The national-level SRDI "Little Giant" designation is among the most prestigious and authoritative official honors in China's SME evaluation system. Centered on critical links in industrial chains and core areas of the industrial base, the selection applies rigorous screening across R&D capability, core technology barriers, competitiveness in niche markets, and operational quality and efficiency. Companies on the list are not only "hidden champions" in their respective segments, but also a backbone force in strengthening and shoring up manufacturing supply chains and cultivating new productive forces.

This recognition reflects the full endorsement of the competent national authorities for Hirays' long-standing focus on a specialized track, its commitment to independent innovation, and its sustained breakthroughs in key core technologies.

18 Years of Focus: Building an End-to-End Industrial Loop

Since its founding in 2008, Hirays has spent 18 years deepening its presence in seal-integrity testing, concentrating on the R&D of testing technologies and the manufacture of intelligent equipment while steadily broadening its product portfolio and business footprint.

Over the years, the company has sustained investment along three technology directions—air-tightness testing, vacuum helium mass spectrometry leak detection, and trace gas analysis. It has built a full-spectrum product matrix covering conventional air-tightness testers, vacuum helium leak detectors, quadrupole mass spectrometry (RGA) analyzers and automated production-line integration, and established a closed industrial loop spanning "technology development — component production — instrument manufacturing — production-line integration — full-lifecycle service." This gives Hirays both volume delivery capability for large-scale automated lines and the ability to deliver tailored, industry-specific solutions.

Commitment to In-House R&D: Full Command of Core Technologies

In recent years, Hirays has stayed R&D-driven, increasing investment in frontier areas such as RGA mass spectrometry and helium mass spectrometry leak detection. It has assembled an R&D team accounting for more than 35% of its total workforce and has successively achieved breakthroughs in the independent design of ion sources, the development of high-precision mass analyzers, and the iteration of intelligent detection algorithms. The company holds over 100 invention patents and software copyrights, and has led and contributed to the formulation of multiple industry standards—steadily strengthening both its technology reserves and its voice in standard-setting.

Hirays has now achieved fully in-house development of RGA trace-analysis instruments and its complete range of seal-integrity testing equipment, with core hardware and software, critical components and detection algorithms autonomous and controllable across the entire process. Its detection capability covers the leak-rate range from 10⁻¹ to 10⁻¹³ Pa·m³/s, meeting full-range requirements from routine coarse air-tightness checks to high-precision trace micro-leak detection.

Hirays is also one of the few domestic companies to master all three core technology stacks—conventional air-tightness testing, vacuum helium leak detection, and quadrupole mass spectrometry trace analysis—placing it among the industry leaders in overall R&D capability and technology maturity.

Powering Advanced Manufacturing: Technologies Validated by the Market

As its technology system has matured, Hirays' products and solutions have been deeply deployed in strategic emerging industries including 3C electronics (computers, communications and consumer devices), new energy, semiconductors and liquid cooling systems, and have extended further into high-end manufacturing scenarios such as precision semiconductor components, power batteries, energy storage, hydrogen equipment, core automotive parts and precision medical devices.

To date, the company's equipment has been delivered in volume to a number of listed industry leaders and has run stably over the long term, with core operational metrics such as yield rate and failure rate outperforming industry averages. Hirays has served more than 5,000 customers worldwide, and its business has maintained robust growth for several consecutive years—clear market validation of its ability to commercialize R&D outcomes at scale.

Recognition is a milestone; continued hard work is what carries the company forward. Taking this national-level SRDI "Little Giant" designation as a fresh starting point, Hirays will stay true to the SRDI principles of specialization, refinement, differentiation and innovation, deepen its focus on the seal-integrity testing niche, step up investment in core technology R&D, and accelerate the industrial application of frontier research. At the same time, it will fully play an exemplary and leading role in the industry, shoring up weak links in industrial chains with autonomous, controllable core technologies and continuing to underpin the high-quality development of China's high-end manufacturing sector.