Changzhou Hongda Technology (Group) (hereinafter referred to as "Changzhou Hongda") recently won a production order worth millions of yuan from a company in Alar, Xinjiang. The company's independently developed high-end dyeing equipment has successfully entered the Xinjiang market.
　　“The Xinjiang textile and garment industry is upgrading rapidly with significant growth. Winning this large order demonstrates domestic dyeing companies' recognition and trust in Changzhou Hongda. Especially on World Intellectual Property Day, it makes us feel that our persistent independent innovation is worthwhile,” said Gu Ren, Chairman and General Manager of Changzhou Hongda, in an interview with reporters.
　　
　
　　Changzhou Hongda, which focuses on innovative R&D and persistent technological breakthroughs, has been cultivating the industry for over 30 years and has produced impressive results: Changzhou Hongda's independently developed online detection products for various dyeing process parameters account for over 90% of the domestic market share. Among them, the company's self-developed artificial intelligence fabric image weft and warp alignment technology ended the era where the dyeing industry only had weft alignment but not warp alignment; the world's first Hawk Vision flexible intelligent weft insertion machine achieved a major breakthrough in key technologies. Hundreds of well-known domestic textile and dyeing enterprises, including Zhejiang Yingfeng Technology Co., Ltd., Jiangyin Fuhui Textile Co., Ltd., and Jiangsu Junlin Textile Technology Co., Ltd., are equipped with artificial intelligence fabric image weft and warp alignment equipment, and Yuanxin Industrial Co., Ltd., a leading domestic manufacturer of setting machines, has also reached in-depth cooperation with Changzhou Hongda.
　
　　
　　As a domestic "expert in dyeing intelligence," Changzhou Hongda has focused on the application of technology in the dyeing process from the outset, committed to building a new generation of digital dyeing manufacturing platform using industrial internet, artificial intelligence technology, and digital twin technology. To date, Changzhou Hongda holds over 300 intellectual property rights, including 71 invention patents, 182 utility model patents, 36 design patents, and 12 software copyrights. The 22nd National Intellectual Property Office Patent Excellence Award, the "Science and Technology China" Leading Technology Award, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's Pilot Enterprise for the Application of Intellectual Property Rights in Industrial Enterprises, the China Textile Industry Federation Patent Gold Award, the Changzhou Municipal Government's Outstanding Inventor Award, the First Prize of the China Textile Industry Federation Science and Technology Award, and the Jiangsu Provincial Science and Technology Award… these national, provincial, municipal, and industry honors have given Changzhou Hongda more influence in the dyeing equipment field.


　　These honors were hard-earned. Gu Ren frankly admitted that independent innovation is extremely difficult. This difficulty is not just about overcoming various "bottleneck" technologies. He told reporters that technological innovation is the company's core competitiveness, and protecting intellectual property rights is an important guarantee for the company's technological innovation. How to do a good job in this protection work is a question he has been considering. “Fortunately, we are in a good era. Currently, the country has established a complete intellectual property protection system, and the supporting laws and regulations are very comprehensive, which is unprecedented. The country has provided us with a good environment for achieving technological innovation and self-reliance, which is a very solid backing for innovative enterprises,” Gu Ren said: “Both domestic and international markets are eager for new technologies. In fact, our current production technology is in a leading position in many aspects of the international market. Some time ago, at the textile industry exhibitions in Indonesia and Vietnam, our booth attracted many foreign dyeing companies, which is recognition of Changzhou Hongda's products from the international market, and even more so, recognition of China's intelligent manufacturing.”


　　Regarding industry development, Gu Ren also shared his views. In his opinion, with the digital transformation of the textile and dyeing industry and the high-quality development requirements of green manufacturing, the industry will comprehensively promote the upgrading of digital manufacturing in the industry through four major sectors: process digitalization, equipment intelligence, management informatization, and decision-making intelligence. During the critical period of achieving high-quality development in the textile industry, Changzhou Hongda's innovative R&D is no longer limited to a single process, but is based on the changes in dyeing factories' demand for intelligent and digital equipment, carrying out systematic industrial innovation.

　　Gu Ren stated that Changzhou Hongda not only needs to meet the explicit needs of customers but also to anticipate and guide the implicit needs of customers. The company's strategy mainly focuses on intelligent manufacturing and has already laid a solid technological foundation with a clear layout for practical applications. “Cultivating niche markets, focusing on technological innovation, honing internal skills, polishing tools, enhancing core competitiveness, and steadily improving every link in the industrial chain will surely create an unbreakable market competitiveness,” Gu Ren said.

　　Article written by Wang Jizheng, reporter
　　Edited by Ma Rui