In 2003, Qingdao Kotai Heavy Industry Machinery Co., Ltd. was born, like a seed of hope planted in the field of road construction machinery, embarking on its legendary journey. This large modern enterprise specializing in the research and development, manufacturing, and sales of road construction machinery has demonstrated extraordinary courage and foresight since its establishment.
At the beginning of its entrepreneurship, Kotai Heavy Industry took a unconventional approach and set its sights on overseas markets. In the first 5 years, the company devoted itself to OEM production of fully hydraulic rollers for overseas markets, and successfully opened the door to the international market with reliable quality. With the gradual stabilization of technology and market, in 2008, the KP305 fully hydraulic tire roller independently developed by Kotai Heavy Industry emerged. It adopts internationally leading full hydraulic transmission and full electro-hydraulic control technology, innovatively applying the bridge box integrated structure to tire rollers, achieving dual control continuously variable transmission, greatly reducing the labor intensity of operators. This product, with its outstanding performance, won the first prize of Qingdao Science and Technology Progress Award that year, and was independently exported under the "Ketai" brand. In 2010, it also won the "China Construction Machinery Annual Product TOP50 Technology Innovation Award", and has since emerged in the international market.
Over the years, Kotai Heavy Industry has continuously increased its R&D investment, with a first-class product R&D center and two testing centers in the industry. It has gathered numerous professional and technical talents, providing strong impetus for innovation. The company takes mainstream products from developed countries in Europe and America as the entry point, leading the development direction of domestic roller product technology along the way. Its leading products, road rollers, cover more than 60 varieties in four series including fully hydraulic single steel wheels, double steel wheels, rubber wheels, and garbage compactors, with a tonnage ranging from 4-30t. They are exported to more than 30 countries and regions including Australia, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Egypt, Brazil, Chile, Ethiopia, India, Iraq, etc. Not only that, the company's structural components are also exported to countries such as Japan, South Korea, and Sweden with exquisite craftsmanship.
Faced with the complex and ever-changing international market, Kotai Heavy Industry is assessing the situation. Under the circumstances of slowing global economic growth and increasingly fierce market competition, actively layout distribution networks in countries along the "the Belt and Road". The road rollers and other road machinery products produced by it contribute "Chinese strength" to the infrastructure construction of countries and regions such as Russia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and Africa. In 2024, Kotai Heavy Industry was successfully selected as one of the top 50 specialized manufacturers of construction machinery in China, ranking 13th, demonstrating its outstanding level of specialization and technological innovation capabilities.
From obscurity to worldwide reputation, Kotai Heavy Industry has taken steady steps towards the world stage with its persistent pursuit of quality, unremitting efforts in technological innovation, and precise market strategy layout. In the future, Kotai Heavy Industry will continue to uphold the mission of being a "technology&quality leader", integrate global resources with an international perspective, and shine even brighter in the field of world road construction machinery and high-end structural components.
