After obtaining the title of “China Valve Cityâ€, Zhejiang Longwan Valve Provincial High-tech Industrial Base has passed the expert team demonstration organized by Zhejiang Provincial Department of Science and Technology. The expert group unanimously believes that Longwan has established a valve industry base with better characteristics. The foundation and conditions, and has obvious advantages. The establishment of this industrial base is of great significance to the further gathering of valve manufacturing enterprises, promotion of division of labor and cooperation, and optimal allocation of resources to improve the core competitiveness of Longwan Valve Industry.
It is understood that the Longwan valve industry started in the 1970s. At present, the Longwan valve industry has more than 1400 manufacturing enterprises, and has formed a valve industry with various features such as various pipeline valves, high-temperature power station valves, and electrohydraulic linkage quick-closing valves. The group includes one enterprise with an annual output value of over one billion yuan and six companies with over one hundred million yuan. According to statistics, Longwan has an annual output of 200,000 tons of stainless steel valves, accounting for more than 40% of the total annual output of the country. In 2007, the Longwan valve industry realized a total industrial output value of 10.3 billion yuan, accounting for more than 25% of the national valve market. Longwan valve products not only occupy the domestic mainstream market, but also enter the international market and export to nearly 60 countries in Southeast Asia, North and South America, the Middle East, and Western Europe.
In addition to the ever-increasing scale, Longwan Valve has also persisted in technological innovation in recent years. The Longwan valve industry now has 31 high-tech enterprises of all types, including 4 at the national level and 11 at the provincial level; 6 provincial-level high-tech R&D centers have been established; in 2006 and 2007, the local valve industry undertook a total of national science and technology There are 1 SME Innovation Fund, 13 National Torch Programs and 2 national key new product projects; 4 major electromechanical equipment specialties in Zhejiang Province, and 368 patents of various types. Already have strong technical development capabilities and technological innovation capabilities.