Sustainability Matters
In every industry, keeping pace with environmental protection and sustainable development has become a fundamental responsibility of enterprises, which reduces the impact on the environment and shapes their competitiveness in the long run.
Beyond significant achievements in the industrial vehicle industry, Anhui Heli has demonstrated excellent blueprints and practices in industrial sustainability. This article explores HELI’s strategies, initiatives, and technological innovations in sustainable development, showing how it is leading the industry toward a greener future.
HELI’s Sustainable Development Strategy
HELI launched the “BOOST” sustainable development strategy in 2023 to promote green transformation in five core dimensions:
- Believe Corporate Governance: Build a compliance management system to ensure business ethics and information security;
- Originality in Product Manufacturing: Focus on product innovation and service management to develop a sustainable supply chain;
- Obligation and Responsibility: Protect the health and safety of employees and practice humanistic care;
- Sustainability: Leverage ecological forces to mitigate climate change and improve emission management;
- Thriving for Social Contribution: Engage with society to realize a win-win situation for all parties concerned and achieve sustainable manufacturing.
With the vision of “becoming a globally influential provider of material handling solutions,” we have integrated sustainable development into our corporate DNA through the “BOOST” strategy and continue to contribute to the global carbon neutrality goal.
Environmentally-Friendly Practices at HELI
As an environmental pioneer in China’s industrial vehicle industry, HELI always carries the concept of sustainable development throughout the whole process of production and operation and continues to promote industrial sustainability through intelligent transformation and technological innovation.
- Intelligent Manufacturing:HELI has invested in the construction of an industry-leading MES intelligent factory, deployed more than 120 intelligent robots, achieved 70% of the direct numerical control, and reduced energy consumption through the optimization of process flow.
- Technological Innovationin Green Products: In 2020, HELI took the lead in developing and manufacturing the first supercapacitor hybrid forklift in China and successfully delivered it to Zhuhai Port. This breakthrough, along with hybrid frontal cranes, heavy-duty forklifts, and other high-end port machinery products, has demonstrated HELI’s mission and commitment to pursuing green development through technological innovation.
- Reliable Recognition: Awarded the title of “National Green Factory,” HELIhas gained international authoritative certifications such as EU CE, UKCA, and ISO9001, ensuring that our products comply with the world’s most stringent quality and environmental standards.
Through intelligent manufacturing upgrading and green product innovation, HELI has systematically built a sustainable development system for the industrial vehicle industry, providing an innovative model for global sustainable manufacturing.
The Role of Electric Forklifts in Industrial Sustainability
HELI takes electrification and decarbonization as the core strategy and promotes the green transformation of industrial vehicles through diversified technological paths to significantly reduce the carbon footprint in the intelligent logistics field:
Lithium Battery Electric Forklift
- 5-3.8 tons special-purpose models: break foreign technology monopoly and build independent new energy technology platform;
- 4-10 tons high-voltage lithium models:feature high-voltage platform batteries, offer longer range and compatibility with EV charging stations
- Warehousing products: provide zero-emission solutions for handling, stacking, picking,and other operational needs.
Hydrogen Fuel Cell forklift
- 2-3 tons models: the first hydrogen forklift in China to pass the type test, with a single annual emission reduction of 95 tons (compared with the diesel model);
- 4-10 tons: completed the verification of seven prototypes, realizing the zero breakthroughsof this tonnage-class hydrogen fuel cell forklift in China.
Through the large-scale application of electric products, both lithium and hydrogen models, HELI helps customers reduce tons of carbon emissions every year, providing key technical support for the low-carbonization of the warehousing and logistics industry.
Innovations and Continued Commitment to Sustainability
HELI maintains its leadership in industrial sustainability through strategic R&D commitments and standard-setting initiatives.
R&D Excellence
In 2023, HELI invested over ¥892 million in R&D and formed a 1,375-member expert team dedicated to advancing electrification and intelligent technologies. This substantial commitment underscores our dedication to industrial sustainability through continuous product innovation and cost-effective efficiency improvements.
Industry Standard Leadership
As the Secretariat of ISO/TC110/SC5 Sustainability Subcommittee, HELI has driven industrial sustainability by contributing to 3 international standard formulations/revisions and 21 standard reviews, advancing industrial standardization and sustainable innovation across the value chain.
HELI has always taken sustainable development as a core strategy and promoted the progress of the industry through technological innovation. From high-efficiency production to the development of electric forklifts, we take practical actions to reduce environmental impact.
In the future, we will continue to deepen the application of green technology, work together with our partners to build a low-carbon future, fulfill our corporate environmental responsibility, and make unremitting efforts for the sustainable development of the industry.