Di Qihuazhang, Striving For The New | Masterbatch Ecological Chain Technology Innovation Seminar And Baolidi Strategy Conference Successfully Held

A Suzhou city, half of Jiangnan poetry. On May 20, "Di Qihua Zhang, Walk towards the New - Masterbatch Ecological Chain Technology Innovation Seminar and Baolidi Strategy Conference" was held in the ancient city of Suzhou. The event was hosted by Suzhou Baolidi Material Technology Co., Ltd. and co organized by China Chemical Fiber Industry Association.

Vice President of China Textile Industry Federation End small flat President of China Chemical Fiber Industry Association Chen Xinwei Former Vice President Zhao Xiangdong , General Manager of China Textile Asset Management Co., Ltd Fang Na Director of Color Masterbatch Professional Committee of China Dyestuff Industry Association Qiao Hui President of BOPET Special Committee of China Plastics Processing Industry Association Yi Zhilong Chairman of Suzhou Baolidi Material Technology Co., Ltd Xu Yiming General Manager Jiang Zhiyong , as well as more than 400 representatives from domestic institutions of higher learning, industry associations, upstream and downstream enterprises of the textile chemical fiber industry chain, terminal brands, media, etc., attended the conference to witness the development achievements of Baolidi, discuss the technological innovation path of masterbatch ecological chain, and look forward to the new future of sustainable development of the industry. Vice President of China Chemical Fiber Industry Association Jin Gaoling Host activities.

Picture | Jin Gaoling

Gather wisdom and empower to build a new future of master batch ecological chain

At present, the textile industry is facing the dual challenges of global competition and green transformation. The Action Outline for Building a Modern Textile Industry System of China Textile Federation pointed out that the industry should be promoted to become a technology driver, fashion leader and sustainable development practitioner. "In this process, Baolidi has provided a solid support for the high-quality and green development of the industrial chain with high-quality, functional and green master batch products." Duan Xiaoping, Vice President of China Textile Industry Federation Expressed in his speech. From an industry pioneer to a benchmark enterprise in the field of chemical fiber masterbatch, Baolidi has formed a unique development gene of technology excellence, management people-oriented, and two-way rush of employees and enterprises by virtue of its focus on "doing one thing in life" and its corporate philosophy of "being an enterprise is like being a person, and it is important to be honest and practical". He expects that Polidi will continue to play a role as a benchmark, deepen the cooperation of the industrial chain, and welcome the future with an open and win-win attitude.

Figure | End Xiaoping

As a national strategic emerging industry, new materials are also the core support for the upgrading of the "Made in Suzhou" industry and the key area of high-tech competition. Suzhou Xiangcheng Economic Development Zone, centering on Suzhou's "1030" industrial system and Xiangcheng's "3+3+X" industrial system positioning, continues to lay out new materials, new energy, intelligent equipment and other industrial tracks, with the industrial scale exceeding 10 billion. As a leader in the field of master batch materials in China and a local scientific innovation benchmark in Xiangcheng, Baolidi has developed from a "small workshop" to a listed leader, and now has six subsidiaries, five major production bases (including overseas bases in Turkey). Its products have been exported to more than 20 countries, and has successively won the national level specialized and new "little giant" enterprise and national level intelligent manufacturing pilot demonstration, National chemical fiber industry application innovation enterprise and other honors, participated in the formulation of 23 standards, and won 91 domestic authorized patents. With advanced technological achievements such as "original liquid coloring", Baolidi has broken the international monopoly and led the industry reform, injected "green kinetic energy" into the textile, automobile, electronics and other industries, and achieved the synergy of "one enterprise with one chain, and one chain with one city".

Strategic pilotage, start a new journey for Baolidi

Masterbatch is the upstream key functional material for chemical fiber production. For example, it can be added to chemical fiber raw materials through specific processes, giving it advantages such as high spinnability, stability, color fastness and adaptability, and driving the green and functional development of chemical fiber industry; The development of chemical fiber industry has provided application scenarios and market space for masterbatch, and the demand of fiber for color masterbatch has maintained rapid growth for many years.

Picture | Xu Yiming

　　 Xu Yiming, Chairman of Baolidi He said that as a product with a green label, the master batch conforms to the global carbon neutral trend. After decades of development, the industry has constantly improved its technological leadership, accelerated the substitution of localization, and broken through the monopoly of imported technology. However, there are still structural contradictions and challenges of technology and environmental protection in the current master batch market.

"As a member of the master batch ecological chain, Baolidi has the mission of promoting the high-quality development of the master batch ecological chain. We always adhere to the forefront of the industry, adhere to the innovation and green concept, break through the technical bottlenecks of color master batch, water-based nano color paste and provide customers with diversified, green and high-end products. Especially in the field of textile chemical fiber, its masterbatch is widely recognized by the market and customers. ”Xu Yiming further said that Baolidi has always been keeping pace with the times, constantly promoting the continuous iterative upgrading of master batch technology, realizing the transformation from start-up to industry leader, attracting more high-quality partners, significantly improving the company's market share and brand influence, and laying a solid foundation for Baolidi's long-term development.

Figure | Participants jointly witnessed the "launching ceremony of Baolidi's development strategy"

Based on the strategic research and judgment of industry development, Xu Yiming released the company's development strategy report. For the next strategic cycle, Baolidi's strategic positioning is to be a leader in green technology, an innovator in functional materials, and a collaborator in industrial ecology. In the future, the company will rely on intelligent layout, talent introduction and R&D innovation to achieve green, functional and industrial upgrading and development. "In the future, Baolidi will firmly stick to the development and production of basic new materials, adhere to reducing the environmental footprint, adhere to promoting the circular economy, adhere to the research and development of sustainable innovative materials, and adhere to the cooperation of the green value chain. Baolidi will work with industrial chain partners to create a sustainable future," said Xu Yiming.

Figure | Donghua University&Baolidi Joint R&D Strategic Cooperation Agreement. The two sides plan to cooperate with school and enterprise to build "Baolidi Donghua University Functional Fiber Masterbatch Technology Joint R&D Center". The two sides will establish a long-term mechanism to further promote the development of fiber masterbatch products and enhance market competitiveness through the linkage of industry, university and research. This platform will serve as a high-end technology industry incubation base.

Technological innovation, enabling new impetus for industrial upgrading

At the meeting, six speakers focused on the innovation, application results and development direction of masterbatch technology in the functional, green, intelligent and other dimensions, and demonstrated the potential of collaborative innovation and upgrading of masterbatch and upstream and downstream industrial chains through interdisciplinary and cross domain thinking collision.

Picture | Tao Kang

　　 Tao Kang, President of Baolidi Functional Materials Research Institute The innovative masterbatch products released by the company are introduced. Baolidi focuses on the core technology of masterbatch with "technology as the basis and quality as the anchor", covering five major sectors: chemical fiber, film, photovoltaic film, plastic and ink slurry. Among the newly released products, the chemical fiber masterbatch has achieved both color and function leadership. The extra black masterbatch has achieved professional dyeing effect by virtue of nano dispersion technology. The weather resistance of the high color fastness masterbatch has exceeded grade 4, and it will not fade in outdoor for two years ; Function masterbatch launched more than 20 varieties of graphene, flame retardant, heating, etc. In the film master batch, MLCC base film opening master batch solves the flatness problem, breaking through the high-end monopoly of Japan and South Korea; Plastic masterbatch realizes process innovation with liquid master batch technology, and supports customized production of antioxidants, flame retardants, etc; Environmental protection and innovation of ink paste go hand in hand, and flexible electronic ink, water-based environmental protection series, 3D printing UV paste are launched to adapt to polyimide film, vehicle mounted display screen and other emerging fields.

Figure | Kim Ping Sik

　　 Jin Pingshi, Director of the Photothermal Control Nano New Materials Business Department of the Yangtze River Delta Advanced Materials Research Institute Focusing on the application of inorganic nano ceramic materials in functional masterbatch, especially the new nano materials for photothermal control. From the evolution of fiber clothing from nature to synthesis and the scientific principle of beauty and warmth preservation, that is, three spectral lines (three bands of ultraviolet, solar radiation and earth radiation) and two atmospheric windows, he introduced the new nano ceramic polymer composite material to achieve full band photothermal tailoring; The application and effect of titanium oxide, cesium tungsten bronze and other series of functional masterbatches and related products in fiber, agricultural film, window film and other fields are described based on three wave bands and atmospheric windows.

Picture | Wang Huaping

Functional masterbatch for fiber is one of the important means of chemical fiber flexibility technology, and an important solution to realize small batch, differentiated and functional production of fiber, which can support the realization of value of terminal fiber products. Wang Huaping, Director of Key Laboratory of Fiber and Products, Ministry of Education, Donghua University The development trend of new masterbatch materials for functional fibers is introduced in detail. He pointed out that using color masterbatch to produce raw dye fiber can reduce wastewater and COD emissions in downstream weaving links, achieve energy conservation and emission reduction from the source, and is an inevitable choice for efficient and flexible production of raw dye fiber. According to relevant statistics, 200 tons of water can be saved and 8630 kilowatt hours of energy consumption can be reduced by using color masterbatch to produce 1 ton of stock solution colored fiber.

At present, there are still some key technologies that need to be broken through in the industry of functional color masterbatch and yarn for fiber: masterbatch and color paste production need to overcome the technology of pigment surface modification, functional additives coordination and compounding, and focus on the color matching and color control of high concentration masterbatch, high temperature, high pressure, high shear stability and homogenization technology, develop online detection technology, and reconstruct the standardization system, Realize large-scale production, etc. In the future, functional fibers will develop in the direction of extreme functions (such as cool and heat shielding fibers challenging the limits), responsive functions (such as light response sterilization antibacterial integration), functional safety (such as sanitary materials, medical materials, etc.), functional intelligence integration, efficient multi-function, etc. Functional masterbatches need to meet these needs.

Picture | Zhang Zhenjie

　　 Zhang Zhenjie, Professor of Nankai University, Founder and Chief Scientist of Yaoke New Materials (Suzhou) Co., Ltd The properties and industrialization progress of covalent organic framework materials (COFs) were introduced. COFs It is a new kind of adsorption and separation material, also known as homoporous resin, which is a super adsorbent. It can directionally enrich or purify target substances through "molecular screening or capture". It has the advantages of high chemical stability and thermal stability, high specific surface area, uniform and adjustable pores, and structure design. It has broad application prospects in new energy, biomedicine, semiconductor and other fields. In 2023, Baolidi and Zhang Zhenjie jointly set up Yaoke New Materials, which will break through the bottleneck of mass production by relying on the melting green synthesis method, and take the lead in achieving COFs ton production (BET>1800 square meters/g) in the world. Its technology has attracted extensive attention internationally. In the next few years, the compound annual growth rate of covalent organic skeleton materials is expected to be 30.6%. It is estimated that by 2029, its scale in the global market will reach 700 million dollars.

Figure | Wei Bing

　　 Wei Bing, Assistant Professor, School of Information, Donghua University In "AI+ New materials: how the intelligent system reconstructs the chemical fiber industry ecology "pointed out in the report that the traditional chemical fiber industry is faced with problems such as difficult development, long time consuming and poor effect, while the fiber agent technology realizes the data self evolution (real-time iterative optimization) by building a general, professional and enterprise database, enabling the whole process of intelligent development, production, quality control, sales, promotion and application. In the development of new products, with the help of AI to simulate material performance, match the best formula, and combine experimental verification and economic evaluation, a closed loop of "data-driven research and development - intelligent optimization production - market feedback iteration" can be formed, which will promote the chemical fiber industry to be more efficient, intelligent, and green, break through the bottleneck of traditional research and development and production, and improve industrial competitiveness.

Figure | Dong Stabilizing

　　 Dong Hengli, Senior R&D Manager of Clothing Materials of 361 Degrees (China) Co., Ltd We shared the "masterbatch technology enables innovative development of sportswear brands". He pointed out that the size of China's sports shoes and clothing market has continued to grow, forming a "tripartite confrontation" pattern of international giants, local head brands and emerging niche brands. Consumers' demand for functionality, personalization and environmental protection has increased, but the industry is facing challenges such as product homogeneity, difficulty in balancing function and beauty, and needs to achieve differentiated breakthroughs through material innovation.

Based on this, Dong stabilized the core role of masterbatch: color masterbatch realizes "zero dyeing" coloring through high temperature melting technology to improve color uniformity and production efficiency. For example, Anta "Champion Dragon Clothes" uses high-quality color masterbatch to solve the problem of mutual dyeing; Functional masterbatches endow the fabric with cool feeling, sunscreen, antibacterial and other characteristics. For example, many domestic brands are developing multi-functional fabrics through these masterbatches. "In the future, masterbatches will be developed in the direction of compound functionality, ecological environmental protection and customization. We will help upgrade the sportswear industry through collaborative innovation in the industrial chain."

At the same time of the meeting, Polidi specially organized an innovation open day activity and planned a static exhibition area, which covers textile chemical fiber, film manufacturing, automobile and household appliances, from going deep into the front line, directly attacking master batch production, testing process, intelligent storage, to entering the research institute, to appreciate the deep collision between cutting-edge technology and industrial demand, to the centralized appearance of diversified master batch and other product matrices Multi field application scenarios, such as outdoor clothing, not only built a zero distance communication platform between enterprises and customers, industry partners, so that the guests can deeply feel the innovative strength of Baolidi's whole chain "from production to research and development, from product to application", but also agglomerate industrial consensus with an open attitude, injecting new vitality into promoting the coordinated development of the master batch ecological chain.

(Source: China Chemical Fiber Industry Association)