Sanyou Environmental Protection is a high-tech enterprise that provides green energy and environmental purification products, technologies and services. It was listed on the Growth Enterprise Market of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 2010. It has developed a batch of core technologies with independent intellectual property rights around new desulfurization materials. It has successfully transformed 91 of the 115 patented technologies into industrial products or industrial application technologies and put them on the market, forming 14 core proprietary production processes and technologies, as well as nearly 70 varieties and models of high-tech products and application technologies. At the same time, Sanyou Environmental Protection has established a technological innovation and R&D team composed of industry experts, scholars, senior engineers and intellectual property service personnel. The company has formed a mature and stable intellectual property-driven innovation system.
Patent layout drives a new round of growth and maximizes the effectiveness of capital.
An IPO listing has a dual impact on the development of an enterprise. On the one hand, it helps to deeply optimize the development model and management structure of the company, playing a significant positive role in the realization of the company's deeper development strategy, expansion of business scale and improvement of performance. On the other hand, a more open capital environment will also magnify the shortcomings and deficiencies of the enterprise during its rapid development.
Whether it is external factors such as technological substitution, changes in the market environment, macroeconomic conditions, or industry policies, or internal management factors such as the loss of core technical personnel and technology leakage, infringement of intellectual property rights, and customer concentration, all these will directly affect whether Sanjiu Environmental Protection can accurately grasp the development trend of energy purification technology; after going public, how to find new products, new markets, and new investment directions to meet the needs of industrial upgrading and market changes. Further enhancing the overall value of the company is a long-term task for listed enterprises. Moreover, because Sanjiu Environmental Protection's products in the energy purification field are relatively single, the market capacity is relatively narrow, and the risk resistance ability is insufficient, when encountering slow market growth or other changes, it is difficult to avoid the situation where the actual benefits of investment projects do not match the expected returns, thereby affecting the correct assessment and judgment of the capital market on the development potential of Sanjiu Environmental Protection. Therefore, in order to effectively avoid uncertainties, diversify risks, increase market value, and further maximize the effectiveness of capital, Sanjiu Environmental Protection, leveraging the advantages of Sanjiu Sunshine in patent information analysis and navigation, focuses on the main battlefield of energy and chemical industry, and seeks new technological development paths under the conditions of clean energy and environmental protection and carbon reduction, in order to achieve a new round of growth.
The accumulation and application of patents play a driving and leading role in innovation.
Sunshine IP conducted thorough technical intelligence research for Sanju Environmental Protection. Based on patent information analysis and patent mining, it analyzed the technology distribution and development paths in the domestic and international coal chemical and energy environmental protection fields, drew patent maps, and integrated patent information into industrial technological innovation and business model innovation. It continuously analyzed new competitors, competing technologies, leading technology directions and paths in the industry to help Sanju Environmental Protection find more paths for the industrialization of technology patents. After continuous scientific research investment and engineering research by Sanju Environmental Protection, it first achieved success in the processing of full distillate coal tar and then further expanded to the processing of heavy oil products such as vacuum residue and pitch, achieving satisfactory results. It successfully developed several leading new energy technology patents in the country, including the MCT suspended bed hydrogenation technology for poor-quality heavy oil, the complete set of advanced biofuel production technology, and the crop straw carbonization and return to the field-soil improvement technology, which have been widely promoted and applied in the market.
As a company in the petrochemical energy industry, Sanjiu Environmental Protection realizes that the technological patent iteration in the oil refining industry is extremely urgent. Traditional conventional crude oil processing technologies such as catalytic cracking and delayed coking are increasingly struggling when dealing with heavy oil and residue oil. Sanjiu Environmental Protection hopes to improve the patent technology of oil refining to turn heavy oil and residue oil into valuable resources, obtain more high-value products from each barrel of crude oil, increase the proportion of light oil conversion, enhance economic benefits, relieve cost pressure, and take this as a breakthrough to drive the development of the oil refining industry. Sanjiu Sunshine analyzed the technical characteristics and process flows of competing enterprises in depth for it, and made comprehensive arrangements and systematic breakthroughs in key links such as the research and design of catalysts, reaction engineering technology, key processes, and core equipment, to arrive at the optimal solution - the MCT suspended bed hydrogenation technology for inferior heavy oil. After years of experimental research and improvement, this technology has met the conditions for industrial application. It can produce clean diesel and high-value chemicals from inferior residue oil through hydrogenation cracking, with advantages such as high conversion rate and strong reliability. After completing an 180,000-ton industrial trial in Henan, it has achieved the planning and construction of a million-ton production capacity in Linyi, Shandong, and is about to be put into production. The products have an extremely broad market prospect.
Meanwhile, in the targeted and pioneering research and development, application, and optimization of existing patented technologies, new technological branches have emerged. These branches use raw materials such as gutter oil, rancid oil, and other bio-based oils to achieve large-scale production of the world's most advanced third-generation biodiesel. This has attracted large European oil companies to come for procurement. On the one hand, Europe does not have this successfully industrialized technology. If it were to develop and produce this biodiesel on its own, it would need to use over a dozen fixed beds, which would be very costly. On the other hand, to meet the increasingly strict environmental standards for biodiesel set by the European Union each year and avoid hefty fines, European oil companies have no choice but to purchase the third-generation biodiesel from Trigem Environmental Protection Company at a price higher than the market rate. Moreover, biomass fuel also has significant environmental value in terms of carbon reduction and carbon neutrality, further achieving multi-level leaps in technological value.
In addition, Sanju Environmental Protection is constantly strengthening its patent technology research and development reserves while exploring the possibility of integrating with more industrial fields. In 2016, Sanju Environmental Protection entered the ecological agriculture sector and developed the technology of crop straw carbonization and return to the field - soil improvement, achieving the resource utilization, high value and large-scale utilization of crop straw. By adopting this technical route, on the one hand, it solves the problem that direct return of straw to the field is difficult to decompose and affects agricultural production; on the other hand, it effectively resolves the air pollution caused by straw burning. At the same time, it returns to the field in the form of biochar fertilizer, maximizing the recycling of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, trace elements and biomass organic matter in the straw, reducing the use of chemical fertilizers, increasing crop yield and quality, stabilizing heavy metal ions in the soil, improving the soil environment and increasing farmers' income.
As of the latest data, Sanju Environmental Protection has accumulated 718 authorized Chinese patents, including 515 invention patents, 202 utility model patents, and 1 design patent. Additionally, it has 15 US patents and 40 European patents (including those in force in different countries). The achievement of these results is inseparable from Sunshine IP's continuous supply of ammunition for Sanju Environmental Protection's innovative development over the past 20 years.
On the one hand, Sunshine IP has helped it establish a complete intellectual property management system. This is conducive to cultivating and forming an industrial development innovation model based on the full utilization of patent information analysis and patent navigation, giving full play to the active role of intellectual property management and application in enterprise operation and decision-making, as well as the role of the patent system in the allocation of innovation resources, and improving innovation efficiency and operation level.
On the other hand, Sunshine IP has helped it establish the ability to drive development through innovation and enhance core competitiveness. Through professional patent intelligence analysis for industrial development, path navigation and patent strategic layout, it has built a patent pool, provided patent early warning consultation services to deal with patent disputes, established a patent emergency and early warning mechanism, strengthened the patent support for industrial competitiveness, and helped Sanju Environmental Protection become a listed company on the Growth Enterprise Market with industry influence.
From the successful case of Sanju Environmental Protection's innovative development, we can find that the breakthrough and innovation of a single technology cannot adapt to the new development situation under the capital market. The market's value judgment on enterprises has shifted from the accumulation of single technologies and single products to the creation of a patent innovation ecosystem. Enterprises need to aim at more cutting-edge and disruptive core technologies, fully leverage and utilize the advantages of China's rich manufacturing ecosystem, complete industrial chain and huge market scale, effectively avoid the uncertainties brought about by changes in the policy environment, capital market and demand fluctuations, and further play the leading role of innovation in high-quality development.
