The Yiyang Rubber & Plastics Machinery Group Co got recognition for its advanced scientific innovation from the Hunan Federation of Trade Unions, in mid-November, at a conference on scientific innovation and work. Actually, the award is meant to recognize the great innovative achievements of the company’s employees as a whole.
The board chairman and other company officials believe that scientific innovation is very important and an inexhaustible force in the enterprise’ sustained, rapid development. In recent years, the group have made an effort to create an atmosphere of innovation for the company by “encouraging innovation, while tolerating failure”. It has a State enterprise technology center, a post-doctoral research station, and a provincial rubber and plastics engineering research center. In addition to encouraging investment in scientific research, the group try to encourage each other’s research initiative and creativity by recognizing innovative achievements and the full development of talent.
In recent years, the group have got national patents on 72 items, five for inventions and 62 for utility models, as well as five copyrights. They have received orders for the new super-size 16.6-meter press vulcanizer, now the largest in China, and the country’s first tandem mixer. This shows the group’s new growth points and a shift from just scientific achievements to productive resourcefulness. And, scientific innovation was the foundation for their sustainable, stable development.