The marine rust removal robot of "Haihuan Technology" has the largest market share and the company has completed tens of millions of yuan in Series A financing | Financing Debut
Written by Hu Yiting
Edited by Yuan Silai
Hardcore Ke learned that "Haihuan Technology", an industrial anti-corrosion intelligent manufacturing equipment and overall solution service provider, recently announced the completion of a tens of millions of yuan Series A financing. This round of financing is led by a certain port group, with the old shareholder Yunshi Capital continuously increasing its investment, and Yirong Capital serving as the long-term financial advisor. The funds obtained will be invested in key links such as product research and development, market expansion, and team building.
Haihuan Technology was founded in 2021. It independently researches and develops ultra-high pressure component technology and artificial intelligence core algorithms to provide vertical integration solutions for traditional industries such as ships and chemical engineering. It has launched the Treatment Carrier D&X series of vehicle-mounted hull cleaning robots, which can be used in the field of ship cleaning and maintenance. This series is customized for the cleaning, derusting of the ship's outer plate, bottom and cargo hold. The operation coverage can reach more than 95% of the hull and is suitable for all ship types.
In the past, hull cleaning and derusting mostly relied on manual sandblasting, water spraying or wall-climbing robots, which easily led to environmental pollution, low operation efficiency and safety risks. At the same time, the equipment maintenance cost is high, and frequent hoisting is time-consuming and laborious. There is also a lack of a complete solution for shipyards in the market. Currently, the global shipbuilding industry is facing a green transformation, and the control of sewage discharge is increasingly tightened, making the traditional cleaning mode unsustainable.
The vehicle-mounted hull cleaning robot launched by Haihuan Technology can achieve an operation efficiency nearly 10 times that of the traditional cleaning method. In use, its robot products are convenient to enter the dock and can be synchronized with the drainage and flushing operations in the dock, saving drainage and flushing time; only 4 robots with 8 operators are required during the operation to complete the workload of 240 people required by the original process. In terms of environmental protection, the built-in sewage recovery and filtration system of the robot can convert 99% of the derusting sewage into recyclable water.
The vehicle-mounted hull cleaning robot in operation, image courtesy of the enterprise
Haihuan Technology has launched two vehicle-mounted hull cleaning robots, Treatment Carrier X and Treatment Carrier D. The X series is suitable for high-altitude vertical and curved areas such as the large plane of the ship's side, the bow and the stern. It has achieved more than 3,500 hours of continuous and stable trouble-free operation, with a maximum operation efficiency of 120m2/h; the D series is suitable for complex planar and curved areas such as the bottom of the ship's side, the straight bottom, and the bilge keel.
Both products are equipped with an intelligent remote control function, which can realize real-time data transmission and visual monitoring of the operation, and also have functions such as one-key lane change, automatic operation in the planned area and fully automatic path-following operation.
In terms of green cleaning, the vehicle-mounted hull cleaning robot Treatment Carrier X&D has a built-in vacuum integration system, which can recover and filter solid particles, paint residue, rust and sewage in real time, and realize sewage purification by connecting to the on-board water purification device through a precise and controllable discharge method.
Up to now, the vehicle-mounted hull cleaning robot of Haihuan Technology is equipped with the only mechanical structure in the industry that is directionally polished for the rust removal scene of medium and large-sized hulls. The multi-axis linkage arm adopts a flexible contact design. With the help of pressure compensation and pressure intensity compensation technology, the cleaning disc can be evenly contacted with the hull surface and constantly impacted to improve the cleaning effect.
In terms of delivery capacity, Haihuan Technology has its own assembly production line, and the accessories can be delivered on the same day, and the products can be delivered within 45 days at the fastest. For the overseas market, the company has an international sales and after-sales team, which can provide customized overseas solutions, localized training and teaching, and on-site after-sales according to different national markets.
In terms of market expansion, Haihuan Technology has served dozens of leading shipping companies such as MAERSK (Maersk) and MSC (Mediterranean Shipping), and its business scope covers many countries around the world. It is reported that the company's market share in the domestic ship rust removal robot market in 2023 is as high as 45%, ranking first in China.
Participating in the exhibition in the Middle East, image courtesy of the enterprise
In terms of the core team, the founders of Haihuan Technology, Yang Wentao and Zhang Zejia, have many years of management experience in the shipbuilding industry and are mainly engaged in the research and development and application of ultra-high pressure water jet robots; the founding team has compound industry experience in government public relations, overseas large-scale ship equipment sales and technical development.
Investor's perspective:
Yunshi Capital stated that as a pioneer and advocate of automation and unmanned maintenance and protection in the pan-port area, Haihuan Technology combines high-pressure water jet technology with AI autonomous driving, and takes the lead in landing in the field of ship rust removal and achieving commercial economy, with rapid income doubling. The Haihuan Technology team has rich experience in the marine ship and port industry, practical and reliable engineering practice capabilities, an industry-wide collaborative and win-win R&D idea, provides a complete standard product matrix horizontally, and breaks through the core components that are stuck in the neck vertically. It has quickly completed the coverage and repurchase of mainstream leading customers in four years, and has accumulated industry reputation and ecological barriers. Yunshi Capital continues to support high-end equipment enterprises with system importance and industry driving force, and believes that the experience of the Haihuan team in creating and polishing excellent products based on local customers can be extended to overseas ports and ship fields, becoming a world-class port maintenance automation and unmanned enterprise.
The large state-owned marine industry fund stated that the Lingang and ship maintenance fields are facing practical situations such as a continuous shortage of workers, huge environmental protection pressure, and increasingly strict policy supervision. Haihuan Technology accurately diagnoses the pain points of the industry, efficiently launches targeted products, and quickly completes the coverage of leading enterprises in the industry. The Haihuan Technology team has an excellent background, coming from the core positions of domestic and foreign leading high-end equipment, ship engineering and other enterprises. It has an extremely deep understanding of the industry trend, an extremely clear grasp of the core technology, and an extremely clear iteration of the product layout, which makes the investment and industrial resource introduction of industrial investment institutions full of confidence. It is believed that Haihuan Technology can not only fully serve Chinese enterprises in the future, but also make the voice of "Intelligent Manufacturing in China" heard in the international market. We will also provide all-round domestic and foreign industry resources and capital support for the future development of Haihuan Technology.