Imagine performing a pirouette next to a chemical reactor—the floor slick with oil, the air heavy with xylene vapor. Every spin could ignite the atmosphere. That's the situation a standard motor faces in a hazardous area. It's not that it's a bad motor; it's that it's in the wrong place.The explosio
At a large refinery in Shandong, equipment supervisor Zhou was commissioning new automated equipment near the reactor area. Pointing to a motor no larger than a paperback book mounted directly on the equipment frame, he told his apprentice: "A few years ago, this kind of installation would have requ
In 2025, China's Ministry of Emergency Management issued guidelines for the retirement and replacement of aging chemical facilities, explicitly encouraging automation upgrades to improve inherent safety. Provinces including Shandong, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang have since rolled out policies supporting in