Advantages

The company has a strong technical team made up of more than 10 senior industry experts and over 200 mid- and senior-level engineers responsible for innovative design and development. To date the team has obtained more than 700 national patents and provincial-level scientific and technological achievements.

The company has been granted more than 670 patents and has led or taken part in the revision of over 100 international, national, industry, local and association standards. It has received the China Standards Innovation Contribution Award, the highest honour in Chinese standardization, which underlines its important position in shaping industry standards.

Henan Mine is a member of the National Technical Committee for Standardization of Cranes, of its Bridge and Gantry Crane Subcommittee, of its Electrical and Intelligent Subcommittee, and of the Henan Provincial Technical Committee for Standardization of Cranes. Dr. Xu Lei, senior manager of the company, serves as deputy head of the domestic expert working group of ISO/TC96.

By mastering core technologies and the right to set the rules, the company leads the direction of the industry. Henan Mine has received the China Standards Innovation Contribution Award, the First Henan Provincial Patent Award, the China Patent Excellence Award and other honours.

In 2020 the company and the Henan Special Equipment Inspection Institute jointly built key laboratories and an inspection and testing base, creating an innovative "factory within an institute, institute within a factory" model. The jointly built National Quality Supervision and Inspection Center for Bridge-Type and Light Small Lifting Machinery is capable of testing 18 products and 1,125 items (parameters), covering every stage of bridge crane manufacturing, and has obtained the "three-in-one" qualification accreditation and laboratory accreditation from China's certification and accreditation authorities. The test base is equipped with self-developed large-scale test equipment such as pressure testing machines and electric hoist test benches, and houses laboratories for IoT-based safety monitoring, electrical control, physical property testing, mechanical property testing, structural analysis and health monitoring, non-destructive testing and vibration testing — safeguarding product quality and technological innovation in every respect.

The company also operates research platforms including a national-level enterprise technology center, a provincial industrial design center and a laboratory for key crane technologies, providing solid hardware support for innovation. It has also established long-term cooperation with the Beijing Research Institute of Hoisting and Conveying Machinery, the Henan Special Equipment Safety Inspection Institute and Harbin Institute of Technology, drawing on outside expertise to advance crane technology.

The company carries out its "Thousand-people Innovation Programme" and has established the Founder Quality Award, Chairman Quality Award, General Manager Quality Award and Craftsmanship Award, with substantial rewards for winning teams and individuals to ignite innovation across the whole workforce.