At the year’s end, looking back on 2017,
it was a year that inspired and lifted the nation’s spirits;
a year that brought Chinese people infinite surprises and boundless pride;
and even more, a year that continued the glory of “Made in China”!
In this year, China’s first cargo spacecraft “Tianzhou-1” was successfully launched, the domestic offshore drilling platform
achieved combustible ice extraction, the domestic large aircraft C919 completed its maiden flight, and China Standard EMU
trains “Fuxing” were put into service…
Entering a new era,
Made in China keeps making breakthroughs,
bringing inexhaustible, tremendous momentum to the development of Chinese enterprises.
As a representative of national brands — Kunlun Lubricant
has always insisted on innovating amid openness,
and developing amid innovation,
leading the domestic lubricant industry with multiple independent scientific and technological innovations,
continuously showing the world the dazzling strength of Chinese enterprises!
Kunlun Lubricant, a national brand
witnessing the hard-won “Made in China”
Lubricant is called the “blood” of mechanical transmission equipment and is very widely used in industry. As a benchmark enterprise in China’s lubricant field, Kunlun Lubricant possesses world-class manufacturing standards in China’s related supporting industries and represents the level of China’s national industry; its lubricant products with independent intellectual property rights are used in many industries including military, aviation, mining, automobiles, chemicals, steel, cement, electric power, shipping, railway, rubber and equipment manufacturing.
Starting in the 1950s, the first generation of New China’s lubricant science and technology workers began China’s lubricant technology R&D at what was then the Refining Research Institute of the Lanzhou Refinery under the Ministry of Petroleum (the predecessor of the Kunlun Lubricant Lanzhou Lubricant R&D Center). After reform and opening up, under the impact of “foreign oil,” many domestic research institutions were abolished, and only a few continued to persevere through hardship.
For many years thereafter, foreign lubricants dominated, and domestic lubricant enterprises lagged far behind foreign brands in both technology and market share. Moreover, foreign companies maintained a comprehensive blockade on core lubricant technologies; the only way to break through was unremitting independent R&D.
As a representative of the national team, Kunlun Lubricant has always adhered to independent innovation, achieving independent R&D from single additives to finished oils, forming a unique formulation system, breaking through foreign technological barriers, building a complete set of screening, analysis and evaluation methods, and successfully developing many categories of independently developed lubricant products. This created the national brand of “Kunlun Lubricant, Made in China” and won it a place in the international lubricant market.
Kunlun Lubricant leads “Made in China”
Three national science and technology grand awards in four years
Over the years, Kunlun Lubricant has persisted in independent R&D, sweeping all the national science and technology progress and technological invention awards in the lubricant industry, using the power of independent innovation to let “Made in China” be heard internationally again and again.
2009 National Technological Invention Award, Second Prize
“Preparation technology and industrial application of extreme-pressure anti-wear additives and packages for gear oils” won the 2009 National Technological Invention Award, Second Prize; the technology is applied in the automotive, steel, wind power and military equipment sectors and has brought the market share of high-end gear oils to 30%.
Since the “Seventh Five-Year Plan,” the state included gear oil additive R&D in its science and technology programs. In 1987, Fu Xisheng, now director of the Technology Development Division of Kunlun Lubricant, was assigned as an assistant to the technical task group right after graduating from university. By the “Eighth Five-Year Plan” he took over as head of the research group, inheriting along with the role the 200 most promising molecules that his predecessors had screened from more than 10,000 chemical molecular structures. Ultimately the group overcame one obstacle after another and synthesized four types of extreme-pressure anti-wear additives with different chemical structures: phosphorus, sulfur-phosphorus, sulfur-phosphorus-nitrogen, and sulfur-phosphorus-nitrogen-boron. Once the gear oil extreme-pressure anti-wear additive technology appeared, it broke the long-standing monopoly of “foreign oil,” causing the prices of international lubricant additive brands to plummet without exception. From then on, this lubricant R&D team — worthy of the name “national team” — stepped onto the international stage.
2011 National Science and Technology Progress Award, First Prize
“Development and application of naphthenic base oil series products” won the 2011 National Science and Technology Progress Award, First Prize; the technology is applied at the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant and in the 1000 kV and ±800 kV ultra-high-voltage transmission lines of key national projects, bringing the market share of high-end transformer oils to 80%.
Based on the special processing technology and characteristics of naphthenic base oils, 12 transformer oil products including KI45X were developed and certified by Siemens and ABB. KI25X and KI50X were successfully applied in the 1000 kV and ±800 kV ultra-high-voltage transmission lines of key national projects. KI50AX transformer oil and the L-DRC series refrigeration oils match comparable foreign products in quality, and some indicators of KI50AX transformer oil are even better, so they can replace imported products.
2012 National Science and Technology Progress Award, Second Prize
“High-grade series internal combustion engine oil package technology” won the 2012 National Science and Technology Progress Award, Second Prize; it is applied at OEM customers such as Dongfeng, FAW, SDEC, Suzuki and Foton, and it was the designated oil for the 60th anniversary National Day parade.
China’s high-end internal combustion engine oil market was long occupied by foreign brands, and domestic lubricant enterprises had to spend billions of yuan a year to buy foreign packages in order to produce internal combustion engine oils of the corresponding specifications. Quickly developing independent high-grade internal combustion engine oil package technology and breaking the foreign monopoly was a major national need.
Starting in 1988, after twenty years of continuous effort, Kunlun Lubricant’s R&D staff developed 20 kinds of high-grade internal combustion engine oil packages in 5 series — diesel engine oil, heavy-duty power transmission universal oil, gasoline engine oil, alternative fuel engine oil and motorcycle oil — and achieved industrial application, producing 98 types of oils, with major innovations in four areas: high-temperature detergency, extreme-pressure anti-wear performance, fuel economy and evaluation performance simulation methods.
This project was the first in China to develop a full series of high-grade internal combustion engine oil products based on an independent additive compounding system, enhancing the competitiveness of China’s lubricant industry and driving the development of the domestic additive industry. The heavy-duty power transmission universal oil produced from this achievement was designated by the General Armaments Department of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army as the designated oil for the 60th anniversary National Day parade.
Three national awards in four years — so far, the only one in the industry.
These achievements filled the gap of national invention awards in China’s lubricant sector
and reached internationally leading levels.
In the future, Kunlun people will continue to work tirelessly
to show the world with outstanding results
the confidence and potential of independent innovation and development of Chinese national brands,
and to contribute to the scientific research development of Made in China.
Kunlun Lubricant will not forget its original aspiration,
will keep its mission firmly in mind, pioneer and innovate,
and will, with the strength and boldness of a national brand,
take on the responsibility and future of a national enterprise,
continuously fueling the development of “Made in China”
and writing new legends of Made in China!
Confidence comes from strength,
and Kunlun Lubricant’s strength goes far beyond all this;
holding fast to our dreams and continuing to write brilliance — we are on the way…
