Gaogong Lithium Power has learned that Hynn has recently completed the D-round financing delivery of hundreds of millions of RMB, led by Morgan Stanley Private Equity Fund, followed by Guangdong Liwan Capital, No.1 Xinqu New Energy Industry Capital and Dongguan Songshan Lake Science City, which has become one of the largest financing enterprises in the field of lithium battery intelligent equipment in the world.

Lithium battery is an important track for global energy transformation and upgrading. As the strongest backing of the production side, lithium battery intelligent equipment has become a major outlet in the investment circle.

Behind the huge investment of hundreds of millions of yuan is the investor's full affirmation and recognition of Hynn Team, its existing industry status and future growth, company control and governance.

After this round of financing, Hynn's capital strength and resource capacity have been effectively enhanced, and it will further focus on strengthening R&D and innovation investment, focusing on promoting global resource integration and market platform construction, and is expected to achieve business synergy with Morgan Stanley's strong global resources, and accelerate the internationalization strategy of Hynn.

It is understood that since its establishment, Hynn has taken the overall solution of lithium battery finishing equipment as its core business, adhered to the development strategy of focus and focus, and accumulated experience in technology precipitation and delivery for more than ten years. At present, Hynn has strong technological innovation, high quality, low energy consumption and fast delivery in the whole line of finishing intelligent equipment solutions. It has won the continuous recognition and praise of CATL, ACC (France), Panasonic, Mercedes-Benz, REPT, GREATPOWER, SVOLT and other global head lithium battery customers.

In 2022, Hynn achieved a leaping development, its zero-carbon and smart factory solutions led the development trend of the industry, the global expansion of new customers achieved a milestone breakthrough, the stickiness of existing customers was further enhanced, the performance entered the fast lane of steady growth, and the global delivery of nearly 150 GWh equipment was completed. At the same time, it has launched the construction of a 100,000-square-meter headquarters base in Songshan Lake, Dongguan, and has been selected as a demonstration project of carbon neutralization and innovation cooperation between China and Europe in 2022. It has become one of the global pioneering suppliers of lithium battery finishing automation production lines.

Founded in 1935, Morgan Stanley is one of the world's pioneering international financial services companies, covering investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services. It has offices in more than 41 countries around the world and employs more than 70,000 people. It is one of the earliest Wall Street investment banks to invest in private equity in the Chinese market. Morgan Stanley Private Equity Fund's investment scope covers advanced manufacturing, consumer retail, health care, modern services and digital industrialization industries, especially in recent years, there are many deployments in the field of carbon neutralization and high-end manufacturing.

Xu Jun, managing director of Morgan Stanley, said that the new energy industry has entered a period of rapid growth from the embryonic stage, and the rapid development of the industry has become a deterministic opportunity. It is one of the key layouts of Morgan Stanley's private equity fund to join hands with outstanding enterprises in the domestic new energy and lithium power industry chain to go global. Hynn firmly adhere to the strategy of "focus and focus", which is highly consistent with Morgan Stanley Private Equity Fund's investment strategy of long-term investment and value investment. In the future, Morgan Stanley Private Equity Fund will rely on the Group's global resource capacity and continuous in-depth insight into the new energy and lithium power industry chain to fully support Hynn in terms of strategy, brand, market and capital operation, and support the sustained and effective development of Hynn.

Wang Shoumo, chairman of Hynn, said that Hynn would be stable and promising, maintain its strategic strength despite the turbulent external environment and cyclical fluctuations in the industry, adhere to Hynn’ s vision and mission, and use a clear strategy to drive orderly scale expansion, organizational construction and management improvement. With the full assistance of strategic shareholders and resources, Hynn will accelerate the promotion of global layout, improve the construction of technology and service centers in Asia-Pacific, Europe, North America and other places, consolidate the core advantages of R&D and delivery, and devote itself to providing local excellent services to global customers, so as to truly create value for customers and help them continue to succeed.

From the perspective of the industry, Hynn continue to obtain capital recognition, which is an epitomy of the development of the new energy industry. The global competition trend of the lithium power industry chain is clear, which also puts forward higher requirements for the participants' product and technology competitiveness, capital strength, global market resource capacity, and lean management of the whole process. The two-way choice between capital and enterprises will determine how much strength and strength enterprises will have to develop and change in the future. Undoubtedly, the support of Morgan Stanley Private Equity Fund for Hynn will help Hynn increase R&D and technology investment, deepen the total quality management system, enhance the competitiveness of products and solutions, and bring greater growth space for its global development.