The Yunnan Johnchester Flexible Automation Equipment Co is a privately owned hi-tech enterprise, recognized by Yunnan provincial science and technology department. The company focuses on product developments of robot and vacuum handler technologies, as well as technology R&D in the tobacco, timber, metallurgy, chemical engineering, and packaging industries. It acquired 10,000 square meters of land in the zone's Majinpu area, in early 2013, to build a R&D base, expected to be put into use next year. The company has developed rapidly since 2013, with annual sales expected to reach 50 million yuan($8 million), from tobacco, pharmaceuticals, food, beverages, chemical engineering, metallurgy, and machinery manufacturing.