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APD Group — winner of China’s “National Grade High-tech Enterprise” Recognition

As a leader in the power electronics and new energy technologies field, APD Group has continued to pursue technological innovations. Recently, APD Shenzhen DK Inc. under APD Group has also won China’s “National Grade High-tech Enterprise” and “Shenzhen High-tech Enterprise” certifications, which showcase the affirmation of its R&D results.

APD Group has always focused on the core mission of innovative research since its inception in 1994, and won the “Small and Medium Enterprise Innovative R&D Achievement” award in 2002 from Ministry of Economic Affairs. Since then, ADP Group has also obtained a number of world-class management system, R&D, and safety related certifications; and has recently won the first “CQC A Category Enterprise” ,”CMMI 2 Product Engineering Management Certification”, and other important recognitions issued to an enterprise in Shenzhen.

The certification recognitions issued by the world-class and key market national certification institutions indicate that the global market has affirmed APD Group’s continual resource investments as well as the corollary R&D innovations and technical results.

China’s “National Grade High-tech Enterprise” recognition is screened and awarded by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China under extremely strict standards. The certified enterprises must poss core intellectual property rights, play the key support role for their core products, and their technical personnel who engage in R&D and technological innovations must account for over 10% of the total employees for the year. The rules also provided that in terms of enterprise R&D spending, the total R&D expenditures for three fiscal years must account for no less than 3% of the total sales revenue for the same period.

Furthermore, the application enterprise must also have no major safety, quality, or environmental violation incident within one year prior to the certification. The “Shenzhen High-tech Enterprise” certification is issued by the Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission, and it also adopts the strict audit standards similar to those for the National Grade High-tech Enterprise certification.

APD Group has a robust R&D team of over 300 people, and has allocated over 5% of its revenue for R&D expenditures. In the future, APD Group will continue to dedicate itself to maintain an exuberant R&D momentum, pursue sustainable innovation, and provide the best quality products and solutions to the customers worldwide.