Tong Kun Group: From Breaking Shell To World Chemical Fiber Giant

In 1991, it was a chemical fiber factory with a total assets of less than 5 million yuan, losing money in successive years and insolvent nearly 1 million yuan. Today, it proudly stands the global chemical fiber industry with its total assets of nearly 30 billion yuan, and has 5 directly affiliated factories and 18 holding enterprises, with more than 18000 employees, and 5 million 400 thousand tons of polymerization and 5 million 800 thousand tons. Polyester filament 4 million 200 thousand tons of PTA production and processing capacity, ranking first in the world's production capacity and output of polyester filament enterprises, ranking 500 in Chinese enterprises in 16 consecutive years, ranking 362nd in 2017, and becoming the first main board listed company in Jiaxing, Zhejiang since the share reform.

It is said that the "Chinese miracle" created in the past 40 years of reform and opening up best explains the spirit of innovation is the most distinctive endowment of the Chinese nation. Then, as a representative of China's townships and private enterprises, the Limited by Share Ltd of Tong Kun group, in its reform and opening up, has developed from a chemical fiber factory with a total assets of less than 5 million yuan and a deficit of nearly 1 million yuan in recent years to the pride of the global chemical fiber industry, which is also the best interpretation of the spirit of innovation of the Chinese nation.

General secretary Xi Jinping said, "in the past 40 years since reform and opening up, we have made a new road and a good road with the courage of daring to forge ahead and the self renovation, and achieved a great leap from" catching up with the times "to" leading the times ". The Tong Kun group, which has gone through 37 years, has also taken the spirit of being a first person and guided by Chen Shiliang, chairman of Limited by Share Ltd, known as the chairman of the Tong Kun group, which is well known for its stability. It has gone out of a road of steady development with Tong Kun characteristics. Since 1991, it has achieved "five no": no annual loss, no external guarantee loans, no sales receivables, no product backlog stocks, no production stop production.

From the countdown to the first in the world

Tong Kun wrote a wonderful answer to the times.

In 1981, the five communes of Chau Quan town in Tongxiang County of Zhejiang Province jointly established the first local township enterprise specializing in the production of chemical filament yarns, Tongxiang chemical fibre factory, with the Tongxiang County Social team enterprise bureau. In 1986, the factory divided the elastic socks workshop into separate elastic stockings factories, and divided the technical renovation projects under construction to set up Feng Ming chemical fiber factory. However, due to many difficulties in operation and management, the elastic socks factory has been closed for two years, and the Tongxiang chemical fiber factory is also stagnant. By 1990, Tongxiang chemical fiber factory was in trouble and became the whole province of Zhejiang. Chemical fiber spinning industry Enterprises with the largest scale benefit.

Seeing that the factory was going to close down, more than 200 workers were heartache, and wrote a letter to the local government leaders who wanted to adjust their leading bodies. The letters from the workers have attracted the attention of the local government. They have repeatedly talked to Chen Shiliang, who was deputy director of the Feng Ming chemical fiber factory at that time, hoping to be the director of Tongxiang chemical fiber factory.

In March 5, 1991, the local government issued a "order" and Chen Shiliang took over the booth. At that time, the liquidation team found that the Tongxiang chemical fiber factory with a total assets of less than 5 million yuan has already been insolvent nearly 1 million yuan.

At the beginning of his term, Chen Shiliang ran around the provinces and cities for in-depth and detailed market research. Then the whole country Chemical fiber Market Both supply and marketing are flourishing, and the market of low-grade polypropylene products is unimpeded, with frequent transactions and frequent supply shortage. While the technology level of Tongxiang chemical fiber factory did not take the lead in the same industry, the sales of products should be optimistic, and there are still many idle resources available in the factory. Therefore, rectifying the internal management and resuming normal production became the first battle for Chen Shiliang to break the boat and fight for war.

At the same time, Chen Shiliang, with his unique personality charm, tries to gather the distracted minds. Every day, he worked with his employees, exchanging his heart and mind with his employees, so that employees could see new hope for the company. In the same equipment, the same market situation, the same level of leadership and the ranks of workers, after Chen Shiliang transferred to the factory director, the output of Tongxiang chemical fiber factory increased by nearly 40%, making a profit of fifty thousand yuan.

Subsequently, Chen Shiliang continued to expand production capacity, using the accumulation of the enterprise itself, in only one month, he got on a production line of SKV101 polypropylene spinning machine with an annual output of 200 tons, and recovered all the investment in two months, making a profit of 1 million yuan in that year. Chen Shiliang's first victory was the most difficult step in his career.

In the past 1992~1993 years, with the change of market demand, polyester filament products have a broad market prospect for its superior performance and use. It is imperative to readjust the product structure. In order to raise funds for technological transformation, Chen Shiliang decided to "go to sea by boat" - north to find partners in joint production. With sincerity and high feasibility cooperation, Chen Shiliang won the support and trust of Jiangsu Kunshan suzshan group and Jiangsu Changshu chemical fiber equipment factory, and introduced three polyester spinning threads. By the beginning of 1993, a technology transformation project, which originally needed 30 million capital and several years, was successfully completed in only one year. Tongxiang chemical fiber plant realized 65 million yuan in output value and 10 million yuan in profits and taxes. Enterprises have been reborn and have begun to take shape. Later, in order to keep the enterprise in mind, and to express gratitude for the help of Kunshan Su San Shan Group and Changshu chemical fiber equipment factory, Chen Shiliang renamed the enterprise "Tong Kun". So far, Tong Kun has embarked on the road of healthy development.

In the 1995~1996 year, Tung Kun began to develop from conventional spinning to high-speed spinning. During this upgrading and development period, Tong Kun jumped to become the No. 1 enterprise in Tongxiang's total economic volume. In the 1997~1998 year, Tung Kun started a low cost expansion, and bought a batch of enterprises in the form of merger and reorganization, and rapidly expanded the scale of enterprises. In 1998, Tung Kun invested 160 million yuan to introduce the Japanese production line and launched a one-step approach. In this process of development, Tong Kun stepped onto the professional road of polyester filament and opened a new round of development.

In 1999, Tong Kun carried out the shareholding system transformation, established the Zhejiang Tong Kun chemical fiber group Limited by Share Ltd, and renamed the Limited by Share Ltd of Tong Kun group in 2004, and established a scientific and perfect modern enterprise system, which laid the foundation for the rapid development of the enterprise from the organizational structure. It was in the past few years that Tung Kun achieved a leap from slicing to direct spinning.

In 2008, under the shadow of the global financial crisis, Tung Kun invested 1 billion 200 million yuan to start the world's largest melt direct spinning project with single line capacity and went into operation successfully in 2009. In the same year, it invested 3 billion 300 million yuan to start the PTA project of Jiaxing Petrochemical's annual output of 800 thousand tons. This project also made the formation of the industrial system of PTA and filament production, and further enhanced the risk resisting ability of enterprises. So far, Tong Kun has also become the largest in the world. Polyester filament Manufacturer. In May 18, 2011, "Tong Kun shares" was successfully listed, and Tong Kun entered. capital market The new blueprint of Tong Kun is also starting from here.

Now, Tong Kun has entered the new stage of "strengthening the main business, expanding the industry, extending and optimizing the industrial chain and building the whole industrial chain", and began to enter the upstream refining and chemical industry and expand the development space of enterprises. In May 2017, Tong Kun acquired the 20% stake in Zhejiang Petrochemical Company Limited of Zhejiang Tong Kun Holding Group Co., Ltd., expanding the upstream business of the petrochemical industry, and trying to get through the PX PTA filament whole industry chain.

Great reform and great leap forward development

From an insolvent 1 million yuan township enterprise to a world-class polyester filament enterprise, taking a look at the development of Tong Kun for decades, Chen Shiliang thought it was "steady" or even "conservative". In his words, "we should consider the ability to do things, including the ability of the leader and the ability of the team. We must consider the financial strength, do not do things beyond our strength, and do things according to the needs of the market". However, it is this soundness and conservatism that led Chen Shiliang to lead Tung Kun out of a road of transformation and upgrading and set an example for the industry.

First is the upgrading of production equipment to promote product upgrading. In Chen Shiliang's view, the advantage of equipment is the "connotation" expansion of enterprises focusing on the development of the industry. This game is 30 years ago. From the beginning of 1982, the production of VC403 polypropylene production equipment in the early 1982 to the early 90s of the last century, the SKV101 equipment was transferred to Dacron. From the original KP431 polyester spinning equipment and Changshu SKV102 polyester spinning equipment to the most advanced Bama and TMT spinning winding equipment imported from Germany and Japan, from two to twelve, sixteen, twenty-four and even thirty-two, each step made Tung Kun more stable and practical in the chemical fiber industry, and also made the products of Tong Kun upgrade continuously. Today, Tong Kun has five large series of more than 1000 polyester filament production capacity, product differentiation rate of more than 60%, from 50D to 1000D almost all specifications of polyester filament can be produced, the industry known as the Chinese polyester filament industry "WAL-MART".

Secondly, innovation is the soul. Looking at the innovation and development chart of Tong Kun group, this is a chart with greater input and greater output. In 2017, Tong Kun completed more than 10 billion yuan of industrial production throughout the year, including technical transformation and scientific research, which invested more than 300 million yuan. industry The standard has nearly 40 items, and it has been included in 3 National Science and technology support plans, 9 items of the national torch plan, 500 patents, and 400 more high-tech products at the provincial level.

Third, machine substitution and intelligent manufacturing can promote quality and efficiency. When the breath of the new economy comes to the front, "machine substitution" becomes an accelerator for the transformation and upgrading of enterprises. Past chemical fiber The industry is a labor-intensive industry, and now, in the new car room of Tong Kun, the production line has been fully automated. It is only seen that the chemical fiber cylinder in the workshop automatically falls onto the cart from the production line and goes to the packing workshop along the track. The huge mechanical arm puts the silk tube on the packing line, packages and labels, and then automatically enters the automatic three-dimensional warehouse by the mechanical arm in the cart. At the same time, according to the order of the day, the goods stored in the warehouse are automatically transported to the delivery area through the automatic sorting system, and the goods are delivered. This automated production scenario is a vivid epitome of Tong Kun group's continuous efforts to enhance intelligent manufacturing in recent years.

Fourth, "Internet +" is integrated into traditional industries to explore new areas. With the constant popularization of the concept of "Internet +", Tong Kun's traditional industry is also exploring a new world of "Internet +". In August 22, 2014, Tong Kun's "ICBC gathering" platform was formally launched to achieve multi-channel sales and become the first case of online trading in Jiaxing chemical fiber industry. At present, the information system of Tong Kun has widely covered the management of enterprises, realizing the transformation from single system to business integration, promoting the upgrading of enterprise management by information technology, and promoting the transformation of enterprises with the help of big data. Tong Kun group has introduced ERP system since 2003, from pure handwork to partial automation. Since 2014, the group has introduced new ERP system and OA office system. The new ERP system and the OA office system not only provide powerful data support, but also standardize the production and sale of the group. After the transformation of information technology, the sales and financial positions of Tong Kun group were reduced by 50%, and warehouses and security posts were reduced by 33%. Last year, the number of days of goods storage reduced from an average of 10 days to 4 days.

Fifth, cleaner production, energy conservation and consumption reduction, green production leads the industry trend. "There is no trick to save electricity, and turn off the lights at first hand". Tips like this can be seen everywhere in the administrative building and production workshop of Tong Kun group. On the roof of several factories in the Tong Kun group, the photovoltaic panels are spectacular, sending green electricity to the workshop. For the high energy consumption characteristics of the chemical fiber industry, Chen Shiliang always has a clear understanding. While grasping the development of enterprises at the same time, the other hand firmly grasps energy conservation and consumption reduction. The acetaldehyde recovery project of Hengsheng, Hengtong, Hengbang and Hengteng branches has been put into operation smoothly; the Hengtong industrial and Hengteng photovoltaic power generation projects have installed capacity of 13.5MW, and the annual generating capacity exceeds 13 million degrees, which is second to none in the industry. The Jiaxing petrochemical waste heat power generation project, the energy saving transformation of the circulating water system, the reclaimed water reuse system and the sludge drying project, the waste silk pelletizing project, dyeing water treatment system, Hengda FDY oil and gas separation system, Hengsheng company desulfurization and dedusting system are all put into use. From the direct spinning of melt to PTA, from the annual output of less than 1000 tons to the current million ton level enterprises, the Tong Kun group has achieved a leap in the transformation through the principle of "addition, subtraction, multiplication and division": by further increasing output, reducing the energy consumption of 10000 yuan output, adding energy effect to energy saving and consumption reduction, actively promoting energy saving technology transformation and strengthening energy consumption management, reducing energy consumption, realizing energy consumption reduction effect, developing new differentiated products and high-value added products by using new technologies and technologies, improving energy utilization efficiency, realizing the "multiplier" effect of energy saving in technological progress, and innovating the production line with high energy consumption and low output through small transformation, and realizing the "removal effect" of elimination of backward inefficient production capacity. Extending from sliced spinning to melt direct spinning.

Last year, the "green multi-functional differential polyester" led by Tong Kun group fibre The integrated innovation project of manufacturing and application technology was selected as the national green manufacturing system integration project and became the first project in Jiaxing to be selected as the "national team".

Sustainable operation of Tong Kun in the past century

Although Tong Kun has made such a remarkable achievement, in Chen Shiliang's view, this is only a small achievement in the construction of Tong Kun in the past hundred years. In his mind, he always has a dream of "building a hundred years of Tong Kun to achieve sustainable development": to build a "full production chain enterprise", "advanced chemical fiber manufacturing enterprise" and "green intelligent enterprise" with capacity exceeding ten million.

To this end, the Tong Kun group said that "13th Five-Year" and for a long time to come, Tung Kun will adhere to the development thinking of "scale, integration, differentiation and intensification", firmly grasp the new development opportunities, make full use of the capital market forces, conscientiously implement the Scientific Outlook on Development, adhere to the people-oriented concept, accelerate transformation and upgrading, and strive to promote the transformation of the mode of economic development, and strive to achieve green development, low-carbon development and harmonious development. At the same time, we should strive to build the core competitiveness of enterprises in science and technology and talents, constantly expand the international vision and improve the level of internationalization, and strive to turn the company into a world-class enterprise group.

It is estimated that by the end of 13th Five-Year, the annual production capacity of Tung Kun filament will exceed 7 million 500 thousand tons, the annual production capacity will exceed 7 million tons, the capacity of PTA will reach 4 million 200 thousand tons, and the upstream capacity will be expanded to achieve the goal of reconstructing a new Tong Kun. For such a dream and goal, Tung Kun will continue to take big investment as the support, take the great transformation and the great promotion as the starting point, realize the overall development of enterprises, and continue to develop for the local economy. chemical fiber Industrial progress and unremitting efforts!