In recent years, with the continuous expansion of the domestic demand for lubricants in China, according to experts' forecasts, China will replace the United States in 2015 to become the world's largest lubricant consumer market. Faced with the gradual expansion of the domestic demand market, increasingly fierce competition and diversified consumer demand, insisting on scientific and technological innovation and leading the development of science and technology through technological advancement will become a new historic mission for national lubricants companies represented by Kunlun.
Steady scientific research pays attention to long-term development
Relying on two R&D centers in Lanzhou and Dalian, Kunlun has maintained a large amount of capital investment in R&D in recent years. It is understood that from 2005 to 2011, Kunlun continuously invested 980 million yuan in research funds to support the continued development of scientific research projects. Even at the initial stage of the company's establishment, research investment has reached 120 million yuan.
As Liao Guoqin, general manager of China National Petroleum Corporation, said, this is a protracted war of technology. Between the short-term benefits and long-term development, Kunlun has chosen to invest in the long-term for long-term development and put more funds into R&D.
Today, scientific research investment has gradually returned. In terms of scientific and technological achievements, as of June this year, Kunlun's project of "Development and Industrial Application of High-grade Series of Internal Combustion Engine Oil Complex Agents" was listed in the public announcement document for the preliminary evaluation of the 2012 Science and Technology Progress Award announced on the website of the Ministry of Science and Technology. This is the fourth time in nearly four years, Kunlun won the national award for the third time, and these three awards are also the highest national awards in China's lubricants R&D field. In terms of profit, only the high-grade internal combustion engine oil has recovered this result. The annual investment in scientific research has added 950 million yuan. Kunlun's self-developed high-grade internal-combustion engine oil compounding agent has reduced the price of the international additive company's compounding agent by 20%, reducing the cost of the lubricant industry in China by more than 1.5 billion yuan.
Deepening cooperation between schools and enterprises to promote the application of science and technology
In order to promote the rapid development of product research and development, to achieve "integration of production, education, research," the development of ideas. In recent years, Kunlun has established key laboratories with well-known universities, auto OEMs, and upstream and downstream partners in the industrial chain. In August of this year, Kunlun and Zhejiang University cooperated to establish a joint laboratory following Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Beijing Jiaotong University, Dalian Maritime University and other institutions of higher learning, and committed to diversifying the cooperation to new energy and high-speed railways. The research and development tentacles of the sub-fields have been extended, and research and development of independent innovation have been actively conducted.
“College-enterprise cooperation is an important way to enhance the vigor of the company's development. It will have a positive impact on accelerating the application of new technologies, research and development of new products, and enhancing the core competitiveness of enterprises.†According to Kunlun Lubricants, a joint experiment was established between Kunlun and Zhejiang University. The office built a platform for mutual support, complementary advantages, and resource sharing. The joint laboratories will use the Lubricant Company's development plan as a guide, combining the development status and future demands of the automotive industry and the lubricant industry to jointly carry out forward-looking new topics, new technologies, research and development of new types of lubricating materials, combined with national industries. To revitalize the strategy and undertake major projects at the national, provincial, and ministerial level, and jointly promote the industrialization of scientific research achievements.
“Although the new market environment determines the new market strategy, for Kunlun, it is only the unswerving persistence of scientific and technological innovation that is fundamental to maintaining a strong foundation and strong vitality. The national lubricant brand not only requires change, but also to maintain technology Leading, in order to fully grasp the context of market development.†Ms. Liao Guoqin said, “Kunlun brand in the next development path, will also take China's national conditions and consumer demand for the market-oriented, step by step to achieve the integration of production, education, research and development The strategic layout will influence the entire industry through continuous enrichment of scientific and technological achievements and lead the steady development of the industry."
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