"Golden Industry" is hard to use

In view of the current deficiencies in the excess capacity of low-end products in the fluorine chemical industry and disorderly competition and lack of high-end product innovation capability, the industry is focusing on the research of industrial innovation-driven development and strives to achieve breakthroughs in the areas of fluorine-containing fine chemicals and equipment technology development. This is the information China Chemical News reporter learned from the national fluorine chemical industry innovation and development forum held in Sanming, Fujian on June 26th.

According to the China Fluorine-silicon Organic Materials Industry Association, fluorine chemical products have been widely used in various fields, especially emerging industries, in recent years. However, the current industry's ability to independently innovate is weak, the imbalance between industry and product structure, and the mode of development with quantity has come to an end. According to the development requirements of the national “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” new materials industry, a large-scale, independent innovation capability and industry supporting fluorine material industry system must be established in the fluorine chemical industry to cultivate a batch of backbone enterprises with core competitiveness. A group of industrial bases with reasonable layout, distinctive features, and industrial clusters. At present, there is still a big gap.

Yan Yongsheng, chief engineer of Fujian Hailan Chemical Co., Ltd., said that with excellent performance, fluorinated industrial products have become an important field in the chemical industry with rapid development, high technological content, and promising prospects, and they are known as the “gold industry”. The data shows that the annual average consumption of fluorine chemical products in the world has increased by about 4% in recent years, while the growth rate in China has exceeded 15%. At present, China's fluorine chemical industry is in trouble. The reason is that the basic research and applied research of high-end products are weak. China's fluoride salt has been developed for more than 50 years. At present, the production capacity of industrial grade aluminum fluoride, ammonium hydrogen fluoride, potassium fluoride, sodium fluoride and other bulk products is seriously excessive, while electronic grade, toothpaste grade and optical grade fluorine chemicals are foreign. The company's technical barriers, a serious shortage of domestic supply, fluorine-containing fine chemicals market has broad prospects.

The person in charge of Tuofu (Inner Mongolia) Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. stated that domestic companies use low value-added fluorine intermediates as raw materials for export, while foreign large companies enjoy high value-added and excess profits for high-end products. In this regard, the State shall formulate special plans for the development of the fluorine chemical industry, authorize the establishment of industry ** in this field, match the proportion of national financial equity investment, and give priority to the enterprises with mineral resources to lay a solid foundation for the industry.

The technological development of fluorinated worker-related equipment lags behind the technological development of the process, causing concern. Sheng Shengrong, General Manager of Dingsheng Chemical Technology Co., Ltd., Shengzhou, Zhejiang Province, proposed that the fluorine chemical related equipment must have innovations, and must implement the four goals of precision, miniaturization, modularization, and intelligence. For this reason, cross-industry cooperation must be carried out, and the disciplines should be involved. Research and development. Chemical equipment manufacturing companies must cooperate with enterprises with precision machining capabilities; miniaturization and modular design must involve materials disciplines, machinery manufacturing, chemical engineering and other multi-industry joint participation; intelligent software design, computer applications, sensor design, etc. Cooperation in many fields.

Cheng Pengying, director of the Economic and Trade Committee of Sanming City, believes that the industry chain layout and high standards for attracting investment in the source chain of the park construction are effective ways to achieve the high-end development of fluorine chemicals. Relying on the abundant fluorite resources in the region, Sanming City will introduce deep-processing enterprises and promote the serialization of local fluorine chemical industry through the development of inorganic fluoride salts, fluorine-containing refrigerants, fluorine-containing polymer materials, and fluorine-containing fine chemicals industrial chain. Cluster development.

China Fluorosilicone Organic Material Industry Association also stated that in the second half of the year, it will select key regions and companies to carry out investigations to comprehensively grasp the industry issues, understand the causes, characteristics, and trends of excess capacity, and propose measures to promote the transfer, upgrade, and solution to the overcapacity contradiction.