On August 19, the 2025 Shandong Province Top 100 Private Enterprises for Innovation list was officially released. Shandong Kaitai Shot Blasting Machinery Share Co., Ltd. was once again selected for the “2025 Shandong Top 100 Private Enterprises for Innovation” list, ranking 37th. This marks the company's third consecutive year on this authoritative list, signifying its continued recognition for achievements in innovation system development, core technology breakthroughs, and the industrialization of research outcomes.
In recent years, Shandong Kaitai has consistently placed enhancing core competitiveness at the core of its development strategy, adhering to science and technology-driven innovation to drive products and technologies toward higher-end, intelligent, and international standards, significantly enhancing brand influence and industry leadership.
Especially in international markets, Shandong Kaitai has continued to make strides, with its products and services earning high trust from overseas customers, achieving notable success in expanding into high-end markets. In the first half of this year, the company's export revenue saw a substantial year-on-year increase of 30%, demonstrating its robust international competitiveness and accelerated brand globalization. This achievement reflects Shandong Kaitai's steadfast commitment to high-quality development and innovation-driven strategies.
As an industry leader, Shandong Kaitai remains committed to technological innovation as its core driving force, actively exploring the integration of smart equipment and surface treatment technologies. The company is focusing on three key areas:
1. Build sustainable innovation capabilities
Continuously increase R&D investment, improve the technology innovation system with enterprises as the main body, the market as the guide, and the deep integration of industry, academia, research, and application, focus on key technology breakthroughs, overcome a series of “bottleneck” problems, and inject continuous innovation vitality into the long-term development of the enterprise.
Intelligent sandblasting robot operation
Shandong Kaitai continues to push the boundaries of technology: it has applied for more than 300 patents, including more than 100 invention patents. It has participated in the formulation and revision of 57 international, national, and industry standards, and its technological innovation capabilities are among the best in the industry.
It has independently developed an intelligent sandblasting cleaning robot that uses AI vision guidance and flexible tactile sensing technology to accurately treat the surfaces of high-speed train bodies, large aircraft fuselages, and other objects, successfully breaking the monopoly and filling a gap in the domestic market.
2. Implementing a talent-first strategy
Talent is the primary resource for innovation. Through “attracting, utilizing, cultivating, and retaining” talent, Shandong Kaitai strives to build a clearly defined, reasonably structured, and high-quality talent pool, creating a “three-in-one” Kaitai talent pipeline.
Kaitai Talent Pipeline
It has brought together a group of high-level leading talents, including leading talents in the Taishan industry, experts from the national “Ten Thousand Talents Program,” and Bohai talents. It has built a professional technical team with senior engineers and engineers as its backbone. It has cultivated a team of skilled talents with superb skills and a craftsman spirit, forming a powerful talent force that leads the development of the industry.
Kaitai Craftsmen Innovation Studio
3. Accelerate the transformation of scientific research results
By integrating the innovation chain and industrial chain, Shandong Kaitai is committed to effectively transforming innovation outcomes into real productive capacity and market competitiveness.
Through continuous innovation, the quality of Kaitai's products has been continuously improved. Its products have obtained the “Taishan Quality” certification and been selected for the “Good Products of Shandong” program, earning a strong market reputation for their high reliability and stability. By continuously driving technological innovation, the company has been approved eight times for the first-of-its-kind major technical equipment, leading the development of industry technology.
Digital spray coating production line
Deepening the application of digital technology, building a smart production application platform, improving production efficiency, reducing energy consumption, and creating greater value for customers; creating a large-scale “sandblasting + spraying” assembly production line, improving product craftsmanship and automation, and providing sufficient manufacturing guarantees for Kaite products to participate in international competition and become the world's leading brand in the metal surface cleaning industry.
Global sales network
Driven by innovation, Shandong Kaitai's high-end equipment products have maintained a leading market share, with products exported to over 100 countries and regions, establishing the company as a significant player in the global metal surface treatment industry.
Currently, Shandong is firmly committed to “taking the lead and shouldering the responsibility,” steadily promoting high-quality development, which has provided vast development space and opportunities for private enterprises. Shandong Kaitai actively responds to market changes, seizes new development opportunities, and has become a powerful engine driving Shandong Province's high-quality economic development!
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