Recently, the bio-based furan polyester fiber, a joint project between Zhongke Guosheng and Tongkun New Materials Research Institute, was successfully tested. This pilot test is an important node of the project and a key step for bio-based furan polyester to open up the application fields of chemical fibers and textiles.
Zhu Wei, vice president of Tongkun Group, said that with the advancement of dual-carbon work and the introduction of relevant national policies, the development of bio-based materials has become an unstoppable trend. As a leader in the polyester fiber industry, Tongkun actively advocates upstream and downstream cooperation with the bio-based industry, promotes the development of the bio-based furan polyester fiber industry in the form of win-win cooperation, and contributes to achieving carbon reduction and emission reduction, and realizing a green circular economy. own strength.
Zhang Yu, president of Zhongke Guosheng, said that as a giant chemical fiber company, Tongkun Group’s deployment of bio-based furan fiber is bound to create new market hot spots. Due to its molecular structure, bio-based furan polyester has unique properties in the fiber field. As a leading company in the development and industrialization of furan-based bio-based materials, Zhongke Guosheng has reached a strategic cooperation with Tongkun Group this time based on the global reduction of A profound understanding of the continuous upgrading of carbon is also an inevitable choice to promote sustainable development. We will carry out pragmatic cooperation in many aspects, form complementary advantages, seek technological breakthroughs through continuous innovation, and look forward to realizing the new miracle of bio-based furan polyester fiber.
In December 2022, Zhongke Guosheng and Tongkun New Materials Research Institute officially signed a strategic cooperation agreement to jointly develop bio-based furan polyester fibers. After half a year of small trials and more than ten batches of polymerization and trial spinning tests, the spinnability of bio-based furan polyester PEF has been basically verified.
“Although the process was somewhat tortuous, the success of driving the car made more than a month of hard work worthwhile. This also marks the most solid step in the industrial application of bio-based furan polyester in the direction of fiber”, Tong Kunxin Dr. Xu Yuan, head of the bio-based furan polyester fiber project of the Institute of Materials Science and Technology, commented this way.
The next ten years will be a critical decade for the development of the bio-based furan polyester industry. Zhongke Guosheng and Tongkun New Materials Research Institute hope to open up the technical route of biofuran polyester in the fiber and its application industry through in-depth cooperation and lay a solid foundation for subsequent industrialization. Zhongke Guosheng has always believed that bio-based furan polyester, as an emerging track, needs more technical and like-minded industry partners to join in, continuously innovate production technology, consolidate the industrial foundation, and work together to realize the realization of furan-based bio-based polyester. Common prosperity of the polyester industry.
What is PEF
Bio-based furan polyester (PEF) is a type of polyester obtained by polymerizing 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) as a diacid monomer. As a 100% biomass monomer, FDCA can be obtained from corn and non-food crops, It is extracted from biomass raw materials such as straw and sawdust. In 2004, it was labeled by the US Department of Energy as one of the most valuable bio-based platform chemicals in the 21st century. Because of its aromatic heterocyclic structure, it is also considered to be the most likely substitute for Aromatic biobased monomer of phthalic acid. In the “14th Five-Year Plan” scientific and technological development guidance for the textile industry, the country also clearly lists furandicarboxylic acid and polyethylene furandicarboxylate fibers as key common technologies that need to be broken through during the “14th Five-Year Plan”. At present, the application of bio-based furan polyester is mainly concentrated in food and beverage packaging and medical consumables that have high requirements for barrier properties and heat resistance. It is still blank in the fields of chemical fibers and textiles.
About Zhongke Guosheng
Zhongke Guosheng was established in 2021. It is a company with
With the vision of “changing life with biomass”, it is a bio-based materials design and development company dedicated to building a bio-based materials industry chain. The founding team all graduated from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and have nearly 20 years of research foundation and industrialization experience in the fields of biomass catalytic conversion and furan material design and development. At present, the company has completed the process from biomass to derivatives. The construction of the polymer R&D team ensures the cutting-edge nature of the company’s product research and development and the feasibility of end products.
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