Forward Journey: CIF Annual Review 2025

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2025 marks a pivotal year for CIF as we deepen our roots in Pingquan and advance expertise in plasma technology. Guided by innovation and driven by pragmatic execution, we have achieved decisive breakthroughs on the track of strategic emerging industries. As a leading Hebei manufacturer specializing in plasma equipment, CIF adheres to the philosophy of “innovation-driven development and technology-led progress”. Focusing on tackling core bottleneck technologies in cutting-edge fields such as semiconductors and new energy, we steadily promote collaborative innovation across industry, academia, research and application. With remarkable achievements in technological breakthroughs, result transformation, market expansion and qualification upgrading, CIF continues to contribute robust momentum to the high-quality development of China’s advanced equipment manufacturing industry.

Consolidating Development Foundations: Continuous Upgrades in Hardware and R&D Support

In 2025, CIF further strengthened its hardware infrastructure for production and R&D. Our 4,200-square-meter standardized factory operates at high efficiency, equipped with three standardized production lines, a professional processing center, and dedicated R&D laboratories that precisely cater to market demands. Nearly one hundred sets of research and experimental equipment provide solid technical support for continuous innovation.

The company has further optimized its quality management system in strict compliance with GB/T 19001-2016 / ISO 9001:2015 standards. All product lines consistently meet CE certification requirements, establishing a reliable quality assurance system for every delivered device.

Meanwhile, our talent team construction has reached a new level. By the end of 2025, CIF’s headcount has grown to 68 employees. R&D personnel account for 40% of the total workforce, while employees with bachelor’s degrees and above make up 50% of all staff. This professional, innovative, and high-caliber talent team has become the core driving force behind the company’s sustainable growth.

Advancing Core Technologies: New Breakthroughs in Innovation Achievements

In 2025, building upon in‑depth partnerships with research institutions including Tsinghua University, Nankai University and Tiangong University, CIF further enhanced its collaborative innovation system integrating industry, academia, research and application, and advanced steadily along the path of developing specialized, refined, distinctive and innovative products.

This year, CIF kept advancing plasma‑etching equipment development. Building on prior progress in breaking foreign technical barriers, we completed technical iteration and upgrade to further improve equipment performance and process adaptability. The upgraded version passed the achievement appraisal organized by the Department of Science and Technology of Hebei Province, and was rated as reaching the “leading domestic level”, delivering more reliable domestic‑made solutions for critical semiconductor manufacturing‑process challenges. Meanwhile, multiple advances have been achieved in the intelligent upgrading of plasma‑based cleaning, photoresist stripping and coating equipment. Relevant technical achievements have been successfully deployed in more cutting‑edge application scenarios.

Strengthening Intellectual Property Layout: Notable Progress in Achievement Commercialization

In 2025, CIF continued to boost intellectual property development, achieving simultaneous growth in both the quantity and quality of IP assets. By the end of the year, the company had accumulated 40 national patents and 18 software copyrights. All intellectual property outcomes have been industrialized and effectively converted into market competitiveness, laying core support for differentiated product competition. Supported by solid technical accumulation and capability for research‑result commercialization, our products have gained growing market recognition in microelectronics and semiconductor chip manufacturing, further consolidating our technical advantages within the industry.

Expanding Qualifications and Honors: Continuous Demonstration of Brand Strength

In 2025, CIF earned further recognition thanks to its steady growth momentum, outstanding innovation capacity and industry‑wide contributions. Building on existing credentials including National High‑Tech Enterprise, Hebei Provincial Specialized‑Refined‑Distinctive‑Innovative Enterprise and National Science‑Technology‑based SME, the company further consolidated its status as a Hebei Provincial Doctoral Innovation Station, a provider of green and low‑carbon technical equipment for Hebei’s industrial sector, and a Hebei Provincial Model Enterprise for International Cooperation. Acting as both the Hebei Provincial Plasma Technology Innovation Center and Hebei Provincial Enterprise Technology Center, our R&D center keeps playing a central role in technical problem‑solving and talent cultivation. Driven by premium products and services, CIF’s brand influence keeps expanding, laying a solid foundation for market expansion and international collaboration.

Delivering Key Major Projects: Empowering High‑Quality Industrial Development

In 2025, CIF remained committed to social responsibility and actively undertook national and provincial key research projects, playing a backbone role in technical R&D and achievement commercialization. This year, we steadily completed the final phase of the special S&T program for the Chengde Innovation Demonstration Zone for Sustainable Development Agenda. Relevant outputs have successfully passed project acceptance and achieved industrial application. Meanwhile, CIF actively engaged in the new round of central‑funded local science and technology development projects and Hebei Provincial Major S&T Special Projects. Focused on innovative applications of plasma technology in new energy and biomedical sectors, we provide robust technical support for industrial upgrading and demonstrate the corporate responsibility of our enterprise within the industry.

Expanding Market Footprint: Continuous Improvement of Customer‑Service System

In 2025, staying customer‑oriented, CIF achieved in‑depth growth across multiple industries and further consolidated our customer base. In the research sector, we have served over 2,000 research institutions. Our products are widely adopted by universities and research institutes nationwide, covering all key 211/985 science and engineering universities, delivering reliable equipment support for scientific innovation. In the industrial sector, we focus on core industries including 6C, FPD/OLED and lithium‑battery sectors, with more than 300 enterprise clients. We have deepened win‑win partnerships with Huawei, CATL, BYD, Sinokai, BOE, Sanan Optoelectronics, Unigroup and Gree. Remarkable progress has also been made in international‑market expansion. Our domestic‑built plasma equipment is exported to 13 countries including the United States, Russia, France, Spain, Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia, extending our global business footprint and bringing Chinese‑made plasma equipment onto the world stage.

Looking back on 2025, every milestone we achieved stems from the hard‑work of our team and the trust of our customers. Every accomplishment embodies our core philosophy of innovation‑driven and technology‑led growth.

Looking ahead, CIF aims to become a leading provider of integrated energy‑saving, eco‑friendly and intelligent instrument‑and‑equipment solutions. Concentrating on cutting‑edge sectors such as semiconductors, microelectronics and new energy, we will keep advancing technical innovation and product upgrading. We will further refine fully‑automatic and intelligent industrial production‑line equipment together with supporting process solutions to empower our customers’ industrial upgrading.

The road ahead may be long and challenging, yet progress brings us closer to our destination. With great expectations for the future, CIF will stay dedicated to plasma‑technology equipment development with firmer conviction and a more pragmatic mindset. We will strive to make greater contributions to the growth of China’s strategic emerging industries.