Recently, the 2023 Manufacturing Single Champion Enterprise Experience Exchange Conference was held in Jining, Shandong Province. Sunward was invited to attend the experience exchange conference and the Manufacturing Single Champion Enterprise Award Ceremony. At the exchange conference, Xu Xiaolan, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), delivered a video address; Li Yizhong, President of the China Federation of Industrial Economics, delivered a keynote speech via video; Shu Zhaohui, Second-level Inspector of the Department of Industrial Policy and Regulations of MIIT; Xiong Meng, Party Secretary, Executive Vice President and Secretary-General of the China Federation of Industrial Economics; as well as government leaders, experts and scholars, entrepreneurs, and capital sector figures, totaling more than 500 people, attended the conference.

A manufacturing single champion refers to an enterprise (or product) that has long focused on certain segmented product markets in manufacturing, whose production technology or processes are internationally leading, and whose single product market share ranks among the top globally or domestically, representing the highest development level and strongest market strength in a segmented field of global manufacturing.

As the only enterprise in the pile machinery industry to win two honors at the same time, Sunward's independently developed "hydraulic static pile press" and "rotary drilling rig" were awarded the title of "Manufacturing Single Champion Product." The two products are respectively Sunward's founding product and flagship product, possess multiple core patents, and have long ranked at the forefront of the industry in market share. At present, the products sell well in North America, Europe, Southeast Asia and other regions.

Founding Product — Hydraulic Static Pile Press

The hydraulic static pile press is pile machinery for efficient, high-quality and environmentally friendly formation of precast piles. It was originally invented in 1992 by Professor He Qinghua, founder and Honorary Chairman of Sunward, and is a world-original product. It once won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award and has become a milestone in the application history of precast piles in China's foundation engineering industry, leading the industry's technological development. Through more than 20 years of independent innovation in multiple key core technologies such as stratum adaptability, key components and intelligent construction, Sunward's R&D team established the "quasi-constant power" design theory and designed a hydraulic control system, achieving quasi-following of pressurization power and load power, increasing pile pressing speed by more than 20% and reducing energy consumption by more than 30%. This category of foundation products has always been at the internationally leading level, covering 14 basic models from 60 tons to 1,260 tons as well as various derivative series, and has promoted and applied large-diameter high-stress precast piles in major national infrastructure construction such as high-speed railways, large bridges and ultra-high voltage projects, consistently ranking first in domestic and international market share.

In addition, based on the hydraulic static pile press, Sunward organically combined the static pile press with the rotary drilling rig and innovatively developed a "world-first" product — the ZYJ1260BK pre-boring static pile press, known as a "revolutionary product for precast pile construction." It can construct large-diameter pipe piles of up to 1,000 mm, with a maximum pre-boring depth of 40 m and a maximum pile pressing tonnage of 1,260 tons, all the highest in the industry. It has been shipped in batches to Bogota, the capital of Colombia, to support the construction of the Bogota Metro Line 1 project in Colombia.

Flagship Product — Rotary Drilling Rig

Sunward has established the design theory, technical system, technical standards, and equipment and construction management specifications for rotary drilling rigs. It has overcome foreign "bottleneck" technical challenges in key components and core system technologies such as chassis, hydraulic and electronic control systems, as well as environmental adaptability technologies. A number of technologies have filled domestic gaps, achieving serialization, standardization and model spectrum development of rotary drilling rigs with proprietary intellectual property rights, capable of meeting the performance requirements of rotary drilling rigs in different environments such as plateaus, mountains and offshore areas.

At present, Sunward's independently developed SWDM1280 rotary drilling rig is under construction at the Xihoumen Road-Rail Dual-Purpose Bridge of the Ningbo-Zhoushan Railway, the world's largest-span road-rail dual-purpose bridge. In addition, the series products have been applied to key domestic and international construction projects such as the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link, Yanji Yangtze River Bridge and Singapore urban metro, and have been exported in batches to international markets such as Europe and the United States, breaking the long-term industry monopoly of European brands.

After more than 20 years of accumulation and development, Sunward has established a Sunward-characteristic support system that responds to the requirements of underground engineering equipment for "multiple varieties, small batches, emphasis on construction methods, and emphasis on solutions," and has promoted mutual development through "equipment R&D and engineering construction." In aspects such as construction methods, processes and complete sets of equipment in the underground engineering field, it has creatively developed more than 20 products and nearly 100 models of serial underground engineering equipment, capable of solving key technical and complete equipment problems in pile foundation construction and providing customers with comprehensive solutions. Its overall technical level and product series completeness rank among the world's forefront.

In the future, Sunward will continue to focus on product R&D and innovation, quality improvement and brand cultivation, adhere to the philosophy of creating value for customers, strengthen the building of scientific research talent teams, increase the transformation of scientific and technological innovation achievements, break through "bottleneck" pain points and difficulties, consolidate and enhance the enterprise's innovation capacity and competitiveness, and make greater contributions to promoting scientific and technological progress in the field of underground engineering equipment and the high-quality development of manufacturing.