​Yonghong Plastic Pipe & Belt Factory in Taizhou's Luqiao District: Breaking New Ground through Reform, Empowering Development through Innovation, and Launching a New Journey of High-Quality Growth
2025-06-04
Yonghong Plastic Pipe & Belt Factory in Taizhou's Luqiao District: Breaking New Ground through Reform, Empowering Development through Innovation, and Launching a New Journey of High-Quality Growth   At a critical juncture in the transformation and upgrading of the plastic industry, Yonghong Plastic Pipe & Belt Factory in Luqiao District, Taizhou City, has cracked the code with its "dual-drive strategy of reform and innovation." Through digital production innovation, deep integration of industry-academia-research, and management model restructuring, the enterprise has achieved a leapfrog development from traditional manufacturing to intelligent innovation. In the first half of 2025, the enterprise's R&D investment ratio increased to 18%, and the contribution rate of new products reached 45%, with the effectiveness of reform and innovation being particularly remarkable during the industry's downward cycle.  

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## Digital Transformation: Reconstructing the Production and Manufacturing System   Stepping into Yonghong Plastic's intelligent workshop, a 5G+ industrial internet system is real-time monitoring the operational data of 32 production lines. The enterprise invested 12 million yuan in the "Transparent Factory" project, which, through the deployment of an MES production execution system and digital twin technology, has shortened the order delivery cycle by 35% and reduced the raw material loss rate to 3.2%. Among them, the independently developed AI visual inspection system can complete the identification of pipe surface defects within 0.5 seconds with an accuracy rate of 99.8%, and this technology has applied for a national invention patent. In April 2025, the enterprise was awarded the "Zhejiang Provincial Digital Workshop/Smart Factory" demonstration project, becoming a benchmark for digital transformation in Taizhou's plastic industry.   ## Industry-Academia-Research Collaboration: Breaking through Key Technical Bottlenecks   To overcome the problem of domestic substitution of high-performance plastic materials, Yonghong Plastic has constructed a three-dimensional innovation system of "enterprise research institute + university laboratory + industry think tank." The "Joint Laboratory for Polymer Functional Materials" co-established with the Ningbo Institute of Materials, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has successfully developed a special material for PE-RT II type pipes resistant to -40°C low temperature, breaking foreign monopolies; the "gradient-reinforced rubber pipe and belt" developed in conjunction with Shanghai Jiao Tong University has a 200% improvement in wear resistance and is applied in the field of port machinery conveyor belts. In the past three years, the enterprise has taken the lead in formulating 2 group standards and participated in the revision of 3 national standards, with its technological innovation capability leaping to the first echelon of the industry.   ## Management Mechanism Innovation: Activating Organizational Innovation Momentum   At the level of organizational change, Yonghong Plastic has implemented an "Amoeba management + project-based" management model, reorganizing 12 departments into 8 independently accounting business units. This flat reform has increased decision-making efficiency by 50%. In 2024, 15 innovation teams such as the "Energy Saving and Consumption Reduction Team" emerged, generating a total of 437 rationalization suggestions, saving 8.6 million yuan in costs annually. At the same time, the enterprise has established an "innovation points system," quantifying innovative behaviors such as patent achievements and process improvements into personal points, which are directly linked to salary promotion. This move has increased the number of employee innovation proposals by 180% year-on-year.   ## Green Innovation: Leading the Sustainable Development of the Industry   Facing the "Double Carbon" goal, Yonghong Plastic has integrated green concepts into the entire innovation chain. The pilot line for chemical depolymerization of plastic waste built with an investment of 5 million yuan can recycle 1,200 tons of waste pipes annually, with a recovery rate of 92% for recycled materials; the developed bio-based PVC pipe and belt, using 30% plant-based raw materials, has a carbon footprint 28% lower than traditional products. This series of products has obtained the EU CE certification and the US UL ecological label. In May 2025, the enterprise was selected into the "National Green Manufacturing Demonstration List," becoming the only plastic pipe and belt enterprise in Zhejiang Province to receive this honor.   "Innovation is the lifeline of an enterprise, and reform is the scalpel for breakthroughs." The general manager of Yonghong Plastic said at the reform and innovation conference that in the next three years, it will continue to invest 50 million yuan in technological R&D and intelligent transformation, focusing on emerging fields such as special pipes for marine engineering and lightweight pipe fittings for new energy vehicles. This enterprise rooted in the hot soil of Taizhou's private economy is using the pen of reform and innovation to depict its own wonderful chapter in the picture of high-quality development in the plastic industry.  
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