Sanhua ranks Top 100 Zhejiang creative enterprises

The list of Top 100 Zhejiang creative enterprises was firstly released on April 22, 2020 by Zhejiang Market Supervision Bureau (Intellectual Property Office). Five companies of Sanhua group were on the list, namely, Sanhua Residential, Sanhua Commercial, Sanhua Automotive, Sanhua Microchannel and Sanhua Research Institute.

The top 100 enterprises hold a total of 21572?invention patents, acing for 18.6% of all valid patents in Zhejiang Province. Traditional manufacturing industry has excellent performance in innovation and creativity, among which electrical machinery and equipment manufacturing industry, as well as automotive and auto parts manufacturing industry have become the star, whose total score placed second and third respectively this time.

Sanhua continues to increase investment in technological innovation and sticks to independent innovation. Today, more than 600 patents are filed by Sanhua group every year, of which sixty percent to seventy percent are invention patents. That is to say, three patents in two day and one invention patent a day. By the end of March this year, the group has applied for 4746 patents, including 2596 domestic patents and 595 overseas patents. In 2018, Sanhua Holding Group was recognized as a “Chinese Top100 innovator” by Clarivate Analytics, formerly the intellectual property and science business of Thom- Sanhua R&D center in Hangzhou, China.