Shandong: Cultivating and Introducing Strong Chain, Supplementing Chain, and Extending Chain Projects to Promote the Development of New Material Industry Clusters
On September 20th, in the central control room of Lianhong New Materials Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Lianhong New Materials") in Lunan High tech Chemical Industrial Park, Tengzhou City, the staff were operating in an orderly manner. Jin Linlin, the director of the production management center, was closely monitoring the changes in production parameters on the large screen. With the distributed control system in the central control room, the enterprise achieved automated production, and only 8 workers were needed on a production line to achieve a daily production capacity of about 500 tons.
Under the national "dual carbon" strategic goal, renewable energy such as photovoltaics is experiencing explosive growth, and corresponding key materials in the photovoltaic industry such as EVA (ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer) are in short supply. Lianhong New Materials is one of the mainstream suppliers of EVA photovoltaic film materials in China. In the first quarter of this year, the company's EVA equipment completed a capacity expansion and renovation project, which is the first domestic project to increase the production capacity of EVA photovoltaic film materials by adding a tube method to the production of EVA based on the kettle method. ”Chen Changhai, General Manager of the Production Management Center of the company, said that after the renovation, the production capacity of the EVA device has increased by about 20%, the production of photovoltaic film materials accounts for about 80%, the energy consumption per unit product has been reduced by about 25%, and the long-term stable operation of the EVA device has been guaranteed.
New materials are the foundation and guarantee of advanced manufacturing, as well as a key area of competition in high-tech industries. Our province's "2022 Action Plan for New Materials Industry" proposes that the R&D investment of key new materials enterprises should account for more than 5% of their operating income. By the end of 2022, there will be about 300 new high-tech enterprises in the field of new materials, bringing the total to about 2600. Deepen the implementation of the hierarchical cultivation action for technology-based enterprises, and promote the "quantity and quality" dual promotion of technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises and high-tech enterprises in the field of new materials.
Recently, the new carbon nanotube project of Shandong Dazhan Nanomaterials Company located in Zouping City is accelerating. The project is expected to produce 20000 tons of new carbon nanotube products annually - high-performance conductive paste, which can effectively enhance the performance of lithium batteries and help the development of industries such as new energy vehicles. At present, we have accumulated a large amount of technology and experience in catalyst preparation, process technology, and industrial equipment development, including product development, engineering design, and process control, forming the core competitiveness of the enterprise. Relying on the technical reserves of multiple generations of carbon nanotube products, we have developed product dispersion and application technologies that can provide downstream customers with overall technical solutions in different application fields
In the increasingly fierce competition in the field of new materials, early strategic layout not only enhances the resilience of the industrial chain, but also improves its competitiveness. New Energy Phoenix (Tengzhou) Energy Co., Ltd. is separated from Lianhong New Materials by a wall and provides methanol raw materials to Lianhong New Materials. In March last year, Lianhong New Materials fully acquired the company, further extending the industrial chain upstream. At the same time, leveraging the advantages of both parties' proximity, efficient mutual supply of public works was achieved, further reducing operating costs and improving the competitiveness of the industrial chain.
At present, the second phase of the Weihai Lingang District Carbon Fiber Industrial Park project is rushing to meet the construction deadline. At the beginning of the construction of this project, 13 enterprises were eager to make reservations, and there were many "golden seed" projects such as aerospace composite materials that were about to enter. After all of them reach production capacity, it is expected that the annual output value will reach 5 billion yuan.
What attracts these high-end projects to settle down is the chain leader enterprise of Weihai Lingang District's new materials industry - Weihai Expanded Fiber Co., Ltd. As the first private enterprise in China to engage in carbon fiber research and industrialization, Weihai Expanded Fiber Co., Ltd. has already broken through the key technology of third-generation carbon fiber. Cong Zongjie, General Manager of Weihai Expanded Fiber Co., Ltd., said, "Standing at the node where the conversion of old and new kinetic energy is beginning to show results, new materials will be more widely used. We still need to focus on the serialization and scale of carbon fiber production, provide customized production services to domestic customers, and achieve the joint creation of value for the company and customers
Innovation in the field of new materials can bring about changes in the industrial landscape. In recent years, Weihai Lingang District has relied on the leading enterprise in fiber development to build the first government led carbon fiber industrial park in China, covering an area of 3000 acres, with high standards. It integrates resources such as "government, industry, academia, research, finance, and services" and comprehensively promotes the coordination of the "five chains" of industry chain, supply chain, innovation chain, talent chain, and capital chain. At present, Weihai Lingang District has gathered more than 60 high-end scientific research platforms and carbon fiber midstream and downstream industrial chain projects from both domestic and foreign sources. Under the leadership of the carbon fiber industry, Weihai Lingang District has also cultivated new material enterprises such as advanced polymers, functional glass, high-end alloys, and new building materials.
Shandong highlights the leading and pillar role of emerging industries, enhancing the sustainable innovation and development capabilities and competitiveness of industrial clusters. The 2022 Action Plan for the New Materials Industry proposes to establish around 10 billion level industrial clusters and 2-3 billion level industrial clusters with global influence in the province, promoting the formation of a number of new materials industry clusters with outstanding location advantages and distinctive industrial characteristics, and cultivating and upgrading more than 20 leading enterprises in clusters. (Reporter Meng Lingyang, Zheng Li, Jiang Bin)
Information source: Dazhong Daily
