Changsha Branch of Shanghai Kaiquan Pump (Group) Co., Ltd.

Kaiquan Group is a large comprehensive pump company integrating design, production, and sales of pumps, water supply equipment, and pump control equipment, and is a leading enterprise in China's pump industry. With total assets of 2.5 billion yuan, it has 7 enterprises and 5 industrial parks in Shanghai, Zhejiang, Hebei, Liaoning, Anhui and other provinces and cities, covering a total area of nearly 1,000 mu, with a production building area of 350,000 square meters. Kaiquan Group has received honorary titles such as "Shanghai Quality Gold Award," "Fourth among Shanghai's Top 100 Private Enterprises," "Shanghai Top 100 Technology Enterprises," "Shanghai Famous Brand Product," "Shanghai Famous Trademark," "China Quality Credit AAA Level," "National Contract Credit Grade AAA Level," "Quality, Reputation, and Service Three-Excellence Enterprise," and "National Advanced Unit for Corporate Culture Construction." In 2012, Kaiquan was selected as one of the National Top 500 Machinery Enterprises, ranking first in the pump industry.

High-end talent and a high-quality workforce are the driving force behind Kaiquan's development. The group currently has more than 5,000 employees, 80% of whom have a college degree or above, including more than 750 engineering and technical personnel, mainly composed of nationally renowned pump experts and professors, Ph.D. and master's degree holders, and middle and senior engineers, forming an innovative echelon talent structure.

Technological innovation is the source of life for Kaiquan's enduring success. The group is a Shanghai high-tech enterprise, a Shanghai intellectual property demonstration enterprise, and a Shanghai patent demonstration enterprise. Its Shanghai-level "Enterprise Technology Center" invests 5% of total annual sales in technological innovation and new product research and development. It has introduced the world's advanced CFD fluid dynamics professional internal flow field analysis, CAE finite element theoretical calculation, and CIMATRON three-dimensional CAD, CAM, CAE, FMS and other research and design software systems. It has also established long-term strategic cooperative relationships with nearly 10 universities and research institutes, including Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Jiangsu University, forming a technical system centered on independent intellectual property rights. It owns nearly 200 patents (including 5 national invention patents), 2 national construction industry scientific and technological achievement promotion projects, and one National Science and Technology Progress Second Prize.

An advanced and complete R&D and manufacturing equipment system is a strong guarantee for Kaiquan's development. Kaiquan Group has three advanced basic research laboratories: a mechanics research laboratory, a hydraulic research laboratory, and a material application research laboratory. It has established three testing platforms that are leading domestically and even world-class, including a thermal shock test bench, a high-precision closed test bench, and a large hydraulic testing center. At the same time, Kaiquan possesses a domestically leading and complete manufacturing equipment system, currently equipped with 1,200 advanced production and testing equipment units/sets. Among them are 56 imported pieces of equipment, 240 large processing equipment units, and more than 300 CNC processing equipment units/sets. For example, WFT13 CNC boring and milling machine, KTL-1600 CNC vertical lathe, TK6916 CNC boring and milling machining center, 8-meter CNC vertical lathe, 3 CNC gantry milling machines, 2 2.5-meter CNC vertical lathes, HD7VS high-speed dynamic balancing machine, etc. To fully enter the field of nuclear power and thermal power pumps, it invested 150 million yuan to build a heavy-duty workshop with a building area of 10,000 square meters, a workshop rail height of 24 meters, and a 150-ton crane with a single hook, possessing nuclear power main pump assembly capabilities. It also invested 300 million yuan to import a large number of the world's most advanced technical equipment from abroad, such as the Profimill4000/100-T six-axis five-linkage gantry boring and milling machining center, nine-axis five-linkage floor-type boring and milling machining center, AC46TM-4000 heavy-duty high-precision vertical turning and milling center, TRT314HS six-axis five-linkage machining center, 2.5-meter heavy-duty high-precision vertical turning and milling center, etc., possessing internationally advanced processing and manufacturing capabilities, ensuring the quality of high-end products such as nuclear power and thermal power pumps.

Creating customer value is Kaiquan's unremitting pursuit. In 2013, the group's sales reached 3 billion yuan, nearly double that of the second place in the industry, ranking first in sales in the national pump industry for nine consecutive years. The group attaches great importance to the combination of service with technology and business, realizing value-added services. 300 technical support engineers provide customers with professional and comprehensive solution support. It uses advanced ERP systems and e-commerce systems to quickly respond to user needs and control the order execution process throughout. Its nationwide service network—32 sales branches and 361 offices—implements the "Blue Fleet" service and a 4-hour rapid response mechanism, ready to respond to customer needs at any time. Kaiquan has always considered customers' interests, meets customers' personalized needs, and creates world-class products with reliable performance.

Kaiquan products are everywhere and have become models in national key projects. Kaiquan Group has successfully passed the "three-system" certification of quality, environment, and occupational health and safety management systems and the American RAB multilateral international certification. Its products cover dozens of major categories and nearly a hundred series in construction, municipal, electric power, petroleum, chemical, mining, nuclear power, etc. Today, "Kaiquan" products are found in the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, Pakistan Chashma Nuclear Power Plant, Datang Baoji Thermal Power Plant, Weiqiao Changshan Power Plant, Beihai Power Plant, Huangdao Oil Depot, Sinopec Tianjin 1 million-ton ethylene project, Huaibei Mining Bureau, Anyang Iron and Steel, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, World Expo Park, Chairman Mao Memorial Hall, Oriental Pearl TV Tower, Pudong International Airport, Shanghai Maglev, Beijing Subway and other national key projects.

Facing the future, Kaiquan Group seizes opportunities, rides the trend, comprehensively upgrades, and achieves leapfrog development, committed to the localization of high-end pump products in fields such as nuclear power, large thermal power, petrochemicals, and seawater desalination, "contributing our strength to the rise of China's pump industry," and striving to build a world-renowned brand, achieve a sales target of 12 billion by 2015, become an internationally competitive multinational company, and enter the world's top ten in the pump industry!