery and equipment manufacturing companies have always regarded technological innovation as their core driving force and attached importance to increasing investment in scientific and technological R&D. At present, R&D investment in Guangdong East Machinery and Central Asia Machinery has accounted for about 7% of their total revenue. In response to the common problem of the domestic industry lacking "digital, intelligent, integrated, and energy-saving dairy aseptic digital packaging", Central Asia has broken through the key technologies of sterile filling automation production line manufacturing and solved the "bottleneck" problem of domestic dairy and beverage packaging. After 26 years of development, Central Asia's products have been distributed in 34 provinces, cities and autonomous regions in China and sold to 44 countries. All core technology products have broken foreign monopoly and filled more than 20 domestic equipment technology gaps, with equipment prices only half of Europe and 1/3 of Japan.
The products from eastern Guangdong have been exported to 102 countries including Japan, the United States, Germany, etc., and the foreign market accounts for about half of its total sales revenue. The company has 8 offices in the United States, Brazil, Australia, UAE, Russia, South Africa, Indonesia , and France. At present, the third phase of the Guangdong-East Guangdong factory is under construction. Li Yueyun introduced that the filling and sealing equipment in eastern Guangdong has become one of the world's first-class brands, and many well-known foreign dairy companies know the name of eastern Guangdong.
In 2012, Hangzhou Yongchuang, which anchored the future development trend of intelligent manufacturing and robotics, added the word "intelligence" to the company name during the joint-stock transformation.Wu Rinbo, director and general manager of Yongchuang Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd., said that those who are familiar with Yongchuang know that Yongchuang’s chairman generally does not hold meetings, does not meet customers, or shows up, but he does the most tiring job - taking the lead in R&D and leading a technical team. "The place he went most often was in the workshop, and he often wore a work uniform and drilled under the equipment to study technical problems. In order to facilitate the study of drawings, the chairman's desk was simply a table tennis table."
Wu Rinbo introduced that the innovation of Yongchuang's linear aseptic ultra-clean technology is that the use of robots to enter and exit the bottle to avoid pollution. The filling accuracy and quality of multi-special continuously variable speeds have caught up with or even surpassed similar products in foreign products, and the price is 10%-30%. The hydrogen peroxide gasification and circulation technology that is conducive to energy conservation and environmental protection is only mastered by , Tetra Pak and Yongchuang. Up to now, Yongchuang's investment in the field of intelligence has reached more than 100 million yuan. In 2017, Yongchuang's sales reached 1.38 billion yuan and its R&D investment was nearly 4.5%. It has 500 authorized patents, including 71 invention patents (including 23 PCTs). The company exports 1,000 robots in one year. Its paper charter and strapping machine are leading in the world. Paper charter and strapping machine have become a strong competitor of Germany's Krones .
Although China's milk machine equipment level has made great progress, the total annual output value of China's food liquid filling equipment is not as good as that of Germany's Krones, and the global output value of liquid food packaging machinery is not as good as Tetra Pak. In Wu Rinbo's view, this leaves a lot of room for growth for Chinese peers. "R&D investment is absolutely proportional to technological upgrading. We must focus on technology research and development, not on short-term profits, but on the long-term, and on 5 or 10 years later. The industry will become more and more focused and concentrated. Whoever has the leading technology can continue to develop. There is no best product, but only better. We must constantly discover our own problems and customer needs, and strengthen the linkage between technology and after-sales service." Wu Rinbo said that the company will better implement the global development strategy and the transformation of the intelligent manufacturing industry. Faced with the automation transformation of packaging for small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises and the construction and upgrading of digital workshops and smart factories of advanced manufacturing enterprises, Yongchuang Intelligent relies on more than 10 years of core technology accumulation and knowledge accumulation in the fields of machinery, control and information technology, and strives to become a leader in the intelligent packaging industry.
In front of the display rack of the production workshop of Shandong Bihai Packaging Materials Co., Ltd., Chairman Li Shanhong pointed to the 80 ml Egyptian canned cheese, whiskey and other products produced by our equipment to tell reporters that the company's products currently have 34 specifications such as pillow bags and roof bags, with a capacity ranging from 80 ml to 1000 ml. It is currently the manufacturer with the most product specifications in the same industry in China.
Bihai began to design and manufacture its own sterile carton filling machine in 2004; in 2007, the company's first sterile carton filling machine was launched; in 2008, it began to produce paper aluminum-plastic composite sterile wrapping paper. Bihai's main product, BH7500-III sterile carton filling machine, digests and absorbs and innovates itself, and continuously improves and improves sterile systems, paper feeding systems, molding systems, electrical systems, and bagging systems. At present, the comprehensive performance of this model has reached the international advanced level. In 2017, the sterile system of the sterile carton filling machine passed the challenging sterile verification of third-party international testing agencies.
"For decades, the market for aseptic carton filling machines and packaging paper has been monopolized by foreign giants. After years of hard work, the domestic packaging materials produced by Bihai can completely replace imports, and the filling machine with a filling speed of 9,000 bags per hour has also replaced imports, and the average price has been reduced by half." Li Shanhong said.
This year, Bihai independently developed the "Bihai Bottle" packaging and filling machine. This major innovation brings a unique new packaging form to the dairy industry at home and abroad. It has applied for patents at home and abroad, which will bring Bihai a market advantage exclusively during the patent protection period.
China's manufacturing continues to improve its core advantages
The flexible and innovative ability, superb technology and diligent spirit of hard work that Chinese technicians have are manufacturing "tricks" that will not be marked on any drawing. Chinese equipment generally does not change the production process of customers, and does it according to the actual needs of customers, and is pragmatic and easy to implement. And well-known foreign equipment manufacturers want customers to comply with themselves. Li Yueyun said: "Consumers are increasingly liking for diversified and high-end products.For example, for products such as yogurt that increases protein content and adds fruit grains, the market demand needs to be different configurations reflected on the machinery and equipment. The changes are actually very complicated and require personalized customization. Foreign products rarely change the product settings according to the production lines of domestic companies, and it is difficult to adjust the delivery time flexibly. This gives us a chance. "
From a competitive perspective, globally, the competition between dairy machinery companies has evolved into comprehensive strength competition including various details. To adapt to the rapidly changing market and the expansion of non-standard products, time is everything, and delivery response must be accelerated. Shi Zheng, general manager of Central Asia Machinery, believes that customers are no longer simply comparing prices, but paying more attention to the stability, quality, efficiency, service, production capacity, failure rate, accessories costs, delivery time and other factors of the entire life cycle of mechanical equipment. All of these are tests of personalized customization capabilities.
Dairy consumption trend instantly If the interest rate changes, the delivery of machinery and equipment may cause customers to miss the opportunity for the best-selling of dairy products. A customer of Central Asia Machinery needs plant yogurt equipment. The delivery time of foreign manufacturers is 6-8 months. Central Asia Machinery mobilizes resources and strength to the greatest extent in the shortest time to meet personalized needs and compress the delivery time of customer equipment to 2 months.
"Compared with foreign giants such as Tetra Pak, China's food machinery packaging companies are still students, and are in the same stage of learning, only partially leading and close to technology. We are indispensable to the path others have taken, and we can only use their experience to shorten the development time. "Wu Rinpo said frankly. Shi Zheng believes that Chinese breast machines are still far from European products in terms of ultra-high-speed equipment, multi-equipment collaboration, sterilization and other technologies. Li Shanhong said that over the years, Bihai has streamlined other projects and focused on the research and development of sterile carton filling machines. The purpose is only one: to represent world-class good products in China, and let Chinese manufacturing replace imports. "Although the overall strength is still very different from foreign countries, we strive to make Bihai a world-renowned brand in the industry in 5-10 years. "
Liu Meiju, Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of China Dairy Industry Association, said during the investigation that a great country supports the development of national industry, and behind the achievements of China's dairy industry is the strong support of dairy machinery manufacturing enterprises. Decades of accumulation and precipitation are valuable assets for my country's dairy machinery manufacturing enterprises to focus on development and make continuous progress. Compared with foreign dairy machinery manufacturing giants, some core technologies and key products of Chinese dairy machinery manufacturing enterprises still have shortcomings, and the consistency, stability and service life of some products are still far from the international advanced level. The core competitiveness and market influence of brands also need to be improved. However, with the rapid development of my country's economy and technology, I believe that more Chinese manufacturing will go global.
