Zoomlion's Environmentally Friendly "Core" to Lead the Future of Intelligently Manufactured Equipment

In previous years at the Bauma exhibition in Shanghai, Zoomlion – the world's leading equipment manufacturer – has exhibited products representing the newest developments and trends in the industry, making it the industry's authority and benchmark. Bauma 2014 is no exception. 

On the evening of November 25 in Shanghai, Zoomlion – the world's sixth largest manufacturer of engineering machinery – put on its TOP products show for hundreds of customers based on the company's theme for the exhibition: "Sincere Technology, A Bright Future." 

Zoomlion displayed 20 industry-leading products that demonstrated the quality and strength of its products. These included the 56 meter carbon fiber boom pump with a three-axle chassis, two-in-one integrated solution equipment, the world's largest topless tower crane, the T-3000, and the world's first water recycling road sweeper and washer. All of these products are based on green technology, and they are harbingers of the new era of development about to sweep the equipment manufacturing industry. 

Developing Environmentally Friendly Intelligent Manufacturing Recognized by the Technology and Innovation Industry

The regular sight of thick haze across many parts of China in recent years has meant energy conservation and environmental protection have become the main themes of the times in China's equipment manufacturing industry and in its entire socio-economic transformation and upgrading. 

Zoomlion, which is always at the forefront of the industry's development, sensed an opportunity and through product and material revolutions, as well as its reliance on technological innovation, it has successfully developed environmentally friendly "intelligent manufacturing." 

At its TOP products show, the ZLJ5331THBB5XX-6RZH 56 meter-boom concrete pump truck with a three-axle chassis, which features a "carbon fiber composite boom and lightweight technology," epitomized the results of Zoomlion's revolution in manufacturing materials. 

The carbon fiber material used on the concrete pump truck is a revolutionary new material being used in the construction machinery industry, and Zoomlion is the world's only manufacturer to have used the technology in the production of concrete pump trucks. Data shows that the use of this technology can reduce the weight of the boom system by more than 40% and of the total truck by more than 14%. More importantly, this highly reliable new material gives concrete pump trucks a service life of up to 20 years. 

Zoomlion's manufactured sand and dry-mixed mortar integrated solution equipment is a classic example of this revolution in manufacturing materials. This equipment redefines the mode of production for building materials by replacing river sand with manufactured sand, significantly reducing investment and production costs. 

The two-in-one manufactured sand and dry-mixed mortar integrated solution equipment uses 20% less cement per cubic meter of concrete, thereby providing a new solution for saving energy and reducing emissions. 

Zoomlion's environmentally friendly "intelligent manufacturing" has received praise from industry professionals. At the opening ceremony of the exhibition, to the audience's delight, Zoomlion signed an order for manufactured sand and dry-mixed mortar (two-in-one) integrated solution equipment worth RMB 50 million. 

At its TOP products show, Zoomlion Environmental Industry Company's ZLJ5250TXSE4 powerful water recycling road sweeper and washer also won praise from the industry. 

The product uses the world's first wastewater recycling technology and has been referred to as the world's most powerful road sweeper and washer. Through its in-built wastewater recycling system, the ZLJ5250TXSE4 extends the road sweeper and washer's continuous operation time, while also significantly reducing water consumption per vehicle, for an estimated annual saving of 15,000 tons. 

Market data shows that China's current fleet of road sweepers and washers consists of more than 32,400 vehicles. If 10% of these were replaced by vehicles with water recycling technology, it would represent a saving of 48.6 million tons of water per year. That is the equivalent of half the capacity of Beijing's Baihebu Reservoir or a tenth of Beijing's Miyun Reservoir, which is enough to provide 100,000 Beijing residents with water for 20 years. 

That is not all. In recent years, Zoomlion has constantly extended its green industrial chain, to improve the company's environmentally friendly strategic layout. 

In 2008, Zoomlion set up a food waste reutilization and disposal project group to change the original linear "raw material-product-market" model of development, which signaled the start of practicing a circular economy. 

In June 2012, the country's largest food waste treatment plant built in Changsha passed various tests to be allowed to process more than 300 tons of food waste each day. The plant can produce more than 5,400 tons of biodiesel and generate 19.71 million kwh annually, saving 6,900 tons of standard coal and reducing carbon emissions by 19,500 tons each year. 

Zoomlion chairman Zhan Chunxin said of the blueprint for the company's strategic layout, "In recent years, we have actively launched strategies to develop new environmentally friendly materials, upgrade equipment and develop innovative devices to support development of the clean energy industry, which has triggered a series of 'green revolutions,' including product and material revolutions." 

In light of this, the TOP products show is undoubtedly a focused report on the results of Zoomlion's strategic layout.