OSiC visits Anhui Anli Material Technology

On April 23, 2021, Dean Wu Bin of OSiC Research Institute and his colleagues in the polyurethane industry visited the leading artificial leather production base: Anhui Anli. After visiting the exhibition hall, production workshop and laboratory, New Materials The general manager of the company, Dr. Yao Kejian, introduced ANLI's development history and technical background, and conducted in-depth exchanges on the future of the current development of the polyurethane industry.

Everyone conducted in-depth discussions on the following issues:

      1. Water-based polyurethane industry: After more than 10 years of development, it is still facing challenges. In terms of performance, operation, and cost, it cannot completely replace oiliness, and it is expected to reach 20%-30% of the usage in the next 5 years.

      2. Bio-based raw materials: mainly limited by the uncontrollability of plant growth and the uncontrollability of sources. In the future, how to increase the proportion of bio-based raw materials and how to reflect the characteristics of bio-based raw materials in products is placed in front of all colleagues Common problem.

      3. Digitization and intelligence of the industry: The world has now entered the era of digitization and intelligence, and this trend is irreversible. On how to achieve digitalization and intelligence in the polyurethane industry, the participants also fully expressed their ideas. Professor Zhang Jie, director of the Expert Committee of the China Polyurethane Association, put forward the topic of how to use intelligent digitalization to guide R&D and production. Intelligence and digitalization are by no means simply replacing humans with machines, it is just automation; instead, they need to use big data and the Internet of Things to build The platform realizes the whole process of intelligence from the flask to the process.