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Shanghai Electric Group is a world-class high-end equipment manufacturer focusing on smart energy, intelligent manufacturing, and smart infrastructure.

Big news from Madrid! 🏆We're proud to share that Shanghai Electric has received Distinction — Desalination Comp...
01/06/2026


Big news from Madrid! 🏆

We're proud to share that Shanghai Electric has received Distinction — Desalination Company of the Year at the 2026 Global Water Awards!

And that's not all — our hybrid desalination project for Yulong Petrochemical is also shortlisted for Desalination Plant of the Year. 🌊

Clean water is one of the world's most urgent challenges. We're proud to be recognised among the global leaders working to solve it, and we're just getting started.

01/06/2026

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Happy International Children's Day! 🎈

Kids ask the best questions. "Why does the wind make electricity?" "Where does the sun's energy go at night?" "Can we stop the planet from getting too hot?"

These aren't just questions. They're the problems our industry exists to solve.

At Shanghai Electric, everything we build — clean power systems, low-carbon solutions, smart energy technology — is ultimately for the generation that will inherit it.

So today, we celebrate their curiosity. And we recommit to making sure the world they grow into is worth the questions they're already asking. 💚

29/05/2026


Teaching a robot to work in a real factory is nothing like teaching it in a lab.

In a lab, everything is controlled — the lighting, the surfaces, the sequence of tasks. In a factory, a component might be slightly misaligned. The floor might vibrate. The lighting shifts. A part that looked identical yesterday has a different surface finish today.

That gap between "works in testing" and "works in production" is where most industrial robot deployments quietly fail.

Shanghai Electric's answer: don't simulate the factory. Train inside it.

Our embodied intelligence robots learn directly from real manufacturing environments — collecting data from actual operations, iterating models in the field, and getting tested across eight core production scenarios before they're trusted with the work that matters.

The progression is deliberate: start with inspection rounds and material movement, where consistency is achievable. Then push into precision territory —detection, assembly, tasks where a millimeter of error has consequences.

And the end goal isn't just smarter individual robots. It's robot teams — units that coordinate, share awareness, and divide complex tasks the way experienced workers do.

Watch the video to see what that looks like on an actual factory floor.

29/05/2026

🤖Thousands of mixed bolts, nuts, and washers — all needing to go in exactly the right place. 🔩

Tuoyuan 10 identifies irregular shapes, picks with sub-millimeter accuracy, and runs without fatigue. Sorting efficiency up 50%+, and no more full-line rework from a single misplaced fastener — and unlike a human after hour six, it doesn't lose focus.

The same intelligence already handles battery cells and rail components — once a robot learns to handle the unexpected, it can handle almost anything. That's not just smarter sorting. That's a new standard for what factory automation can look like.

👇 Watch it in action.

28/05/2026


Before a nuclear steam generator goes online, someone used to wipe 25,000 holes with a white cloth. 🤖

One by one. Every single hole. And the standard was simple: if the cloth comes out dirty, the hole fails. Clean cloth only.

It sounds almost absurdly meticulous — until you remember what's at stake. These are the tube sheets at the heart of nuclear steam generators, where heat transfer tubes are installed and welded with zero tolerance for contamination. In nuclear manufacturing, a single compromised weld joint isn't a quality note on a report. It's a problem that can't be undone.

Shanghai Electric Nuclear Power Equipment has now automated this process with a robotic cleaning system that works through every hole — consistently, with full traceability, no fatigue, and no variation.

No missed holes. No inspection gaps. No "good enough." ✅
It's one of those manufacturing advances that doesn't make for flashy headlines but represents exactly the kind of quiet engineering discipline that makes nuclear power safe and reliable.

The cloth test still happens. The robot just makes sure it always passes. 🔬⚙

You've heard of fusion energy. But have you heard of the wire that makes it possible? 🧲Inside a fusion reactor,...
27/05/2026


You've heard of fusion energy. But have you heard of the wire that makes it possible? 🧲

Inside a fusion reactor, the magnets don't just hold things in place — they contain plasma hotter than the sun using superconducting coils that operate near absolute zero. What wire are those coils made from? It has to be nearly perfect. Every centimeter.

The problem is, making a little bit of perfect wire in a lab is one thing. Making enough of it — consistently, reliably, at an industrial scale — to actually build fusion reactors? That's been one of the quiet hard problems of the whole field.
Shanghai Electric Automation Group just took it on. 🔧

The company has won a contract with China Fusion Energy Corporation to build the forming equipment needed to ensure structural uniformity and consistent performance in the wire — and translate the lab-scale production process into a stable, high-volume industrial workflow— consistent quality, high volume, built for the demands of commercial fusion.

It's the kind of unglamorous, essential work that rarely makes headlines. But without it, fusion stays in the lab.

This is how the future of clean energy actually gets built — one solved manufacturing problem at a time. ⚡🌏

Fusion energy just got one step closer. ⚡Inside a fusion reactor, temperatures reach hundreds of millions of de...
27/05/2026


Fusion energy just got one step closer. ⚡

Inside a fusion reactor, temperatures reach hundreds of millions of degrees — hotter than the core of the sun. And just centimeters away, superconducting magnets must operate near absolute zero.

The component that bridges this impossible gap? The cold shield.

Shanghai Electric Nuclear Power Group has just delivered the first two sets of critical cold shield assemblies for the BEST fusion device — inspected, approved, and shipped to the project site. 🎉

These aren't simple metal parts. Each piece required solving real engineering puzzles: shaping large, paper-thin components without warping them, bending precision cooling tubes through complex 3D paths, and welding with tolerances that leave almost no room for error.

Every measurement came back within spec. Every weld held.

For China's clean energy future — and for a world that needs better energy options — moments like this matter. Fusion has long been called "always 30 years away." Progress like this is how that changes.

Shanghai Electric is building the parts that will help make fusion real. 🔬🌏

The flight you take next year might be partly powered by yesterday's trash.That's not a figure of speech — it's...
26/05/2026


The flight you take next year might be partly powered by yesterday's trash.

That's not a figure of speech — it's the actual technology logic behind a new initiative Shanghai Electric is leading in the Yangtze River Delta.

Here's how it works: solid waste — the kind collected from cities and industrial sites across the region — gets processed through a distributed pyrolysis system that converts it into high-density oil. That oil then feeds into a centralized synthesis process to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF): cleaner jet fuel, made from what would otherwise be discarded.

The challenge SAF has always faced isn't that the technology doesn't work. It's that sourcing enough consistent feedstock, at low enough cost, to produce it at real industrial scale has never been solved cleanly. This consortium — built across industry, universities, research institutes, and manufacturers throughout the Yangtze River Delta — is specifically designed to crack that problem together.

Cleaner skies. Built from garbage. 🌿

And in parallel, Shanghai Electric Nuclear Power Group has joined a high-temperature superconducting magnet consortium — pushing forward the hardware that future fusion reactors will depend on.

From the fuel in tomorrow's planes to the magnets in next-generation energy devices — the work happening now is what the future runs on. ⚡🌏

What if an industrial park produced more clean energy than it consumed? 🌱That's not a concept paper. That's the...
25/05/2026


What if an industrial park produced more clean energy than it consumed? 🌱

That's not a concept paper. That's the design brief for Lin-gang Zero Carbon Bay — China's newest nationally designated zero-carbon industrial park, which just broke ground in Shanghai's Lingang New Area.

Think about what an industrial zone usually looks like: emissions, energy consumption, logistics sprawl. Now imagine one built from the ground up to run differently — where the infrastructure, the energy systems, and the production facilities are all designed around a single goal: net zero, by design.

Shanghai Electric is one of the core developers bringing this to life, contributing integrated low-carbon solutions across the park's systems — from green energy supply to facility design and operational efficiency.

This isn't a pledge. It's a construction site. 🏗

And when complete, it's meant to serve as a blueprint — a working, scalable model that other industrial zones across China can learn from and build on.

The future of industry doesn't have to look like the past. Lin-gang is being built to prove it. ♻

22/05/2026



🤖 A full rotor inspection used to take a week. Here's how we changed that.
Steam turbine rotors are large, complex, and need thorough ultrasonic scanning to catch internal flaws before they become operational problems. Traditionally, that meant days of physically demanding manual work — with results that depended heavily on individual experience.

Shanghai Turbine Company developed a robotic inspection system to tackle this. Using hybrid force control and AI-driven learning, the robot adapts to curved surfaces automatically, maintaining the right contact pressure throughout — delivering the consistency of a seasoned inspector, without the physical strain or the risk of human error.

Since its trial launch in October 2025, the system has cut inspection time by over 70% and standardised the whole process — with every scan logged and traceable.
Which industries do you think need this kind of intelligent inspection the most? 👇

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