ERA Co., Ltd.
公元股份
002641
Shenzhen Stock Exchange
Company Profile
After years of honest operation, ERA has a strong influence in the plastic pipeline industry, with significant competitive advantages in branding, scale, marketing, and technology (1) Brand Advantage The "ERA" brand plastic pipelines, as well as the trademarks "ERA 公元" and "Yonggao," have received multiple national and provincial honors. Thanks to their excellent performance and high-quality services, "ERA" brand plastic pipelines have been widely used in national key projects and international aid projects, such as the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, Beijing Winter Olympics projects, Shanghai F1 Circuit, Shanghai Pudong International Airport, Shanghai World Expo Park, Beijing Olympic Sports Center, Nanjing Olympic Sports Center, Guangzhou Asian Games Venues, Zhuhai Aviation City, Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center, and the Venezuela Clean Drinking Water Project. Products are exported to over 100 countries and regions across Asia, the Middle East, Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Oceania. In recent years, ERA has increased brand promotion efforts, further enhancing its market influence. (2) Scale Advantage Currently, ERA has an annual production capacity of approximately 1.1 million tons, making it one of the largest plastic pipeline enterprises in China. It operates 9 production bases nationwide, located in Zhejiang, Anhui, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Tianjin, Chongqing, Hunan, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen. This rational layout ensures that the product delivery radius covers most regions of China. ERA offers a rich product portfolio, manufacturing over 7,000 varieties of pipes and fittings with diameters ranging from 16mm to 2,400mm, making it one of the enterprises with the most comprehensive product types and specifications in China's plastic pipeline industry. It maintains good strategic partnerships with many well-known real estate and home improvement companies. Leveraging its scale advantages, ERA enjoys strong bargaining power in procurement and the ability to obtain supplier credit, as well as strong channel control, enabling it to maintain low operating costs. (3) Marketing Advantage ERA has over 2,750 first-level distributors at home and abroad. Through a sales model dominated by channel distribution, complemented by direct delivery to real estate projects, direct project contracting, and self-operated exports, it has established a multi-level, integrated sales network system covering distributors, wholesalers, and retailers domestically and internationally, ensuring rapid product distribution. The distributor-based model helps the company build a comprehensive sales network, quickly capture markets, transfer accounts receivable risks from engineering projects, reduce operating costs, and further consolidate its domestic and international market positions. (4) Technological Advantage After years of accumulation, ERA has developed a unique and complete formulation system. It boasts a professional and high-quality R&D team and collaborates closely with multiple domestic universities and research institutions for new product development. As a national high-tech enterprise and a Key High-Tech Enterprise under the National Torch Program, it has established innovative platforms including a National Post-Doctoral Research Workstation, a National Certified Enterprise Technology Center, a Zhejiang Provincial Key Enterprise Research Institute, a China Plastic Pipeline Engineering Technology Research and Development Center, and a CNAS-accredited laboratory, demonstrating strong R&D capabilities. ERA primarily relies on independent development for technology, holding core independent intellectual property rights. It has completed over 100 scientific and technological achievements transformations, covering high-performance materials, smart pipeline systems, efficient new pipeline systems, photovoltaic power generation systems, electrical appliances, and application systems. As of the report date, the company holds 873 valid domestic authorized patents, including 222 invention patents, 574 utility model patents, and 77 design patents. ERA has presided over and participated in the formulation and revision of multiple national (industry) standards, with the number of standards drafted leading among peer companies. Its products have obtained certifications in many countries such as those in Europe and the United States
Full description
Our company is mainly engaged in the research and development, production and sales of plastic pipe products, and is a comprehensive supporting service provider for construction engineering and urban and rural pipe network construction. It mainly produces several series such as polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyethylene (PE) and random copolymer polypropylene (PP-R), with a total of more than 7,000 pipes, fittings and valves of different specifications and varieties. Our company's pipeline products are mainly used in eight fields, including municipal pipe network, industrial pipe network, construction engineering, fire protection, power communication, whole house decoration, agricultural breeding, and gas pipe network. After years of sales practice, we have established a sales model that focuses on channel distribution, supplemented by real estate distribution, direct contracting of projects, and self-operated export. we have always followed the sales philosophy of sharing profits with dealers, fully protect the interests of dealers, and form a lasting and stable interest alliance with dealers, grow together, and achieve a win-win situation. At present, Our company has built a huge distribution network covering provincial and prefecture-level central cities and radiating subordinate counties and towns. Our domestic products mainly adopt a production model that combines sales-based production and reasonable stocking, and its export products adopt a production-based production model. Since the main product series sold in the domestic market have mature markets, and the use and specifications are basically stable, we have established a reasonable inventory reserve for various commonly used varieties and specifications based on years of experience. Our company has set up a special foreign trade production base. In order to meet the different standards of products in the export markets and the individual needs of consumers, We implements order-based production for all export products. We adopts a centralized procurement model, mainly purchasing directly from manufacturers or their established sales companies to reduce procurement risks and procurement costs in intermediate links, and has built an internal level of authorization, gradual approval, and level-by-level risk supervision. Management and control methods reduce the procurement costs of various departments and improve procurement efficiency.