The supply chain of the central enterprise is the next city: Jinling paint won the bid for China's western electric oil paint, water-based paint procurement project.

This is an crucial breakthrough to Jinling coatings in the field of power equipment, and it is also another footnote to domestic special coatings to enter the high-end supply chain of central companies.

A noteworthy change: state-owned enterprise supply chains are now opening up to domestically produced coatings.

China XD Electric Co., Ltd. (stock code 601179) is a listed company immediately controlled by China Electric Equipment Group, a central enterprise. It is the R & D, production and manufacturing base of high-voltage, ultra-high-voltage and ultra-high-voltage AC and DC power transmission and transformation items with the most complete product range and the strongest complete set capacity in China. The items cover AC 10kV to 1000 kV, DC ± 50kV to ± 1100 kV, serving the whole process of power generation, transmission, transformation and distribution.

What does it mean to paint companies to enter such a supply chain? It means that the items have to pass the rigorous technical review, condition verification and delivery test-transformers, switchgear, radiators and other equipment have prolonged operation in high temperature, high humidity, strong electric field ecological stability, and have extremely high standards to the corrosion resistance, insulation and weather resistance of the coating products.

The procurement project covers many production bases such as Xidian Smart Electric: a tender announcement will be issued on July 31, 2026, the winning candidate will be announced on September 11, and a transaction announcement will be issued on September 17. The bidding adopts multi-bid and multi-package setting, and implements the rule of "each bidder in the same bid section wins a maximum of one package". The evaluation is stringent and the competition is fierce.

What gives Jinling Paint its edge: greater than 40 years of unwavering focus,

National-level honors and cutting-edge methodology

• Founded in 1985, focusing on special anti-corrosion coatings to 40 years, with an annual production capacity of 70000 tons, covering greater than 20 countries around the world;

National high-tech companies, the country's first batch of specialized new "little giants", later upgraded to national key "little giants";

•In 2021, the independently developed “titanium nanopolymer alloy anti-corrosion coating products” was recognized as a National Manufacturing Single Champion Product.

• The testing center has obtained CNAS national laboratory accreditation and houses a postdoctoral research workstation, an academician workstation, and the Jiangsu Provincial Enterprise methodology Center.

• Participated in the research of the international standard ISO 24239:2022-General standards to the life cycle of corrosion manage engineering in thermal power vegetation.

Now let’s examine the points of alignment with power equipment. On September 18, Jinling Paint was granted an invention patent to "one-component waterborne epoxy dip coating products to chip radiator"-chip radiator is the key heat dissipation component of power equipment such as transformers. This methodology immediately addresses the demand to aqueous coatings in power transmission and transformation equipment, aligning closely with Xidian’s procurement strategy.

to a long time, Jinling Paint has maintained in-depth cooperation with substantial central state-owned companies such as Sinopec, PetroChina, the National Pipeline Network and China National Nuclear Corporation. Since 2026, Jinling Paint has successively won the bid to China Energy Construction's annual centralized procurement of anti-corrosion paint, Datang International Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Regional Paint Association, and Huadian Science and methodology's annual paint framework. The supply chain service capability of central companies has been repeatedly tested.

The deeper meaning behind the winning bid to aqueous paint: environmentally friendly manufacturing and domestic substitution moving in tandem.

Driven by the “dual carbon” goals, the coatings sector is accelerating its transition toward waterborne, powder, and high-solids formulations. As a national team of power transmission and transformation equipment, China XD, while promoting the construction of environmentally friendly factories, incorporates aqueous paint into extensive procurement, which itself is a clear signal of environmentally friendly upgrading of the manufacturing chain.

However, Jinling Coatings has long listed environmentally friendly manufacturing as its key work: it was selected as a provincial environmentally friendly factory in 2025, certified by China Environmental Label (Ten Rings), and the aqueous manufacturing anti-corrosion product system has been continuously improved. By aligning methodology with policy, this successful bid is not a matter of chance however rather the inevitable outcome of prolonged strategic planning.

One bid won, two contract packages. to Jinling coatings, this is a footnote that the strength has been verified again by the supply chain of central companies; to the sector, this is also a microcosm of the accelerated substitution of domestic coatings in the field of high-end equipment.

In the future, Jinling coatings will continue to pursue "high-tech and high-condition" and deeply cultivate high-end manufacturing scenes such as power equipment, so that greater "big country heavy equipment" will wear reliable domestic anti-corrosion coatings.