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[The Remarkable Huangshi Creation] A veteran state-owned enterprise is leveraging its “secret weapon” to move forward toward the “new.”

2025-11-04

 

Journalist Hu Jing

As a window for China's opening up to the world and a “barometer” of the foreign trade industry, the Canton Fair has always attracted great attention both at home and abroad. At this year’s Canton Fair, Hubei Tri-Ring Metalforming Equipment Co.,Ltd (hereinafter referred to as Tri-Ring Metalforming) showcased its signature strengths, attracting a huge number of overseas buyers with products that are increasingly sophisticated and intelligent. As the company gradually builds a new foundation for high-quality productivity, its path in foreign trade will become ever more stable and solid.

The “big” machine tool hides “embroidery skills” (small).

For a long time, machine tools have been referred to as the “mother machines of industry,” and the equipment manufacturing sector—supported by the machine-tool industry—is the cornerstone and backbone of the nation’s efforts to build a modern economic system.

In recent years, Hubei Tri-Ring Metalforming Equipment Co.,Ltd has accelerated its transition from automated and digital manufacturing to green, intelligent manufacturing, thereby enhancing the competitiveness of its entire industrial chain.

On the morning of the 7th, the reporter visited the Tri-Ring Metalforming workshop located in the Development Zone. Inside the factory, "large machines" labeled with "laser" and "CNC" seemed to possess exquisite "embroidery skills." A thick steel plate, carefully cut and shaped, quickly transformed into hollow components of various forms, each seamlessly interlocking with the others.

0.01 millimeter—just one-seventh the diameter of an adult human hair. 6,500 tons—the largest tonnage forging machine currently exported by Tri-Ring Metalforming Equipment (the company is now launching a 10,000-ton forging machine project). The former, as delicate and refined as embroidery, precise down to the smallest detail; the latter, as powerful as a strongman lifting a thousand jun, yet utterly immovable. These two seemingly ordinary numbers bear witness to the leading position of Hubei Tri-Ring Metalforming Equipment Co.,Ltd (hereinafter referred to as Tri-Ring Metalforming) in the global machinery industry. Behind these contrasting “light” and “heavy” figures lies Tri-Ring Metalforming’s relentless pursuit of technological R&D and independent innovation.

The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge steel structures, the West-to-East Gas Pipeline, high-speed trains, large ship hulls, heavy-duty crane booms, offshore wind towers, and shipping containers—these highly acclaimed engineering projects may seem to have little to do with Tri-Ring Metalforming. However, the production equipment used to build these "national strategic assets" all rely on Tri-Ring Metalforming.

According to the introduction, the company manufactures more than 200 specifications across eleven major categories of metalworking and forming equipment, including CNC shaping machines, CNC bending machines, CNC shearing machines, CNC turret punch presses, laser cutting machines, precision punching machines, and CNC cold heading machines. These machines are widely used in various fields such as energy, pipelines, steel structures, telecommunications, power generation, shipbuilding, automotive, aerospace, and transportation.

In addition, Tri-Ring Metalforming has earned numerous honors thanks to its emphasis on quality, proactive pursuit of technological innovation, and well-planned scientific development strategies. The company's products have successively received a series of national-level accolades, including the "First Prize for Science and Technology in China's Machinery Industry," the "Second Prize for National Scientific and Technological Progress," and twice the "Second Prize for National Invention of Technology." Furthermore, within the industry, the company has been recognized with titles such as "China Famous Brand," "Leading Enterprise in the Metal Forming Machine Tool Manufacturing Industry," and "Most Influential Brand in China's Machinery Industry."


Adapt to local conditions and expand the international market for the Belt and Road Initiative (small).

In 1981, Tri-Ring Metalforming initiated a technological partnership with LVD Belgium to learn advanced overseas technologies and enhance its product competitiveness. The machine tools manufactured by the company have consistently maintained a leading position in the domestic industry. For nearly 30 years, the company has actively explored and developed overseas markets, using the Southeast Asian market as a stepping stone to sell YSD-branded metalforming equipment to global markets. Adhering to a marketing strategy of "establishing a strong foothold in the domestic market while reaching out to the world," Tri-Ring Metalforming has leveraged the global demand for intelligent manufacturing upgrades in the equipment industry and its own technological innovation strengths to deepen the influence of its own brand, achieving two major leaps—into the high-end market and the developed markets. In 2023, export orders increased by 24% compared to the previous year.

Earlier this year, Tri-Ring Metalforming targeted the Belt and Road international market and launched a revolutionary product—the PPES-type electro-hydraulic servo CNC bending machine—which boasts high cost-effectiveness, energy efficiency, environmental friendliness, and high efficiency and intelligence. This product not only features a user-friendly interface and strong scalability but also supports advanced functions such as cloud-platform robotic arm control and MES connectivity. Compared to conventional models, its overall operational efficiency has improved by more than 30%.

As “veteran Canton Fair attendees” who have participated in the fair for 20 consecutive years, at the 135th Canton Fair, our company’s business team handled buyers with ease and confidence, fully demonstrating their professional presence. Throughout the entire process, they explained our company’s “flagship products” to clients in fluent English. As soon as our new products were unveiled at the Canton Fair, they immediately won recognition from buyers around the world, and orders started pouring in one after another.

At the end of April, the company welcomed several groups of pre-booked buyers from the Canton Fair. Among them, a customer from Algeria, after learning that the company’s product quality was stable and reliable, deliveries were timely, and after-sales service was guaranteed, immediately expressed intent to purchase and even signed the contract directly during their factory visit.

Faced with a complex and challenging external environment, established state-owned enterprises like Tri-Ring Metalforming should continuously transform and upgrade, ensuring that their industrial chains remain firmly rooted. By leveraging high-quality production capacity, they can better meet consumer demands and demonstrate to the market their resilience and vitality as they move forward "toward the new." We believe that in the future, Tri-Ring Metalforming will showcase, through its continually evolving image, the determination and confidence of this veteran state-owned enterprise to expand its opening-up and seize development opportunities.