Grasp the industry trend, layout of new carbon fiber materials

1. Jilin Chemical fiber overview

Jilin Chemical Fiber, located in Jingkai District, Jilin City, Jilin Province, is a holding subsidiary of Jilin Chemical Fiber Group Co., LTD. The company was founded in 1960, in August 1964 was completed and put into operation, the initial production of viscose staple fiber. In 1993, Jilin Chemical Fiber Factory as the sole initiator, approved by the Jilin Province economic system Reform Committee, adopt the way of directional recruitment to set up a joint-stock enterprise. In August 1996, the company was listed in Shenzhen Stock Exchange. After listing, the company's business extends from viscose staple fiber to viscose filament. In December 2017, the company and Guoxing Materials signed the "Carbon Fiber Industry Cooperation Framework Agreement", officially involved in the field of carbon fiber carbonization.

1.1. Affiliated to Jilin Chemical Fiber Group, backed by Jilin City SASAC

According to the company's annual report for 2021, the actual controller is Jilin City SASAC, which actually controls 22.59% of the company's equity through its subsidiaries such as Jilin State-owned Capital Development Holding Group and Jilin Chemical Fiber Group, among which Jilin Chemical Fiber Group directly holds 14.67% of the company's equity.

1.2. Viscose filament faucet, focus to carbon fiber industry

Viscose filament is the company's characteristic product

The company's initial design capacity of viscose staple fiber is 100,000 tons/year, after process optimization and process reengineering, the current actual capacity has reached 120,000 tons/year. The company has about 80,000 tons/year of viscose filament production capacity, equivalent to one-third of the global production capacity, is the domestic viscose filament leading position.

The company shifted its focus to carbon fiber

Jilin is an important gathering area of China's carbon fiber industry, Jilin City brings together a number of enterprises involved in raw silk, carbonization and products. Jilin Chemical Fiber Group is the earliest enterprise involved in carbon fiber preparation in China. In recent years, with the breakthrough of equipment technology and polymer spinning technology, the civil carbon fiber industry of Jilin Chemical Fiber Group has begun to enter the fast lane. There is a process for the company to enter the carbon fiber industry. In December 2017, Jilin City Guoxing New Material Industry Investment Co., LTD., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jilin SASAC, signed a framework cooperation agreement with Jilin Chemical Fiber, transferring its 18% equity of Jilin Jinggong Carbon Fiber Co., Ltd. to Jilin Chemical Fiber. And promised to fully support the development of Jilin Chemical fiber carbon fiber industry, will be based on the development of Jilin City carbon fiber industry, Jilin chemical fiber industry carbon fiber extension, will hold part of the equity of carbon fiber industry enterprises to Jilin Chemical fiber.

In October 2021, Jilin Chemical Fiber invested 137 million yuan and transferred 31.00% equity of Jilin Baojing held by Guoxing New Materials on the basis of the basic assets method. In February 2021, the company announced that its subsidiary Jilin Kemike planned to invest in the construction of 600 tons of carbonized production line, mainly engaged in the production of 1K and 3K small filament tow special carbon fiber, and the first production line was successfully started on October 28, 2021. In July 2021, the company announced that Jilin Chemical Fiber led and Three Gorges Group built carbon fiber project in Songyuan, Jilin, and there is no further information update. In November 2021, Jilin Chemical Fiber plans to increase by no more than 1.2 billion yuan, invest in the construction of 12,000 tons of carbon fiber composite projects, and further expand the layout in the field of carbon fiber. Due to historical reasons, the controlling shareholder of Jilin Chemical Fiber Group's Guoxing carbon fiber also has some carbonization assets, in March 2022, the company announced that Jilin Chemical Fiber Group is a competition in the industry, and intends to complete the injection of Guoxing carbon fiber within 3 years.

1.3. Achieved a turnaround and a significant year-on-year increase in revenue

The main revenue of the company currently comes from viscose filament and staple fiber. In 2021, the company's viscose filament business contributed 2.2 billion yuan in revenue, accounting for 62% of the company's total revenue; In 2021, the company's viscose staple fiber business revenue totaled about 1.2 billion yuan, accounting for 33% of the company's total revenue. The rest of the company accounts for less than 5%. The majority of the company's current revenue comes from the Chinese mainland market. In 2021, the revenue of the Chinese mainland market accounted for about 63%, and the revenue of the foreign market accounted for 33.25%.

From 2017 to 2019, the gross profit rate of the company's main products increased steadily, and the comprehensive gross profit rate of the company's business reached 20.01% in 2019, but the comprehensive gross profit rate fell to 7.29% under the impact of the epidemic in 2020, and the gross profit rate of the company recovered to 8.88% in 2021 as the epidemic situation improved but the impact was still there.