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As the global technology competition enters a white hot stage, membrane separation technology, as one of the most promising new separation technologies, has become the focus of competition among countries for the right to speak on the new materials track. It is predicted that by 2033, the related market is expected to exceed 60 billion US dollars, with strong expansion potential. At the same time, membrane materials have been deeply embedded in high-end manufacturingnew energyIn the fields of energy conservation and environmental protection, enhancing its independent research and development and large-scale production capabilities is not only a practical need to ensure supply chain security, but also a strategic key to seizing the future competitive advantage of the industry.
In response to the call for new quality productivity policies, in order to promote the transformation and upgrading of the domestic film materials industry and accelerate the domestic substitution of high-end products,Zhejiang Aoshi Core Material Technology Co., Ltd(referred to as "Austenitic Core Material")Joining hands with Zhejiang University of Technology to establish a joint research and development centerWe will further consolidate the joint efforts of government, enterprises, and schools to focus on tackling the bottleneck problem of high-performance separation membrane materials. On June 18th, witnessed by representatives from all parties, the unveiling ceremony of the Joint R&D Center was held grandly in the exhibition hall of the Aoshi Core Material Factory in Si'an Town, Changxing County, Huzhou City.
Joint R&D Center unveiled
Academicians lead, government, enterprises, and schools work together to empower
From the perspective of industrial reality, domestic separation membranes have formed a price advantage and strong competitiveness in the mid to low end market. However, due to their late start and heavy tasks, the technological gap and brand trust in the high-end field still need time to accumulate and continue to break through, especially in high value-added scenarios such as semiconductor ultrapure water preparation and biopharmaceutical green refining. In the face of common industry challenges, Hangzhou Haina Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. (referred to as "Haina Environmental Protection") has taken on the important task of "China Chip" breakthrough. In 2020, it established Aoshi Core Materials, continuously deepening the collaboration between industry, academia, research and application, accelerating the filling of the shortcomings in basic theoretical research, key technology breakthroughs, and batch stable production of domestically produced high-end separation membranes.
Anchoring the strategy of high-quality development, Aoshi Core Materials has established a joint research and development center between schools and enterprises. Led by Gao Congyi, an academician of the CAE Member, the joint research and development center will rely on the support of the local government to build a perfect production, teaching, research and application system, achieve full coverage of key links such as basic research of separation membrane materials, development of preparation and inspection technology, and continuous improvement of performance, fill the gap in the domestic high-end membrane market, and promote China's manufacturing level to the international leading ranks. Taking this as an opportunity, both schools and enterprises have established internship bases, aiming to jointly cultivate compound technical talents who understand technology and the market, and promote the efficient transformation of experimental results.
Gao CongxiacademicianHe is a renowned expert in the field of membrane separation technology in Chinareverse osmosis membraneOne of the pioneers in the field of engineering technology, he believes that the technological level of membrane separation materials is directly related to the core competitiveness of China's green separation industry, and is a core breakthrough for the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and the cultivation of new quality productivity. For the construction of joint R&D centers, he expressed the need to leverage the advantages of university research talents and enterprise engineering markets, accelerate technological iteration and transformation, and create demonstration models for school enterprise cooperation. While tackling the core technologies of high-end functional membrane materials, large-scale preparation, and complex working condition separation, we should also take into account breakthroughs in basic research innovation and the landing of industrial applications, laying a solid foundation for innovation in the localization, high-end, and independent production of membrane materials.
The successful landing of this joint research and development center is an important achievement of complementary advantages and collaborative innovation among the three parties. It cannot be achieved without the deep empowerment of cutting-edge scientific research forces in universities, and even more importantly, the policy empowerment and precise protection of local governments.
The School of Chemical Engineering at Zhejiang University of Technology has strong strength in the field of membrane science and processes. In 2023, it won the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award and led the construction of the National Key Laboratory of "Green Chemical Synthesis and Conversion Technology" and participated in the construction of the National Key Laboratory of "Advanced Separation Membrane Materials".Vice Dean Lin LiliIn the speech, it was emphasized that the Joint R&D Center carries the concept of "real problems, real scenarios, and real applications", and will rely on high-level platforms such as national key laboratories to create a model of deep integration of industry, academia, research, and application, promoting learning through production and leading production through learning, achieving mutual benefit and win-win results for both schools and enterprises.
Changxing County adheres to the fundamental direction of "science and technology serving the economy", and takes the construction of "one chain, one platform" and the achievement pool of "use first, transfer later" as the starting point to fully promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements.Zhou Weiling, Deputy County Mayor of Changxing County People's GovernmentIt is emphasized that the successful "hand in hand" between schools and enterprises is not only an inevitable choice for complementary advantages and strong alliances, but also a vivid practice for Changxing to deepen the integration of education, science, and personnel and the deep integration of "two new" reforms. He hopes that the joint R&D center can become a "vanguard company" for enterprise technology research and development, an "accelerator" for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and an "experimental field" for the joint cultivation of talents between schools and enterprises in the future, connecting the last mile from the laboratory to the production line, and helping Austenitic core materials move from "parallel running" to "leading" in the field of membrane materials.
Liu Wei, Chairman of Aoshi Core MaterialsWe expressed our gratitude to Academician Gao Congxi, government leaders at all levels, the research team of Zhejiang University of Technology, and all the guests present, and highlighted the company's achievements and international technological barriers in the industrialization of high-performance membrane materials. He stated that Aoshi Core Materials will strictly fulfill the cooperation agreement, fully ensure the efficient operation of the joint research and development center, quickly break the monopoly of foreign high-end separation and filtration materials, and create a benchmark for innovation in the membrane industry.
Self developed core, with resolute steps to break through
Haina Environmental Shapes a Striving Sample from Chasing to Leading
The breakthrough of a high-performance separation membrane is not achieved overnight; The entire industrial chain, from layout to formation, is the inevitable result of Haina Environmental Protection's insistence on technological independence and heavy warehouse innovation. At a stage where most peers are focusing on assembly and increasing production, Haina Environmental Protection has already begun to lay out the research and development of core processes at the grassroots level, closely cooperating with universities and research institutes, gradually accumulating nearly 90 patents, and participating in the formulation of national, industry, and group standards more than 20 times. The establishment of Aoshi Core Material not only carries the strategic upgrade of Haina Environmental Protection from "membrane component manufacturing" to "independent research and development of membrane materials", but also represents a declaration of launching a comprehensive attack on high-end membrane core technology.
Under the pressure of high R&D investment and with the support of local science and technology innovation policies, Auspicious Core Materials has gradually completed key process breakthroughs, cleared all obstacles from small-scale and pilot testing to large-scale production, broken the long-term technological monopoly of overseas brands, and achieved a closed loop of the entire industry chain. In just six years, Aoshi Core Materials has successfully built the first "reverse osmosis membrane industry demonstration base" in China, and has been successively awarded as a Zhejiang Province specialized, refined, special and new small and medium-sized enterprise, a national high-tech enterprise, a Zhejiang Province science and technology dragon enterprise, and has become a Zhejiang Province reverse osmosis membrane training base.
Nowadays, relying on strong scientific research capabilities and advanced intelligent production systems, the annual output of Aoshi Core Materials has reached 18 million square meters. Its products cover a full range of high-performance membrane materials such as reverse osmosis, nanofiltration, microfiltration, and degassing membranes. They are widely used in fields such as direct drinking water purification, food and beverage processing, medical and pharmaceutical water, seawater desalination, new energy&semiconductor ultrapure water preparation, industrial wastewater treatment and reuse, and are constantly expanding towards diverse scenarios such as material concentration and purification.
After the unveiling ceremony, accompanied by Chairman Liu Wei and other leaders, Academician Gao Congkui and other experts visited the Austenitic core material film production line and membrane component production line on site, and had in-depth exchanges on process details. Academician Gao Congxi fully affirmed the solid industrialization foundation and large-scale landing ability of Auspicious Core Materials, and encouraged enterprises to rely on the joint research and development center platform, seize the opportunity of industry university research collaboration, continuously fill the performance gaps of high-end products, and steadily promote the process of import substitution.
Science and technology gather strength to embark on a new journey, and membrane core strives for self-improvement to enter a new chapter
From a blank slate to an independent intelligent production line, from technological catch-up to standard setting, Haina Environmental Protection and Aoshi Core Materials have embarked on a breakthrough path of high-end film localization from scratch. The establishment of the Joint R&D Center is another important milestone on this road, representing that the enterprise is moving from "individual breakthrough" to "collaborative tackling", and will accelerate the leap from "parallel running" to "leading".
