Costing 300 million yuan, "Zhitong Technology" is building a R & D and headquarters production base for high-precision reducers, which is expected to be put into operation in 2027 | Frontline Report

Author | Huang Nan

Editor | Yuan Silai

According to Hard Kr, on April 20th, the project of Zhitong Technology's R & D and headquarters production base for high - precision reducers was officially launched. The project is located in the Beijing Economic - Technological Development Area, with a total investment of about 300 million yuan and a fixed - asset investment of about 200 million yuan. The construction covers an area of about 11,000 square meters, with a building area of about 19,500 square meters. The construction period is about 2 years. It is expected to be put into production in 2027 and reach full production in 2029.

The production base includes a R & D center, an engineering test center, a testing center, a sales center, and a management headquarters. It will build an intelligent manufacturing production line for high - precision reducers used in industrial robots and humanoid robots, set up an engineering test platform and a comprehensive testing platform, and provide overall solutions for robot transmission systems.

Design drawing of the headquarters production base of "Zhitong Technology" (Source/Enterprise)

As the intermediate hub connecting the power source and the actuator of a robot, the performance of the reducer plays a decisive role in the motion accuracy and load capacity of the robot. It is widely used in scenarios such as industrial robots, collaborative robots, service robots, and industrial automation. Taking humanoid robots as an example, due to the differences in design complexity and functional positioning, a single device usually needs to be equipped with 20 - 30 precision reducers.

Since the reducer involves multi - dimensional technologies such as materials science, precision machining, and dynamic simulation, its R & D and mass production face multiple barriers such as micron - level machining accuracy, long - cycle life testing, and stability under complex working conditions. Since its establishment in 2015, Zhitong Technology has long been focused on the R & D and manufacturing of core robot components and has now ranked among the top two in the domestic precision reducer field.

Professor Zhang Yueming, the chief scientist of Zhitong Technology, once pointed out to Hard Kr that "90% of the domestic RV reducer manufacturing equipment still needs to be imported. Although domestic equipment has made some progress in recent years, it is still not enough to meet the actual needs of enterprises."

During this period, Beijing University of Technology and Zhitong Technology started cooperation in 2016. The two parties have solved problems such as gear modification and manufacturing processes in the field of industrial robot RV reducers, completed the forward design, brought the performance of domestic RV reducers to the international level, and promoted the industrialization process and the integration of industry, academia, and research. In 2024, the team of Beijing University of Technology solved the problem of domesticizing RV reducer tools and manufacturing processes, breaking the foreign technology monopoly and effectively improving the production efficiency of Zhitong Technology.

Currently, Zhitong Technology has achieved strategic layouts in multiple technical paths such as cycloidal drive, harmonic drive, precision planetary drive, quasi - hyperboloid drive, and roller screw drive, and has completed multiple rounds of financing totaling hundreds of millions of yuan. The company's customers almost 100% cover the first - tier Chinese industrial robot enterprises. It has successively reached cooperation with Efort, Estun, Inovance Technology, Luoshi Robotics, etc., and has achieved bulk supply to the European and Japanese markets.

On this basis, Zhitong Technology actively meets the customized needs of the overseas market, develops new products such as high - precision reducers and joint modules to continuously expand the market sales scale. Next, the company will increase its investment in the overseas market, focusing on the European, Japanese, and Korean markets. The goal is to increase the proportion of overseas market sales in revenue to 15% in the next three years.

Liu Zepeng, the general manager of the strategic development department of Zhitong Technology, revealed that the company already has the production capacity of nearly 300,000 CRV reducers per year and is currently operating at full capacity. The production and sales volume have maintained a compound growth rate of 247% for three consecutive years.