Regina – There was a prominent logo on the media wall at the 2019 Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show that many people in southeast Saskatchewan might not be familiar with. It’s a Chinese company known as Yiyuan Nylon Technology. Pipeline News posed some questions by email, and received a response from Joe Zhau, sales and administration department, on Aug. 19.
Pipeline News:Yiyuan Nylon Technology was the platinum sponsor for the Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show in June, but few people in the area had heard of you before. What exactly do you do?
Joe Zhau:We are a professional customized engineering plastic monomer cast (MC) nylon manufacturer and supplier. That includes sales, product development and machinery performance improvement solutions.
Our main product is MC nylon gears, pulleys and slide pads for different industries like elevator and crane. We have 20 years successful experience and main supplier for well-known elevator brands (Hitachi, Mitsubishi, Toshiba, OTIS, KONE and Schindler). Also, our MC Nylon pulleys and gears are designed for oil field beam pump is testing and using in major oilfields in northeast China.
P.N.: How is that applicable to the oilpatch? Can you provide some examples?
Zhau:Our nylon product can replace the steel parts. It is light weight, self-lubricating, wear- resistant and corrosion-resistant. It has the same properties and performance from -40 to 100 Celsius and no dirt formation.
Our MC Nylon pulleys are designed for oil field beam pump and is tested and used in a major oilfield in northeast China. We are designing nylon pipeline. It improves the performance, needs less to maintain and has significant saving in cost for a long run.
P.N.: What sort of presence do you have in Saskatchewan? Do you have any expansion plans?
Zhau:This is our first year in North America. We have an office located in Regina and a product show room for samples. We have great confident and vision in North America market and we plan to set up a factory for machining so we can serve north America customer better, and eventually move the whole manufactory process from rough cast to product to Canada.
P.N.: How did Saskatchewan come to your attention?
Zhau:Saskatchewan is the centre of Canada and part of western Canada. It has the advantage of transportation and being close to our main target market, oilfield and mining. (We plan on) expanding to all North America market as the convenience Global Transportation Hub provides to us.
