This year is the sixth year since Northern Heavy Industries carried out mixed-ownership reform and joined Fangda Group. Over the past six years, Northern Heavy Industries has been reforming and forging ahead, focusing on its core business, and has achieved remarkable development results. In the first quarter of this year, North Heavy Industries received a series of good news. It achieved fruitful results in market expansion and technological innovation, with its sales revenue growing by double digits year-on-year. It also made a major breakthrough in the high-end equipment market in the overseas mining sector.

Facing increasingly fierce market competition pressure, Northern Heavy Industries has been seeking change through innovation, taking the research and development of new products and new technologies as the core driving force for its development. Meanwhile, through the integration of industry, academia and research, a key path has been planned for the innovative development of enterprises.

Cooperation among industry, academia and research institutions empowers industrial upgrading with advanced technologies

In a certain mining area in Liaoning Province, a new equipment wearing a "golden armor" and printed with the "NHI" logo is rapidly stripping the rocks in front of it. This is a tunnel boring machine developed and manufactured by Northern Heavy Industries in collaboration with Northeastern University, using a brand-new microwave rock-breaking technology. Its efficiency is 2 to 3 times that of traditional tunnel boring machines.

Through cooperation with Northeastern University, North Heavy Industries has solved the long-standing problem of mechanical excavation of hard rock, bringing about a revolution in hard rock cutting and mechanized mining of metal mines. Meanwhile, this equipment will also provide an equipment foundation for the intelligent and unmanned operation of hard rock excavation and metal mining.

In recent years, North Heavy Industries has carried out in-depth cooperation with renowned domestic universities such as Northeastern University, Jilin University, Yanshan University and Shenyang University of Technology. It has established joint laboratories and conducted technological research on new products, achieving multiple technological breakthroughs and making new contributions to the transformation and upgrading of China's mining industry.

Self-developed and adhere to the path of high-quality development driven by innovation

To enhance the independent innovation capacity of the enterprise, Northern Heavy Industries is fully promoting the construction of the provincial key engineering technology center. This center gathers the top R&D talents within the enterprise, is equipped with world-class R&D equipment and experimental facilities, and is committed to the research and development and innovation of key technologies for mining equipment.

During the research and development process, the center has been market demand-oriented, focusing on the difficult and painful issues in mining, such as the high efficiency and energy conservation of mills and the intelligent control of crushing equipment. Through continuous technological breakthroughs, a series of remarkable achievements have been made. Among them, the MLL1200 spiral vertical mill won the third prize of Science and Technology of China Machinery Industry.

High-end equipment helps the mining market achieve new breakthroughs

At the site of a domestic mining project, the permanent magnet semi-direct drive spiral vertical mill successfully completed the on-site trial run with materials.

It is understood that the spiral vertical mill is a new generation of mining production equipment that Northern Heavy Industries has launched to the market in recent years. Compared with the traditional two-stage mill, it has the advantages of small floor space, high production efficiency, low maintenance cost and low operating power consumption, promoting the green transformation and upgrading of China's mining industry. Through years of technological accumulation, North Heavy Industries has successfully applied permanent magnet drive technology to its spiral vertical mill products and achieved complete domestic production of core components.

With the outstanding performance and technological advantages of its high-end equipment, Northern Heavy Industries successfully won the largest domestic order for spiral vertical mills this year, achieving a new breakthrough in the fierce market competition. In the first quarter of this year, the sales revenue of Northern Heavy Industries achieved double-digit year-on-year growth, laying a solid foundation for the production and operation work throughout the year

In the future, North Heavy Industries will continue to uphold the development concept of "innovation-driven and technology-leading", further unleash the vitality of reform, accelerate the pace of enterprise transformation and upgrading with flexible and efficient systems and mechanisms, and adhere to the path of high-quality development driven by innovation. At the same time, we will continue to deepen the cooperation among industry, academia and research institutions, constantly enhance the innovation capabilities of provincial key engineering technology centers, increase investment in product technology research and development, provide more high-quality, efficient and green equipment and solutions for global customers, and contribute to promoting the high-quality development of China's high-end equipment manufacturing industry.