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The Kyongru Lighting Apparatus Trading Company has achieved lots of successes in the work to develop new technologies, improve quality and expand varieties by regarding technological progress as the seed of sustained development.

Since it established the first LED lamp production process, the company has steadily strengthened its own technical forces while making a deep study of the global development trend of lighting apparatuses.

Most of the company's talents are the researchers of its lighting technology institute.

They are in charge of research, equipment management and technical control while giving guidance on production and training skilled workers. They also make the lighting apparatuses and electric appliances, which they developed, together with skilled workers at the production site.

This system for training the technical personnel of the company into talents with practical abilities proves very effective in strengthening the technical forces of the unit and making technological progress. Technical innovation achievements, conducive to improving the quality of products while saving manpower, time and materials and to speeding up the development of new products, are on the increase day by day.

In the course of this, the company has satisfactorily produced the products with high technical performance including a tens-of-metre-high spiral chandelier and a large six-tier bead chandelier.

The company encourages all its employees to take part in the presentation of ideas and inventions to present ideas, discoveries and technical innovation plans conducive to the technological progress of the unit. Under the circumstances, technical innovation for putting the whole process of production, including the development of new products, improvement of quality and reduction of costs, on a high scientific and technological basis has been turned into the work of the producer masses themselves.

The company has attached importance to the steady technical upgrading and modernization of production processes and equipment in making technological progress. In the past five years alone, it developed measuring apparatuses, the key factor in improving the quality of lamps, by its own efforts and newly established or technically upgraded more than 30 production processes.

It also reinforced or modernized equipment, including metal laser cutter and laser welding machine, to reduce manpower to a fifth and double the rate of production as compared to before, and laid a foundation for manufacturing the lighting apparatuses, which had been imported, by its own efforts and technology.

Efforts were directed to lowering the production costs systematically and improving quality, resulting in the development of nearly 10 000 new products in hundreds of kinds.

The company was selected as one of the top ten enterprises for 2025 as it made positive contributions to successfully building structures guaranteeing the economic development of the country and the happy life of the people, including 50 000 flats in Pyongyang, the Wonsan Kalma Coastal Tourist Area and the Sinpho City Offshore Farm.