On April 11, 2020, Jacky Zhou, President of ContiOcean Group, together with Zhao Mingzhu and Jerry Chen, directors of the board, arrived in Danyang CNNC Sufa Butterfly Valve Co., Ltd. to congratulate the success of LNG marine low temperature and high pressure valve product tests with Li Huicong, chairman ofDanyang CNV, Wang Zhidong and other accompanies.
In recent years, in connection with the general trend of global environmental protection, LNG ship orders have increased substantially, domestic marine enterprises have entered the LNG market one after another. However, due to the nature of high-tech content as well as the high added valueof LNG ships, the threshold limits number of players of this industry. The research and development and manufacturing of LNG ship as well as its associated businesses have been monopolized by Europe, South Korea, etc., and the proportion of China's LNG ship business is still very small worldwide wise. Being an environmental technical enterprise that always bring innovation as marine leading industry change, ContiOcean Group has continuously paid attention to LNG market and promoted localization process of LNG core technology and products.
CNNC Sufa Technology Industry Co., Ltd. is a scientific and technological manufacturing enterprise integrating R & D, manufacturing and sales of industrial valves. It provides valve system solutions for oil, natural gas, oilrefining, nuclear power, electric power, metallurgy, chemical industry, shipbuilding, paper making, medicine and other industries. It was listed on Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 1997 and became the first enterprise listed among China's valve and nuclear industries.
CNNC Sufa Valve has a number of advanced production and manufacturing equipment as well as all kinds of cutting edge testing facilities. At present, it has developed into a specialized industrial valve production base with many varieties, full range specifications and high technical content in the domestic valve industry. It has a series of quality system certificates, product certifications and testing qualifications that are national approved. Being anenterprise with complete certifications, CNNC Sufa Valve is an enterprise with advanced quality management and testing means in the same industry in China. Moreover, CNNC Sufa Valve has successfuly received the qualification certificates of ABS, BV, DNV and CCS classes, and has the design and manufacturing qualification license of nuclear pressure equipment granted by the national nuclear safety administration.
Underthe company strategy of "adhering scientific and technological innovation, based on marine environmental protection, and developing post-gasbusiness", ContiOcean Group started strategic cooperation with CNNC Sufa Valve in 2019. The two sides complement each other's advantages and jointly develop LNG marine low temperature and high pressurevalve products. At present, CNNC Sufa and ContiOcean Group have successfully completed 2000 times low-temperature cycle tests on the high-pressure andlow-temperature ball valves for LNG ships, CNNC Sufa Valve has become the only enterprise in China that has completed such tests, and has been partially putinto commercial use step by step.