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Anhui Huanrui Selected for "2024 Yangtze River Delta Business Innovation Samples," Innovating Polymer Materials for Electric Heat Tracing to Drive Industrial "Qualitative Change and Intelligent Transf
Jul 04, 2025
On July 2nd, the 7th Yangtze River Delta Business Innovation Conference, themed "Qualitative Change and Intelligent Transformation: New Value Paradigm, Leading a New Ecosystem," grandly opened in Shanghai. The conference was hosted by the Shanghai Yangtze River Delta Business Innovation Institute with academic support from the Fudan University School of Management. It gathered leaders from industry, academia, research, government, and business to explore the path of innovation and high-quality development for Chinese enterprises in the new development pattern.
The "2024 Yangtze River Delta Business Innovation Samples" were officially unveiled at the conference. Anhui Huanrui, an innovator in China's self-regulating electric heat tracing technology, was selected. The evaluation process involved over 40 industry-academia-research institutions and 65 experts, using a cross-assessment system of the "Six Forces Model + Five Dimensions Model." From an initial pool of 3,800 companies, 150 were shortlisted, then refined to 50 representative cases, and finally, 10 most exemplary innovation benchmark enterprises were selected. The sample, titled "Striving for Made in China, Working for a Warm World," deeply analyzes Anhui Huanrui's journey from challenging breakthrough to achieving technological self-reliance and leading industry change, providing a highly valuable practical paradigm for the "domestic substitution" and "intelligent upgrading" of key foundational materials and processes.
Anhui Huanrui has focused on the electric heat tracing sector for over twenty years, forging a solid path from reliance on imports, imitation, and digestion to independent innovation and standard-setting. The company took innovation in polymer material formulation as the core breakthrough, continuously overcoming multiple "bottleneck" technologies, including high-temperature resistant insulation materials, precision processing of conductive heating elements, and intelligent control. Relying on its deep material science accumulation and engineering application experience, Anhui Huanrui successfully developed a series of high-performance electric heat tracing cables with complete intellectual property rights. Their core performance indicators have reached or surpassed those of international first-tier levels, effectively breaking the decades-long technological blockade and market monopoly by European and American companies in this field, and achieving security and control over key links in the industrial chain.
Huanrui has not only achieved material localization but has also proactively and deeply integrated intelligent control technology with high-performance materials. Based on its self-developed core materials, leveraging intelligent sensing and precise temperature control, and guided by full-scenario application demands, the company has built an intelligent solution system covering "safe heat tracing, intelligent control, energy saving and consumption reduction, and remote operation and maintenance." By deeply coupling material performance limits, intelligent control, and user pain points, Huanrui has delivered significant safety improvements, energy efficiency optimization, and reduced operation and maintenance costs for its clients, providing solid assurance for the high-quality and intelligent development of key industries vital to the national economy and people's livelihood, such as petrochemicals, electric power, rail transit, and commercial construction.
Benchmark Projects Establish Strength, A Beacon of Domestic Manufacturing Shines Widely
Based on its excellent technical strength and product reliability, Anhui Huanrui has achieved a series of milestone breakthroughs in major engineering and high-end manufacturing fields in recent years:
Protecting the National Energy Artery: Provided a complete set of self-regulating electric heat tracing anti-freeze systems for a CNOOC offshore drilling platform, ensuring the safe and smooth flow of the energy artery in harsh marine environments, achieving comprehensive domestic substitution of core heat tracing materials and systems.
Empowering High-End Manufacturing Benchmarks: Provided a high-precision, explosion-proof intelligent electric heat tracing solution for Wanhua Chemical Group's production plants, ensuring the stable operation of core production equipment and process pipelines, and meeting stringent clean room and safety explosion-proof requirements.
Breaking Through Extreme Environment Applications: Provided electric heat tracing insulation for in-car equipment and water supply systems of CRRC's high-cold EMU trains, ensuring the safe operation of high-speed rail during winter in high-cold regions like Northeast China. This verified the extreme reliability of domestic materials and technology.
Expanding into Global High-End Markets: Huanrui's high-performance electric heat tracing products successfully entered European oil refining projects and geothermal heating systems, signifying that Chinese intelligent manufacturing is now globally competitive in this field.
Anhui Huanrui, with its "original material innovation + intelligent integration" dual-engine strategy, has broken through the technological barriers that had long restricted the electric heat tracing industry and reshaped the boundaries of industry value. This selection for the "2024 Yangtze River Delta Business Innovation Samples" is not only high recognition of Huanrui's persistent independent innovation, successful monopoly-breaking, and ascent to the high end of the industrial value chain, but it also provides a highly exemplary "Huanrui Solution" for the Yangtze River Delta to build globally influential new material and high-end equipment industrial clusters and to explore a Chinese path for the localization and industrial modernization of key core technologies.
Looking ahead, Anhui Huanrui will continue to deeply explore the frontiers of electric heat tracing polymer material technology, deepen the integration of intelligent control and IoT technology, and fully implement the strategic upgrade of "Material Leadership, Intelligent Drive, Global Service." It is committed to becoming the technology source and solution leader in the global electric heat tracing field, injecting stronger "Huanrui Momentum" into the high-quality, intelligent, and green low-carbon development of industry in China and around the world!