Dongfeng Special Automobile: Deeply cultivating the field of special vehicles for 30 years, creating a benchmark for China’s commercial vehicle manufacturing

1.Company Overview: A backbone of special vehicles with profound background

Dongfeng Special Automobile Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Dongfeng Special Automobile”) was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Bailang High-tech Development Zone, Shiyan City, Hubei Province, the “China Automobile City”. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dongfeng Motor Group. After 33 years of deep cultivation in the industry, the company has developed into a modern vehicle manufacturer integrating passenger cars, school buses, buses, medium and heavy trucks, special vehicles and new energy vehicles, with an annual production capacity of 15,000 large and medium-sized vehicles and an annual output value of over 1.5 billion yuan.

2. Technical team: equipped with a 120-person R&D team, built the Hubei Special Bus Technology Center, and launched more than 5 new models each year;

3. Quality certification: won honors such as “China Quality Service Credit AAA-level Famous Brand Enterprise” and “High-tech Enterprise”, and passed ISO9001 and CCC certification.

II. Product matrix: nine series covering all scenario needs

Dongfeng Special Automobile takes specialization and scenario-based as the core, and builds a complete product system covering logistics, engineering, municipal administration and other fields.

1. Engineering transportation.

(1) Dump truck: The star product “Dongfeng Hercules” heavy-duty dump truck accounts for more than 85% of sales and is suitable for extreme working conditions such as high-altitude mining areas and infrastructure construction sites;

(2) Powder and particle material transport truck: with a volume of 9-35 cubic meters, it is used for cement and chemical raw material transportation.

2. Municipal sanitation

(1) Sprinklers (4000L-35000L), garbage trucks, and high-pressure cleaning trucks to support urban cleaning and environmental protection operations;

(2) Fire trucks and aerial work vehicles: equipped with all-wheel drive chassis technology to adapt to special tasks such as firefighting and power repair.

3. Passenger transport and school buses

(1) 6-12m highway buses: optional fuel/gas power, lightweight design to improve fuel economy;

(2) 6-11m school buses: standard seat belt alarms, in-car monitoring, and safety hammers, with high-strength steel bodies to ensure student safety.

4. New energy vehicle models

Pure electric logistics vehicles, hydrogen fuel heavy trucks (not focused on), compatible with green transportation scenarios such as ports and mines.

III. Manufacturing strength: Technology empowers the upgrade of the entire chain

1. Intelligent manufacturing process

(1) The cathode electrophoresis technology of the whole vehicle improves the anti-corrosion level, and the skin electric heating tensioning process ensures the strength of the body;

(2) The production of the carriage adopts 16 sets of special tooling platforms to achieve a semi-automatic process of “no parts falling to the ground and no deformation”.

2. Quality control

From raw material leveling, rolling to final assembly, the whole process is computer-monitored, and the automation rate of key processes reaches 90%;

Establish more than 300 national after-sales service stations to respond to domestic and foreign customer needs 24 hours a day.

IV. Market layout: from regional deep cultivation to global breakthrough

1. Domestic network: covering 29 provinces and cities across the country, with in-depth cooperation with more than 70 dealers, the market share of dump trucks ranks first in Hubei, Qinghai and other regions;

2. Overseas expansion: products are exported to more than 10 countries including Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, and batch delivery has been completed in Vietnam and Angola, and sample vehicle certification has been passed in Russia and Uzbekistan; the cumulative export volume exceeds 185 million yuan, ranking first in Shiyan’s commercial vehicle industry.

V. Innovative genes: R&D drives scenario customization

1. Technology iteration: Apply Pro-e three-dimensional design and finite element analysis to develop adaptive models (such as all-wheel drive chassis special buses) for mines and high-cold areas.

2. Customization capabilities: Support the order-based production of municipal vehicles and logistics vehicles, such as customizing antifreeze dump trucks for Qinghai mining areas, and launching more than 1,200 units for three consecutive years.

VI. Conclusion

Thirty-three years of ups and downs, Dongfeng Special Automobile has been deeply involved in the special vehicle track with the ambition of “accumulating strength and then bursting out”, from the single point breakthrough of dump trucks to the formation of nine product matrices, from the Shiyan base to the global market layout, always responding to the needs of the times with technical strength and scenario innovation. Its tenacity in the manufacturing industry and its ultimate pursuit of quality have not only achieved word-of-mouth products such as the “Hubei Famous Brand” semi-trailer, but also promoted China’s special vehicles from “manufacturing” to “intelligent manufacturing”. Under the wave of green transformation and globalization, Dongfeng Special Vehicle is building a foundation with “stability” and breaking through with “innovation”, continuing to write a hard-core chapter of China’s commercial vehicles.