Li Hairen, chairman of Loudi Hairen Science and Technology Development Co., Ltd.
Workers are producing springless, insect-free bamboo mattresses.
Finished bamboo mattress.
Red net twin peaks August 24 news (moment news reporter Li Xin) brown mat is easy to grow mites, spring pad is easy to deform. In the fast-paced life of the modern era, it seems that it is not easy for people to get a good night's sleep.
In Shuangfeng County, Loudi City, "old maker" Li Hairen developed a bamboo mattress, which has no springs and completely uses local Nan bamboo as a production material, which is not only green and environmentally friendly, but also drives more than 5,000 local households to increase their income and become rich.
"I believe that the bamboo mattress market will one day surpass Simmons." Li Hairen said that in the next 5 years, he plans to rely on his product patents to copy 150 bamboo mattress factories across the country and sell the nan bamboo resources of Twin Peaks to the world with high added value.
No springs, no insects, bamboo mattresses are more comfortable and environmentally friendly
Li Hairen, who has been a middle school teacher, has turned the fur business, invented and manufactured many innovative furniture, and talks about the beginning and end of the development of bamboo mattresses.
"By chance." Li Hairen recalled that around 2005, his lumbar disc herniation was particularly severe, and when the attack was severe, he could not even bend down to tie the belt, and the doctor suggested that he change the mattress that was "hard and soft".
Where is this mattress? Li Hairen tried a variety of mattresses, but still did not find a suitable product, "I thought at the time, just design one myself." ”
At first, Li Hairen made a wooden mattress, spreading brown on the mattress, hard enough, but not elastic. "I don't want to put springs in the mattress." Li Hairen has been looking for a spring substitute for more than two years, but he has not found a suitable one.
One day, Li Hairen sat on an elastic bamboo chair of his own design and pondered the problem of a springless mattress. Inadvertently, he picked up a rubber strip material that had been placed on the table. This rubber strip is the "elastic" material used in the elastic bamboo chair he designed. Li Hairen unconsciously squeezed the rubber strip in his hand repeatedly into a circle and loosened it, and suddenly, his thoughts flashed: fixing the rubber strip into a semi-circle or circle and placing it in the mattress is not a "spring"?
At the same time, because the brown wood board is prone to insects, he changed the raw material of the mattress to bamboo, and soon, the bamboo mattress with rubber ring "spring" was made. This product not only obtained 3 invention patents, but also doubled its sales performance after being put on the market for several consecutive years.
This year, Li Hairen's bamboo mattress sales are expected to exceed the mark of 50 million yuan.
Driving the development of the local bamboo forest industry, the people's average annual income increased by 1550 yuan
Shuangfeng County, Loudi City, is rich in forest and bamboo resources, with a planting area of more than 200,000 mu, and is one of the main sources of income for local poor mountain farmers.
In the past, the bamboo forest here was mainly produced and processed into bamboo bridge boards on the construction site, however, due to the downturn in the real estate industry in recent years, coupled with the widespread use of steel structures in the construction industry, the bamboo bridge plate market has become more and more sluggish, and now many bamboo bridge plate manufacturing plants have closed.
"We have 'reborn' the resources of the bamboo forest." Li Hairen proudly said that his company needs nearly 50,000 tons of bamboo per year, and the company has established 40 forest bamboo bases in the form of capital injection and land circulation with many local farmers' professional cooperatives and dozens of villages. In addition to providing excellent bamboo seeds and technical services free of charge, the company's purchase price of Nan bamboo is 5% higher than the market price.
In 2015, the company's acquisition of bamboo forests exceeded 140 million yuan, benefiting nearly 5,000 farmers in the county, and the average annual income of farmers increased by more than 1,550 yuan.
In the future, Li Hairen plans to use 3-5 years to replicate 150 bamboo mattress factories across the country, cultivate and develop 690,000 mu of bamboo forest bases, and strive to achieve sales of more than 1 billion yuan by 2020, driving 45,000 farmers in Shuangfeng to benefit.
"We have a lot more to do." Li Hairen said that next, the company will cooperate more with scientific research institutes to introduce new technologies in the field of international and domestic Nanzhu processing and carry out the directional cultivation of large-diameter Nanzhu. At the same time, the company is also actively committed to promoting the automation of the bamboo mattress production process, "driving more hometown people out of poverty and getting rich, is my lifelong pursuit." ”