Chaowei group, founded in 1998, is mainly engaged in R & D and production of power and energy storage batteries. In the past 17 years, Chaowei has seized the important opportunity of reform and opening up and the development of power battery. With the mission and vision of "advocating green energy, perfecting human life" and "determined to become a great company in the global new energy industry", Chaowei has won the recognition of the market and the trust of consumers. It has grown steadily from a small workshop with only a dozen people to 18 subsidiaries in seven provinces across the country It is a leading enterprise in the industry with more than 20000 employees and sales exceeding 60 billion yuan, a listed company on the main board of Hong Kong, and a national key high-tech enterprise, ranking 198th among the "top 500 Chinese enterprises in 2015" and 90th among the "top 500 manufacturing enterprises".
Chaowei actively promotes technological innovation and industrial upgrading, and leads the development of the industry with technological advantages. It has successively developed and completed a large number of achievements in the industry, such as lead cycle technology of atomic economic method, environmental protection and energy-saving cadmium free internalization production process, new intelligent battery, ultra long life lithium-ion battery for electric vehicles, etc. The patent technology of "a three-dimensional bipolar high-power lead-acid battery" won the 17th China Patent Gold Award. It has undertaken more than 80 national and provincial major science and technology projects, owned more than 1000 patents, and participated in the formulation of more than 30 international and domestic industry standards, making important contributions to the development of the industry.
The driving force of Chaowei's technological innovation comes from the industry's first-class innovation platform and international talent team. Based on the project, we have formed a close cooperation relationship with 6 well-known academicians and more than 20 experts and professors in the field of global new energy technology. Three experts of "national thousand plan" were trained and introduced. The "new energy vehicle power battery system innovation team" led by Dr. Kirk was selected as the first batch of leading innovation teams in Zhejiang Province. The enterprise research institute has successively obtained the qualification of innovation platform such as national recognized enterprise technology center, national recognized laboratory, National Postdoctoral research workstation, provincial academician workstation, etc.
The unique corporate culture and Party building provide a strong guarantee for the development of Chaowei. We have explored and practiced the culture of "harmony and cooperation" with the core of "resource sharing, mutual benefit, common development and long-term coexistence", created an open and inclusive development environment with win-win cooperation, and promoted the rapid growth of the enterprise scale. The enterprise has also won the title of "national enterprise culture demonstration base". In the process of development, Chaowei has never forgotten its environmental responsibility. The coverage rate of cadmium free internalization process in the whole group has reached 100%, and this process has also become an industry access condition. With its contribution to the environmental protection of power batteries, the company was awarded the highest environmental award of China, China Baosteel environmental award.
The future is the era of new energy. Chaowei has two product paths: one is to start with power battery, then to power system, and finally to manufacture electric vehicle; the other is to make energy storage battery, to key parts of energy storage, and then to energy storage system and energy storage station, so as to change the way of human travel and improve the structure of energy supply. Therefore, with power and energy storage battery as the core, four main research directions are formed, including power lithium battery technology, new battery, advanced materials and cleaner production technology. At present, the R & D projects mainly include: key technology of power lithium-ion battery for electric vehicle; research and development and industrialization of new super capacitor; battery technology for automobile start stop system; lead cycle engineering technology of atomic economy method, etc.
Facing the future, Chaowei will continue to work with partners to make contributions to the development of global new energy industry and jointly promote the progress of human life by using the accumulated experience and technology in the battery field.