Recently, the Wuhu Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology released the list of Green Factories for Wuhu City in 2025, and Qianchao Zhizao (Wuhu) Co., Ltd. was among those selected. In 2024, four other companies were also recognized as municipal- or provincial-level Green Factories: Zhejiang Wanxiang Marelli Shock Absorber Co., Ltd. and Qianchao Bearing Co., Ltd. were designated as Green and Low-Carbon Factories in Hangzhou; Wanxiang (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd. was named a Green Factory in Shanghai; and Qianchao Senwei Co., Ltd. was recognized as a Green Factory in Jiangsu Province. Green development is the underlying tone of high-quality growth. For enterprises, pursuing a green and low-carbon path is not only a necessity for development but also underscores their sense of social responsibility. Guided by the mission of “Making the Air Fresher,” Wanxiang’s various companies are relentlessly and steadily moving toward high-end, intelligent, and green manufacturing. By leveraging green smart manufacturing to enhance quality and efficiency and conserve energy, they continue to drive industrial upgrading and sustainable development, putting the concept of green development into practice through concrete actions.

Wuhu Green Factory: Wuhu Qianchao Intelligent Manufacturing

Qianchao Intelligent Manufacturing (Wuhu) Co., Ltd. specializes in constant-velocity drive shaft assemblies and has independently developed a variety of fixed and mobile joint types, offering customers a diversified product selection and aiming to become the world’s largest R&D and manufacturing base. In recent years, the company has closely adhered to the concept of green manufacturing, actively investing in the deep integration of intelligent manufacturing and green production, thus forging a green, low-carbon, and resource-efficient path of intelligent manufacturing. The company has established a leading group for building green factories, formulated green manufacturing management plans based on green development indicators, and set up a comprehensive green management system covering the entire process—from R&D and design to production, manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics. The company is proactively constructing a “5G + Industrial Internet” factory ecosystem, having established 57 intelligent production lines with a 100% equipment connectivity rate and online monitoring of process parameters. It has also built an MES digital workshop, enabling fine-grained material management through WMS systems and moving toward full-process informationization, paperlessness, and intelligence in production. The smart automated warehouse implemented in 2024 adopts a “gantry stacker crane + AGV collaboration” system, significantly improving inventory turnover and warehouse space utilization. Through a digital scheduling system, it reduces empty-trip rates during transportation, enhances transportation efficiency, and cuts motor energy consumption. Additionally, the company has installed a distributed photovoltaic power generation project covering 60,000 square meters on the rooftops of its factory buildings, generating 5.8 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually—meeting 25% of the plant’s electricity demand and reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 3,370 tons per year.

Hangzhou Green and Low-Carbon Factory: Marelli Shock Absorbers

Zhejiang Wanxiang Marelli Shock Absorber Co., Ltd. specializes in automotive shock absorbers and boasts strong technical capabilities and advanced production equipment. Its wide range of products covers gasoline vehicles, hybrid vehicles, and new-energy vehicles, providing bulk supply to first-tier customers. The company places great emphasis on process innovation, pursuing green manufacturing by focusing on energy conservation, material savings, emission reduction, efficiency enhancement, and quality improvement. In recent years, the company has continuously stepped up its R&D efforts, accelerating the development of green and low-carbon products and raising the overall level of green and low-carbon features in its offerings. The company has established an intelligent management platform for energy “dual-carbon” goals, enabling rational energy use and improved energy efficiency while ensuring product quality, thus achieving information-based and digital-intelligent energy management. The company utilizes renewable energy sources such as green electricity and photovoltaic power stations, and has introduced advanced and efficient thermal-storage RTO waste gas treatment systems and wastewater treatment technologies, among other measures, to ensure high-standard environmentally friendly manufacturing. To date, the company has undergone three rounds of clean production audits, saving over 500,000 kWh of electricity annually and reducing detergent consumption by nearly 800 kg. It has successfully lowered energy consumption per unit of product and achieved upgrades and improvements to its factory’s environmentally friendly process equipment.

Hangzhou Green and Low-Carbon Factory: Qianchao Bearing

Qianchao Bearing Co., Ltd. specializes in the R&D, production, and sales of a wide range of bearing products, including tapered roller bearings, cylindrical roller bearings, and high-speed ball bearings for new energy applications. The company adheres to a sustainable development approach and actively implements the principles of green and low-carbon development. It integrates requirements for green, low-carbon, and digital-intelligent technologies throughout the entire process—from product design and equipment configuration to process settings, environmental control, supplier selection, and production management. The company is actively engaged in establishing green and low-carbon factories, having set up a comprehensive organizational management structure. It has incorporated medium- and long-term plans for green and low-carbon factories into its overall corporate development strategy and formulated annual targets and implementation plans for green and low-carbon factories. In the actual implementation of green and low-carbon factory construction, while ensuring product functionality, quality, and occupational health and safety of workers during the production process, the company introduces ecological design concepts, giving priority to green raw materials, processes, technologies, and equipment. It meets the comprehensive evaluation requirements for infrastructure, management systems, energy and resource inputs, products, and environmental emission performance, ensuring that all indicators meet or even exceed industry standards.

Shanghai Green Factory: Wanxiang Shanghai Technology

Wanxiang (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd. specializes in core technologies for braking safety products in the automotive industry and boasts independent R&D capabilities as well as continuous technological innovation. The company breaks down key objectives such as energy conservation, emission reduction, and green supply chain development into specific annual targets, ensuring that its green development indicators are clear and quantifiable. Guided by the ISO system, the company actively promotes environmental management and greenhouse gas inventory and verification efforts. Its specialized equipment is highly efficient, precise, automated, and energy-saving; during production, the company utilizes renewable energy sources and rigorously inspects incoming raw materials to ensure compliance with environmental standards. Moreover, through process optimization and other measures, the company reduces pollutant emissions at the source, thereby conserving materials and energy. The company is equipped with a large-scale photovoltaic power generation system, which generated 740,000 kWh of electricity in 2024, accounting for 27.75% of the building’s total energy consumption. By retrofitting the air compressor room to recover waste heat, the company can convert this waste heat into energy needed for production or daily life, further reducing energy consumption. From 2021 to 2024, the energy consumption per unit of product decreased by 51.5%. Additionally, the company’s emissions of atmospheric pollutants and water pollutants both remain below regulatory limits, and its industrial solid waste utilization rate has reached 100%.

Jiangsu Province Green Factory: Qianchao Senwei

Qianchao Senwei Co., Ltd. specializes in forged transmission components for passenger vehicles and holds a leading position in China in terms of the technical sophistication and product quality of cold, warm, and hot precision forging processes. Adhering to the corporate mission of building a resource-efficient and environmentally friendly enterprise, the company has thoroughly implemented energy consumption quota management, continuously promoted technological innovation, upgraded wastewater treatment facilities, and advanced the construction of circular economy projects—thus driving green development across all aspects of its operations. The company employs specialized production equipment that boasts high productivity and low energy consumption, and it has steadily carried out energy-saving upgrades on a series of key projects, achieving remarkable results. Qianchao Senwei places great emphasis on end-of-pipe waste management, integrating pollution control and prevention into every stage of the production process. Specifically, the company has built a dedicated wastewater treatment plant to ensure that treated effluent meets discharge standards. It has also established a cooling circulation system, with an annual water circulation volume of approximately 35,000 tons, achieving a water reuse rate of 36% in production. In terms of energy utilization, the company is vigorously promoting green energy projects. Relying on the 3.8 MW photovoltaic project invested and constructed by Puxing Jueneng, the company’s annual photovoltaic power generation can reach 3.9 million kWh, accounting for over 10% of its total building energy consumption. Looking ahead, the company plans to further invest in a 4 MW/13.4 MWh user-side electrochemical energy storage project to optimize its energy structure even more effectively.

Currently, Wanxiang boasts one national-level green factory—Wanxiang Intelligent Manufacturing Co., Ltd.—as well as three provincial-level green factories: Zhejiang Wanxiang Precision Engineering Co., Ltd., Qianchao Senwei Co., Ltd., and Wanxiang (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd. Additionally, there are four municipal-level green factories: Qianchao Driveshaft Co., Ltd., Qianchao Bearing Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Wanxiang Marelli Shock Absorber Co., Ltd., and Qianchao Intelligent Manufacturing (Wuhu) Co., Ltd. Anchored in the course of green development, all Wanxiang companies will continue to consolidate their achievements, integrating the concept of green development into every stage and aspect of their business operations. By leveraging technological innovation, they will foster new models and impetus for green development, taking the lead in piloting and demonstrating innovative approaches on the path toward green and low-carbon development.