Provincial Industrial Technology Research Institute Pilot 36 Scientific and Technological Achievements Landing "Gold"

　Have you ever seen plastic as hard as steel?

　　The resin raw materials are mixed with different kinds of materials, and then additives are added, heated to a molten state, and after extrusion, cooling, drying, vibration and other processes, a package of gray special engineering plastic particles is produced in less than 3 minutes.

　　On April 19, the reporter walked into Hebei Huami New Material Technology Co., Ltd., located in Renze District, Xingtai City, and picked up a piece of aircraft engine parts made of this plastic particle - A4 paper size, thin, and almost no weight was felt when you checked it.

　　"The same volume of special engineering plastics, the weight is about one-sixth of ordinary steel, corrosion resistance, high strength and other properties can be comparable to ordinary steel, and insulation, lightweight and other properties far exceed ordinary steel, is an excellent material in the aviation field. Li Zangxu, general manager of the company, told reporters that in the past, this special engineering plastic product has long relied on imports, with a long procurement cycle and frequent supply interruptions, and they will finally overcome this key technology in 2023 after thousands of tests.

　　Huami New Materials, which started by making rubber seals, why can it develop high-end plastics that break the monopoly?

　　"As a county-level enterprise, we have limited economic strength and weak technical strength, which makes it difficult for us to undertake major scientific research projects. Li Zangxu introduced that the turning point appeared in 2021, with the approval of the Provincial Department of Science and Technology, the Hebei Provincial Special Rubber and Plastic Industry Technology Research Institute, jointly established by Huami New Materials and the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other units, was officially put into operation.

　　Once the platform has been built, it must also have the ability to develop sustainably.

　　In July last year, Hebei Province organized a pilot project of the Industrial Technology Research Institute, coordinated the transformation of major scientific and technological achievements in the province, scientific and technological research and development platforms, technological innovation system construction and other special plans, guided and supported 11 pilot research institutes to accurately meet the needs of enterprises, and played a leading role in industrial innovation benchmarking. Hebei Province has arranged a total of 66 million yuan of special funds, which will be funded in accordance with the ratio of 1:1:1 between provinces, cities (counties) and research institutes, and 6 million yuan for each research institute.

　　Hebei Special Rubber and Plastic Industry Technology Research Institute is one of the pilots, and the special fund is like a "timely rain". "The R&D process is too 'money-burning'. Zhang Heguang, president of the research institute, said that the difficulty of research and development of special plastics lies in the modification of domestic resins, the combination and proportion of different materials, will produce different effects, there is no experience to follow in China, in order to find the "secret recipe", they can only produce while research and development, a formula test, the cost is as high as more than 100,000 yuan.

　　After several months of unremitting efforts, two special engineering plastic products, polyetherimide (PEI) and polyetheretherketone (PEEK), have been successfully developed, which are 30% cost saving and 50% weight reduction compared with existing metal materials.

　　Since the start of the pilot, a number of research institutes in Hebei Province, with the support of government guidance funds, have gathered scientific and technological forces of government, industry, academia and research to jointly solve common key technical problems in the industry.

　　Hebei Vanadium and Titanium Industry Technology Research Institute relies on Chengde Vanadium and Titanium New Materials Co., Ltd. to develop a new green manufacturing process of high-purity vanadium oxide by ion replacement method with completely independent intellectual property rights......

　　In addition to tackling key technical problems, the pilot work of the provincial industrial technology research institute has also added a "fire" to the transformation and implementation of scientific and technological achievements.

　　Manual vibrometer, contact angle measuring instrument, precision length measuring machine...... Walking into the Hebei Bearing Industry Technology Research Institute, a 4-storey small building is inconspicuous, but it has gathered many high-end R&D equipment and experimental platforms.

　　"Last year, we invested nearly 1 million yuan to buy new equipment and rebuild the pilot plant. Guo Jinjie, president of the Provincial Bearing Industry Technology Research Institute, introduced that through the pilot plant, the innovative technology completed by the laboratory was further matured and improved, and put into use on the production line of the enterprise. At present, they are cooperating with North China University of Technology to jointly carry out the pilot development of special bearings for industrial robot live gear frame reducer, which is expected to achieve mass production in 2025 and increase sales by 50 million yuan annually.

　　Hebei Provincial Institute of Pure Iron Materials and Application has developed castings for the application of localized high-speed train gearboxes, large ship diesel engine bodies and cylinder heads, saving at least 3 billion yuan of raw material costs for application enterprises every year; The Provincial Institute of Chinese Medicinal Materials and Health, together with the Chinese Medicinal Diet Research Association, has developed a healthy nutrition package and a hypoglycemic product, Astragalus Oral Liquid, and the sales of new products have reached 3 million yuan......

　　Up to now, the pilot units of the provincial industrial technology research institute have condensed a total of 62 scientific research projects, obtained 47 patents, and developed 52 new products and technologies, of which 36 scientific and technological achievements have been "golden".

　　One end is connected to scientific research, and the other end is connected to the market, and 11 provincial industrial technology research institutes are also actively building public platforms to provide technical services and drive the common development of upstream and downstream enterprises.

　　Since last year, Hebei Robot Industry Technology Research Institute has vigorously promoted the construction of shared manufacturing plants, and many robot enterprises have gathered in a shared manufacturing plant of about 10,000 square meters.

　　"The shared manufacturing factory has built a robot parts processing center and a warehousing and logistics center, with 800 sets of software and hardware equipment and more than 240 R&D personnel. Li Zhanxian, president of the Provincial Robot Industry Technology Research Institute, introduced that the factory provides small and medium-sized robot enterprises with prototype trial production and the first (set), the first order product development and other services, has served 127 enterprises, and realized the synchronous jump of the robot industry chain, supply chain and innovation chain.

　　Hebei Provincial Institute of Advanced Manufacturing and Remanufacturing Industry Technology has provided testing and certification services for 13 remanufacturing enterprises in Hejian, such as generators, starters, compressor end covers, with a total of 72 testing items, and the Provincial Institute of Edible Fungi has trained 50 professional and technical brokers and 100 high-quality industrial farmers, participated in more than 300 services such as "seeking medical treatment" for enterprises, and distributed more than 6,000 technical manuals...... Up to now, 11 pilot research institutes have provided various innovative services for upstream and downstream enterprises 152 times, and trained 2,743 high-skilled technical personnel through technical exchange meetings and training courses.

　　"Next, we will continue to increase our support for the pilot research institute, and guide the pilot research institute to actively explore new models, new mechanisms, and new paths in terms of industry-university-research collaborative innovation, transformation and industrialization of scientific and technological achievements, diversified capital investment, and innovation and development of small and medium-sized enterprises, so as to promote the industrial chain extension, strengthening, supplementing, and expanding the chain, so as to provide strong scientific and technological support for the industrial development and regional innovation of Hebei Province." The relevant person in charge of the Hebei Provincial Department of Science and Technology said. (Reporter Liu Rongrong, Wang Ludan)

Article source: Hebei Daily