Bayer Materials: Technology Creates a Better Life

BaiExclusive interview with Mr. Nicholas Smith, General Manager of Global Textile Coatings Business of Ear Material Technology

Recently, Bayer MaterialScience, the world’s leading supplier of high-tech polymer solutions, announced that its latest textile coating production line was officially opened at Bayer Shanghai Polymer R&D Center. The general manager of Bayer MaterialScience’s Global Textile Coatings Business, the head of Bayer Polymer R&D Center and the senior management of Santex Group, a major equipment partner, all attended the inauguration ceremony.

Event launch ceremony
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The global headquarters of Bayer MaterialScience’s textile coating business is located in China, which proves that Bayer MaterialScience attaches great importance to the Chinese textile market. During the event, Mr. Nicholas Smith, General Manager of Bayer MaterialScience’s Global Textile Coatings Business, accepted an exclusive interview with the media on Bayer MaterialScience’s company innovation, product technology and global textile coating market.
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Speech by Mr. Nicholas Smith
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It is understood that, as the inventor and market pioneer of polyurethane technology and water-based polyurethane, Bayer MaterialScience and Technology started in Germany and has been committed to the promotion and application of new technologies for many years, investing and developing production capacity in the field of PUD (water-based polyurethane dispersion) It has been more than 30 years; in order to strengthen the comprehensive cooperation with the textile industry and provide innovative textile coating materials with waterborne polyurethane technology, Bayer MaterialScience has invested in new research and development in the Leverkusen laboratory in Germany and the textile coating laboratory in Pittsburgh, USA facilities to enhance the capabilities in the field of textile coatings from product chemical synthesis innovations to the development of new generation eco-textile coating solutions.
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Talking about the characteristics of the product technology application of this production line, Mr. Nicholas Smith said, “To understand the purpose of this production line, it must be clear that Bayer itself does not produce PU synthetic leather or textiles. This production line is mainly for Copy the customer’s production environment, and hope to test any new materials we develop to ensure that such materials can better meet customer needs; at the same time, we hope that before a new material is promoted on a large scale, end customers can have face-to-face contact See, and through this model, we can cooperate with textile manufacturers and PU leather manufacturers to ensure that our customers can make rectifications in a timely and convenient manner without affecting their current production lines.” When asked about the advantages of Bayer’s new products compared with similar products such as polypropylene and PVC, Mr. Ni Gule believes that compared with PVC or other materials, polyurethane can produce higher-quality synthetic leather, which is durable, soft Compared with other materials, it has advantages in terms of durability and light weight, and it also has a greater degree of freedom in product design.
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As we all know, polyurethane materials and PUD have excellent performance, but the production cost is relatively high. In the face of the rapid growth of demand in the Chinese market, how Bayer balances the gap between the higher production cost and the reality, Mr. Ni Gule explained, first of all, to measure the advantages of polyurethane over other materials is not limited to the cost comparison, but also to consider Value, compared to other materials, being able to succeed in different application fields depends on the value brought by advanced technology, if there is no value, it is meaningless. In fact, the price of the product is not determined by the polyurethane manufacturer, but will ultimately be determined by the market or the product produced by the end customer; secondly, after any new application technology is launched, the production scale will be relatively small, and the production capacity will be relatively small. Therefore, the cost of new products is relatively high, but as the market matures, the scale of production expands, and the products are widely used, the cost will gradually decrease in the future.
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Regarding the application cases of Bayer textile coatings in the market, Mr. Ni Gule specifically mentioned the upcoming World Cup in Brazil. He introduced that the footballs used in this year’s World Cup are all produced by Adidas, and the coating, including the final assembly of the entire football, uses Bayer MaterialScience’s technology. “We are very proud of this. After repeated verification, our technology has made more customers trust us, and we also look forward to more applications like this in the future.” Ni Gule also emphasized that Bayer Group has many The invention is a company based on innovation and invention. The core of Bayer MaterialScience is innovation, which is also the DNA of Bayer. Bayer is full of confidence in future development.
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According to statistics, the carbon dioxide emitted by the entire textile industry has reached 100 million tons, and 20% of the world’s water pollution comes from this industry. Industrial pollution has already had a certain impact on the natural environment and human life. Faced with such challenges, a reporter mentioned how Bayer MaterialScience views the future development prospects of the textile coating business in the Chinese market. Mr. Ni Gule said that 90% of the world’s synthetic leather production is in China, and the future development goals of the textile industry must be further improved. one�� To reduce the impact on the environment and people; including the use of chemicals, water resources and energy; through the technology and global layout of Bayer MaterialScience, it can help all links of the textile coating value chain to develop globally Do better within.
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“This is why there is an urgent need to use more new materials for the textile industry, which is especially important for Chinese manufacturers.” Mr. Ni Gule finally emphasized.
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