In July 2018, National Science and Technology Fund managed by SDIC Venture Capital completed the investment in Beijing Raymond-CBE Mechanical & Electric Tech. Co., Ltd. 

 

Raymond-CBE is a high-tech private enterprise positioned as a special intelligent equipment research and design institute. It has undertaken a number of national science and technology major special research and development tasks, and brought together a group of experts who are proficient in mechanical, electronic, automatic control and welding. The company has accumulated deep technical and engineering experience in R&D and manufacture of special intelligent equipment for nuclear power, spent fuel reprocessing, nuclear facility decommissioning, national defense industry, petrochemical industry, etc, and developed a number of domestically pioneering, internationally leading technologies and products with completely independent intellectual property rights. 

 

At present, in the context of the grand background--China's nuclear power is ushering in the opportunity to restart, the demand for spent fuel reprocessing is becoming more urgent, and the issue of decommissioning of nuclear power facilities is becoming more prominent—with the increasing demand for intelligent equipment used in special environments, the intelligence equipment R&D technology and achievement long-term accumulated by Raymond-CBE will help the company's products to usher in important development opportunities in the fields of nuclear power, spent fuel reprocessing, nuclear facility decommissioning and national defense industry. SDICVC will actively promote Raymond-CBE to expand its strategic resources, continuously improve its R&D and market development capabilities, and become a domestic leading company in nuclear power and spent fuel reprocessing intelligent equipment R&D and manufacturing. 

 

（The full-synchronous bolt tensioner for the reactor pressure vessel developed by Raymond-CBE）

 

In 2017, Raymond-CBE completed the independent research and development of the first full-synchronous bolt tensioner for the first batch of demonstration projects of HPR1000, and won the top-10 innovative products of China's energy equipment in 2017, which will be used for the first demonstration project of HPR1000. HPR1000 is the third-generation nuclear power technology with independent intellectual property rights in China. The full-synchronous bolt tensioner for reactor pressure vessel is one of the key equipments of HPR1000, which is used in critical route of nuclear power unit overhaul. As the time value is extremely high, the tensioner’s performance directly affects the economical efficiency of the unit and the safety of the operators. At present, there is no successful precedent for tensioner’s R&D at home and abroad. Not only has Raymond-CBE achieved the localization of the key equipment in nuclear power field, but the product’s performance is better than similar foreign products. Raymond-CBE has made a breakthough among the technological monopoly from the foreign countries, which is of great significance for promoting the localization of nuclear power, and also for providing independent technical support for China's third-generation nuclear power technology HPR1000, to achieve the “going out” strategy. 

 

（Left: Submarine multi-functional heavy-duty robot; Middle: medium and low-level radioactive waste barrel open/capping system; Right: full-position intelligent welding system）

 

In the field of nuclear power and nuclear wastes, Raymond-CBE has developed a series of intelligent equipment such as the 400-liter medium and low-level radioactive waste barrel open/capping system for Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant, the automatic welding robot for spent fuel storage tanks for demonstration projects of high-temperature gas-cooled reactor nuclear power plants, and Algeria automatic reloading robot for heavy water reactors. In the field of special welding, the company has solved the major process problems of narrow gap welding of large thick nickel-base alloy main pipes for nuclear power, pipe & tube welding of dissimilar materials, welding in nuclear radiation environment, welding in narrow space and so on. The SmartArc-400TE full-position intelligent welding system developed by Raymond-CBE with property rights has broad application prospects in nuclear energy, petrochemical industry, electric power, shipbuilding, national defense industry and other industries. In the field of offshore oil, the company has successfully developed submarine multi-functional heavy-duty robot, submarine high-pressure abrasive water jet cutting robot, offshore submarine pipeline laying robot, offshore submarine cable/optical cable laying robot and submarine ultra-high pressure abrasive water jet cutting robot, etc. In addition, the company also undertakes the R&D work of damaged component welding and opening/closing operation robot, nuclear fuel loading, unloading and storage system on the marine floating platform, the marine organism cleaning robot applied to nuclear power plant water culvert and so on.