Developing Out of Imitation Virgo to Develop——An Analysis of the Inescapable Reality Faced by Silicone Intermediate Enterprises

"Only pure imitation, you produce a silicone oil, I also follow the production, this is not silicone organic enterprise development plan, the long-term plan is to get out of the imitation of the strange circle." Shandong Dayi Chemical Co., Ltd. Chairman Sun Huiyi In an interview with reporters recently said.

According to him, the shower gel we use in daily life will have a moisturized feel on the skin after washing. After skin care products are used, the skin will feel smooth and comfortable. There are also rich colors like artificial leather. The clothes we wear are excellent. Feel, this is the wonderful effect of silicone intermediates. Such organic silicone intermediates can produce 3,000 varieties abroad and only 200 to 300 can be produced in China. Jiang Jianxiong, deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Organic Silicone in Zhejiang Province, told reporters that there are quite a few varieties of domestic organic silicon intermediates that are imitations, and there are almost no high-end products.

Silicone is hailed as industrial MSG, with excellent properties such as electrical insulation, radiation resistance, flame retardance, corrosion resistance, high and low temperature resistance, and good biocompatibility. It is widely used in daily chemicals, electronics, transportation, plastics and rubber, etc. Industry, and the new chemical materials industry is unique, there are many varieties of silicone, but its starting materials are produced by the synthesis of several basic monomers.

It is understood that in the next few years, the demand for organic silicon products in China will increase by more than 25%. The average annual growth rate is 2 times that of the plastics industry, which is about 3 times the growth rate of GDP, and silicones are listed. Industries that actively encourage development receive national policy support. In 2003, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Commerce jointly released the "Encourage Foreign Investment in High-tech Products Catalog (2003)" new materials in the category, the list of organic silicon. According to industry estimates, during the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period, the gap in China's organic silicon market will continue to exist. The organic silicone market in China can be described as having great potential and unlimited business opportunities.

However, according to the reporter, although there are about 300 organic silicon intermediate manufacturing companies in China, there are only a few companies with high technological content and can produce and sell more than 10,000 tons.

Qufu Wanda Chemical Co., Ltd. Kong Cong said that while domestic companies are mimicking each other, they are still mimicking the varieties produced by foreign companies. Several of Wanda's patented products are produced by several companies. Jiang Jianxiong, deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Organosilicon Silicone in Zhejiang Province, told reporters that simple imitation can only make up for application defects at one point, and it cannot form a series of technologies and a set of products, which is still lagging behind in product application and enterprise competitiveness.

In fact, domestic silicone intermediate manufacturers are facing great risks. The international chemical giants have begun to enter the country and have invested and built factories in China. Dow Corning currently invests half of its global investment in China. While foreign companies vigorously explore the Chinese market, if the domestic companies still remain imitations, the "fat" of high-end products will not only fail to eat, but the existing market "cake" will eat less!

Then, can China's organic silicon intermediate manufacturing enterprises go out of the imitation cycle? Where is the development road? Sun Huiyi told reporters to aim at a point, even if it is a small point like ordinary dimethyl silicone oil, with absolute capital and energy breakthroughs, As long as doing everything possible to achieve the best quality in the industry, the best performance, can also be based on. He talked about his own experience: When they first developed, they first chose cosmetics as the first industry for the development and application of silicones. After six months of painstaking research, their self-developed compound hair oils for shampoos filled the gaps in the domestic market, making the quality of shampoos all-round improved, and they have emerged in the daily chemical industry. With this performance, they broke through one by one again. The industry developed aluminum foil protectors to increase the ergonomics of cigarette production by a factor of six. The company has developed spandex spinning oils for the spandex industry, which has greatly reduced the cost of oiling ammonia spinning and replaced imports in one fell swoop.

It is understood that another relatively successful company - Zhangjiagang City Guotai Huarong Chemical New Material Co., Ltd. silane coupling agent in the industry also has a certain scale and visibility. A person in the company's marketing department also believes that companies in the survival phase must first study how to make products better and better. After the survival period, they must improve their own research and development capabilities.

Obviously, an unavoidable reality facing companies producing organic silicon intermediates is that simple imitation production cannot grow up. Without independent research and development capabilities, it is difficult to have substantial profits in the market.

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