On April 26, the Conference of Science and Technology Awards and Scientific and Technological Innovation Promotion of Hubei Province was held in Wuhan. The three-dimensional five-axis laser cutting machine jointly developed by HGTECH and HUST won the first prize of Science Progress of the year 2018. This is another important award following the first prize of National Science and Technology Progress Awards that HGTECH won in 2016.

    With the automobile lightweighting becoming the mainstream trend of the industry, the automobile thermoforming market has considerable prospects, but the market has long been occupied by foreign equipment manufacturers. The award-winning three-dimensional five-axis laser cutting machine successfully breaks the technical monopoly of foreign enterprises on the automobile thermoforming market in China. To carry out all-round innovative research on key processes, core units and complete sets of equipment, and realize the localization of the core light source and the cutting head not only effectively reduces the cost of equipment procurement, but ensures that cutting efficiency is comparable to foreign advanced technology. The equipment adopts double-drive structure of high rail gantry with positioning accuracy as high as 0.03mm during operation. It operates continuously and stably for 24 hours, 7 days, and the cutting of car B-pillar can be completed within 50 seconds. Taking the advantages of high efficiency, stability and safety, the equipment has been successfully marketed and purchased in batches by thermoforming enterprises.

    It is reported that the Science and Technology Awards of Hubei Province is sponsored by the Provincial Science and Technology Department and presented once a year. The "Science and Technology Progress Award" is one of them, mainly commending innovative technologies with application and promotion value and economic and social benefits, in order to promote the development of science and technology of Hubei Province and improve the comprehensive strength of science and technology innovation in Hubei Province. It is the most representative award in science and technology of Hubei Province.