Anchor the new direction of high-quality development! Polyurethane Industry Association Annual Conference and Industry Development Forum ended successfully

March 23-24, by The 21st Annual Conference of China Polyurethane Industry Association and the 2023 China Polyurethane Industry Development Forum, the largest information and technology exchange event in China’s polyurethane industry hosted by China Polyurethane Industry Association, was grandly held in Shanghai. More than 400 leaders, representatives and experts from the upstream and downstream of the polyurethane industry chain visited the site in person to discuss the development of the industry and market, exchange scientific research and technical achievements in depth, and jointly draw a blueprint for the development of the industry.

Through generations, decades have passed day and night With the deep cultivation of the land, my country’s polyurethane industry has achieved a series of brilliant achievements in many fields. Today, China has become the world’s largest polyurethane production and consumption region, and has made outstanding contributions to promoting global economic and social development. However, the increasingly fierce competition and the blind pursuit of scale and extensive expansion in the market have brought the industry to a development bottleneck. In addition, the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was successfully held, which clarified the new direction of promoting high-end, intelligent, and green development of the manufacturing industry, and advocated the construction of a number of new growth engines such as new materials, high-end equipment, and green environmental protection, pointing out for the polyurethane industry new direction. In the face of opportunities and challenges, China’s polyurethane industry is turning its efforts to pursue efficiency and quality, and it is the general trend to move towards intensive growth and high-quality development.

This conference is based on “high quality industry With the theme of “New Development Direction”, exchanges will be carried out around the development status and future development trends of polyurethane, petroleum and chemical industries. Focus deeply on the challenges and opportunities brought by the national industrial policy and the international environment to the polyurethane industry, actively explore the development prospects of downstream applications, and clarify the main theme of innovation and sustainable development of the polyurethane industry.

Yang Maoliang, Chairman of China Polyurethane Industry Association In the video speech, three suggestions were put forward for the future development of the industry. The first is to resolutely implement the innovation-driven development strategy; although my country’s polyurethane industry has made many brilliant achievements, there is still a significant gap in innovation capabilities compared with multinational companies. At this stage, insisting on innovation and development is still the top priority in the industry. The second is to resolutely implement the strategy of strengthening the country by quality; the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China emphasized the promotion of new industrialization, accelerating the construction of a manufacturing power, and a quality power. Create a high-quality industry image. The last is to resolutely promote the sustainable development of the industry; during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, the polyurethane industry should implement the new development concept of innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing, adhere to the innovation-driven and green development strategy, and promote the healthy and sustainable development of China’s polyurethane industry .

Lv Guoguo, Secretary General of China Polyurethane Industry Association Make a report on the work of the association at the conference. He said that since the “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan”, my country’s polyurethane industry has entered a period of technological improvement with low-speed growth and high-quality development. The production technology level of main raw materials and products has been continuously improved, and industry investment has remained active, but consumption growth has slowed down. Therefore, the new stage should focus on supply-side structural reforms, vigorously promote technological innovation and green development of the polyurethane industry, strengthen corporate brand building, and maintain the safety of the industrial chain. It can be seen from the report that China Polyurethane Industry Association has been serving Industry development, guiding industry innovation, advocating industry self-discipline, and promoting government-enterprise exchanges have made many outstanding contributions, and achieved good results in steady progress.

The General Assembly deliberated and voted to approve the “China “Polyurethane Industry Association Charter” (after decoupling), and held the awarding ceremony of China Polyurethane Industry Association Engineering Technology Center. Zibo Chia Tai Polyurethane Co., Ltd. and Jiangsu Mesid Chemical Co., Ltd. were awarded the Amino-terminated Polyether Engineering Technology Center and Auxiliary Engineering Technology Center respectively.

In this forum, more than 20 invited leaders, experts, business representatives and scholars brought wonderful reports. At the beginning of the forum, Tian Fenglan, chief expert of Beijing Oriental Yuhong Waterproof Technology Co., Ltd., made a brief speech. She said that 2023 is a critical year for the country’s 14th Five-Year Plan, and now it is a new stage of development under the economic growth and dual-carbon strategy, which puts forward new requirements for the high-quality development of the polyurethane industry. Discussing the opportunities and challenges of the polyurethane industry under the dual-carbon strategy, talking freely about new technologies, new demands and new ideas for development, and focusing on the impact of national industrial policies and the international economic situation on the polyurethane industry are the cornerstones for jointly promoting the healthy and rapid development of the industry.

China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation Industry Weng Hui, an expert from the Energy Conservation and Low Carbon Division of the Ministry of Development, shared the development opportunities and challenges faced by the petrochemical industry under the background of carbon peak and carbon neutrality, and introduced in detail the “carbon peak carbon neutral 1+N policy system” and related development planning measures , detailing the low-carbon key work direction of the petrochemical and chemical industry. She said that technological innovation (green hydrogen, plastic recycling, CO₂ resource utilization), optimizing industrial structure, strengthening carbon emission statistics and accounting, building a carbon trading market, building a double carbon standard system, and improving plastic The industrial value chain is an indispensable part of the industry’s low-carbon transformation.

Aiming at downstream application fields, each representative also Shared visionary insights. Zhang Jianxin, Dean of Shunde Furniture Research and Development Institute, summarized and shared his experience in the home furnishing industry for more than ten years. He believes that only by adhering to the concept of environmental protection development, adhering to the market demand as the foundation, and adhering to the survival of the enterprise as the starting point can we Invincible forever. Regarding the synergy between the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, he said: “The home furnishing industry and the polyurethane industry should not only pay attention to their own upstream and downstream, but also need to pay attention to the upstream and downstream of the upstream, and truly rely on technology and environmental protection. direction, with the terminal market as the fundamental, to promote mutual benefit and win-win for both parties.”

Chen Shihua, Deputy Secretary General of China Association of Automobile Manufacturers Shared the economic operation of the automobile industry in 2022 and the forecast for 2023 with Xiangshi data. He pointed out that the market scale of my country’s new energy automobile industry has continued to grow, and its production and sales have ranked first in the world, which is an achievement that has attracted worldwide attention. However, the problems facing supply chain security and layout have become increasingly prominent, chips are still facing structural shortages, and international competition is fierce, all of which cannot be ignored. To maintain the advantages of my country’s new energy vehicle development, we must face up to the shortcomings, make efforts to improve independent innovation, actively seek international cooperation in the commercial field, and at the same time cooperate with government and enterprises to optimize the industry’s early warning capabilities and avoid unnecessary losses.

Some forum experts introduced the current industry in depth Domestic emerging technologies and related scientific research achievements. Among them, Wu Yiming, vice president of Hongbaoli Group, introduced the green preparation technology of propylene oxide by CHPPO method. He said that the continuously optimized and upgraded CHPPO technology has the advantages of safety and greenness, high quality, high return on investment, low investment, low unit consumption, and low cost, and has broad development prospects. Manager of Bolanzhi Coating Equipment (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. Zhuang Jing introduced a new generation of variable ratio gear pump foaming spray equipment, and detailed its revolutionary breakthroughs and updates.

China Material Recycling Association fiber composite material regeneration Zhang Rongqi, Secretary-General of the Branch/Foam Material Recycling Committee, introduced the development and market situation of polyurethane polymer material recycling technology, and briefly analyzed the problems existing in this field, and clarified the development goals of polyurethane recycling and resource utilization products.

Finally, Professor Jiang Zhiguo from Beijing University of Chemical Technology shared The new applications of polyurethane materials in many large-scale projects such as petroleum engineering, highway transportation, high-speed railways, and water conservancy projects were introduced, and the relevant technical principles, technical indicators, and market capacity were introduced in detail.