On the afternoon of July 16, 'opening a new era and embarking on a new journey' The national online media Shandong went to Wanhua Yantai Industrial Park. For 40 years, Wanhua has repeatedly broken the foreign blockade and become the global leader in the isocyanate industry. A banner of independent innovation in the chemical industry'.
Independent innovation, starting from zero to ranking first in the world
The Wanhua Group, which is the same age as the reform and opening up, was formerly known as the Yantai Synthetic Leather Factory. Looking back at the time, it can be said that independent innovation has permeated Wanhua's 40-year development process and achieved Wanhua's today.
The story about MDI manufacturing technology highlights the hardships of Wanhua's independent innovation and the joy of harvest.
In 1983, Wanhua imported 3 million square meters of synthetic leather production line and 10,000 tons of MDI per year. The MDI device has been unable to operate stably due to the lack of core technology. Wanhua hopes to introduce more advanced technology. After four years of arduous negotiations with many foreign MDI manufacturers, no results.
Therefore, Wanhua realized a profound truth: High-tech that has real market potential cannot be bought.
In the early 1990s, Wanhua cooperated with some colleges and universities to carry out the 'production, study and research' cooperation, and digested and absorbed the MDI equipment imported from Japan. After several years of efforts, Wanhua finally reached 10,000 tons in 1994, at the time of introduction. Ten years have passed.
First taste the fruits of innovation and victory, Wanhua is eager to break the foreign blockade and master the MDI manufacturing technology with independent intellectual property rights. Next, the company immediately established the MDI research and development research group to fully develop MDI manufacturing technology.
It is another 12 years, continuous research, and finally developed MDI manufacturing technology with independent intellectual property rights and reaching the current international leading level, making China the fourth country in the world with MDI independent intellectual property rights.
With the magic weapon of 'independent innovation', Wanhua has rapidly expanded its annual output of 10,000 tons from Japan to 20,000 tons, 40,000 tons, 80,000 tons and 120,000 tons. The speed of technology upgrade and expansion is over At the same time, foreign competitors also used their own technology to build a new set of 160,000 tons of equipment in Ningbo, and successfully commissioned a test to produce high-quality products.
Innovation is endless, breakthrough does not stop
In 2009, Wanhua's single set of 300,000 tons/year MDI manufacturing technology was successfully developed. In 2011, Wanhua's fifth-generation MDI technology was successfully developed, thus mastering the world's single set of MDI sets with a maximum scale of 400,000 tons/year. Technology, more than 30% energy saving compared to similar technologies. In 2013, Wanhua's new phosgenation reaction technology made another major breakthrough, and completed the technical transformation of Ningbo's 1.2 million tons/year MDI production facility with new technology (the world's largest MDI manufacturing base) And Yantai Industrial Park a set of 600,000 tons / year MDI installation.
Today, Wanhua MDI has the world's largest production capacity in the world, becoming the most comprehensive MDI manufacturer in the world, the most complete ADI manufacturer in the global industry chain, the second largest TPU manufacturer in the world, and the third largest TDI manufacturing in Europe. Business.
Talent-oriented, green development, practicing ecological concept
3. We will unswervingly take the road of independent innovation and do a good job in talent engineering.
Just last month, Wanhua re-adjusted the salary of the recruiting staff, greatly increased the annual salary of college students, graduate students and doctoral students, and attracted more high-level talents to join Wanhua.
As the pioneer of China's high-end chemical industry, Wanhua has the responsibility to become a world-class enterprise as soon as possible. 'Liao Zengtai, chairman of Wanhua Chemical Group, party secretary, said that in the long-term future, Wanhua's development focus is in Yantai, this year. To realize the second phase of TDI, MMA, PMMA, SAP and TPU, it is necessary to start construction of millions of tons of ethylene and other high-performance chemicals as soon as possible, and strive to start production in 2020.
'Implementing a strategy of one hundred billion yuan to achieve leap-forward development' is Wanhua's established development goal.
In order to achieve this goal, Wanhua will continue to deepen the reform of state-owned enterprises and maintain a lean and efficient organization and process system. Next, the entire group will require various product lines, and each sector will find a gap in the world-class level. Look for problems in the gap, and then solve the problem.
'Chemical companies must keep the bottom line of environmental protection safety, this is an insurmountable red line. ' Liao Zengtai said that Wanhua's environmental protection concept is 'three no see', that is, no seeing leaks, no noise, no smell.
In the next step, they will increase the intensity of introducing new foreign technologies. On their own, they must be good at using the power of society, and be good at absorbing the wisdom and experience of others, and promoting Wanhua's green development to a higher level.