Green manufacturing, forging ahead

Willow branches sway in the spring breeze, greenery abounds, blue waters and green mountains reflect the blue sky.

On April 30, 2025, Dalian Dongfang Yipeng Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd. was successfully awarded the title of "Green Factory" in Dalian's manufacturing industry. This is due to its firm steps and tireless exploration on the path of green development, continuously improving the construction of its green manufacturing system, and actively promoting the green and low-carbon transformation of the manufacturing industry. This not only affirms Dongfang Yipeng's unwavering commitment to sustainable development for twenty years, but also represents a microcosm of the progress of China's national equipment manufacturing industry towards green, intelligent, and high-end development.

As a national high-tech enterprise focusing on the manufacturing of high-end pressure vessels and high-efficiency heat exchange equipment, Dongfang Yipeng has forged a path of green development with exemplary significance through technological innovation, the application of renewable energy, and deep integration of industry, academia, and research.

I. Green Genes: Integrated into the Company's Manufacturing Development

Against the backdrop of the global promotion of green and sustainable development, Dongfang Yipeng adheres to the concept of green development and actively builds a green factory. Since its establishment, under the leadership of Chairman Xing Pengwan, Dongfang Yipeng has fully integrated the concept of green development into all aspects of its corporate strategic planning, product R&D, material procurement, production, manufacturing, and goods transportation, forming a "green design" to "green delivery" full life cycle management system.

Under the guidance of the national "dual carbon" goals, Dongfang Yipeng keenly grasped the trends of energy revolution and industrial transformation, taking the construction of a green factory as the core engine of the company's high-quality development, demonstrating a forward-looking strategic vision. The company invested heavily in optimizing production processes and equipment, introducing advanced production technologies and automated equipment, which not only improved production efficiency and product quality but also significantly reduced energy consumption and waste emissions per unit of output.

Dongfang Yipeng makes full use of solar energy resources. A distributed photovoltaic power generation project with an installed capacity of 1.45MW has been built on the roof of the standardized factory building, with an annual power generation of nearly 1.7 million KWh. The "self-generation and self-use, surplus power grid connection" model achieves efficient utilization of clean energy. This innovative practice of combining green energy with intelligent manufacturing has explored a replicable and sustainable development path for traditional manufacturing.

In the specific practice of green manufacturing, Dongfang Yipeng has constructed a multi-dimensional green development index system. From energy management to optimization of raw material utilization, from pollutant reduction to environmental governance, from the promotion of clean production to sustainable development strategies, a complete green factory construction plan has been formed. The company has implemented green building technologies to construct and renovate factory buildings, rationally planned the energy flow and material flow paths within the factory area, established a resource recovery and recycling mechanism, promoted the optimization of energy consumption structures, and achieved a comprehensive green transformation of the production process. This systematic green transformation is not a simple technological superposition but a deep restructuring of the company's operating model, demonstrating the courage and responsibility of Dongfang Yipeng as a pioneer in the private equipment manufacturing industry.

II. Technological Empowerment: Industry-Academia-Research Collaboration Adds Green Momentum

The core support for green manufacturing is technological innovation. Dongfang Yipeng carefully planned and constructed a technological innovation system with enterprises as the main body, market orientation, and deep integration of industry, academia, research, and application. Since 2015, the company has signed industry-academia-research cooperation agreements with Dalian University of Technology, Liaoning University of Petrochemical Technology, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian Petrochemical Research Institute, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, and other universities and research institutions, forming a stable collaborative innovation mechanism. In 2021, it became a teaching and internship base for Dalian Maritime University, and in 2024, it signed an agreement with Beijing University of Chemical Technology to establish an "off-campus practical teaching base." These collaborations not only provide a practical stage for university talents but also inject a source of living water into the company's green technological innovation.

The fruitful results of industry-academia-research cooperation have directly promoted Dongfang Yipeng's green technological progress. Through joint research, the company has successfully developed "cylinder longitudinal seam alignment adjuster", "simple buffer", and "heat treatment device for tube-to-tube sheet fillet welds", etc., which greatly improved production efficiency and energy utilization. In particular, the successful R&D of the "vertical three-stream high-pressure coiled tube heat exchanger" project. This innovative product not only achieves internationally advanced technical performance but also achieves a breakthrough in energy efficiency indicators, becoming a star product in Dongfang Yipeng's green product matrix. To date, the company has 46 patented technologies, and these independent intellectual property rights have become a solid technological support for the company's green development.

Dongfang Yipeng's technological innovation has a distinct market orientation and green orientation. The company's products cover various fields, including petroleum refining, petrochemicals, coal chemicals, natural gas, new energy, new materials, nuclear industry, military industry, and environmental protection. Core products such as high-pressure vessels, hydrogenation reactors, vaporizers, large towers, nuclear industry containers, threaded locking ring high-pressure heat exchangers, and coiled tube heat exchangers incorporate a full life cycle green concept during the design phase. By using modular design, lightweight high-quality materials, and energy-saving processes, these products can bring significant energy-saving and emission reduction benefits to customers during use, achieving a transition from "green manufacturing" to "manufacturing green".

III. System Escort: Standardized Management Establishes a Solid Foundation for Green Development

Green manufacturing is not an isolated environmental protection project but a strategic project that requires the support of a complete management system. Dongfang Yipeng is well aware of the importance of management systems to the company's green development and has built an international standardized management system to provide institutional guarantees for the construction of a green factory. The company has successively passed ISO 9001 quality management system certification, ISO 14001 environmental management system certification, and ISO 45001 occupational health and safety management system certification, forming a standardized management model integrating quality, environment, and occupational health and safety. These systems are not certificates hung on the wall but action guidelines truly integrated into the company's daily operations, ensuring that the green concept is implemented in every production link.

In terms of environmental management, Dongfang Yipeng has established a complete system for the prevention and control of pollutants. The company's production processes are mainly based on assembly welding and shot blasting. By optimizing the process flow of steel material cutting, machining, welding, flaw detection, heat treatment, hydrostatic testing, rust removal, and painting, the generation of waste and energy consumption have been significantly reduced. At the same time, the company has invested in the construction of efficient end-of-pipe treatment facilities to ensure that emissions meet standards. This "source control + end-of-pipe treatment" dual approach reflects Dongfang Yipeng's systematic thinking in environmental management. In addition, the company has integrated the concept of a circular economy into the entire production process, establishing a resource recovery and recycling mechanism to maximize the utilization of various scraps and by-products.

Dongfang Yipeng's green management system also extends to the supply chain. The company implements a green procurement policy, giving priority to raw material and component suppliers that meet environmental standards, incorporating green requirements into procurement contracts, and driving the green upgrading of the entire supply chain. At the same time, the company optimizes its logistics system, reducing carbon emissions during product transportation through measures such as scientifically planning transportation routes, improving loading efficiency, and using clean energy transportation tools. This full-chain green management thinking ensures that Dongfang Yipeng's green factory construction is not limited to within the factory walls but forms a green influence that radiates upstream and downstream.

IV. Benchmarking Leadership: Demonstrative Value and Epoch-Making Significance of Green Factories

Dongfang Yipeng Awarded as Dalian's Manufacturing “Green Factory”. This honor reflects the company's solid footprint on the path of green development. The company has won numerous honors, including “Top 100 Demonstration Enterprises of China's Industry-Academia-Research Innovation”, “China Industry-Academia-Research Cooperation Innovation Award”, Dalian National-level “High-tech Enterprise”, Liaoning Province “Specialized and New Small and Medium-sized Enterprises”, “Liaoning Province Innovative Small and Medium-sized Enterprises”, and “Dalian Enterprise Technology Center”. For many years, it has been among the “Top 100 Manufacturing Enterprises in Dalian” and was once included in the “Top 500 Petroleum and Chemical Enterprises in China”. These achievements mark Dongfang Yipeng's transformation from a traditional manufacturing enterprise into an industry benchmark for green manufacturing.

As a green factory, Dongfang Yipeng's practices have significant industry demonstration value. Against the backdrop of intensifying global fossil fuel price fluctuations, the gradual formation of green trade barriers such as carbon tariffs, and high tariffs, China's manufacturing industry faces severe pressure for green transformation. Dongfang Yipeng's successful experience shows that traditional manufacturing enterprises can achieve sustainable development without sacrificing competitiveness through systematic green transformation. Its “Technology-led + System Management + Full Participation” green factory construction model provides a referenceable transformation path for peer enterprises. In particular, the innovative approach of combining green development with industry-academia-research cooperation and intelligent manufacturing has broken the myth that “green = high cost”, demonstrating business wisdom in green transformation.

Located in Northeast Asia Dalian, a coastal open city where the “Belt and Road” initiative's sea and air transportation converge, Dongfang Yipeng's green practices align with the national sustainable development strategy. From the perspective of the new era, China's proposed goals of “carbon peaking and carbon neutrality” have set new and higher requirements for the manufacturing industry. Guided by green factory construction, Dongfang Yipeng synchronizes its development with national strategies, reflecting the patriotism and responsibility of enterprises in the new era. Looking ahead, with the deepening development of the global green industrial revolution, Dongfang Yipeng's green manufacturing will surely gain broader development space. Its international layout and “going global” strategy, with products exported to countries and regions such as Russia, Kazakhstan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Zambia, Algeria, Turkey, Switzerland, the Netherlands, South Korea, and Argentina, also foreshadows the broad prospects for Chinese green manufacturing technology and standards to go global.

Bohai tide, green waves Yipeng's sky, blue clouds.

Dongfang Yipeng's green transformation is a vivid epitome of China's manufacturing leap to high-quality development. This transformation practice, driven by technological innovation, guided by green intelligent manufacturing, and pursuing ecological win-win, is redefining the value coordinates of the manufacturing industry. From the Bohai coast to overseas markets, Dongfang Yipeng is using green as its brush to write a new chapter in China's national equipment manufacturing industry. As more and more enterprises join this green revolution, China's manufacturing will surely paint a new picture of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature, contributing Eastern wisdom and providing Chinese solutions to the evolution of global industrial civilization and sustainable development.