In the first half of 2023, XCMG Hydraulics further expanded its non-construction machinery market with orders for hydraulic cylinders for shield tunneling machines worth over 20 million yuan, riding the wave into a new blue ocean of supporting markets beyond construction machinery with unstoppable momentum.

Diversification and full supporting capabilities have always been important indicators of a components enterprise's strength. XCMG Hydraulics anchors its development direction on "large tonnage, long stroke, thin-wall lightweighting." Relying on years of technical accumulation and precise planning tailored to market demands, it has established a leading market position with industry-leading product strength. Now, it gives new meaning to "large, long, thin-walled" products, writing a new chapter in the diversified non-construction machinery market.

"Large Tonnage" Products Help Tunnel Through Mountains and Build Roads

How does the shield tunneling machine, often called a "steel pangolin," freely shuttle underground? It relies on hydraulic cylinders. Shield tunneling machines, often over ten meters in diameter, can have a total length of over a hundred meters, roughly equivalent to the length of 5-7 high-speed train cars. To stably drive this massive machine, the supporting hydraulic cylinders must also be sufficiently large.

Since entering the shield tunneling machine field, XCMG Hydraulics has established a professional development team to tackle shield machine cylinders, quickly securing a place in the industry with strong technical force and outstanding product strength.

Today, with design experience from over a hundred sets of shield machine hydraulic cylinders, XCMG Hydraulics' supporting products have not only grown larger in size along with the development of shield machines but also become increasingly powerful. They can provide optimal design solutions customized to different geological and water quality environments; moreover, by incorporating new processing techniques, they have successively achieved breakthroughs in key core technologies such as anti-eccentric-load support, secondary sensor protection, and mud-water resistant composite sealing, solving customer pain points and helping the "steel pangolin" tunnel through mountains and build roads with strong capabilities.

"Long Stroke" Innovation Enables Equipment to Break Ground and Dig for "Gold"

The proverb "There is gold in oil" reflects the popularity of oil and the stable prosperity of the oil extraction industry. XCMG Hydraulics targets this "golden" industry of oil extraction, keenly capturing opportunities in supporting oil extraction machinery, and "extracting" more "gold" with high-quality key core components.

In response to the "long stroke" characteristics of oil extraction machinery, XCMG Hydraulics, leveraging years of experience in manufacturing multi-stage cylinders, has worked hard on the "long" aspect, developing the industry's unique large-stroke composite support technology that effectively ensures product operational stability under long-stroke and large-side-load conditions, with a maximum stroke of 15 meters; coupled with new barrel-rod docking processes, development and verification of various composite structures...

A series of major technological breakthroughs and innovations have gradually given hydraulic products the core technical advantage of "long stroke," continuously winning customer trust and gradually building the reputation of XCMG's core components.

"Thin-Wall Lightweighting" Customized to Create Premium Products

In today's green and low-carbon development, for large-tonnage, long-stroke hydraulic cylinder products, how to achieve higher strength while making the cylinder wall thinner, lighter, and bringing lower energy consumption to the host machine has become a challenge for component manufacturers.

Thanks to years of continuous deep cultivation in raw material processes, XCMG Hydraulics has made great efforts in "thin-wall" lightweighting. Its advanced lightweight design has been widely praised by the market since its launch, and it has successively obtained batch orders in fields such as food presses, laminating machines, spinning machines, and other industrial equipment, sanitation machinery, and airport equipment.

To help market users better understand the lightweight technical advantages of XCMG component products, XCMG Hydraulics has accelerated the pace of "integrated marketing and service," conducting multiple in-depth investigations and "tailoring" solutions for customers, such as disc spring pressure calculations for extruding granulators, oil groove design for food pressing cylinders, and multiple composite sealing technologies for airport equipment.

"One-on-one" customized value-added services have not only earned XCMG Hydraulics a "green pass" to open up external markets but also accumulated valuable experience for subsequent market expansion, allowing XCMG's lightweight core component products to fully extend in market competition.