At the exhibition, Lead Intelligent not only presented its comprehensive portfolio of equipment covering the entire battery lifecycle, but also unveiled its "Extreme Intelligent Manufacturing" solutions designed for next-generation battery technologies. These integrated solutions address the evolving needs of solid-state batteries, large-scale energy storage systems, intelligent vehicles, and smart logistics, demonstrating how Chinese advanced manufacturing equipment is accelerating the mass production of next-generation battery.

A Systematic Deployment for Next-Generation Battery Technologies

Amid the new wave of technological iteration, solid-state batteries are becoming the focal point of the industry. To support the industrialization of all-solid-state batteries, Lead Intelligent showcased its latest portfolio of core production equipment, including dry mixing and coating, wet slurry coating, lithium vacuum deposition, composite transfer printing, stacking, and isostatic pressing technologies. Together, these solutions provide a complete pathway from R&D validation to large-scale manufacturing, helping accelerate the commercialization of next-generation battery technologies.

To address the rapid expansion of the energy storage market and the growing demand for higher-capacity cells, Lead Intelligent also introduced its large-scale energy storage manufacturing solution. Compatible with cell capacities ranging from 314Ah to over 1000Ah, the solution features integrated process design and multiple energy-efficiency measures. The production line achieves equipment utilization rates exceeding 80% and overall yield rates above 96%, significantly outperforming industry averages and providing a highly cost-effective manufacturing foundation for large-scale energy storage deployment.

From System Integration to Intelligent Factory Operation

A key highlight of the exhibition was Lead Intelligent's comprehensive module, PACK, and CTP production solutions for power and energy storage batteries. Covering critical manufacturing stages from battery assembly to system integration, these solutions leverage highly flexible production line architectures and advanced equipment integration capabilities. The result is a manufacturing platform capable of supporting multiple technology routes and product configurations while delivering both high productivity and exceptional precision.

Lead Intelligent also showcased its intelligent logistics solution, featuring AS/RS automated storage and retrieval systems, manufacturing logistics scheduling systems, distribution center management systems, and integrated software platforms. Through seamless coordination between software and hardware, the solution enables end-to-end connectivity from warehousing to production, helping manufacturers achieve greater operational efficiency and smarter factory management.

Over the three-day event, Lead Intelligent's booth attracted industry professionals and partners from multiple countries and regions around the world. Discussions focused on battery technology roadmaps, production line upgrades, and emerging intelligent manufacturing trends. These valuable face-to-face exchanges strengthened industry collaboration and laid a solid foundation for future partnerships.

From pioneering individual equipment innovations to delivering fully integrated production systems, and from enhancing manufacturing capabilities to enabling value-chain-wide collaboration, Lead Intelligent continues to advance the evolution of intelligent manufacturing for new energy industry. Looking ahead, the company will remain committed to technological innovation and work alongside global partners to build a more efficient, intelligent, and sustainable future for battery manufacturing.

This foundational innovation—one that moves beyond the limits of conventional mechanical machining—has become a core enabling technology supporting the "crease-free folding" experience targeted for the OPPO Find N6. At the same time, it opens new possibilities for precision manufacturing across the global consumer-electronics industry.

Crossing a Microscopic Manufacturing Threshold

When Conventional Machining Approaches Its Physical Limits

In recent years, foldable smartphones have entered a phase of rapid global expansion. Yet the visible screen crease remains one of the most persistent barriers to improving user experience.

Why is the crease so difficult to eliminate? Within the extremely constrained structural space of a foldable smartphone, even micron-level dimensional deviations that are invisible to the naked eye can accumulate after thousands of folding cycles and ultimately manifest as visible surface deformation on the display.

Traditional machining and polishing processes are now approaching their physical precision limits, making further step-change improvements in surface flatness increasingly difficult to achieve.

To overcome this industry-wide microscopic constraint, Lead Intelligent and OPPO moved beyond conventional process pathways by introducing a micron-scale additive manufacturing solution—a technology typically reserved for semiconductor and chip fabrication environments.

Using this approach, key hinge components can be reconstructed at the micron scale, enabling the deposition of an ultra-uniform polymer support layer precisely matched to the hinge surface geometry. This engineered micro-support structure provides controlled stress release during repeated folding cycles, creating the mechanical foundation required for a genuinely crease-minimized folding experience and marking an important step toward the next generation of foldable-device structural design.

Industrial Synergy

Driving the Evolution of Advanced Manufacturing Through Foundational Innovation

Lead Intelligent's ability to precisely control the microscopic spreading behavior of single-layer polymer materials across hinge substrates reflects long-term technological accumulation in high-end equipment engineering and precision manufacturing. It also represents the outcome of deep collaborative engagement with OPPO across product architecture and structural-design development.

Together, the two companies overcame major technical barriers in ultra-high-precision three-dimensional contour detection and hardware integration. Through thousands of rounds of joint optimization across critical process parameters, the partners ultimately enabled this advanced manufacturing technology to achieve scalable validation in real commercial production scenarios, marking a decisive transition from proof-of-concept capability to industrial deployment.

By challenging conventional manufacturing boundaries and seeking solutions at the microscopic scale, the collaboration between Lead Intelligent and OPPO represents more than a targeted engineering upgrade addressing foldable-device hinge performance. It signals a broader step forward in China's capabilities in foundational materials engineering and precision manufacturing technologies.

Looking ahead, Lead Intelligent will continue advancing into the most technically demanding frontiers of advanced manufacturing, deepening collaboration with leading partners across the industrial value chain and accelerating the transition of next-generation laboratory-stage technologies into high-end industrial applications. Through these efforts, Lead Intelligent aims to provide a stronger technological foundation supporting collaborative innovation across the global advanced-manufacturing ecosystem.

Leveraging LEAD's deep expertise in industrial intelligent manufacturing and the Innovation Center's cutting-edge embodied intelligence technologies, the two parties will jointly accelerate the large-scale deployment of humanoid robots from laboratories to real world industrial production lines, reshaping the future of new energy and advanced manufacturing industries.

Mr. Wang Lei, CEO of LEAD Group, and Mr. Xue Ming, CMO of the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, attended the signing ceremony alongside company representatives.

As global intelligent manufacturing enters a new phase of transformation, embodied intelligence and human-machine collaboration are emerging as key directions of next-generation industrial upgrades. Traditional manufacturing is rapidly evolving toward greater intelligence and flexibility, while the new energy industry—with its complex processes and demanding operating environments—faces increasing demand for highly adaptable intelligent systems capable of replacing repetitive and high-risk manual tasks. With their human-like mobility and operational flexibility, humanoid robots are becoming a critical breakthrough technology for addressing these challenges.

With years of experience in advanced manufacturing for the new energy industry, Lead Intelligent has built comprehensive expertise across the entire industrial chain, including equipment technologies, integrated process experience, and large-scale industrial application scenarios. The company possesses strong capabilities in production line integration and large-scale delivery, with deep insights into real-world manufacturing pain points.

Founded in November 2023, the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center was officially designated in October 2024 by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the People's Government of Beijing Municipality as the "National and Local Co-Built Embodied Intelligence Robot Innovation Center." As China's first innovation center focused on embodied intelligent robotics, it possesses industry-leading capabilities of humanoid robots, underlying hardware and software architectures, and full-stack core technologies of the embodied large models.

With highly complementary strengths and closely aligned strategic visions, the partnership marks the beginning of a new era of "Intelligent Equipment + Humanoid Robots." Moving forward, the two sides will focus on deep collaboration in four key areas:

1. Scenario Integration to Accelerate Industrial Deployment

The partnership will focus on real-world new energy manufacturing scenarios, developing integrated "advanced equipment + humanoid robot" solutions to bring embodied intelligence onto production lines and expand its applications across advanced manufacturing. This includes enabling human-robot collaboration throughout production logistics, equipment operation, and maintenance processes.

2. Digital Intelligence Infrastructure to Strengthen the Industrial Foundation

The two parties will jointly establish industrial data collection centers and intelligent iteration systems tailored for general industrial and new energy applications. By leveraging massive on-site process action databases together with embodied large models and machine vision technologies, humanoid robots will be trained through imitation learning and generalized training to meet stringent industrial requirements for precision, cycle time, and stability.

3. Standardization Leadership to Build an Industry Ecosystem

The collaboration will also promote the joint development of industry standards for humanoid robot software and hardware, helping close existing standardization gaps while establishing platforms for technological innovation and industrial services. Together, the two parties aim to drive the standardized, scalable, and ecosystem-oriented development of the embodied intelligence industry.

4. Advanced Equipment Empowerment to Accelerate Mass Production

Leveraging Lead Intelligent's strengths in advanced turnkey equipment and intelligent manufacturing systems, the partnership will accelerate the mass production and commercialization of humanoid robots and their core components, using industrial manufacturing capabilities to further empower the development of embodied intelligence industry.

Looking ahead, Lead Intelligent and the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center will continue pushing the boundaries between intelligent manufacturing and embodied intelligence through technological innovation. Together, they aim to equip every advanced production line with a "smart brain" and "dexterous hands," opening a new era of human-robot collaboration and intelligent co-existence in advanced new energy manufacturing.

WUXI, China, May 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- On April 28, Lead Intelligent (hereinafter referred to as LEAD) officially released its 2025 Annual ESG Report. This is the first report compiled by LEAD aligning with both the Shenzhen Stock Exchange's "Sustainability Report Guidance" and the Hong Kong Exchange's "ESG Reporting Code" after its A+H dual listing. It also marks LEAD's sixth consecutive year of proactively disclosing its sustainable practices.

Over the past year, LEAD has shown an overall upgrade in ESG management levels, winning multiple authoritative ratings and honors both domestically and internationally. Its S&P Global ESG score increased to 48, earning it a spot in the Sustainability Yearbook 2025 (China Edition). It achieved an "A" rating in CDP's Supplier Engagement Assessment for the first time, and an "AA" rating in the Wind ESG Assessment. The company also won a silver medal in EcoVadis Social Responsibility Assessment, ranking among the top 15% globally. Besides, LEAD has been awarded the highest "A" rating in information disclosure by Shenzhen Stock Exchange for the seventh consecutive year, and simultaneously received prestigious honors, such as Forbes China 50 Most Innovative Companies, Global New Energy ESG Top 100 Award, Wuxi City Tax Payer Top 100, and LinkedIn's Global Talent Attraction Employer.

As the first company in China's new energy intelligent equipment sector to publish a carbon neutrality target, LEAD is moving from system improvement to value realization, and transforming ESG from a management framework into a core capability driving long-term growth through more transparent and systematic sustainable practices.

Intelligence for Green

Focusing on "carbon neutrality at the core operational level by 2035," LEAD has integrated green development into its manufacturing system, promoting coordinated optimization of energy structure and resource efficiency.

In 2025, the company's grid-connected rooftop photovoltaics reached 4.62 MW, cumulatively reducing carbon emissions by 1,170 tons and making a 14.77% green electricity usage. Through process optimization and energy-saving renovation, the company has made significant advances in both energy consumption and emissions, with the year-on-year reductions of natural gas consumption per unit revenue, hazardous waste disposal volume, and pollutant emission volume all exceeding 30%. In terms of recycling, the company started with source design to promote continuous improvement in resource utilization efficiency — the average usage of packaging wood and vacuum bags per unit equipment decreased by 25% and 60% respectively compared to the previous year, marking its green manufacturing transition from "reduction" to "system optimization."

At the same time, its Wuxi Plant 2 has passed the ISO 14068 carbon neutrality certification for two consecutive years, achieving carbon neutrality in operations. This signifies that the company's zero-carbon practice has upgraded from phased results to stable operation.

People-Centered Philosophy

The company has adhered to people-centered principles, fully ensuring employee occupational health and career development. In 2025, the employee training reached 570,000 hours, with a 100% coverage. All of its Chinese production bases have obtained ISO 45001 occupational health and safety management system certification, and front-line safety training and full-staff emergency drills have been fully covered, consolidating the bottom line for production safety and development.

Moreover, LEAD has been expanding the boundaries of social responsibility. By establishing the Warm Light Public Welfare Fund with a total of 30 million yuan, the company has transformed its public welfare model from scattered assistance to systematic empowerment. In addition, the company cumulatively donated 6.08 million yuan in charity throughout the year, and contributed 769 hours of volunteer service, linking corporate and social values over a broader range.

Governance Foundation

During the reporting period, the company has optimized its governance system. On the board, independent directors account for 42.86% of the total, and female directors, 28.57%, showing a balanced and diverse governance structure. The company has disclosed 175 announcement documents throughout the year, and participated in and conducted more than 120 domestic and foreign roadshows and exchanges, improving information transparency and market communication efficiency.

In terms of risk and compliance management, the company has strengthened the "three lines of defense" for risk governance framework and internal control compliance management system. The signing rate of the "Employee Integrity Commitment Letter" and the "Supplier Integrity Notice" has reached 100%. The business ethics training has achieved full coverage.

Innovation-Driven Development

Taking technological innovation as the core engine, LEAD has continued to increase R&D investment, with 1,605 million yuan invested in R&D in 2025, or 11.11% of its revenue. 778 authorized patents were added throughout the year, with a total of 3,592 patents secured. The company has furthermore established comprehensive smart manufacturing solutions in fields of lithium-ion batteries, all-solid-state batteries, energy storage, photovoltaics, and hydrogen energy.

Multiple breakthroughs have been made in core technologies, with significant implementation results:

• The dry electrode mixing and coating equipment for solid-state battery has been verified through actual production, saving over 35% energy and over 15% cost;
• The AI-empowered quality inspection system shows a 90% efficiency increase and reduces the false alarm rate to one in a million;
• The AI predictive maintenance system is over 25% more accurate than conventional methods in fault prediction;
• The intelligent solution for large-scale energy storage manufacturing secures an OEE of over 75%, a first-time yield of over 93%, and a comprehensive yield of over 96%;

From single technological breakthroughs to systematic capability building, LEAD has been strengthening its global competitiveness in new energy intelligent manufacturing.

Amid the accelerating global energy transition, ESG is no longer a bonus question, but an underlying logic supporting corporate development. Looking forward, LEAD will continue to deepen its ESG system construction, leveraging intelligent manufacturing with global partners for a better global green and low-carbon transition.

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As the bellwether of the global battery and energy storage industry, InterBattery's awards have historically been dominated by Korean companies. LEAD's recognition not only breaks this long-standing pattern but also highlights the strong global competitiveness of its dry coating technology in the high-end battery equipment sector. The system further provides a more efficient manufacturing pathway for the mass production of solid-state batteries.

According to the judging panel, LEAD's award-winning Dry Mixing & Coating System achieved breakthroughs across multiple critical performance indicators. The equipment features an integrated design that covers processes such as powder treatment, precision metering and feeding, fibrillation, film formation and lamination, and waste recycling. It effectively addresses the high energy consumption, environmental impact, and elevated costs associated with conventional wet coating processes.

In terms of technical performance, the system achieves roll gap adjustment accuracy of ±1 μm, ensuring consistent electrode surface density. It overcomes key technical bottlenecks in dry cathode coating, enabling large-scale mass production of LFP and ternary materials while remaining compatible with both conventional lithium-ion battery and all-solid-state battery production. The equipment supports electrode widths of up to 1000 mm and delivers a single-line production capacity of 5–8 GWh.

From a sustainability perspective, data shows that the system reduces energy consumption by more than 35% and lowers material and manufacturing costs by approximately 20%, aligning with the global battery industry's growing emphasis on green manufacturing and circular economy principles.

As a global leader in intelligent manufacturing for the new energy sector, LEAD is a private enterprise that has recently transitioned to an A+H dual-listing structure with its debut on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (stock code: 0470.HK). The company continues to maintain the dominant market share in new energy equipment manufacturing. Industry observers believe this award is more than a technological advancement in dry electrode processing. Rather, this signals that the global race in battery technology has entered a new, more competitive phase.

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