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Who would have thought that a company that made fishing rods would break Japan's technological blockade and make technological breakthroughs in the field of carbon fiber.
In 2005, the carbon fiber developed by the mainland Guangwei Group passed the national acceptance, you must know that before that, the mainland's military scientific research department spent decades without overcoming the barriers in this technical field.
So, what's going on? How do mainland fishing rod companies break through the carbon fiber problem?
China's carbon fiber conundrum
Carbon fiber is a kind of extremely high-strength fiber with a carbon content of more than 90%, which has a variety of characteristics such as high temperature resistance, corrosion resistance, and wear resistance, and is an important material used to make some precision electronic instruments and aerospace instruments.
However, carbon fiber is quite difficult to make. Because it has a very small diameter and a strength of more than 400% of aluminum alloys, only those industrial powerhouses can produce carbon fiber.
The United Kingdom, the United States and other Western countries have accumulated at least 150 years in this field of technology.
Back in 1879, Edison created carbon fiber.
However, the performance of the carbon fiber he made at that time was relatively poor, but it could be regarded as laying a foundation for the scientific community in various countries.
After the 50s of the last century, with the continuous development of rocket and aerospace technology, the demand for high-strength materials has also increased rapidly, so the United States, the Soviet Union and other countries have developed carbon fiber materials that can be used in aerospace.
After the 60s of the last century, Japan also followed suit and developed carbon fiber materials, but the mainland basically did not achieve much in this field of technology.
In the 90s of the last century, China's economy and science and technology have developed to a certain level, and our demand for carbon fiber, a high-precision material, has increased significantly.
After all, if you want to engage in aerospace, you almost must use carbon fiber materials, so the mainland has invested a lot of money and scientific research into carbon fiber research and development projects.
However, in more than 20 years, the development speed of China's domestic carbon fiber has been very slow. Because it takes time to develop carbon fiber in the true sense, and scientists on the mainland have not waited for this opportunity.
Therefore, in desperation, the mainland's scientific research department decided to turn to private technology companies for help. It is hoped that we can get the support of private scientific research forces to make domestic carbon fiber.
However, when China's scientific research department began to open bidding to the private sector, it was found that a company called Guangwei Group, which specializes in the production of fishing rods in mainland China, had developed carbon fiber as early as 2004.
When Guangwei Group handed over its carbon fiber products to the relevant departments, experts in the military industry did not believe that Guangwei Group could really make carbon fiber.
But after they conducted a series of scientific tests on the products produced by Guangwei Group, they found that they did make high-strength carbon fiber that meets the standards, which is a very shocking news.
The mainland's military scientific research departments can get the most policy support, the most financial support, and the best scientists, but it has not taken decades to make carbon fiber that meets the standards.
Guangwei Fishing Rod Co., Ltd. asked for money and no money, but it only took a few years to produce carbon fiber.
This incident is enough to prove that the wisdom of the Chinese people is extraordinary. So, how did Guangwei Group develop carbon fiber?
Unintentionally planted willows and willows
Guangwei Company, which produced carbon fiber materials, was indeed a fishing rod company at the beginning. It was founded in 1995 and has since produced a large number of carbon-based fishing rods.
The fishing rods produced by Guangwei Group are essential tools in the hands of many compatriots who like to fish, but the fishing rods produced by Guangwei Company have been very expensive for a long time. After all, their carbon fishing rods are made with a lot of carbon fiber imported from Japan.
The high price of these materials, and the very limited production in Japan, directly limited the expansion of Guangwei's own commercial territory.
In the beginning, Guangwei had limited shipments of fishing rods, so the amount of carbon fiber imported from Japan was sufficient.
However, since 1997, as Guangwei's reputation has spread, it is impossible to meet the manufacturing needs by relying only on a small amount of carbon fiber imported from Japan.
Therefore, Chen Guangwei, the boss of Guangwei Group, directly ordered them to pay for carbon fiber themselves.
In 1998, Guangwei Group spent a lot of money to introduce a carbon fiber pre-impregnated dyeing production line from Japan, but Japan was unwilling to sell the core technology, so Guangwei Group's R&D personnel could only conduct reverse research on the basis of finished products.
From dismantling to mass production, Guangwei took six full years, but it is gratifying that Guangwei's carbon fiber has been successfully developed, and Guangwei fishing rod has become the first enterprise in China to have its own carbon fiber production technology.
However, at this time, Guangwei used all these valuable carbon fibers to make fishing rods.
They didn't expect that these carbon fibers could also be used in the space shuttle, and even in the continent's new generation of fighter jets.
Later, after the state discovered the foundation of Guangwei Group in materials science, it provided a series of policy support.
Guangwei Group itself is also very competitive, in 2005 established Guangwei Composites, this enterprise is focused on the design and development of new carbon fiber.
In the following ten years, Guangwei Group has achieved quite a lot of technological breakthroughs, so that the mainland's carbon fiber technology has gone from zero step by step to the world's advanced level.
You must know that although Guangwei Composites has successfully made carbon fiber, at the beginning, their carbon fiber material was only T300 grade, which is simply the low-end product of high-strength carbon fiber.
Generally speaking, the higher the number that follows, the stronger the carbon fiber. Therefore, in 2004, Guangwei Company only initially entered the field of carbon fiber technology.
However, in the following ten years, Guangwei Composites has made a lot of breakthroughs on the basis of their own research on the basis of carbon fiber under the strong support of the state.
In one go, it broke through the three barriers of 700, 800, and 1,000, and made a high-end carbon fiber of the T1100 level, which is an achievement worthy of applause.
Because there are currently only two countries in the world that can produce T1100 grade carbon fiber, one is Japan and the other is China.
Therefore, Guangwei Group has made China's carbon fiber technology a world-leading level. Nowadays, the mainland's carbon fiber can be sold all over the world, and even Americans want to buy China's carbon fiber.
The future of China's carbon fiber can be expected
As the world's largest industrial country, as long as we achieve a breakthrough at the technological level, we can transform technology into physical objects in a short period of time, so we have the ability to produce carbon fiber on a large scale.
After Guangwei Group came up with reliable carbon fiber products, we relied on our own industrial system to produce a large number of carbon fibers with quite good quality and obvious advantages in price compared with the United States, Japan and other countries.
These carbon fibers quickly seized the international market, and even the United States and Japanese are now buying Guangwei Group's carbon fibers. In various aerospace instruments produced in the United States and Western countries, the carbon fiber produced by Guangwei Group can also be seen.
At present, Guangwei Composites is the top carbon fiber technology company in China, and enjoys a reputation even in the world. As a listed company, Guangwei Composites has a total market value of 18.5 billion yuan.
In 2023, Guangwei Composites' net profit will be 869 million yuan, although it is 6.98% lower than the same period in 2022, but this profit level is still very good.
What's more, Guangwei Group attaches great importance to the research and development of new carbon fibers. Until now, they have insisted on spending about 7 to 10 percent of their company's revenue on the development of new technologies.
It is conceivable that it will not be long before we can see Guangwei Composites make another breakthrough in carbon fiber technology, and make a higher strength carbon fiber with a grade of more than T1100.
From the example of Guangwei Group, we can also see that when engaging in scientific and technological research and development, it is not enough to rely only on scientific research laboratories and state-owned enterprises supported by the state.
In the past, most of the scientific and technological achievements of the mainland were obtained by scientific and technological research institutes with national backgrounds, or military research institutes.
This was mainly due to the limited level of economic and social development in China at that time, so the resources that could be provided to these scientific research institutions were quite limited.
But the situation is no longer the same, China, as the world's second largest economy, has a large number of technology companies in the Chinese market.
These technology companies have talents and funds, so the speed of scientific and technological research and development of Chinese private enterprises is not slow, and even in some technical fields, they can achieve unexpected surprises.
Because although most military scientific research departments have a large number of top technical talents, there may be a shortage of low-end talents.
After all, these scientific research departments are secret, and their security level is very high, and not everyone can enter these scientific research institutions to work.
However, the situation of those private technology companies in the mainland is completely different, and there are not so many restrictions on private technology companies, and they can cooperate with other companies when they are engaged in scientific and technological research and development.
In such a situation, there may be a situation where quantitative change leads to qualitative change. Maybe when these scientists from private companies can make a huge breakthrough in a certain technical field through a brainstorming session, this kind of thing has not happened.
Therefore, if the mainland adopts the strategy of integrating military and civilian science and technology development, and if a small number of state-owned enterprises with extremely strong scientific research capabilities or military scientific research departments take the lead, and bring a large number of civilian enterprises to overcome those technological difficulties, China's scientific and technological strength may be maximized.
After all, we have known for a long time that unity is strength.
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