Lanjian Intelligent has signed a warehousing and logistics equipment contract worth RMB 258 million with Wuhan Chuyang New Energy for the second phase of its battery production project, according to a company filing. The company said the deal sits within ordinary course of business and should contribute to its 2027 results if fulfilment proceeds as planned.
The customer sets the bar
Wuhan Chuyang is a wholly owned subsidiary of Chuyang Energy, the largest lithium battery manufacturer based in Hubei. The group runs four bases in Wuhan, Xiaogan, Yichang and Xiangyang with more than 110GWh of annual capacity, placing it among China’s top five by effective capacity, and it ranked in the global top three for energy storage cell shipments in 2025.
It has also appeared on the BloombergNEF Tier 1 energy storage maker list five times running, a status few suppliers hold continuously.
The phase two project carries total investment of about RMB 22 billion and planned annual capacity of 80GWh, producing power cells, storage cells and pack modules.
Why battery lines buy robots
Cell manufacturing is less tolerant of handling error than general assembly. Electrode rolls and finished cells lose yield to a single knock, a dust particle or a static discharge, and manual transfer is both physically punishing and unable to guarantee unbroken material traceability.
Mobile robots remove the human from that path and link warehousing to the process steps around it, including electrode roll loading and formation and grading. Integrated with MES and fleet scheduling, they carry material records end to end and support flexible changeover between cell formats around the clock.
That is a different sale from moving pallets in a distribution centre. In a battery plant the robot is part of process control, and validation cycles are longer because a line stoppage costs far more than a missed pick.
The supplier’s own arithmetic
Lanjian reported revenue of RMB 1.215 billion for the first three quarters, up 7.4 per cent year on year, with net profit attributable to shareholders down 27.67 per cent at RMB 67.81 million. Adjusted net profit fell 23.46 per cent to RMB 61.23 million.
Backlog stood at RMB 2.53 billion as of 30 June, which gives reasonable revenue visibility into next year but says nothing about margin. Storage and battery customers place large orders on tight delivery windows, and converting backlog into profit depends on delivery pace, project gross margin and how fast scale effects arrive.
Lanjian has 33 years in warehouse logistics and now fields storage, shuttle, transfer, picking, loading and palletising robots, coordinated by an in-house software platform it calls Blue Brain. The company says it has deployed more than 30,000 robots across close to 20 industries including new energy, automotive, semiconductors, e-commerce, tobacco and pharmaceuticals.
The strategic read is straightforward. Chinese battery capacity is being built in Europe, Morocco and Southeast Asia, and the material handling specification travels with the process recipe. A robot supplier that clears qualification inside a 80GWh plant in Hubei is holding a reference that will be asked for again in Debrecen, Zaragoza and Kenitra.
Editor’s note: This is an adapted translation of the original OFweek report. It has been trimmed and restructured for readability for an international business audience. The full original (in Chinese) is at https://robot.ofweek.com/2026-11/ART-898890-8110-30709996.html.