established in 1984, sanhua holding group takes “flowers of management, technology and talents” as the core of culture and focuses on the technology of heat pump control and thermal management system. we adhere to the strategy of “dedication and leadership”, and aim at “innovation and surpassing”. we have already become one of the top international companies in the industrial areas including hvac&r, home appliances, and automobile thermal management.
sanhua holding group develops control parts series and integrated module for thermal management of hvac&r, refrigeration, home appliances, and nev. we have 9 main products and over 20 different categories of products capturing the biggest share in the industry. our clients are listed in fortune global 500 and china's fortune global 500 companies, including carrier, johnson controls, nordyne, gm, ford, miele, bosch, siemens, electrolux, valeo, mahle behr, volkswagen, bmw, mercedes-benz, audi, daikin, toshiba, panasonic, hitachi, mitsubishi, sharp, fujitsu, mitsubishi electric, calsonic kansei, toyota, honda, lg, samsung, gree, midea, aux, haier, kelon, faw, saic motor, baic motor, volvo, byd, nio, one, xpeng.
sanhua has 9 main production bases and more than 20 factories, located in china (xinchang, hangzhou, binhai,shaoxing, cixi, ningbo, wuhu, anhui, and guixi, jiangxi), poland, austria, mexico, and america. there are about 20 sales companies of sanhua in china, japan, korea, southeast asian countries, europe, and the usa. sanhua’s sales increased 30.2%, to 52.3 billion rmb in 2022. till now, we have more than 31 thousand employees all over the world and the overseas affiliates employ over 3,600 people.
to become industry-leading in the world, sanhua offers technological innovations and has built sanhua’s central r&d center and a lot of cutting-edged r&d center worldwide. overall, there are six sanhua r&d centers in hangzhou, xinchang and cixi, china, detroit and houston, the usa, and stuttgart, germany, with more than 3,400 talents for r&d programs, 3 chinese talents elected to national “thousand talents program”, 3 chinese talents elected to provincial “thousand talents program”, over 20 top experts in the world, and over 1,000 talents with master’s or doctor’s degree. we have applied for 8,342 patents all around the world, which includes 5,125 invention patents and 929 patents applied in foreign countries by dec, 2022. and we have obtained more than 4,724 patents, comprising 2,086 invention patens overall, including 673 invention patents in foreign countries. each year, we have applied for about 1,000 patents, 50% of which are invention patents.
we are engaged in the creation of 22 gb and industry standards and take part in the creation of 23 gb and industry standards. 5% of sales income is invested into r&d. we have 16 high-tech companies in total and build a national technology center, a national engineering center, a national design center, a cas (chinese academy of sciences) academician workstation and a postdoctoral research station. our subsidiary company, zhejiang sanhua intelligent controls co. ltd., launched its stocks in 2005 and it is listed on shanghai-shenzhen 300 index, msci, ftse russell, dow jones stock lndex constituent stock. in 2021, we ranked top 10% by market cap among china a-shares companies. we are awarded top awards, such as china quality award, china grand awards for industry, national labor award medal, china’s 100 most innovative companies, china well-known trademark/brand, 2017 pace award and 2016 awe core award. also, we are one of the china top 500 private enterprises, manufacturing company 500 china, top 100 china machinery industry companies, and zhejiang top 100 companies by tax revenue.
