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Then there came a time when Zhang Dingjin looked at long-term
development of the company, since blade manufacturing involves
multiple technological sectors, with design capability, mould
casting which determines the competitiveness of a company. This
was the weakness of Zhongfu Lianzhong, which led Zhang Dingjin
to think about obtaining blade technology from an existing manu-
facturer, which resulted in Zhongfu-NOI.
Therefore, Zhongfu Lianzhong underwent rounds of hard
negotiations and successfully took over NOI in January 2007 and
established SINOI in Germany as China's first blades manufacturer
to set up an R&D centre in Europe. Zhang Dingjin believed that blade
technology research and development is a systematic program and
it takes a long time for a Chinese blade manufacturing enterprise
to form its own professional technological R&D team. He said
frankly that he did not believe a five-year journey for development
of MW-scale blades in China could replace over two decades of
such R&D in Europe. This was the reason for him to take over SINOI
in Germany and position China's design team at an open platform,
which not only produce blades for Zhongfu Liangzhong but also
cooperate with other design teams all over the world in order to
provide blade design for more wind turbine manufacturers and
even to cooperate with other design companies for R&D and blade
design.
Zhang Dingjin hoped to understand more problems in R&D
and design, so that wind turbine manufacturers could have access
to thorough international cooperation and more suitable blade
solutions. Benefiting from such global open platform of blade
design resources, by 2011 Zhongfu Lianzhong has already ofered
seven series of blades with 28 models for 1.25 MW, 1.5 MW,
2.0 MW, 3.0 MW, 3.6 MW, 5.0 MW and 6.0 MW wind turbines. Open
platform enabled Zhongfu Lianzhong to use the best resources
of blade design and to better realise value for customers.
However, an open platform does not lead to instant success,
but to a realistic and innovative promotion of China's wind power
technologies in line with the wind environment in China. Until 2012,
Zhongfu Lianzhong has won five national patents of invention,
released four enterprise standards, his blades for a 2 MW wind
turbine won “China Standard for Innovation Contribution Award”
in 2010.
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