Out of Monopoly of Chinese Carbon Fiber

In recent years, domestic carbon fiber has been struggling to develop and strive to break through the weakness in the carbon fiber market.

In fact, in recent years, the domestic carbon fiber industry has made some progress under the support of the state, but in the face of fierce competition in the international market, the lack of independent research and development of core technologies still reveals itself. Japan and other foreign carbon fiber manufacturers occupy more than 95% of the world's carbon fiber market, and use their technology and scale to drive down prices, resulting in domestic companies are forced to cut prices. This has led to the development of domestic carbon fiber bottlenecks, including the raw silk, carbon fiber, intermediate materials, composite materials and other downstream applications.

In addition, the production cost of domestic carbon fiber is higher than the import price of imported carbon fiber overseas, and there has been a serious price inversion, coupled with the small and scattered status of China's carbon fiber production enterprises, making the industry a long-term deficit, only a few individual carbon fiber companies rely on The national military project is barely profitable. After stable production of carbon fiber at a level in China, the prices of foreign companies have fallen sharply. The large fluctuations in the prices of carbon fiber in the upper reaches have a great impact on the cost of downstream composite materials companies, which restricts the healthy development of China's carbon fiber composite materials industry.

The key issue is that upstream carbon fiber companies lack core technologies. Only blindly introduce foreign production technologies and equipment, and lack independent independent innovation awareness.

And the vast majority of domestic carbon companies still remain at the stage of using foreign production standards to eliminate, how can such companies make good products, not to mention competing with Toray, Toho's products. To a serious point of view, such "acquisitionism" cannot be sustained in the market and will be eliminated sooner or later.

And in order to occupy a place in the market, in addition to excellent product quality, it is more important for companies to have their own technology. The breakthrough of technology and the accumulation of experience are not a day's work. Only companies pay attention to technology and are willing to invest in R&D, and the state increases the protection of independent intellectual property rights of enterprises. Carbon fiber companies can form close exchanges and cooperation with upstream and downstream enterprises. In order to promote the healthy and sustainable development of the carbon fiber industry chain.

In view of the current state of development of China's carbon fiber industry, apart from upgrading technology, how to open the carbon fiber market is crucial.

Although in recent years domestic general-grade carbon fiber has achieved industrial production and has basically met some needs of the domestic market, with the rapid development of China's composite materials market, general-grade carbon fiber has been difficult to adapt to aviation and emerging industries for high performance. Carbon fiber demand.

However, domestic high-performance carbon fiber products have not been able to achieve industrial production due to the restriction of process technology, and they still rely on imports.

So, can we change the strategic thinking and position the strategy in the industrialization of large tow carbon fiber?

This is because the development of small tow carbon fiber applications in the aerospace market is slow and costly. And the sports market, therefore, timely development of low-cost large tow carbon fiber is a wise choice, perhaps in the near future will become a new trend.