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Current status of carbon fiber development
Release date: [2018/7/6] Read total of [504] times

Compared with traditional industries, carbon fiber high-tech enterprises have high thresholds, high investment and high risks. However, the market is large, the profits are high, the prospects are good, and the state encourages them. Due to the optimistic development prospects of the industry, in recent years, a large amount of domestic capital has poured into this industry. After nearly ten years of hard work, China's carbon fiber industry has presented a preliminary understanding of the doorway, preliminary technical research, and initially has the industrial scale, the initial level, and initially meets the needs of the national economy and social development.

Technical bottleneck: it is necessary to explore each other and coordinate

Needless to say, the backwardness of technology is the root cause of the lack of competitiveness of domestic carbon fiber. For the time being, it is not difficult to produce carbon fiber. It is difficult to release the production capacity and achieve stable production in terms of product stability and cost acceptability. To achieve the above goals, the urgent problems that need to be solved are:

1. How to ensure the quality of the product from the optimization of manufacturing equipment.

The transition from a non-standard production line to a standard production line is a prerequisite for product quality. The debugging of the process parameters needs to be realized by the manufacturing equipment. The process parameters are input on the controller. There are several rollers on one tractor. The speed must be adjusted well. The key is micro-vibration. The almost undetectable vibration will affect the performance of the product. Dry-jet wet spinning process, the distance between the spinneret and the liquid surface is very strict, and the liquid level fluctuation will affect the solidification effect.

2. How to accurately guarantee the quality of the product from the process parameters.

The process parameters are the lifeblood of domestic carbon fiber. It is necessary to really set the heart to study each of these parameters. The defects caused by one parameter are not many, but many parameters are not optimized, and the final carbon fiber is worse than 100,000. Also, if we want to optimize these many parameters, we need a huge pilot program. Who can have funds to support these experiments? In order to make products as soon as possible, they are constantly compromising and compromising, but the result is not good products.

3. How to ensure the quality of the product from stable and uniform production.

Many of our companies are able to make carbon fiber known as T300 level, T700, T800, T1000 level, but not too uniform. A fiber should be of uniform diameter, uniform phase, and each segment of fiber is the same as the entire fiber, and the strength is within a certain range. A section of fiber is taken from different places on a fiber, and if they are relatively uniform in strength, they are good fibers. This is a footstep, and our efforts are worse here.

Due to foreign technology blockade, technological breakthroughs in the development of carbon fiber industrialization are the first problems that every enterprise must face. Not only the foreign blockade, the technology of the domestic and provincial carbon fiber companies are also groping and blocking each other. Due to technical and technological problems, various enterprises have paid a heavy tuition fee and spent a long time. The process of mass production and industrialization has been severely constrained. At present, although some carbon fiber enterprises have initially mastered the industrial production technology of T300 grade carbon fiber, they have basically mastered the industrial production technology of T700 grade carbon fiber. However, because the carbon fiber production line is a few hundred meters, it is extremely complicated. The parameters such as temperature, humidity, speed and strength can affect the quality of carbon fiber precursor and carbon filament. Compared with developed countries, we still have a small gap in the stability, reliability and economy of our products. The industrialization technology of high-end products is still blank. In order to speed up the localization of carbon fiber and shorten the lactation period of carbon fiber enterprises, it is recommended that the national or provincial development and reform commission, the science and technology department, and the relevant universities establish a technical collaborative research team to make breakthroughs in key technical problems that restrict carbon fiber enterprises. Each key carbon fiber enterprise Leading one of the main challenges, after the attack, benefit sharing.

Market development: both military products and market promotion

The survival and development of carbon fiber enterprises requires the market. However, for the moment, the market for civilian markets such as rail transit and automobile energy has not yet been formed. Almost all domestic carbon fiber is striving for some military projects to support enterprise development.

However, in addition to the characteristics of the general market economy, military products include the pursuit of economic interests, the allocation of market rules such as price mechanism and competition mechanism, and its industrial attributes. The government's control over the defense industry determines that the military supporting market is limited. In the competitive market, enterprises want to enter the military market are faced with a series of obstacles. Carbon fiber enters the military supporting market and faces barriers such as licensing qualification, long-term verification of entering models, and asymmetric information of military demand. The supply demand cannot digest the production capacity of enterprises. .

Compared with the civilian products, the service capacity of military enterprises and institutions is weak. At the same time, the military accessory market is a buyer's monopoly market. The supporting party's bargaining power is weak, and the product pricing is low, which leads to the weakening of supporting facilities. Therefore, for the military supporting market, it is necessary to carry out innovation activities with the enterprise as the core, and reduce the barriers to the military supporting market, especially the introduction of private enterprises, which will help to establish a military-inclusive and perfect military supporting capability.

The military supporting facilities are only part of the supply of carbon fiber enterprises. The digestion and release of the remaining production capacity must rely on a wide range of civilian markets, so entering the civilian market, the development of civilian products must be the top priority for carbon fiber enterprises.

Steady development: not only the quality of production but also the loss of consumption

Carbon fiber enterprises are attracted by the demand for new materials, and because of the encouragement of the national industrial policy, they have attracted capital investment. They know that there are tigers in the mountains and prefer to go to Hushan. While improving quality, production is also rising. However, because of the multiple monopoly of technology and market and price in foreign countries, the problem of cost solving is even more difficult than the previous technical problems.

In the past, due to the military value of carbon fiber, Western countries have been very tight against China. In the past, it was mainly for the technical blockade of China, not transferring technology, not selling equipment, but in China, with independent research and development to overcome the difficulties of production technology and production equipment, and the process of localization of carbon fiber, manufacturers in Japan and the United States began to price. Make a fuss about the suppression of my carbon fiber industry, causing widespread losses in the industry and facing a huge crisis of survival.

According to industry insiders, when we hear that China needs some kind of carbon fiber but cannot produce it by itself, foreign manufacturers will hit a high price. When China's product quality and sales have improved, they will dump the market at low cost without cost. Carbon fiber companies are forced to cut production and stop production so that they cannot reduce costs and improve quality in continuous large-scale production.

The cost can be solved, and the fundamental problem can not be solved simply by energy conservation and consumption reduction. This requires the national, provincial and local governments to help each other, and provide corresponding supporting funds to help carbon fiber enterprises cultivate the Guyuan and spend the winter.

Be stronger and bigger: it is necessary for enterprises to work hard and government support

The development of carbon fiber new materials industry, funding support is one aspect, the government's support can start from many aspects of industrial layout and industrial policy. The practice of Shandong Weihai is worth learning from some provinces and cities.

The new materials industry is a strategic emerging industry with the state's key support for development. The “Made in China 2025” plan takes new materials as the top ten high-end areas for breakthroughs. It is inspired by the experience of Shandong. It is necessary for the country, the province and the city to be fully integrated. While implementing relevant national and provincial support policies, we will carefully analyze and study the five major bottlenecks in the process of carbon fiber industrialization, and research and develop a series of carbon fiber industrialization policies in the areas of financial support, financial security, talent introduction, and environmental creation. The development provides more targeted guarantee services, realizes one park and one policy, one enterprise and one policy, and builds a win-win situation, making the carbon fiber industry a new world for China's future industrial development.