The rise of independent brands in the fuel cell industry chain. Extender, the first domestically produced brand of key component humidifiers, moved to a new location and opened a new chapter in its development. Combining with its own development advantages, it is working with upstream and downstream partners in the industry chain to contribute to the fuel cell industry.

On August 13, Shenzhen Extender Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Extender") 7th anniversary celebration and housewarming celebration was grandly held in its new production and R & D base in Shenzhen Baoan Fulda Industrial Zone. Nearly a hundred people including upstream and downstream partners, industry experts, and media of Extender's industrial chain attended the celebration.

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Breakers in the localization of humidifiers: set sail for a new journey

Wen Zhaohui, Chairman of Extender

Wen Zhaohui, Chairman of Extender, said in his speech that today is the celebration of Extender’s housewarming and the celebration of the seventh anniversary of the establishment of Extender. The move represents the further improvement of the company’s production capacity and the further improvement of the office environment, which opened a new page in the company’s development history. The seventh anniversary means that the company has built a stable, effective and unified operation and maintenance system as it grows, and its technology has also been improved. There is a certain accumulation and precipitation. In the future, Extender will face customers with a new attitude and higher self-requirements, forge ahead, reform and innovate, and continue to strive for the company's leap-forward development.

Zhang Xiaofei, chairman of Gaogong Hydrogen Power

Zhang Xiaofei, chairman of Gaogong Hydrogen Power, delivered a speech: "Some of the performance of Extender's humidifier products are better than those of international leading brands, and the price is also advantageous. It has grown into a pioneering enterprise with independent domestic brands. Extender's new factory development and construction The establishment of the first fully automated production line of fuel cell humidifiers in China is a major innovation in the industry. In the future, with the gradual increase of fuel cell vehicles, the development momentum of Itendi cannot be underestimated."

Since its establishment in 2014, Extender has always been forging ahead on the road of fuel cell industrialization. After 7 years of hard work, it has now become the only domestic high-tech enterprise that realizes mass production and sales of fuel cell humidifiers, breaking the situation where such products were once monopolized by foreign brands.

In the past 7 years, Extender has concentrated all its advantageous resources and insisted on independent research and development and innovation of core technologies. It has successively completed the development, testing and certification of 5kW, 15kW, 30kW, 80kW, 120kW and 180kW series products; completed the 200kW humidifier 4.0 test bench Develop applications. At the market level, Extender provides high-quality products and services to more than 50 leading fuel cell companies at home and abroad, including Guangdong Guohong, Weishi Energy, Weichai Ballard, Infinitium, GAC Research Institute, Beijing Yihuatong, and Shanghai Shenli, Jiangsu Qingneng, etc. In the first half of this year, it has delivered more than 1,500 sets of humidifiers to customers at home and abroad, with a domestic market share of over 40%.

Now, Extender relocates to the new factory, which is the company's anchoring course and starting again, which is a milestone in the company's development history. The new factory covers an area of ​​6,000 square meters. According to national laboratory standards and industry-related systems, it has built a high-quality, high-standard comprehensive system that integrates membrane tube material research and development, humidifier process optimization, performance testing, and humidifier environmental durability testing. laboratory. The new plant has also independently developed and built the industry's first automated production line, forming a large-scale production capacity of 10,000 units/month of humidifiers ranging from 80kW to 120kW.

From 2022 to 2023, Extender will also invest in the construction of a production base and industrial park in Guangdong Province, realize the transformation and upgrade of fully automated production lines, increase the production capacity of all series of humidifier products to 20,000 units/month, and achieve sales of over 100 million yuan.

Extender has also deployed deionizing filters, metal bipolar plates and other projects, which will be introduced to the market in due course to provide the domestic fuel cell industry with high-quality products at a reasonable price and help the industry develop faster and better.

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Bringing Capital and Upstream and Downstream Forces: A Plan for Common Development

Concentrate on the future together. As a leading supplier of humidifiers for key fuel cell components, Extender Development has received strong support from the capital market and upstream and downstream partners.

During the ceremony, Extender signed an investment cooperation agreement with Guangdong Hong Sheng Investment Management Co., Ltd., and Extender received tens of millions of yuan in investment from Guangdong Hong Sheng Investment Management Co., Ltd. Fu Enping, chairman of Guangdong Hongsheng Investment, fully recognized the steady development of Extender over the past 7 years, and expressed that it will usher in a new phase of leap-forward development with its accumulated accumulation and full confidence in the company's future development.

Extender has also signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Weishi Energy to jointly promote the large-scale and industrialized development of fuel cells. Zhang Tianyu, chairman of Weishi Energy, said that Yitengdi has not forgotten its original intention and has been moving forward for 7 years, keeping its mission in mind, and now concentrates its efforts and embarks on a new journey. In the future, Weishi Energy will deepen cooperation with Extender, coordinate resources, and jointly build a leading domestic and world-class fuel cell industry chain and ecosystem.

During the celebration, everyone also visited Extender's new factory, and its automated equipment production line won a lot of praise.
Extender is the first domestic company to engage in the independent R&D and promotion of domestic fuel cell humidifiers, and it is also the first company in the industry to launch a fully automatic production line for fuel cell humidifiers. Now, with its first-mover advantage in the market and deep technical background, it leverages capital, joins hands with upstream and downstream to open up new prospects, and seek new development. It is a model for the continuous improvement of independent brands in China's hydrogen fuel cell industry chain.