Liling, Hunan, has been home to thousands of years of continuous kiln fire, and is known as the “Capital of National Porcelain”.
As the birthplace of underglaze multicolored porcelain, it not only gave birth to world-renowned ceramic end products, but also accumulated domestic top domestic ceramic intelligent equipment industry strength, quietly supporting half of China’s ceramic intelligent manufacturing.
In the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Park of Liling Economic Development Zone, there is a low-key industry “hidden champion” – Liling Chuangzhi Machinery Co., Ltd.
Since its establishment in 2017, the company has been deeply involved in the ceramic intelligent equipment track. In just a few years, it has grown from a rookie in the industry to a core leader in the high-end daily ceramic equipment industry chain. With its hard-core technology and reliable services, it has unlocked the “intelligent manufacturing code” of China’s ceramic equipment.
Different from single-category equipment manufacturers, Chuangzhi Machinery has a comprehensive layout and focuses on intelligent equipment solutions for the entire ceramic production process. Its business covers the entire production process such as rolling, grouting, glazing, drying, decals, intelligent testing, and mold manufacturing.
Among them, the core ace product, intelligent glaze dipping equipment, continues to lead the market share due to its ultimate performance advantages, and has become the first choice equipment for intelligent upgrades of many domestic and foreign ceramic companies.
When you walk into the manufacturing and debugging workshop of Chuangzhi Machinery, there is no clutter and hustle and bustle of a traditional machinery factory. Instead, there is a precise and orderly intelligent debugging scene.
In the workshop, a ceramic intelligent glazing machine that is being debugged at full speed is particularly eye-catching. It is also the core tool for enterprises to break through the pain points of the industry.
According to on-site engineering and technical personnel, this intelligent glazing machine has strong compatibility and can easily adapt to conventional utensils such as bowls, cups, plates, and pots. It can also accurately adapt to various special-shaped ceramic products, truly realizing full-product, full-glazed, and full-process automated glaze dipping operations. There is no need to frequently change production lines and equipment, which greatly reduces the company’s production and debugging costs.
In traditional ceramic production, glaze dipping is a key process that determines the appearance of the product, and it is also the biggest pain point.
In manual or semi-automatic glaze dipping mode, it is easy for human hands to touch the body and leave fingerprint defects. Incomplete glaze accumulation at the bottom will produce glaze line defects, and the manual control of the glaze dipping time is uneven. It is easy to cause problems such as uneven thickness of the glaze layer and different appearance of the finished product. The defective rate remains high.
Chuangzhi Machinery’s intelligent glaze dipping equipment has completely solved the industry’s problems for many years and achieved “fast, accurate and stable” operation throughout the entire process.
It can be seen from the debugging site that the entire production line operates in a fully automatic closed loop, from automatic billet feeding by the conveyor belt, accurate billet removal by mechanical clamps, immersion in the glaze pool, to precise swing deglazing, and finished product output inspection, without manual intervention in the entire process.
The equipment can accurately control the glazing time within 0.5 – 2 seconds, with millisecond-level precision, completely eliminating the appearance deviation caused by manual operation, making the glaze of each ceramic product uniform, delicate and uniform in texture.
If hard-core technology is the core competitiveness of Chuangzhi Machinery, then all-round considerate service is the key to its market reputation.
There is a rule in the ceramic production industry: “If you are not afraid of low output, you are afraid of sudden kiln shutdown.”
For ceramic factories, sudden equipment failure leads to the shutdown of the production line, and the loss can easily reach tens of thousands of yuan a day, which is the biggest headache for many companies.
Chuangzhi Machinery, which is well aware of the pain points of the industry, is not only an equipment supplier, but also a full-cycle production service provider.
In order to ensure the stable production of customers, Chuangzhi Machinery is deeply rooted in major ceramic core production areas across the country, and has set up exclusive offices and after-sales service points in industrial clusters such as Zibo and Linyi in Shandong, Yingxian in Shanxi, and Jingdezhen in Jiangxi.
Relying on a fully closed-loop service system of R&D, production, installation and commissioning, and after-sales operation and maintenance, coupled with localized 24-hour rapid response services, equipment problems can be solved immediately, eliminating production shutdown losses, and giving cooperative companies complete peace of mind.
It is this reliable technology and service that has enabled Chuangzhi Machinery to successfully gain recognition from leading domestic ceramic companies such as Hualian Ceramics and Shunfa Ceramics, helping many companies complete intelligent and digital technological transformation and upgrades, and achieve both improvements in production capacity and quality.
At the end of the production workshop, a world map is particularly eye-catching, densely marked, recording the overseas footprint of this Liling company, and also witnessing the global breakthrough of China’s ceramic equipment.
Relying on independent core technology, Chuangzhi Machinery’s intelligent equipment has already gone abroad and is exported to many overseas countries such as Thailand and India.
In 2024, the company achieved a major breakthrough and deeply participated in the construction of a national large-scale daily ceramic smart factory in Uzbekistan, the largest country in Central Asia, creating a benchmark intelligent ceramic production base for the local area, and bringing Liling Intelligent Manufacturing and Chinese technology to the international stage.
From the inheritance of millenniums of Liling kiln fire to modern intelligent manufacturing going overseas; from solving domestic industry pain points to empowering the upgrading of the global ceramic industry, the growth path of Chuangzhi Machinery is not only the persistence and breakthrough of a private manufacturing enterprise, but also a vivid epitome of the iterative upgrading of China’s ceramic equipment industry and its move towards the world.
At the end of the visit, it was getting late, but the lights in the workshop were still bright.
Workers are methodically packaging the smart equipment that will be sent overseas. Each piece of equipment carrying China’s intelligent manufacturing power will soon cross thousands of miles of mountains and seas and take root in Central Asia, continuing to write a new story of Chinese ceramic equipment.
