The company has established a research institute gathering highly educated and capable talents in standard gas and related process development, fully developing key technological projects that significantly impact company development and industry progress, such as standard gases, standard reagents, process improvements, and standardization work. It has complete laboratory infrastructure, R&D platforms, pilot bases, and industrialization bases, equipped with advanced scientific research instruments, experimental equipment, computer hardware, and software. The total value of instruments and equipment reaches 8.75 million RMB, with a laboratory area of 2000m2. Additionally, it has jointly established an innovation laboratory with Agilent Technologies, a leading international analytical instrument company, to empower the energy chemical industry. The R&D system is built based on enterprise development laws and listed company requirements, extending to two core subsidiaries in Guangzhou and Chengdu, comprehensively enhancing innovation capabilities.

The research institute has established a complete R&D process system. Projects are managed according to feasibility studies, project proposals, project approvals, product or technology development, and project completion processes, with control measures to ensure implementation quality and progress.

It has 58 R&D personnel, including 9 with master's degrees and 49 with bachelor's degrees; 6 senior professional titles and 21 intermediate titles; 16% hold master's degrees or above; 47% are senior and intermediate engineering technicians.

The company invests no less than 4% of its annual revenue in R&D. Compared to the "2022 R&D expenditure of large-scale manufacturing enterprises by industry," where the chemical raw materials and chemical products manufacturing industry invests 1.06%, Datte's R&D expenditure in the past three years is 4-6 times that of its peers.

Intellectual Property Status: The company holds 45 valid patents, including 8 inventions and 37 utility models, 2 software copyrights, and 11 registered trademarks. It has 11 invention patents and 1 utility model patent pending. In October 2019, it passed the "Intellectual Property Management System Certification," systematically improving intellectual property management. All patented technologies are independently developed, belong to key core technologies, fully transformed internally, and widely applied in the market, bringing considerable economic benefits.

Standard situation: The company is a major participant in the formulation of standards in China's gas industry and has revised the largest number of national standards. It has presided over or participated in 41 international and national standards, with 31 issued and implemented, including: presiding over the formulation of 1 international standard, 8 national standards, and 1 industry standard; participating in the formulation of 19 national standards, 1 group standard, and 1 technical specification. Currently presiding over the revision of 7 national standards and 3 technical specifications.

Leading the formulation of China's first gas international standard "ISO-19230 Gas Sampling Guidelines", winning China's voice on the international stage. For the first time, proposed calculating the displacement time during gas sampling through mathematical models, gaining unanimous recognition from international experts.

Important awards: Has successively won honors such as the first batch of key supported national specialized and new "Little Giant" enterprises, Liaoning Province "Specialized and New" SMEs, SMEs "Specialized and New" products, and "National Advanced Unit for Gas Standardization".

Filling the gap: In the early 1990s, China's petrochemical standard gases were basically dependent on imports. With the rapid development of the industrial economy, domestic special gas companies have achieved partial localization, but some standard gases still need to be imported, with high prices and long delivery times. Petrochemical companies require a large number of special component, low concentration standard gas products such as chlorine, hydrogen chloride, VOCs, etc. DaTe has completed full coverage of standard gases for petrochemical use and is a gas company capable of providing a full set of standard gas solutions to the petrochemical industry, breaking the foreign monopoly of these products and filling the domestic gap.