Empower intrinsic safety in the chemical industry, Bangyao Robotics has successfully implemented the intelligent inspection project for Wilmar Surfactant Materials under Yihai Kerry Arawana.

In September 2026, the kick-off meeting for the intelligent inspection robot project of the acyl chloride AKD workshop between Bangyao (Shandong) Robot Co., Ltd. and Wilmar Surfactant Materials (Lianyungang) Co., Ltd. under Yihai Kerry Arawana was held at the Wilmar plant. Heads of process, production, safety, instrumentation and other departments of both parties and the project teams attended the meeting. This project is a landmark implementation of Bangyao's explosion-proof wheeled inspection robot in the fine chemical sector of East China, marking that Bangyao's intelligent inspection solutions have been recognized by large listed foreign-funded chemical groups, and setting an important benchmark for deepening the chemical market in East China.

Wilmar Surfactant Materials (Lianyungang) is the core chemical sector entity of A-share listed company Yihai Kerry Arawana (stock code: 300999), affiliated to Singapore-based Wilmar International Group, a leading multinational enterprise in the global grain, oil and oleochemical industry. In 2025, the group's oleotechnology sector recorded revenue exceeding 90 billion RMB, ranking in the first echelon of the domestic oleochemical industry. As a fine chemical industrial park built with key investment by the group, the Lianyungang base has a national-level green factory, provincial-level enterprise technology center and provincial-level intelligent manufacturing workshop, and has built a large-scale circular oleochemical industrial park, holding a benchmark position in the fields of surfactants and fine chemical intermediates.

At present, the chemical industry is at a critical stage where the upgrading of safety management and control overlaps with digital transformation. The Ministry of Emergency Management of the People's Republic of China and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology have issued the *Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the Development of Emergency Robots*, which clearly promotes hazardous chemical enterprises to accelerate the upgrading of safety intelligent equipment, and minimizes the entry of personnel into high-risk flammable, explosive, toxic and harmful areas for operations. The acyl chloride workshop, special acyl workshop and AKD unit area of the Wilmar plant belong to Class A and Class B high-risk fine chemical units, where there are a variety of toxic and flammable media such as phosgene, carbon monoxide, chlorine and triethylamine. Traditional manual inspection is easily restricted by conditions such as weather, sight and personnel scheduling, making it difficult to stably guarantee the completeness of inspection coverage and the timeliness of hidden danger identification, and operators are exposed to corrosive and high-risk working conditions for a long time. This project cooperation aims to replace personnel's high-risk operations with intelligent equipment, and promote the transformation of chemical safety prevention and control from traditional manual on-duty to intelligent normalized on-duty.

The intelligent inspection system implemented this time takes safety and reliability, real-time perception and intelligent early warning as the design core, and constructs a three-layer closed-loop operation architecture covering communication support, on-site operation and intelligent judgment, and all full-link hardware has obtained national authoritative explosion-proof certification. The ARC100-Ex explosion-proof wheeled inspection robot is deployed on site, the whole machine reaches the explosion-proof grade of Ex db ib IIC T6 Gb and the protection grade of IP66, undertaking 24-hour uninterrupted safety inspection tasks of the plant. The data collected by inspection can be connected with Wilmar's MES and SCADA production management systems, opening up the data link between safety inspection and production management and control. After the project is delivered, Bangyao Robot will provide full-cycle quality assurance operation and maintenance and special operation training to ensure the stable operation of the system and help the customer's team realize independent operation and maintenance management.

The person in charge of the Bangyao Robot project said: High-risk units in the fine chemical industry have complex working conditions and diverse hazardous media, which is an application scenario where the technical value of explosion-proof inspection robots is fully demonstrated. The implementation of this project in the benchmark chemical enterprise under the Yihai Kerry Arawana system is not only a practical test of Bangyao's technical accumulation in chemical scenarios, but also an important endorsement of the brand strength. In the follow-up, the company will strictly follow the relevant specifications for safe production of hazardous chemicals, complete equipment deployment and on-site algorithm tuning with high standards, and is committed to building the project into a demonstration project for intelligent inspection of fine chemicals, and output replicable and promotable industry solutions.

The person in charge of the Wilmar project said: Work safety is an insurmountable bottom line for chemical enterprises. Introducing explosion-proof intelligent inspection robots to reduce the frequency of personnel's risk-related operations is an important measure to implement the main responsibility of enterprise work safety and promote the construction of smart factories.

This project is a practical sample for the chemical industry to promote the modernization of safety governance. On the one hand, it relies on intelligent equipment to reduce the manual operation intensity of high-risk posts, and eliminates on-site safety risks from the source; on the other hand, it drives the technical iteration of special robot industry scenarios, realizing two-way empowerment for improving work safety quality and upgrading the intelligent equipment industry. In the next step, Bangyao Robot will take this cooperation as an opportunity to continue to deepen the intelligent innovation of high-risk scenarios in the hazardous chemical industry, and rely on technological innovation to help the chemical industry achieve safe, green and high-quality development.