Haitian Group and Milliken Sign Global Strategic Cooperation Agreement to Build a New Collaborative Ecosystem for the Polypropylene Industry Chain

en.Wedoany.com Reported - On October 12, 2026, Haitian Group, a global leader in injection molding equipment, and Milliken, a global materials science company, officially signed a global strategic cooperation agreement in Shanghai. Based on the development and strategic layout needs of the polypropylene industry, the cooperation between the two parties covers four dimensions: innovative application of polypropylene materials, customer expansion and empowerment, collaborative global market development, and deep industry chain collaboration.

Leveraging the Haitian Tongchuang resin trading platform, the two parties will connect the entire chain of equipment, materials, process applications, and supply chain services, build an integrated technical service system, and create a new collaborative development ecosystem for the polypropylene industry chain.

According to the strategic cooperation framework, the two parties will carry out in-depth cooperation across multiple dimensions:

First, innovative application of materials: In response to customers' key needs in product performance, processing efficiency, cost control, and sustainable production, the two parties will jointly carry out adaptive R&D of polypropylene resin products and the implementation of customized application solutions to solve production challenges.

Second, customer expansion and empowerment: The two parties will form a joint technical service team to provide customers with comprehensive services including demand research, operating condition diagnosis, sample testing, process optimization, and on-site technical support, helping customers improve production and operational efficiency.

Third, collaborative global market development: Leveraging Haitian Group's global equipment customer channels and market layout, combined with Milliken's global R&D, technical application, and market resources, the two parties will jointly engage global downstream customers and polypropylene resin enterprises, promote efficient connections between materials, equipment, and end-use application needs, and accelerate the global promotion and implementation of innovative solutions.

Fourth, deep industry chain collaboration: The two parties will connect core links including equipment manufacturing, new material R&D, process processing, end-use applications, and supply chain to achieve collaborative development across the industry chain, simplify processes such as customer material selection and project implementation, and effectively reduce corporate operating and innovation costs.

At present, the global injection molding industry is accelerating its transformation and upgrading toward high-end intelligent manufacturing, global layout, and integrated solutions. As downstream market demand continues to upgrade, enterprises are facing increasingly severe challenges in new material selection, precise process matching, stable large-scale production, and overseas project implementation and operation. The single-equipment supply and single-material service models can no longer meet the development needs of injection molding customers and petrochemical customers. Against the backdrop of this industrial transformation, Haitian Group and Milliken have reached a global strategic cooperation, fully leveraging their respective core advantages in their fields to achieve complementary strengths, upgrading from single product supply to customer-oriented joint development, and leading the transformation and upgrading of the polypropylene industry.

Having been deeply engaged in the global injection molding equipment field for decades, Haitian Group has a global market layout and equipment customer resources, with technical application solutions comprehensively covering injection molding end-use scenarios both domestically and internationally. It has also established a supporting service system including raw material procurement, inventory management, international transportation, and customs clearance.

Milliken has long been deeply engaged in the polyolefin industry, with profound technical accumulation and global innovation resources. The company has established its Asia-Pacific headquarters, a professional R&D center, and a packaging innovation center in Shanghai, and leverages its localized and professional technical R&D and application service team as a pivot to collaborate with Milliken's global R&D network, technical experts, application development capabilities, and market resources. With deep insights into polypropylene resin performance optimization, processing process adaptation, and diverse end-use applications, Milliken can provide global customers with customized material technical support and innovative solutions covering the entire product and application lifecycle.

Chen Nian, General Manager of Haitian Tongchuang Industrial Co., Ltd., stated: "This global strategic cooperation with Milliken is an important layout for complementary strengths and co-creation of value. We will leverage our advantages in equipment manufacturing, supply chain services, and global channels, combined with Milliken's material R&D technology, to improve integrated technical service capabilities covering equipment, materials, processing, and applications, transform technical advantages into implementable and verifiable value for customers, and continuously create value for global polypropylene customers."

Wim Van De Velde, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Milliken's Plastics High-Performance Additives Division, stated: "This strategic cooperation is an important milestone for both parties in the field of high-performance polypropylene materials. Milliken will leverage its core advantages in material R&D, process optimization, and industry insights to work hand in hand with Haitian Group to promote technological innovation and process upgrading of polypropylene materials, and help polypropylene develop toward high-end, differentiated, low-carbon, and sustainable directions."

This strategic cooperation is an innovative model for the collaborative development of the polypropylene industry chain and an important practice of deep integration between materials science and intelligent manufacturing. In the future, the two parties will uphold the cooperation philosophy of "materials empowering intelligent manufacturing, co-creating customer value," continuously deepen collaborative innovation and integrated service capabilities across the industry chain, jointly explore new opportunities for global industrial development, promote industrial quality improvement and upgrading, and build a new industry chain ecosystem.