To be the leader of Chinese green power-Yuchai Group

“Now we have full series of Euro Ⅵ ready in position and Yuchai has entered the age of Euro Ⅵ.” said Huang Yi, CPC Secretary of Marketing of Guangxi Yuchai Machinery Group Co., Ltd., when speaking to a reporter with China Auto News on the Second China International Commercial Vehicle and Component Exhibition.

On November 2, Yuchai Group displayed its ten engines on the exhibition in Kunshan. With advanced technology levels and low carbon emission technology, it showed the industry its determination to open up a new era of engine manufacturing and its power to make first-class internal combustion engines in the world.

To be the leader of Chinese green power

The reporter found on the exhibition that three of the ten engines of Yuchai were natural gas engines, one third of its exhibited products. Additionally, Yuchai also showed one of its Euro Ⅵ standard engines made in response to deal with the increasingly strict regulations on emission.

Notably, besides traditional internal combustion engines, Yuchai also displayed a hybrid power engine and a full electric engine. Through the layout of the products exhibited, one can tell the emphasis Yuchai has placed on green and low carbon products and relevant plans. Also the products were proof that Yuchai has taken the lead in the industry in green power of internal combustion engines.

Huang Yi told the reporter, as an enterprise with the most powerful diesel engine research and development team, Yuchai has always been focusing on national major developmental strategies in new energy and energy conservation. It consistently introduces new leading technologies nationwide, ushering in green power. In terms of emission cut, Yuchai was the first to launch R&D programs of Euro Ⅵ engines as early as in 2014, taking the lead in market development too.

It is learned that, after 4 Euro Ⅵ engines in early months this year, Yuchai succeeded in testing another 7 engines of Euro Ⅵ standard on July 13. Yuchai by now has developed as many as 10 Euro Ⅵ engines, which marks that it has developed a full series of Euro Ⅵ engines, ready to compete with internationally renowned brands in global market. Upon test, it is found that the 7 products perform better than its same kind in global market. Yuchai has taken a big step towards international development.

On the launching ceremony, Yan Pingzeng, Chairman of Yuchai stressed that Euro Ⅵ was a must as well as a defining strategy for Yuchai to catch up with first class technology in the world. The company would mobilize its resources to ensure the successful development of Euro Ⅵ products. It also took an important position in the market with a green product of leading applicability, thus launching a green revolution in the industry of internal combustion and even auto industry in China.

Expanding domestic market while perfecting overseas layout

“Our sales target this year is 380 thousand pieces, among which truck engines takes 200 thousand. By far, we have sold nearly 180 thousand.” Huang Yi told the reporter. Compared with last year, the sales of Yuchai have been lifted remarkably. It takes a share of more than 65% in natural gas engine market. In truck engine market, over 16% of the products made by sixteen major engines producers are manufactured by Yuchai.

Huang Yi added, while winning domestic market shares, Yuchai is also expanding its international market share, taking full advantage of the One Belt One Road Initiative.

It is learned that in 2017, Yuchai will be selling over 50 thousand engines in overseas markets, with a steady growth. Be it in Southeast Asia, Middle East, or Latin America; be it in traditional regional markets or emerging potential markets, Yuchai has taken all those markets, consistently enlarging its global market.

Currently, Yuchai has set up 12 offices and 3 institutions in countries involved in the One Belt One Road Initiative. It has developed 150 odd overseas service agents in 41 countries around the world, selling over 360 thousand products in total, covering more than 170 countries and regions in five continents.

Leading the industry, cutting product R&D cost by a large margin

Noticeably, on the exhibition, the 3D printing technology of Yuchai sets a start for the innovation in mould-free quick manufacturing in the industry. Ou Hongrong, Mold Design Engineer of Technology Department of Yuchai Group told the reporter, its additive technology provided unprecedented accuracy and efficiency in the process of manufacturing and made it possible to create the component traditional impossible to make, subverting traditional manufacturing industry. By transforming digital models into physical products, 3D printing, to some extent, has encouraged the manufacturing industry.

Ou Hongrong said, the Corporation started to employ 3D printing technology as early as in 2006. After that, the company invested RMB 300 million to build up a quick-manufacturing workshop of 7000 square meters. In 2014, Yuchai Group and China Academy of Machinery Science and Technology co-founded a national key laboratory-Yuchai Quick Manufacturing Base, integrating 3D printing technology and digital mould-free accurate casting technology for intelligent core equipment to develop new force for engine making. It is the unique new technology and manufacturing mode in the country, able to develop new products in shorter time, more smoothly and quickly.

“Mould-free manufacturing technology contracts the period for product development. While traditional technology requires 8 months to develop a new product, we can do it with five month time shorter, cutting a great deal of cost.” said Ou Hongrong. Now Yuchai has developed over 100 products with quick manufacturing technology, adding over RMB 480 million to the production value, bringing a profit of over RMB 50 million, and saving more than RMB 60 million of mould cost and other expenses.