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In the context of the slowdown in the industrial growth of rubber (11540, -215.00, -1.83%), the 13th National Rubber Industry Information Conference and the Forum on Accelerating the Transformation of High-tech Applications for Transformation and Development were held in Hangzhou last year. Relevant experts pointed out that promoting high-tech applications and transforming the traditional rubber industry is the only way for China's rubber industry to continue to develop steadily and rapidly.
After more than 160 years of development, the world rubber industry has now become an important traditional industry in many developed countries. Now the global annual rubber consumption has reached more than 17 million tons, and there are about 100,000 kinds of various rubber products in various fields of human society. In the second industry group, the rubber industry is unique in the elastomer material industry. In the past two or three decades, due to the impact of the two world oil crises in the 1970s, the global rubber industry has seen the expansion of long-term reliance on volume as the main means of increasing economic efficiency, gradually transforming from improving quality to increasing varieties And a new period of continuous reduction of production costs.
Huang Maotong, an expert in the rubber industry, said that high-tech rubber products have opened up new economic growth points for the rubber industry. In recent years, high-tech rubber materials and products that have emerged to meet the needs of high-tech industrialization have become new economic growth points for the development of the rubber industry. Dozens of rubber high-tech materials with new characteristics have been found in the market. Although their amount of glue used is still small, they have a high added value and a rapid growth rate. They have begun to occupy a certain position among industrial products, and a new industry may be formed in the future.
At present, the fastest growing are: high-tech rubber materials for electronic information, sealing damping, office automation and household appliances. Most of these materials are rubber chemical modification, rubber and plastic (8440, -185.00, -2.14%) blended and compounded in various ways, most of which have become inseparable polymer functional materials.
With the rapid development of high technology, many traditional rubber products have also begun to achieve high performance and functionalization. They cover all aspects from tires, industrial products to rubber shoes, mainly including: green tires, smart tires, timing belts, energy-saving belts, explosion-proof hoses and various functional shoes, as well as various seals, shock absorption, transfer printing, induction rubber Pieces and so on. These rubber products based on traditional rubber products using high-tech transformation have opened up new ways for the future development of the rubber industry.
Huang Maotong said that the rubber industry should also adjust the product structure through technological innovation to meet the low-carbon requirements of the automotive industry and other fields, such as the development and production of tires and low fuel consumption tires suitable for electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles, and the application of new thermoplastic elastomers. Material development and manufacture of automotive seals, shock absorbers and other products, improve the efficiency of automotive conveyor belts, and develop and produce rubber products for clean energy and renewable energy industries.
The main high-tech technologies that the rubber industry still needs to conquer are eucommia rubber industrialization and application technology, dandelion rubber development and application technology, green tire industrialization technology, nano-modified fiber development and application, and automatic rubber shoe production line. Huang Maotong believes that rubber companies should increase investment power, promote the development and application of high and new technologies, and build a green kingdom in the rubber industry.
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