In recent years, with the gradual rise of "replacing steel with plastic" and "replacing wood with plastic". With its excellent performance, engineering plastics have been widely used in the fields of electronics and electrical, automobile, construction, office equipment, machinery, aerospace, etc. In addition to the promotion of the trend of energy conservation and environmental protection, engineering plastics has become a fast growing field in the world's plastics industry. Its development not only supports the national pillar industry and modern high-tech industry, but also promotes the transformation of traditional industries and the adjustment of product structure.

According to a new report of Zui, the market demand for engineering plastics is still many times higher than that for ordinary plastics in recent years, and this trend will continue. Because of this trend, both domestic and foreign enterprises are optimistic about the market of engineering plastics, and are committed to developing engineering plastics with better performance to meet the market demand.

In the past 10 years, China's engineering plastics industry has made remarkable achievements. The average annual growth rate of the industry output value has reached more than 20%. The scale of the enterprise has continued to grow, and the level of science and technology has been improved to a certain extent. The technology and quality indicators of some products in China have also approached the advanced level abroad.

Xinda PEEK composite material has made a breakthrough

Recently, the research and development of Xinda PEEK composite products has made breakthrough progress, successfully completed the confirmation of composite formula and the research and development process of production process. The product has excellent purity and color, and its performance has reached the international advanced level. The successful research and development of PEEK composite materials has broken the long-term monopoly of European and American countries on the PEEK market, providing strong support for the development of China's PEEK composite material industry. Taking this opportunity, the company will focus on expanding to the downstream profiles to achieve the comprehensive development of PEEK composite material industry.

Although PEEK resin has achieved mass production in China, its quality has reached the advanced level of foreign similar products, and its price is significantly lower than the international market price, which has certain export competitiveness, there is still a large gap between domestic PEEK resin and the international level. First, compared with imported raw materials, the purity and color of domestic raw materials need to be further improved; Secondly, domestic raw material varieties are too single to produce multi varieties of special materials; Third, the processing of domestic downstream profiles is not matched, and different profiles such as pipes, bars and sheets cannot be produced for the market, which greatly restricts the application and development of domestic PEEK resin. Therefore, the research and development of high-performance PEEK composites is extremely urgent. The research and development of this material can solve the current situation that the top PEEK application field in China is under the control of people.

Compared with domestic enterprises, Mitsubishi Chemical is no inferior in the research and development of engineering plastics ™ Engineering plastics are used on the shell of the instrument panel of Raytheon, the first in Europe.

MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL BIO-BASED POLYCARBONATE WILL BE USED IN RENAULT'S INSTRUMENT PANEL HOUSING

On August 4, Mitsubishi Chemical announced that its new bioengineering plastic DURABIO ™ (Bio based polycarbonate) will be used as the instrument panel housing material of the French automobile manufacturer Renault's new Koleos. It is reported that the new Koleos is a new model released by Renault in June 2016. This is the first time that a European automobile manufacturer has introduced DURABIO ™ Plastics are used in vehicle production.

DURABIO ™ It is a new type of bioengineering plastic with isosorbitol extracted from plants as raw material. Compared with traditional engineering plastics, it has better heat resistance and impact resistance. In terms of optical performance, DURABIO ™ The performance of the product is remarkable, especially in brightness and transmittance. In addition, thanks to the outstanding hardness and stiffness, the material products can be put into use without any painting process.

On the visit to DURABIO ™ In terms of actual performance, Renault has made great efforts. The research results show that compared with traditional materials, DURABIO ™ It is better than others in aesthetics, technical performance and cost-effectiveness. Mitsubishi Chemical will also take this as a breakthrough and vigorously expand the European market.

In the next 10 years, China will gradually transform from a big manufacturing country to a strong manufacturing country, and the use of engineering plastics will become increasingly hot. In addition, under the pressure of cost, the market calls for the localization of materials will become increasingly high, which will bring unlimited business opportunities and broad application prospects to domestic suppliers, and promote the rapid development of the engineering plastics industry. At the same time, the huge market demand also drives the continuous progress of the industry. China's engineering plastics industry will enter a stage of rapid development, whether in materials and equipment, processing and molding, or application market development.