Wuxi Lead Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. (先导智能) is headquartered in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China, and is a global leader in the full-process lithium-battery equipment sector.
1. Company Overview
- Company name: Wuxi Lead Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. (无锡先导智能装备股份有限公司), ticker 300450 (ChiNext)
- Founded: established 1999 by Wang Weicheng; converted to a joint-stock company in 2011
- HQ: Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China
- Business areas: full lithium-battery process line (slurry mixing/coating/cell assembly/pack assembly/formation & aging), plus solar, 3C, logistics, automotive, and hydrogen equipment
- Chairman: Wang Weicheng / Capital & headcount: (undisclosed; R&D workforce introduced as 5,000+)
2. History and Workforce
Founded in 1999, the company converted to a joint-stock company in 2011 and listed on ChiNext in 2015. In 2017 it acquired Titans New Power for KRW 1.35 billion (converted), securing formation and aging equipment lines. It has held a strategic partnership with CATL since 2016, and in 2018 signed an equipment-supply agreement with Tesla, becoming the sole battery-equipment supplier in China for Tesla. In 2019 it established a Swedish subsidiary alongside its first European order from Northvolt.
The company states its R&D workforce exceeds 5,000 and that it holds more than 3,200 accumulated patents, with R&D investment maintained at over 10% of revenue. Departmental workforce breakdown is (undisclosed).
3. Core Technology and Key Equipment
The company provides a full-line solution covering the entire lithium-battery production process — from mixing to assembly, formation/aging, and module/PACK assembly — and states its core-equipment market share exceeds 60%.
- Full lithium-battery line solution (mixing–PACK)
- Solar-cell/module smart equipment
- Business diversification into 3C, logistics, automotive production lines, and hydrogen equipment
- Proprietary MES smart-manufacturing system
4. Production Infrastructure and Quality Assurance
The company states it operates R&D/production sites totaling roughly 1.8 million square meters worldwide. Detailed figures for individual plants’ capacity and cleanroom specs are (undisclosed).
5. Delivery Track Record and Partnerships
The company lists CATL, Tesla, and Northvolt (its first European order) among its major customers. Specific delivery years and equipment model names are not disclosed individually for many contracts and are presented as representative cases instead.
6. Financial Status and Roadmap
As a listed company on the ChiNext board of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, its annual reports are publicly available. In 2026 it pursued a listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (H-shares), completing an offering process with public-offering proceeds of HKD 4.58 billion (per disclosed reports). Individual revenue/profit figures are not arbitrarily presented in this profile.
The company is pursuing business expansion across the entire energy spectrum, including solar TOPCon cell lines, hydrogen fuel-cell membrane electrode assembly (MEA) production lines, and its intelligent logistics system (LEADACE).
This profile was compiled based on publicly available sources including Baidu Baike, the company’s official website (leadintelligent.com), Zhihu, 36Kr, and disclosed annual-report summaries; unverified figures and undisclosed information have not been arbitrarily filled in.