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Nittoku's leadership team visited Zhenjiang

2021-04-19

In the spring, all things are born with glory.

Ltd. and General Manager Tetsuya Okamoto came to Jiangyin to visit Zhenjiang. Chairman Hu Zhen, Deputy General Manager Zhu Xiaoqiu, Secretary Yuan Jianjun, Purchasing Department Director Xu Gongjian and Securities Representative Wu Jiansong attended the reception and had a discussion.

Ltd. was established in 1941, which is one of the top 500 companies in the world and a famous trading company in Japan, operating metal materials, machinery and equipment, textile and garment and food business worldwide. Ltd. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nittoku in China.
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Chairman Hu Zhen expressed his warm welcome to the visit of the guests and said that China and Japan are close to each other and have been "old neighbors" since ancient times. Ltd. as a famous Japanese trading company, enjoys a high reputation in the world, and sincerely appreciates the support of NITRO for Zhenjiang's development for a long time, then Mr. Hu briefly introduced Zhenjiang's initial business, industrial layout and future planning for the Japanese guests. General Manager Tetsuya Okamoto expressed his heartfelt thanks for Zhenjiang's warm reception. He talked about the smooth business and tacit understanding between the two sides over the years, and always maintained a good strategic partnership.
4.19.2.jpgNittoku is known for its standardized, professional, innovative and win-win business philosophy in the world, which has many coincidences with Zhenjiang.

Hu Zhen said that Japan's craftsmanship is world-renowned, and Zhenjiang's philosophy of "putting people first and making products into crafts" also embodies the pursuit of craftsmanship and ultimate skills, and the two companies resonate and converge in the same direction.
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Vice General Manager Zhu Xiaoqiu said, Jiangyin is known as "the first manufacturing county in China", with a deep industrial heritage and technological innovation soil, Zhenjiang has served international famous enterprises such as Siemens, General Electric, Vestas, Hitachi, Enercon, etc., which have harsh requirements on quality, and accumulated rich experience in manufacturing technology and quality management, and is also the leader among the enterprises in Jiangyin.

At present, Zhenjiang has maintained strategic partnerships with seven of the world's top ten wind turbine OEMs, and solar business customers NEXTracker and ATI ranked one or two in the global industry.
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During the one-day visit, the two sides had a number of activities such as film observation, business discussion, visit to the smart factory, and visit to the wind turbine assembly base, etc. The guests expressed a more comprehensive, in-depth and detailed understanding of Zhenjiang.
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Visit to Zhenjiang Smart Factory

Since 2017, Zhenjiang has invested a total of 1 billion yuan to build an international-level wind turbine component manufacturing workshop to realize the transformation and upgrade from traditional manufacturing to intelligent manufacturing. By connecting digital machine tools, welding robots, etc. to the network platform, the production status of the equipment can be produced and monitored in real time.

Through lean production and intelligent transformation, we have achieved a lot of results, not only making the production efficiency greatly improved, but also winning a series of honors such as "Jiangsu Province Intelligent Model Workshop", "Four-star Cloud Enterprise" and "Internet Benchmark Factory" in recent year.

4.19.6.jpgThe guests visited the wind turbine assembly workshop in Leji base

At the site of the base, the guests inquired about the assembly with great interest. After learning that Zhenjiang has been cooperating with Siemens for ten years and is a gold supplier of Siemens, the guests nodded their heads in affirmation.

The wicker road, the jade is in the ground.

In 2011, Zhenjiang joined hands with Siemens, from nacelle cover, rotor room, brake disc...now wind turbine assembly, ten years, from the gold supplier transformation and upgrade to integrated solution provider.

Starting a new course of wind turbine assembly, Zhenjiang team from program determination, raw material procurement to integrated assembly, comprehensive planning, comprehensive efforts, comprehensive protection, and finally success - the first D3 wind turbine assembled by Zhenjiang will come off the line in the near future.

"Zhenjiang has optimized many traditional Siemens technologies, such as changing the D3 generator from traditional horizontal assembly to vertical assembly. In the whole project, we have achieved independent production of material components, independent design of key assembly process and independent research and development of process equipment. The most advanced international laser tracking and scanning technology is used for high-efficiency inspection, and the automatic test platform is used to test the static and dynamic performance of the whole generator, and a series of highly optimized solutions are unanimously approved by Siemens expert group".

After listening to the introduction of deputy general manager Zhu Xiaoqiu, the Japanese guests praised and said that wind turbine assembly is a high technology project, and the cooperation with Siemens has enhanced Zhenjiang's influence and competitiveness in the international top supply chain, and has the advantages of both experience and technology for forming new international cooperation, and they recognize Zhenjiang's excellent technical level.

In the afternoon seminar, the two sides were very excited and happy to talk, together on topics of common concern, as well as to further strengthen cooperation matters were discussed in depth.

Vice General Manager Zhu Xiaoqiu said that under the background of "2030 carbon peak" and "2060 carbon neutral", China, as the world's largest developing country, will complete the reduction of the world's highest carbon emission intensity, and achieve from carbon peak to carbon neutral in the shortest time in the world. The world's largest developing country, China will complete the reduction of the world's highest carbon emission intensity and achieve carbon neutral in the shortest time. Japan will convert 24% of its electricity sources to renewable energy such as solar and wind power by 2030, which is a great prospect and has great potential. We hope that Zhenjiang and Nittoku will plan ahead, take advantage of the situation, seize the opportunity, develop the Japanese market together, and reach a strong alliance of head enterprises.

General Manager Tetsuya Okamoto said that this visit is timely and significant. He was deeply impressed by Zhenjiang's production, technology and management. Under the global new energy wave, it is hoped that both sides will take real economy and scientific and technological innovation as the focus, integrate Chinese and Japanese resources, optimize strategic cooperation, accelerate industrial cooperation and upgrade, form a perfect and advantageous industrial supply chain, and realize joint development and mutual benefits.

Finally, Chairman Hu Zhen concluded, stating that Zhenjiang will always adhere to the manufacturing industry and real economy, firmly technology-based, continuously integrate new development models and growth patterns, and strengthen the competitiveness of the whole industrial chain. Under the inevitable trend of globalization of clean energy, he is very concerned about the potential and opportunities in the Japanese market, and hopes that the two parties will further explore cooperation mechanisms, build cooperation carriers and explore cooperation contents, so as to take the lead in seizing new development opportunities, forming new development patterns and promoting both sides to build great undertakings together.

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