Shandong Ruyi Group focuses on the production of wool textiles and apparel, but also have business in the field of cotton dyeing and printing, rabbit hair spinning, knitting, chemical fiber, jean fabric, real estate and education. The company holds the total assets of 1.6 billion yuan and has over 10 thousand employees and nearly one thousand technicians. The company has set up a state-level technical center and enjoys advantageous technologies and innovation capacity. The company's strength at products development tops the country in the sector of wool textiles. It has achieved the certifications of ISO9001 and ISO14001. Its brand of Ruyi is well known in China. Under this brand, the company has over 1000 varieties of products with nearly 10 thousand various designs. Some of these products fill the domestic gap and are exported to over 20 countries and regions.
Target at International Position Introduce Advanced Equipments Supported by technological advancement, Ruyi Group increases its input in technological transformation and development, implements technological innovation and promotes industrial upgrade. Early in 1998, we suggested the concept of " Strive to build top international brand, and to become top international business" within two to three years. In order to realize this goal, the company has sent successively over ten groups of engineering and technical staffs to Italy, England to do inspection and study and identify our own gap, studied a quantified standard for this concept, and hired experts from International Wool Secretariat and Italy to make a diagnosis.
Believe Technological Innovation Cultivate Core Competitiveness Our company emphasizes much effort on the intellectual property protection and specially assigns a manager to administrate the work. The company cooperates closely with research institutes at home and abroad, signs the agreements with them for the use of their technologies and brands and pays the charges or allows them to buy shares as defined in the agreements. Taking the joint-venture with Nogara Italy for example，Nogara joined us as shareholder based on its brand and techniques. The brand and publications of Ruyi Group are under the administration of the specially assigned manager. The company also applies for the patents and takes necessary measures to protect its core technologies.
For many years, in consideration of our own reality, we have adopted advanced and applicable technology to reform the technology of traditional industry, completely reorganized our former arrangement of production equipments and technologies and optimized technological path, our technology has arrived at top international level, and we have basically realized the filtration and transformation from labor-intensive mode to technology-intensive mode. Since the beginning of the production, we have developed a series of new high-grade products rich in high-tech and high value-added.
As the bellwether of technological innovation in textile industry, Ruyi Group's Technology Center was recognized by the State in recent years, the company aims at top international level, and with the support of high-tech product R & D, gets to make R & D be consistently in the advantage of " have what others have not, improve what others have and change what others improve." Since 1998, Technology Center has built up its cooperation and exchange with domestic and foreign research institutes, experts and scholars, and hired several hundred celebrated domestic and foreign experts and scholars to come to Ruyi to give technological consultation; we have sent successively dozens of engineering, technical and management personnel to Italy, France, Germany, Australia and other countries, to inspect and study their advanced technology and management experience; In order to quicken the step of technological progress, the company has also conducted full cooperation with Donghua University and Northwest Textile Engineering College in areas such as talent cultivation, scientific research and technological development, and has set up " Ruyi Scientific Research Base" and " Ruyi Training Center" respectively in two colleges. The two cooperating parties take advantage of their collaboration, to do joint study in apparel, woolen spinning and dyeing, product designing and development and application of new technology, and jointly tackle technological problems and makes the company consistently remain on the frontline of new product development and technological progress. The Technology Center accepts every year many provincial and national technological projects and there are breakthroughs every year. The company currently undertakes 8 key task projects of State Economic and Trade Commission and Ministry of Science and Technology.
Once the high-tech is planted into traditional industry, it will instantly turn this world richer and more colorful. The company uses industrial technologies, such as the cotton spinning, printing and dyeing and silk, and successfully transplants them to the wool spinning industry, and develops bicomponent fashion tweed with features of flocking, burnt-out print and dyeing, and enables the traditional wool spinning technology to have a fundamental leap and lead the consumption fashion. This series of products has been awarded the only design gold prize in the 2000 first National Textile Product Design Competition. A material developed in 2001, using even 170 counts and new spinning technology, has changed the physical and chemical functions of the woolen fabric and made it as thin, light, refined and soft as silk and with a leap has entered into world's leading position. Currently, 170-countd super-thin material can be manufactured only by few producers in Italy, and this indicates that China's wool spinning has kept abreast with the world in the area of developing top-grade high-count product, Ruyi people realize a century-old dream of China's several wool spinning generations.