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- Zhuzhou Tianqiao Crane Co., Ltd. (002523.SZ) manufactures and sells material handling equipment, specializing in high-end cranes and intelligent systems for industries including electrolytic aluminum, steel, non-ferrous metals, construction machinery, coal preparation, ports, and power stations. The company offers PTM pot tending machines, FTM furnace tending machines, anode stacking and insulation overhead cranes, centralized overhaul transfer systems for pots, automatic storage systems for anode carbon blocks, numerical control cranes, cranes for power stations, cranes for copper electrolysis, copper smelting, lead electrolysis, zinc electrowinning and automatic treatment systems for copper slag tanks; ladle cranes, charging cranes, slab handling cranes, electromagnetic beam cranes, overhead stacking cranes, steel plate transfer cranes and graphitized new material suction/feeding cranes; as well as ship unloaders, gantry cranes for containers, unidirectional gantry cranes for hydropower stations, quay cranes, three-dimensional parking equipment, coal washing equipment, vacuum air snowmaking equipment and complete non-ferrous smelting equipment. Founded in 1956 as Zhuzhou Lifting Equipment Factory and listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in December 2010 as the first crane company in China to do so, the company is headquartered in Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province, China, with major shareholders including state-owned enterprises such as Zhuzhou State Investment Corporation, CRRC Group, Chinalco Group and Huadian Power Company; it operates domestically and exports to countries including Germany, Italy, India, Oman, Russia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Zambia and Venezuela. In recent developments, Zhuzhou Tianqiao Crane completed the acquisition of Hangzhou Huaxin Mechanical Electrical Engineering Co Ltd from China Huadian Electric Power, expanding its capabilities in mechanical and electrical engineering solutions. The company continues to advance intelligent manufacturing with innovations such as the slag package slow-cooling field automatic sprinkler crane system for complex multi-crane operations in aluminum smelting, alongside ongoing investments in R&D featuring over 300 technical personnel, more than 40 independent intellectual property rights and a product service cloud platform for real-time equipment monitoring, data analysis and predictive maintenance.