08,20,2026 5 views
On August 4th, the mandatory national standard led by Shandong Swan Cotton Machinery Co., Ltd《Cotton processing machineThe launch meeting for the revision of the "Safety Requirements for Machinery" was successfully held in Jinan. More than 30 industry experts from research institutes, industry associations, and universities, as well as relevant technical backbones of the company and representatives of cotton machine production enterprises, attended the meeting to jointly initiate the revision of this national standard.
This conference specially invited five experts, including Chen Junbao, a researcher at the China Academy of Agricultural Mechanization Sciences, Tan Zhifang, Secretary General of the Cotton Industry Branch of the China Cotton Association, Wang Ruixia, Senior Engineer at the Zhengzhou Cotton and Hemp Engineering Technology Design and Research Institute of the All China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives, Xu Shoudong, a professor at Anhui University of Finance and Economics, and Han Xingchang, a member of the Party Committee of Shandong Academy of Agricultural Machinery Sciences, to form an expert group to guide the standard revision work throughout the process.
At the meeting, Vice General Manager Gao Haiqiang delivered the opening speech. He welcomed the experts and industry representatives to Jinan and introduced the practical accumulation of Swan Group's years of deep cultivation in the field of cotton processing equipment, actively leading and participating in the revision of multiple national and industry standards. He stated that the 'Safety Requirements for Cotton Processing Machinery', as an important mandatory safety national standard in the cotton processing field, plays a crucial role in ensuring the safe operation of cotton machine equipment, safeguarding the personal safety of frontline operators, and regulating industry production. As the leading unit, the company will fully leverage its technological and industrial advantages, make every effort to do a good job in organizing and guaranteeing the drafting of standards, widely absorb opinions from all parties, ensure that the revised standards are in line with the actual industry, technologically advanced, and executable, and help promote the safe and high-quality development of the cotton processing industry.
Chen Junbao delivered a speech on behalf of the expert group, providing guidance on policy orientation, industry status, technological development trends, safety indicator control, and other aspects of the standard revision. He clarified the overall principles, key directions, and work nodes of this standard revision, hoping that the drafting group would focus on the on-site working conditions of cotton processing enterprises, take into account the actual needs of equipment manufacturing and usage, and enhance the scientific, rigorous, and applicable nature of the standard.
Subsequently, attending experts and business representatives jointly conducted detailed discussions on the revised draft of the "Safety Requirements for Cotton Processing Machinery" item by item. The attendees discussed the iterative upgrading of cotton processing equipment, pain points in on-site safety production, and practical problems encountered during the implementation of existing standards. They fully exchanged their opinions on core technical content such as the scope of application of the standards, mechanical protection, safety requirements for hazardous areas, and safety warnings. They put forward multiple practical and feasible modification suggestions for the standard framework and technical terms, further clarifying the follow-up work path of standard revision.
Standards are the technological cornerstone for the high-quality development of the industry. For a long time, Swan Group has been committed to empowering technological innovation through standardized construction, continuously undertaking the task of revising national and industry standards, leading product iteration and upgrading with standards, and promoting the standardized and safe development of the cotton processing equipment industry. Next, the standard drafting working group will fully sort out the opinions and suggestions collected at this meeting, improve the standard manuscript, orderly promote research, experimental verification, soliciting opinions and other stages of work, and complete the national standard revision task with high quality, contributing swan force to the safe and healthy development of China's cotton processing industry.
