Xiamen Dingzhu and Italy’s IMR Sign Strategic Partnership to Expand Sanitary Hardware and Casting Equipment Markets

Xiamen Dingzhu Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. (DZ) and IMR of Italy have recently signed a strategic cooperation agreement. The two parties will cooperate in market development and technical collaboration for production equipment used in sanitary hardware such as faucets, as well as in the broader hardware casting industry, with a focus on customer referral, reactivation of existing customer resources, and joint efforts to address technical challenges.

Xiamen Dingzhu Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. is an enterprise specializing in the R&D, manufacturing and sales of intelligent equipment. Its business covers automated grinding, deburring and polishing of metal components, as well as casting equipment and solutions. In the sanitary hardware and broader hardware casting fields, DZ’s product portfolio includes low-pressure casting machines, core shooting machines, gravity casting machines, electric furnaces, and robotic grinding and automated polishing equipment. This enables the company to provide relatively complete equipment combinations for the production of faucets and other sanitary hardware products, as well as various hardware castings. IMR of Italy has long focused on low-pressure casting machines and core shooting machines, with 70 years of technical accumulation and industry experience in this field, and has established a stable customer base and service capability in Europe and other markets.

The two companies’ businesses are highly complementary in the sanitary hardware and broader hardware casting industries. At the market level, IMR’s overseas customer resources, service network and language advantages complement DZ’s customer base in China and global markets. Through customer referral and reactivation of existing customer resources, the two parties will expand business growth. In advancing this cooperation, DZ’s robotic grinding and automated polishing equipment will be one of the key products for market development. Leveraging IMR’s existing customer resources, the two parties will extend into customers in sanitary hardware and other hardware casting industries, expanding demand for equipment used in grinding, deburring and polishing processes. At the technical level, the two parties will explore joint solution design, process adaptation and equipment commissioning across low-pressure casting, core shooting, gravity casting, electric furnaces and downstream grinding and polishing, so as to jointly address technical challenges in casting and downstream processing and improve integrated solution capabilities.

The signing marks new progress in Xiamen Dingzhu’s international cooperation. Taking this agreement as an opportunity, the two parties will establish a regular communication and collaboration mechanism, give full play to their respective advantages, and promote the gradual implementation of the cooperation, thereby contributing to the further development of intelligent equipment technologies and applications and enhancing the companies’ international cooperation and market competitiveness.