Business card of Juhua New Materials Research Institute Co., Ltd.: Zhejiang Juhua New Materials Research Institute Co., Ltd., located in Qingshan Lake Science and Technology City, started construction in December 2012. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Juhua Group. The first phase was completed in July 2016 Put into use, with Juhua Group Technology Center as the main cooperation unit. On the basis of Juhua's rich chemical raw materials, the institute has established a professional laboratory with the main research directions of high-performance composite material research and development, polymerization simulation, fluorine material processing and application, and refrigerant compound application. It will form a collection of applied basic research, A comprehensive new material industrial base integrating application development, incubation and market expansion.
Behind the Juhua Institute of New Materials stands a giant——Juhua Group. Founded in 1958, Juhua Group is currently the largest advanced fluorine chemical manufacturing base in the country and the largest chemical base in Zhejiang Province, and has been selected as one of China's top 500 companies for many times. This is doomed to the starting point of the New Materials Research Institute, which is not ordinary.
Enterprises that have grown up from the market, always take the market as the highest criterion in the choice of research and development direction. Juhua New Materials Institute currently has four laboratories, among which Fu Huakang, the head of the High Performance Composite Materials Laboratory, is researching new materials that can improve the air quality in the car. He is currently cooperating with Geely Automobile and has started pilot production. It will be officially put into use in the second half of the year.
"In the past, people paid more attention to whether there were harmful gases in newly renovated houses. Now the awareness of environmental protection is getting stronger and stronger, and the sealed space in the car is also attracting more attention." The research results of Fu Huakang's laboratory are that after using their new materials, , A variety of volatile harmful substances released by materials in the car can be absorbed in large quantities, among which the most toxic formaldehyde and acetaldehyde are reduced by 80%, and benzene is reduced by more than 85%. According to Geely Automobile's corporate standards, the car's odor index is 10, and most of them are currently 5. After using new materials, the odor will be raised to 6. Low VOC, low odor, and light weight of automobiles are the mainstream trends, while the impact of new materials on the cost is only 5%, with low investment and significant effect.
Fu Huakang, who has been working in the enterprise research institute after graduation, has a strong scholarly temperament and a keen market vision. He said that this new material has a wide range of applications, and it is also suitable for home decoration in addition to car interiors, such as the filter element that can be used as an air purifier. "Many air purifiers on the market are expensive because of the filter element, and it costs 800 yuan to replace one. The new material we developed can cycle harmful gases into carbon dioxide and water, so that it can be used for a long time without replacement." They even considered using this new The use of materials in curtains has completely subverted the public's perception that air purification requires machine operation.
Juhua, which started from the chemical industry, is still overturning the perception that "the chemical industry is polluted". Currently, the fluorine material that the Institute of New Materials focuses on - chlor-alkali material is a green chemical material. Because of high performance and high added value, fluorine chemical industry is known as the gold industry abroad. The fluorinated chemical refrigerant foaming agent compound application laboratory of the Institute of New Materials is working to replace the refrigerant containing Freon in the refrigerator with a fluorinated chemical refrigerant. Freon is one of the culprits of the greenhouse effect, so its substitutes have been researched for many years. In this field, Juhua New Materials Institute has the world's top level-their air conditioners in the gymnasium of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games product.
Because of the scientific research strength of the Academy of New Materials, several strategic partners have been identified this year. For example, China High-speed Railway and Shanghai Commercial Aircraft Corporation intend to use fluorinated chemical refrigerants in air-conditioning in high-speed railways and aircrafts, and CNOOC also intends to use the research results of the Institute of New Materials for composite pipes for transporting oil and gas.
Juhua Institute of New Materials has already stood at the forefront of technological innovation. General Manager Wang Shuhua told reporters that with the rapid development of the Institute, the second-phase planning is in full swing. The large green space in front of the gate is the location of the second phase of the project, which will witness the transformation process of Juhua Group from basic chemical industry to new materials. “We will transform and develop towards high-end and high value-added applications, create a new carrier—an innovation center, conduct industry-university-research cooperation with famous universities in the province, become a first-class characteristic research institute and technology service provider, and serve as a strategic emerging The continuous and rapid development of the industry and the transformation and upgrading of traditional pillar industries provide technical support."