“In February, during the maintenance of the production line equipment, it was discovered that 27 of the 28 nozzles installed on the company’s inkjet machines had been stolen, causing direct economic losses of more than 500,000 yuan.”A certain ceramics company in Gao’an Ceramics Base The business owner revealed to "Ceramic Information".
Since February this year, many ceramic companies in Gao'an production areas have experienced theft of ceramic inkjet nozzles one after another. As the core accessories of inkjet machines in ceramic production equipment, many nozzles are imported, and each nozzle is worth tens of thousands of yuan. More importantly, the theft of nozzles directly affects the normal use of inkjet equipment, and also seriously affects the future of the company. Resumption of work and production.
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Cumulative theft by criminal gang
Gaoan Ceramics has more than 80 nozzles for its inkjet machine
Yuan Jianxin, director of the police station of the Jiangxi Ceramics Industry Base Management Committee, said that after the incident, the Gaoan City Public Security Bureau attached great importance to it and ordered the criminal police brigade to set up a task force to organize capable police forces to tackle the case. Just before and after the Spring Festival, the investigators who were ready to take turns quickly entered the stolen factory area to investigate the case without taking a break. On February 20 this year, the Gaoan City Criminal Investigation Brigade formed an arrest team and went to Shandong, Guangdong, Hubei and Hunan provinces, successfully arrested 9 suspects including Xu and Yu, and recovered 14 stolen nozzles.
According to Yuan Jianxin, the suspects Xu, Yu, Song, Wu and others have all worked in ceramic factories such as Gaoan and Fengcheng and have a certain understanding of inkjet machines. Since July 2019, this group of criminal suspects has committed crimes at ceramic companies such as Gao'an Ceramics Base and Shinao Town, stealing more than 80 ceramic inkjet machine nozzles, worth millions of yuan. At present, nine people including the criminal suspect Xu have been criminally detained by the public security organs in accordance with the law.
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According to the ceramic company that reported the case, the theft team was very familiar with inkjet machines. They were technical service or inkjet machine supervisors or second-hand equipment agents in the factory. Among the suspects in the case solved this time, The inkjet machine supervisor of four ceramic companies in Gao'an.
It is understood that the theft of nozzles from ceramic enterprises in high-security production areas is no longer an isolated case. Previously, "Ceramic Information" also reported the theft of nozzles from enterprise warehouses.
"Each nozzle has a number, and the company has a number for new employees.The inkjet machine supervisor must register the equipment and hand over the equipment when leaving the company. At the same time, the replaced old nozzles must be recycled or destroyed to prevent criminals from replacing new nozzles with old nozzles or second-hand nozzles. "The person in charge of the company that reported the case said.
Chen Guanghui, president of the Gao'an Ceramics Industry Association, said that the theft of inkjet nozzles from Gao'an ceramic companies was definitely not limited to the two companies involved in the case. Similar cases have also occurred in Gao'an production areas and other production areas before. It is hoped that ceramic enterprises in the production areas can pay attention to this, strengthen management, and not give criminal suspects an opportunity to take advantage of it.
The theft of inkjet machine nozzles has also further sounded the alarm for the management of ceramic enterprises. Not only the expensive nozzles, but also other related hardware accessories of the ceramic production line should be strengthened. For ceramic enterprises of a certain scale, Dozens of millions of hardware accessories are purchased every month. If management is not in place, the losses to the company will be huge every year.
(The article is reproduced from Ceramic Information)
