Industry Cooperation_Technical R&D_Tangshan Kaiyuan Electric Group(EN)

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Tangshan Kaiyuan Electric Group (Kaiyuan Group for short) is a professional welding equipment industry group ranked No.1 in China, Top 3 in Asia and Top 10 in the world.
Established in 1971, Kaiyuan Group entered the welding industry in 1984 and was approved as a national welding industry base by Ministry of Science and Technology in 2006. Located in the National Hi-tech Development Zone of Tangshan City, Hebei Province, Kaiyuan Group covers an area of 260,000 m2, has a team of 1,900 employees and its annual sales is up to 2 billion Yuan.
International Cooperation
- Cooperation History
- Cooperation Partners
Kaiyuan Group has established wide cooperation with world’s first-class companies since it established the first Sino-foreign joint venture—Panasonic (Tangshan) in China’s welding industry in 1994. The Group is leading the development of China’s welding industry through win-win international cooperation and integrated innovations.
Technical R&D
Kaiyuan Group has taken a path of technical innovation from its success in the development of the first thyristor CO2 gas shield electric welder in China in 1984, to the introduction of advanced overseas technologies in the 1990s. At present, the Group has greatly increased its investment in the independent research and development, and is capable of providing customers with solutions of large welding plant, automatic welding lines, and even the overall plant scheme.
Products
Kaiyuan Group has built a complete portfolio of welding products including electric welder, robot and robot welding system, automatic welding equipment, special welding equipment, resistance welding equipment, welding auxiliary tools, as well as cutting machine and cutting materials, providing global customers with complete welding solutions.
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Kaiyuan Group is specialized in the welding industry and has established strategic cooperation with many leading enterprises in various industries, contributing to the improvement of China’s welding technology and the application of efficient welding equipment.
　　
China International Marine Containers (Group) Ltd. (CIMC)

In 2005, the two parties signed strategic cooperation agreement.
In 2011, the two parties jointly built a laboratory for the research and application of automation, informatization, and efficient welding equipment and methods.

Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding(Group) Co., Ltd.

Since 2007, the two parties began to make feasible research on the special welding equipment for the LNG ship maintenance system.
In 2009, the LNG Ship Invar Steel Seam Welder Joint Development Team was established.
In 2010, the Invar Steel Seam Welder for LNG Ship officially passed the certification of GTT and broke the monopoly of foreign products. The product outweighs similar products made by overseas enterprises in terms of overall technological level, technical indexes and functions.
In 2013, the two parties completed the R&D and certification for the overall LNG ship maintenance system and the 11 kinds of special welding equipments, and successfully applied the products in the construction of LNG ships.

Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group Co., Ltd. (XCMG)
Since 2008, the two parties began to cooperate in the research and development of intelligent robot welding of main structural parts for hoisting machinery, excavating machinery, concrete machinery, etc.

Guangxi LiuGong Group Co., Ltd.
In 2010, the two parties signed the strategic cooperation agreement and began to conduct the design, R&D, implementation and service work for the automatic welding solutions in accordance with the type, quality, yield and other requirements of the welding structural parts.

China Railway Shanhaiguan Bridge Group Co., Ltd.
The two parties started cooperation from the steel box girder project for the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, and made great breakthrough in the key technology of intelligent welding for large structural parts like the U-shaped rib and the diaphragm plate, and realized optimal robot welding solutions.

Shandong Energy Heavy Equipment Manufacturing Group Co., Ltd.
The two parties started cooperation in 2012 in the “High-end Hydraulic Support Intelligent Welding Workshop” project which was included in the Special Program of Intelligent Manufacturing Equipment, and successfully developed the first intelligent flexible welding line for the coal mining machinery industry.

Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries (Group) Co.,Ltd.

The two parties started cooperation in 2012 in the “Offshore Drilling Platform Equipment Intelligent Welding Workshop Project” which was included in the Special Program of Intelligent Manufacturing Equipment, and successfully completed the automatic intelligent welding task for large structural parts of energy equipment like the pile support of the drilling platform.