Focus on fiber greening to help achieve the goal of "double carbon"

China Net finance July 13 news (reporter Cao Zhongyuan) Chemical fiber industry as the cornerstone of China's textile industry, the scale of growth, innovation and development, the status is crucial. In recent years, as a leading enterprise in the fiber industry, Xinxiang Chemical Fiber Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as Xinxiang Chemical Fiber) has proposed to build a vision of "the leader of China's green textile industry" and "the pioneer of China's green textile industry ecosystem", centering on the development strategy of "strengthening the main industry and extending the industry", constantly increasing scientific and technological innovation, focusing on fiber manufacturing, and continuing to develop competitive industries. In order to promote the high-quality development of China's chemical fiber industry and help the realization of the national "double carbon" goal, a steady stream of "egret" power is injected.

China.org.cn: High-quality development cannot be achieved without scientific and technological innovation. How is your company's performance in industrial innovation, especially in scientific and technological innovation?

Xinxiang Chemical Fiber: The company adheres to "innovation leadership, digital empowerment, green transformation", takes independent innovation ability as the core competitiveness of the enterprise, and the intensity of technological transformation and project research and development investment has increased year by year. In 2022, the company carried out 50 research and development projects, and invested 460 million yuan in research and development, and added 62 new authorized utility model patents throughout the year. Make good use of five research and development platforms, such as the Bailu New Materials Research Institute, postdoctoral research workstation, and Henan Chemical Fiber Engineering Technology Research Center, committed to creating the "birthplace" of fiber key core technologies, the "gathering place" of green innovation resources, and the "booster" of scientific research achievements transformation, so that the leading ability of recycled cellulose filament and spandex industries will continue to improve.

Xinxiang Chemical Fiber through technological innovation to achieve production iteration upgrade, the company has developed and has independent intellectual property rights of the new continuous spinning machine, with a number of innovative results and core technology, efficiency increased by more than 30%. The production capacity and equipment level of the company's continuous spinning recycled cellulose filament are among the top in the world. Xinxiang Chemical Fiber and Zhengzhou COSCO cooperation research and development of high-efficiency spandex fiber production line, won the first prize of China Textile Science and Technology Progress, spandex core technology and equipment with high consistency spandex polymer technology and equipment, the use of near infrared online monitoring, advanced control system (APC) control polymer molecular weight and molecular weight distribution, It can meet the different requirements on the aggregation structure of spandex fiber in dyeing, shaping and post-processing of weaving. The spinning technology adopts high-density spinning and high-speed winding technology, and the spinning speed can reach 1000m/min or more. It has the advantages of "waste recycling" and "gas centralized treatment", and the waste recycling efficiency is 99%.

With the goal of "single equipment automation, intelligent production line, intelligent comprehensive management", Xinxiang Chemical Fiber has carried out strategic cooperation with China Mobile, China Electronics, Shanghai Jiaotong University and other units to actively promote the company's intelligent digital construction.

China.org.cn: At present, China's cellulose fiber raw materials are highly dependent on imports, which poses a potential threat to industrial safety. What preparations or measures does your company have in terms of import substitution?

Xinxiang Chemical fiber: With the decline of the world economic situation, prominent resource problems and the introduction of the national 3060 plan, enhancing the safety level of the industrial chain has become a topic of concern for the whole industry. Xinxiang Chemical fiber continues to explore the full green product production system, is committed to non-wood raw materials bio-based fiber exploration and research, has carried out bamboo, bamboo willow, straw and other pulping research, 2022, Xinxiang chemical fiber will focus on the fungal grass technology inventor Lin Zhanxi research, fungal grass cellulose content is high, is the ideal non-wood fiber raw materials, Xinxiang Chemical Fiber carried out the first research on the green textile technology and comprehensive utilization of fungus, mastered the full set of technology from a grass to a silk, and declared a number of invention patents such as fungus pulp and fungus fiber. At the same time, it combined with Dalian Institute of Chemical Compounds of Chinese Academy of Sciences to carry out comprehensive utilization of three elements to realize the industrial application of the whole body.

Xinxiang chemical fiber "grass instead of wood" provides a new type of green and healthy textile raw materials for the cellulose industry, and broadens the source of raw materials for the industry. Moreover, the products made of fungus grass have natural antibacterial properties and can be naturally degraded, reflecting a new type of fiber that is fashionable, healthy and green. Xinxiang Chemical fiber applied fungus to the biomass fiber industry, and also achieved a new breakthrough in the textile of fungus, which helps to enhance the enthusiasm of farmers to grow fungus, provides support for the national rural revitalization strategy, and can also contribute to the realization of the national "double carbon" goal.

China.org.cn: The chemical fiber industry is an industry with high energy consumption and high pollution in the eyes of the public. Does your company have any experience worth promoting in the field of energy conservation and emission reduction?

Xinxiang Chemical fiber: Man and nature are a community of life, and green development has become a global consensus. Compared with the countries that have realized modernization in history, the modernization process of our country is facing greater constraints on resources and environment. As a highly globalized industry and closely related to people's lives, the green development of China's textile industry has been receiving global attention. Green transformation is the realistic choice and the only way for the industry. Xinxiang Chemical fiber regards green as the most beautiful background color describing the development results of enterprises, explores new technologies and new equipment for energy conservation and environmental protection, improves the comprehensive utilization rate of energy, and applies biological treatment technology to the treatment of low concentration large gas containing sulfur exhaust gas. Focusing on improving the recycling rate of water resources, we independently developed the first two-stage membrane acid wastewater recovery technology in China, reducing the amount of fresh water produced by 4.5 million tons per year. Xinxiang Chemical Fiber also continues to explore the path of green and low-carbon industrial development, the use of roofs, parking lots and other Spaces to build photovoltaic power generation projects, so that these roofs become "own flow" power plants.

In 2021, Xinxiang Chemical Fiber took the lead in announcing the carbon neutral vision plan in the industry, launched the zero-carbon product development plan, focused on the development of green new products, and created a safe ecology of the green fiber industry. Xinxiang Chemical Fiber and China Textile Science Research Institute jointly developed the "domestic Lyocell fiber industrialization complete set of technology and equipment research and development" broke the foreign green fiber production monopoly, the production process is green and environmental protection; The "Research and industrialization of Key technologies for the production of ionic liquid regenerated cellulose fiber" project jointly developed by the company and the Institute of Process Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is a subversive innovation in the regenerated cellulose filament industry, and the current annual output of 100 tons of test line has been stable operation; Based on the launch of BaiLu-ECO filament products, the first zero-carbon regenerated cellulose filament products were developed in 2022. As one of the first enterprises to join the China Waste Textile recycling Industry Alliance, the company has comprehensively promoted the research and development of waste textile recycling and recycling, and recycled the hotel linen. The company has also made breakthroughs in the new solvent spinning project of recycled cellulose fiber developed in cooperation with Southwest Jiaotong University. The company is striving to achieve green production in fiber manufacturing. In 2022, Xinxiang Chemical Fiber won the title of "National Green Factory Demonstration Enterprise".

China.org.cn: The "One Belt, One Road" initiative proposed by China has been responded by many countries along the route, and has also provided a strong opportunity for domestic enterprises to go out and create a double domestic and international cycle. What is the result of your company in foreign trade?

Xinxiang Chemical Fiber: The company is one of the earliest export enterprises in the industry. Since 1993, it has successfully opened the international market with high-quality products and high-quality services. The products are exported to more than 40 countries and regions such as Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea and India, and the annual export volume accounts for more than 50% of the total output and about 45% of the total export volume of the industry. Xinxiang City is a major import and export.

Since the "Belt and Road" initiative was proposed, Xinxiang Chemical Fiber strives to become a pioneer in the development of the "Belt and Road" economic belt, and Turkey, India and Pakistan are the three countries where the company's products are mainly exported. At the same time, the company actively participates in domestic and foreign textile industry exhibitions, so that more countries can understand and recognize the "egret" brand. Nowadays, Xinxiang Chemical Fiber also pays close attention to the African market dynamics and strives to create new economic highlights in the African textile market.

As the first RCEP approved exporter in Henan Province, Xinxiang Chemical Fiber has been engaged in close trade with South Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and other RCEP member countries. In particular, with the entry into force of RCEP, Xinxiang Chemical Fiber has further consolidated its trade cooperation with these countries.

China.org.cn: What are the company's current core competitive advantages? Mainly reflected in what aspects? What is the future development trend of the chemical fiber industry? What are the layouts?

Xinxiang Chemical Fiber: The company focuses on the development strategy of "strengthening the main business and extending the industry", focusing on fiber manufacturing and continuing to develop advantageous industries. Each project construction is not a simple scale expansion, but an iterative upgrade. Production process equipment is constantly upgraded, new technologies and new equipment are installed in the company, and there are still updated technical reserves, so that the company and even the development of the industry have great room for development.

The company takes the development of intelligent manufacturing as an important measure to promote structural transformation and kinetic energy conversion, from the production line to the product, from the process to the process to achieve the "number intelligence", so that the enterprise has more sufficient power to develop in the transformation of old and new kinetic energy.

The textile industry is one of the five leading industries in China in the world, and the goal of becoming a powerful textile country has been basically realized. China's fiber processing volume accounts for more than 50% of the world's total, chemical fibers account for more than 70% of global production, and the industrial scale ranks first in the world, becoming the core force supporting the smooth operation of the world's textile chemical fiber industrial system.

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's chemical fiber industry will comply with the tide of "green development", increase the development of recycling and reusing chemical fibers, and increase the development of biodegradable chemical fiber products. At the same time, it is necessary to increase the intensity of machine replacement and continue to improve the level of intelligent manufacturing.

Xinxiang Chemical fiber will also follow the green, high-end, digital, brand, international development trend of the textile industry, through the guidance of innovation, carefully layout filament, spandex advantageous industries to develop in the green direction, accelerate the research and development of more functional and differentiated new products, and improve the level of high-performance fiber production and application. Accelerate the development of bio-based filament and green spandex. We will further accelerate intelligent and digital transformation and promote the digital transformation of enterprises.