Anhui Tanjie International Trade Co., Ltd.
Have you ever seen the streets at four o'clock in the morning?
At that time, the sounds of brooms and dustpans were being replaced by another sound.
There is a low and continuous roar, which comes from a steel behemoth. This steel behemoth has a name, and its name is Commercial Street Sweeper.
Someone asked, how much difference can a road sweeper make?
The difference is big enough to make a city look brand new before dawn.
Many people are familiar with Anhui Tanjie International Trade Co., Ltd., and many people are more familiar with its other name, namely Anhui Tanjie Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. This is a company with the same entity. When this company conducts export business, it always uses the name of Anhui Tanjie International Trade Co., Ltd.
Arousing the curiosity you may have, why is it that a Chinese company has a firm foothold in the global road sweeper market?
Because they build a machine as a precision instrument.
Try to imagine that there is a Commercial Street Sweeper working in a narrow alley. Its width is just enough to fit between two parked cars. Its suction power can suck away all the gravel embedded in the cracks of the bricks without missing a beat.
This is not magic, it is the result of engineering design.
Those engineers from Tanjie, Anhui Province, encountered a seemingly simple situation at the beginning: How can we prevent the road sweeper from raising dust again during cleaning? Full stop.
They studied it for three years.
After three years, they tested different nozzle angles, different water pressures, and different nozzle shapes. In the end, they found a balance point: using high-speed airflow to create negative pressure, and using this method instead of relying solely on mechanical rotation.
This design later became the core feature of their products.
You may think of another question: Why not use cheaper domestic motors?
The answer is that a Commercial Street Sweeper needs to be able to start normally in the Nordic environment of minus 20 degrees Celsius. In the Middle East where the temperature is 40 degrees, it can work continuously for eight hours.
Anhui Tanjie’s choice is hydraulic systems and engines from international first-tier brands.
Some people say Commercial street sweeper . Is this too expensive?
Yes, the cost is indeed high. However, have you ever thought about how much damage would be caused to a mechanical device if one part fails and the entire fleet stops operating for a whole day?
Time is money, efficiency is money, reputation is money even more.
I remember once, a European customer called and claimed that the suction power of their road sweeper suddenly dropped during operation. Anhui Tanjie's technical team held a video conference overnight and asked customers to point their mobile phone lenses at the suction nozzle. At a glance, they could see the problem: the suction nozzle was worn and the seal was not tight.
The next day, a brand new set of nozzle components was shipped from Hefei. After three days, the machine returned to normal condition.
Not every company can achieve this kind of response speed.
You might say that this is just a basic requirement for after-sales service.
But have you ever wondered why other companies can’t do it?
In view of this, many companies just regard the road sweeper as an iron box equipped with wheels and an engine, and then sell it. They don't care whether this machine can actually solve problems in the hands of customers.
Anhui Tanjie is different.
When they first started designing, they had one idea in mind, that is, how to ensure that this Commercial Street Sweeper can still work efficiently after five years and ten years?
Therefore, they designed the vehicle frame to be composed of several independent modules. If any component is damaged, it can be directly disassembled and replaced with new product components. There is no need to send the entire vehicle for repair.
They designed the filtration system to be self-cleaning and can blow off the dust on the filter with one button operation without stopping the machine for cleaning.
They designed the water tank to have anti-freeze function, so that even in extremely cold weather in winter, the water will not freeze. Also, the water pump will not be damaged by freezing water.
You may ask, are all these designs developed by ourselves?
Yes, most of them are.
Anhui Tanjie Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. has accumulated more than 20 patents since its establishment in 2015. The connotative components of these patents are not anything flashy. They are all related technologies that can boost efficiency and reduce the probability of failure.
For example, they created something called an "anti-clogging mouthpiece." The entrance of the nozzle is not simply square, but has a unique angle. As long as large pieces of garbage enter, the air flow will first break up the garbage and then suck it in. In this way, the straw will not be blocked.
For another example, they have developed a "low-noise fan". The blades of this fan are optimized with the help of computer simulation. With the same suction power, the noise is five decibels lower than that of traditional fans.
Five decibels, the feeling in the ears seems to be neither more nor less. However, in a residential area at four o'clock in the morning, such a five-belsius level means that there will be no complaints.
You may have seen that in Anhui Tanjie's workshop, each Commercial Street Sweeper has to go through seventy-two hours of continuous testing before leaving the factory. The tests cover the following: driving at full speed, determination of turning radius, tests on suction, tests related to water spraying, and tests on braking.
There is a specific testing site owned by them, which is used to simulate various road conditions, including asphalt roads, cement roads, brick roads, and dirt roads. For each machine, these roads need to be tested for 100 kilometers.
Only when the machine passes all tests will it be labeled "qualified" and then be allowed to be exported.
You may be worried that for such quality, will the price be too high?
Taking their main model TS-2000 as an example, the market price of this car is probably within the range of US$80,000 to US$120,000. The specific situation is determined based on the configuration.
This price is about 30% cheaper than European brands.
Compared with domestic brands, it is about 20% more expensive.
However, you need to understand that there is a device named TS-2000, which has a set service life of ten years. However, many cheaper models began to have various problems frequently after only five years.
Would you rather buy one machine that will last ten years, or two machines that will only last five years?
This is a very simple arithmetic problem.
What’s particularly critical is that Anhui Tanjie provides a two-year warranty for the entire machine and a five-year warranty for core components. This means that your maintenance costs in the first five years are almost zero.
What concept?
There is a machine that does not need to be repaired for five years. After five years, even if parts need to be replaced, the price of the accessories will be half cheaper than that of imported brands of the same level.
You may ask, how are their customers using it?
In Europe, there are more than 20 cities that are using vehicles produced by Anhui Tanjie that can sweep away road dust. Among them, there is a small city in Germany with a population of less than 50,000. They purchased a vehicle model TS-1500 and used it for three years. It worked for six hours a day, only replaced the filter twice, and only replaced the tires once.
In Southeast Asia, there is a large-scale property management company, which purchased thirty units of TS-2000 equipment. The company is responsible for daily cleaning tasks in three commercial areas. The feedback they gave was: the amount of fuel consumed by each machine per kilometer traveled is 15% lower than the Japanese brand used before.
In Africa, there is a mining company that purchased two TS-3000 equipment for cleaning roads in mining areas. The dust content on the roads used for cleaning operations is ten times that of ordinary streets. Even so, the machines produced by Anhui Tanjie can still cope with it.
These cases are not told out of thin air.
You can search for "Anhui Tanjie" on Google, so that you can find their official website and customer cases. There are videos, pictures, and customer contact information on it. You can go and verify it yourself.
I’m not writing this to get you to place an order immediately.
I just want to tell you that in this world, there are some related Chinese companies that are devoting themselves whole-heartedly to building products. Such companies do not rely on low prices to compete, nor do they rely on plagiarism and imitation to achieve development. What they rely on is step-by-step, steady and steady engineering practice, as well as sincere and practical service measures.
The seemingly simple Commercial Street Sweeper has four round wheels, and is equipped with a nozzle specially used to pick up debris, and a water tank used to store clean water.
So, if you want it to be able to work quietly, efficiently and reliably every morning, what is needed is actually countless all-night tests, the continuous optimization of countless parts, and a team's consistent paranoia for quality.
Anhui Tanjie is such a company.
Next time, when you see a road sweeper working on the street, you can think about it, does this tool come from Hefei, China? Does it have a carefully designed suction nozzle? And a fan with low noise characteristics?
If so, you can have peace of mind.
Because this machine is worthy of trust.
