Huayi identifies ways to break through the "old chemical industry" during research, following the example of a "world-class enterprise" process | Huayi Group | Enterprise
The main business revenue has reached a historic high, ranking among the top five chemical companies in China, and holding 11 time-honored brands. However, how far is Huayi from a world-class enterprise? Where is the gap? In the process of promoting theme education through research, Huayi Group always compares itself with the goal of being a "world-class enterprise", starts from the shortcomings discovered in the research, and puts effort into "strengthening the chain". Since June, Huayi Group and its secondary units have discovered a total of 377 problems during research, most of which have been rectified.
"During the research process, we found that the industrial structure of the group still needs to be further improved, and the level of industrial chain integration still needs to be further enhanced." The relevant person in charge of Huayi Group told reporters that although Huayi's product line covers five major business sectors and has a rich variety of products, there are still issues with a relatively short industrial chain, a low proportion of downstream businesses, and the integration of the industrial chain still needs to be further extended downstream.
For this reason, Huayi has accelerated the pace of global layout, formed a pattern with Shanghai Chemical Industry Park as the main battlefield, laid out 46 factories in 14 provinces and cities, and laid out tire production bases overseas, especially by taking advantage of the new land sea channel in the west of Qinzhou, Guangxi, connecting the resources and markets along the "the Belt and Road", and laying out Qinzhou New Chemical Materials Integration Base. The overall plan of Qinzhou Base covers an area of 8 square kilometers, with a total investment of about 90 billion yuan and a production value of about 100 billion yuan. It mainly develops four downstream industrial chains: coal chemical industry, light hydrocarbon cracking, salt chemical industry, and petrochemical industry, and aims to become the most complete integrated upstream and downstream chemical new material base in China's C1, C2, C3, and C4 industrial chains.
Huayi also combines key industries such as integrated circuits, new displays, new energy vehicles, life and health, large aircraft, and intelligent manufacturing in the Yangtze River Delta region, actively developing high-end products such as fluorinated materials, medical materials, personal care materials, high-performance display materials, and high-performance tires, striving to successfully "overtake" on the new track. For example, with the popularization of new energy vehicles, the safety of power batteries is becoming increasingly important. Huayi has specially developed a new type of positive electrode material with high safety and energy density - lithium manganese iron phosphate, which has passed the certification of mainstream customers and is about to enter the stage of large-scale industrial application, providing a technical foundation for the safe development of the new energy vehicle industry.
In addition, insufficient innovation momentum is a common problem among many established chemical enterprises, and Huayi is no exception. The person in charge admitted that although Huayi has mastered a number of independently developed industrial technologies in the fields of gasifiers, complete sets of acetic acid technology, complete sets of acrylic acid technology, fluorine material technology, and high molecular weight polyethylene through the "introduction digestion absorption re innovation" model in recent years, its technological accumulation in the fields of new materials and high-end chemicals is still relatively limited, and the proportion of new technology product revenue to the group's manufacturing revenue is not high. "Overall, our innovation system still needs further optimization, and the efficiency of transforming innovation achievements needs to be further improved."
"Catalysts are the core technology of the chemical industry, and China imports tens of billions of yuan of industrial catalysts from abroad every year. Catalysts have become a key factor restricting the high-end development of China's chemical industry." The person in charge stated that in order to solve the problem of complete dependence on imports for olefin selective oxidation catalysts, Shanghai Huayi began technological development in 2003 and, after 20 years of unremitting efforts, finally achieved complete localization of olefin selective oxidation catalysts. The product has been successfully applied in 720000 tons/year acrylic acid production units, with performance exceeding that of similar catalysts imported from Japan. At the same time, Huayi actively participates in key projects of industry, academia, and research, undertakes the national key research and development plan "Research and Application of Typical VOCs Catalytic Purification Technology in the Chemical Industry" project, and cooperates with 10 domestic universities and research institutes to successfully develop industrial waste gas catalytic oxidation catalysts. They have been applied and demonstrated on multiple production lines in China, and their performance has reached the international advanced level.
At present, Huayi Group has established a new Central Research Institute by integrating Shanghai Chemical Research Institute and the original Group Technology Research Institute. It has also collaborated with various enterprise technology centers and joint laboratories to build a research and development achievement landing model that integrates experimental research, process development, engineering amplification, and product application. At present, it has a number of innovation platforms, including one State Key Laboratory, one national engineering technology research center, four national enterprise technology centers and three academician expert workstations.
In order to further activate the vitality of its time-honored brands such as Huili, Shuangqian, and Fenghua, Huayi has also held several special seminars to review and evaluate the "one product, one policy, one plan" work of time-honored brands, promote relevant enterprises to closely focus on upgrading consumption of time-honored brands, meeting personalized needs, and innovating business models, complete the preparation of a three-year action plan, accelerate the cultivation and iteration of brand flagship products, and gradually increase product market share.
It is reported that the leadership team of Huayi Group has identified 10 research topics and formulated specific investigation and research plans to enhance the core competitiveness of the group, improve operational management level, win the core technology battle, promote the development of time-honored brands, strengthen safety leadership, and strengthen grassroots party building. At present, multiple on-site investigations have been conducted, visiting multiple grassroots enterprises and industry leaders both inside and outside the city. Through comprehensive methods such as on-site visits, discussions and exchanges, questionnaire surveys, and individual interviews, efforts have been made to truly understand the situation, identify problems, and implement countermeasures.
