Futong optical fiber preform unmanned automatic production site.
"This is an era of' everything is connected, everything is possible', an era of' optical fiber connecting dreams and reality' and an era of' optical fiber and cable connecting the smart world'." According to Wang Jianyi, Chairman of Zhejiang Federation of Industry and Commerce and Chairman of Fortis Group, the huge market scale and demand in the future will greatly promote the development and technological progress of optical communication industry in China. Standing at a new historical starting point, Fortis will still stick to the industry, adhere to the drive of innovation, and build a comprehensive cable enterprise group with global competitiveness.
When running a business, you should be calm.
My entrepreneurial journey started with a telephone line. 1987, I'm a technician at Fuyang post office in Hangzhou. This year, the door of reform and opening up gradually opened, and I was determined to join the tide of entrepreneurship, so I founded the predecessor of Fortis Group-Hangzhou Fuyang Communication Material Factory.
199 1 year, after learning that the performance of copper-core telephone line is better than that of iron-core telephone line, we voluntarily gave up the iron-core telephone line as a "gold-rich mine" and rushed to other places to find scientific research units to jointly develop copper-core telephone line technology. That year, we passed the provincial appraisal and started mass production.
Unexpectedly, in the second year, the country required the elimination of iron core telephone lines. When many enterprises were caught off guard, our products were mass-produced and quickly expanded the market. It not only accumulated funds for the subsequent development of Fortis, but also saw the rapid changes in the industry and the importance of technological innovation for the first time.
In order to master advanced technology quickly, Fortis began to cooperate with foreign advanced enterprises in 1995, introducing first-class talents, technology, equipment and management, which laid the foundation for technological innovation. From 65438 to 0998, we began to develop optical fiber products and became one of the earliest private enterprises in China to master optical fiber manufacturing technology.
Based on the development of domestic optical communication industry at that time and the fact that the core technology was monopolized by foreign industries, we are determined to break the bottleneck of this industry: concentrate all manpower, material resources and financial resources to develop the core technology of optical fiber industry-optical fiber preform technology, which was not optimistic at that time, but was monopolized by foreign enterprises.
Running a business must be stable and stand the test. I have always had an idea that only by overcoming the technical difficulties of optical fiber preforms can China's optical fiber industry make a new breakthrough and China's optical communication enterprises occupy the commanding heights of the industry. After unremitting efforts, the optical fiber preform technology with independent intellectual property rights was finally developed at the end of 20001,becoming the first enterprise in China to master the total synthesis technology of optical fiber preform, filling the gap in China.
In 2007, due to the continuous innovation and breakthrough in optical fiber preform technology, it won the second prize of national scientific and technological progress. But what I am most proud of is that the domestic optical communication enterprises represented by Fortis have broken through the optical fiber preform technology, rapidly reduced the domestic optical fiber manufacturing cost, saved the investment cost of 1000 billion yuan for the information construction in China, and promoted the overall technical progress and industrial development of the optical communication industry in China and even the whole world.
Innovation can make enterprises evergreen.
Innovation can make enterprises evergreen forever. Continuous technological innovation is the secret of maintaining the core competitiveness of enterprises and the source of promoting the sustainable development of enterprises. Therefore, it is innovation that determines the future of Fortis.
In recent years, with the application of new generation technologies such as Internet of Things, big data, internet plus and intelligent manufacturing, the optical communication industry will also face unprecedented opportunities. Therefore, the development and layout of Fortis not only focuses on product innovation and industrial chain transformation, but also aims at future development and moves towards industry transformation and upgrading. In Jiashan, Fortis invested in the construction of the whole industrial chain project of optical communication, hoping to explore "innovation of industrial organization mode, manufacturing organization mode and market (business) mode", integrate manufacturing technology, automation technology and information technology, and realize the transformation from "manufacturing" to "manufacturing". Under the background of "maritime power", Fortis is still actively laying out its strategic technology in the next five to ten years, concentrating on developing marine photoelectric composite cable technology and building a world-class marine optical cable industry base. ...
The biggest advantage of Zhejiang private enterprises lies in the flexibility and independent innovation of the mechanism system. In recent years, Fortis has also seized the opportunity of "One Belt, One Road" construction and realized the continuous upgrading from product export to technology export to competition in the whole industrial chain. In Hong Kong, Fortis established an optical fiber manufacturing base; Establish the largest optical cable factory in ASEAN region in Thailand; In Mexico, cooperate to set up industrial parks; In Luxembourg, the European regional management headquarters was established ... Fortis products cover more than 50 countries and regions around the world, among which optical fiber products have occupied more than 65,438+00% of the global market share.
Fortis pays more attention to "going in" while "going out", innovates business philosophy and management mode according to local conditions, and establishes a "localized" long-term cooperation mechanism. Since the operation of Fortis ASEAN Thailand factory, it has been continuously integrated into local culture, realized localized operation and achieved excellent business performance. We have also cooperated with domestic private enterprises to develop industrial parks in Mexico, and actively explored the development mode of "gathering together" of China enterprises, so that the industrial chains can complement each other and "go out" in an orderly manner, and face up to and participate in international competition.
After more than 20 years of globalization practice, Fortis has continuously improved the intelligent manufacturing level of the physical manufacturing industry by setting up overseas factories or investing in shares, realized the transformation from "technology introduction" to "innovation output", and formed a sustainable and circular strategic plan. We have the courage to take a step forward, even if we cross the river by feeling the stones, but I believe that as long as we have faith, we will certainly find the direction and make steady progress!