Shandong Kaitai Achieves a Strong Start to 2026 with a Successful First Quarter

Off to a Strong Start: Shandong Kaitai Kicks Off 2026 with a First-Quarter Victory

The first quarter of 2026 has come to a successful close. Guided by the principle of “action first, results speak louder than words,” all executives and employees of Shandong Kaitai have delivered an impressive performance, marking a strong start to the year.

In the first quarter, the company’s core business segments worked in concert to achieve comprehensive success: sales of metal abrasives continued to climb, sales of shot blasting machinery saw robust growth—with standard equipment sales performing particularly well—sales of Roltec fans continued to rise, and sales in other industrial sectors remained stable with a slight increase, driving a 9.09% year-over-year increase in tax payments. 

As an emerging business segment, Kaitai Sandblasting Robots is gaining significant momentum and demonstrating strong growth potential. Sales of the independently developed fourth-generation shot blasting machine have been booming, with unit sales doubling. The entire workforce has demonstrated their commitment through hard work and fulfilled their promises with tangible results, laying a solid foundation for the successful completion of the annual targets and tasks.

Broad-based Growth and Improved Quality and Efficiency in Core Sectors

As the company’s core business segments, metal abrasives, shot blasting machinery, and Roltec blowers continued to lead the way in the first quarter, demonstrating a positive trend of improved quality and efficiency:

Shot blasting machinery, as a flagship product, achieved strong sales growth thanks to the technical advantages of its intelligent and large-scale equipment. With production lines fully booked, domestic market share steadily increasing, and new breakthroughs in overseas exports, this fully demonstrates Kaitai’s leading position in the surface treatment equipment industry.

Roltec Fans has capitalized on opportunities for energy-saving retrofits and environmental upgrades in the industrial sector. By offering highly efficient and energy-saving products, the company has gained market favor, achieving steady and sustained sales growth that has become its second growth engine.

The two major business segments—wear-resistant components and metal abrasives—have advanced in tandem. Leveraging exceptional product quality and stable supply capabilities, the company has successfully expanded into multiple emerging application areas while consolidating its presence in traditional markets such as mining and shipbuilding, resulting in steady growth in both sales volume and revenue.

Building Momentum in New Industries to Create New Engines of Growth

While its traditional core business continues to grow steadily, new forms of productive capacity are rapidly emerging. The establishment of Shandong Kaitai Spray Painting Robot Co., Ltd. marks another significant strategic move for Kaitai, opening up a brand-new growth trajectory for the company.

Kaitai's In-House Developed Sandblasting Robot

Currently, intelligent sandblasting robots are widely used in the high-end rail transit manufacturing sector and have become the designated equipment for the sandblasting process of CRRC’s high-speed rail carriages. With single-unit sales in the tens of millions, this emerging segment has opened up a vast blue ocean market for intelligent equipment, serving as the most powerful engine driving Kaitai toward the high end of the value chain.

Strategic Leadership: Seizing the Momentum to Reach New Heights

In early 2026, Shandong Kaitai remained steadfast in its commitment to “hard work,” advancing step by step and pulling together in the same direction:

In January, Shandong Kaitaj held a management meeting to establish a clear principle of “judging success by results,” setting the tone and direction for the year’s work while providing the ideological foundation and strategic guidance needed for a strong start to the first quarter.

In February, at the sales team’s launch ceremony, the marketing force further clarified its goals, fully seized opportunities, focused its efforts precisely, and accelerated market expansion.

2026 Cadre Meeting

                                                                                              Sales Campaign Launch                                                                               Supplier Conference

The March supplier technical exchange meeting focused on technology and collaborative innovation, establishing a more closely integrated and efficient supply chain collaboration system that laid a solid foundation for full-year production capacity utilization and market expansion. This series of strategically coordinated initiatives provided a powerful boost to the company’s strong start to the year.

Throughout the company, everyone has deeply embraced the spirit of “hard work.” From the production lines to the R&D frontiers, and from the market front lines to logistical support, a fervor for hard work and excellence is surging everywhere, coalescing into a mighty force driving the company’s high-quality development.

The strong start to the first quarter represents not only a breakthrough in performance but also a boost to morale. 

Every employee at Shandong Kaitai has rallied around the company’s overarching annual development goals, breaking through challenges through “hard work” and pooling strength through “collaboration”: The sales team is closely monitoring market trends and delving deeply into customer needs to sustain the positive momentum from the first quarter. 

In production, each workshop is operating at full capacity and implementing lean management to ensure orders are delivered on time; in R&D, teams are working day and night to continuously optimize product performance.

Shandong Kaitai will continue to adhere to its innovation-driven development strategy. 

With the metal surface cleaning industry as its foundation and sandblasting robots as its breakthrough, the company will bring more intelligent and eco-friendly equipment to the market. This will inject a steady stream of technological momentum into achieving the annual goals, paving the way for the high-quality completion of the year’s tasks with even more outstanding results!