R & D BACKGROUND
FATO’s high & low voltage and Transmission & Distribution (T & D) products have been recommended in Innovating Electrical Network of Two Types, and FATO was approved as first-class supplier by many renowned companies, such as SINOPEC, CNPC, China Water, etc.
R & D center founded in Apr, 2002. It approved as Wenzhou Enterprise Science & Technology Center in 2004, and as Zhejiang Province Enterprise Science & Technology Center in 2005.The R & D organization combines research, design, sample production and trial, which has 60 employees including 36 senior engineers. The function of center is as follows:
　1) Researching middle and long-term science & technology blueprint for enterprises.
　2) Importing & cooperating of technology.
　3) Achievement transformation & innovation of technology.
　4) R & D of new products & application of new material.
　5) Researching and popularizing of new technology & reconstruction of technology.

R & D CENTER

• FATO has established long-term strategic cooperative relationship with Shanghai Science Research Graduate School & Xi’an High Voltage Electric Appliances Research Graduate School. By Importing technology and cooperative development, FATO has developed and manufactured high-quality products that come to international advanced standard and keep ahead in China.
• Keeping in touch with universities, colleges and science research organizations tightly, applying science research achievement, following the fact of enterprise development, FATO has converted existing achievement into productivity and R & D of products.
• FATO is always using sales networks, market & trade information, collected patent technology and updated product information from overseas to absorb and analyse, and taking own advantage of innovation & technology to develop and manufacture new FATO intellective property products.

PRODUCT STATUS
FATO’s leading products including high & low voltage electric components, Transmission & Distribution equipments, construction electric appliances and automation equipments, etc, which have more than 200 series & 2,000 specifications, and widely applied to each field in nation’s industry & civil construction. In recent years, FATO has developed & manufactured own hi-tech CF series products along with increase of science & technology cost and human resource. Intellectualized electric appliances , meters and etc, the proportion reaches 3.5% in FATO’s hi-tech leading products, and new hi-tech products are under development. Science & technology cost in 2004 proportions 3.3% of sales income.
FATO’s main low voltage electric components including circuit breaker, contactor, relay, fuse, starter and switch, annual sales income reaches 1.51 billion RMB, and China market share is 1.3% or so. Transmission & Distribution equipments including electric transformer, high voltage breaker, high voltage isolating load switch and fuse, etc, annual sales income reaches0.65 billion RMB, and China market share is 1.07% or so.