Recently, the Shandong Provincial Development and Reform Commission officially issued the “Notice on Announcing the List of Newly Recognized and All Shandong Provincial Engineering Research Centers in 2025” (〔2025〕No. 575). The “Shandong Engineering Research Center for Heavy-Duty Petrochemical Centrifugal Pumps” applied by Longgang Pump Industry was successfully approved. This achievement marks another solid and crucial step for Longgang Pump Industry in technological innovation and industry leadership, injecting strong impetus into the company’s long-term development.
Led by Longgang Pump Industry, the center is co-established with universities including Shandong University and Zhejiang Sci-Tech University. It focuses on key technical challenges in the field of heavy-duty petrochemical centrifugal pumps, conducting in-depth basic and applied research in core areas such as new material applications, high-efficiency and energy-saving design, intelligent control system development, and improvement of adaptability to extreme working conditions, to promote the research, development and breakthrough of innovative technologies.
Guided by the actual needs of the petrochemical industry, and driven by close industry-university-research cooperation and mechanism innovation, the center is committed to building a comprehensive engineering research platform integrating technological innovation, efficient achievement transformation, and in-depth industry-university-research integration for heavy-duty petrochemical centrifugal pumps.
The approval of the center provides a solid platform and strong guarantee for Longgang Pump Industry to further enhance its independent innovation capability and accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. This honor is a high recognition of Longgang Pump Industry’s years of intensive cultivation and continuous innovation in the field of heavy-duty petrochemical centrifugal pumps, demonstrating the company’s profound technical accumulation, excellent R&D strength and leading industry status in this field.
Taking the center’s construction as an opportunity, the company will undertake its mission, drive industrial upgrading through technological innovation, and contribute to promoting the high-end, intelligent and green development of the petrochemical industry.