Song Qingchen's ability also made Bao Feiyang appreciate it very much.

Song Qingchen previously worked for 3M, a multinational company known for its innovation, which has a wide range of products, and its core business covers medical products, office culture, education, optical products, as well as transportation, construction, electronics, communications and many other fields, producing more than 10,000 products. Leading the world in many categories.

This company often makes small things that seem inconspicuous but change people's lifestyles, such as scotch tape, non-adhesive hooks, post-it notes, credit cards, scouring pads, non-woven fabrics, and so on. According to statistics, in the more than 100 years since its establishment, 3M has been able to develop three new products every two days on average. The company has a 15% rule, which stipulates that R&D personnel can devote 15% of their working time each week to research what they are interested in.

Of course, 3M doesn't just make these little things, although they also sell a lot of them. They also have deep attainments in the field of chemical materials such as industrial abrasive materials, film materials, synthetic fibers and synthetic glues, which is actually the core competitiveness of 3M.

In the late 90s, the beginning of the 21st century, it was also the most sought after period of 3M in China, this company full of innovation made the Chinese people amazing, but also world-renowned, but with the resurgence of Steve Jobs, the birth of the IPhone, and the emergence of new technologies in the field of electronic communications, 3M has become low-key again. But even then, 3M's style hasn't changed, and they're thriving thanks to their unique innovation and culture and deep technical foundation.

"3M is a respectable company...... Bao Feiyang said, "However, Fangxia New Materials does not need to become 3M, but should be more focused." ”

Many companies want to learn 3M, learn 3M's innovation mechanism, and innovate like 3M, Bao Feiyang of course also hopes that Fangxia New Materials has a strong innovation ability like 3M, but he knows better that 3M is not so easy to learn, in fact, so many companies want to learn 3M, but in the end there is no second 3M, on the contrary, 3M itself has some problems now. Some of their products are too successful, and even more successful products have their own life cycles, such as audio tapes and video tapes, both of which were first invented by 3M and are also 3M's trump card business, but in recent years, with the development of electronic technology, these two products have obviously come to the end of their lives, and their life cycles are not strictly speaking, especially videotapes. 3M has reacted faster than other companies, and they have decided to divest this part of the business and form a new company to operate, but this has also affected the company's overall performance and carried out large-scale layoffs.

Song Qingchen nodded and said: "3M's innovation culture does have its uniqueness, and the way of operation is also unique. ”

Song Qingchen said: "After all, the corporate culture of each company is gradually formed in its own development, which is unique and can be learned, but there is certainly no way to copy it." ”

"To a certain extent, 3M has always been at the forefront of the world, and every time they innovate and develop, they lead the world and change the world. Although Fangxia Group has risen and developed rapidly, it has been established for too short a time, although it has mastered some unique technologies, but the overall technology accumulation is still not enough, so our positioning is still a catch-up, a chaser who has the courage to innovate, for the chaser, development and technology accumulation are very important, which also determines that we can not be like 3M, to promote a very open and relaxed innovation culture, we need to be harder, and more radical. ”

Bao Feiyang nodded very approvingly, Song Qingchen saw it very accurately and analyzed it very well. 3M has always been at the forefront of technology, so they can adopt a very open and free way of innovating, and at the same time, they are also very strong in the development of core technologies, which is an important guarantee that they can stay ahead of the curve.

In contrast, although Fangxia new materials have made breakthroughs in some technologies, the accumulation of technology can not be compared with 3M companies with a history of more than 100 years, the most important thing for them now is to catch up and accumulate, of course, on this basis, they can also carry out some product innovation, but technology accumulation is fundamental, not to be ignored.

Song Qingchen said: "At present, we have reached an agreement with SASOL in South Africa, will introduce a full set of production technology and equipment from SASOL company, and build a coal chemical project with an annual processing capacity of 5 million tons in Pujiang, the main part will do olefin separation, the main products include ethylene and propylene, the output of olefin products will reach 600,000 tons, ethylene and other products will be considered to be sent to Jingshan Chemical Industry Park in the early stage, and we will go to the polypropylene project, the ultimate goal is to make polyacrylonitrile fiber!"

Bao Feiyang nodded: "I heard that ethylene and propylene projects are also planned in Jingshan Chemical Industry Zone?"

Song Qingchen said: "Yes, 900,000 tons of ethylene, as well as 250,000 tons of polypropylene and 250,000 tons of acrylonitrile are planned in the chemical zone. ”

"So, in terms of propylene projects, we overlap with the projects in the chemical park?"

Song Qingchen shook his head and said: "This problem is not big, at present, the domestic acrylonitrile market is in short supply, and the gap is very large, even if the 260,000-ton project in the chemical industry park is launched, the corresponding demand will increase, and there is no need to worry that the market will be saturated." And our company's polyacrylonitrile is basically consumed by itself......"

Bao Feiyang nodded, Huayang Group's carbon fiber project has been approved, and began planning and construction, this project has received the greatest support, the central government directly funded, the military sent a team to participate in the construction, the purpose is to build a carbon fiber research center and production base as soon as possible. It is foreseeable that when the first phase of Huayang Group's carbon fiber project is completed, the coal chemical project of Fangxia New Materials may not start construction, but the scale of the first phase is not very large, and the polyacrylonitrile needed can also be purchased from other places. The petrochemical bases in Jingshan and Gaoqiao have polyacrylonitrile projects.

Fangxia New Materials' coal chemical and polyacrylonitrile projects are still in the planning declaration, but Bao Feiyang is not very worried about the project passing the review, in fact, this polyacrylonitrile project is matched with the carbon fiber project. Although it is also polyacrylonitrile fiber, there is still a difference between acrylic fiber used in textile and polyacrylonitrile fiber used in high-performance carbon fiber, although there is a company in the United States that has developed the technology of making carbon fiber from ordinary acrylic fiber, and Huayang company has also got this technology, but it has not been thoroughly eaten for the time being, and even if it is ordinary acrylic fiber, it is actually not ordinary, there are still some differences.

In Tianjiang Park, a complete industrial chain from coal chemical industry to olefin separation, polyacrylonitrile and carbon fiber can be formed to control the production of polyacrylonitrile from the source to obtain high-performance carbon fiber.

Song Qingchen said: "At present, Fangxia New Materials has carried out technology accumulation and layout in the field of synthetic fibers, and we will make the two major businesses of synthetic coatings and synthetic fibers the core business of Fangxia New Materials Company." ”

Fangxia New Materials' special coatings have been well-known and have entered the relevant market, which can compete with the corresponding categories of international famous products. In terms of synthetic fibers, Fangxia New Materials has previously made some investment and technology accumulation.

As far as the domestic synthetic fiber industry is concerned, as early as 96 years, China's synthetic fiber output has jumped to the world's first, and last year's production capacity reached 5.4 million tons, accounting for about 20% of the world's total synthetic fiber production capacity, and the actual output also reached 4.6 million tons, so the situation is similar to that of the steel industry, the domestic synthetic fiber production capacity is not fully opened.

But even so, in fact, the products of the domestic synthetic fiber industry still can not meet the needs of the domestic market, in 98 years China's imports of synthetic fibers reached 1.5 million tons, exports of only 100,000 tons, the actual consumption of 6 million tons, that is to say, there is still a gap of about 25 percent.

In addition, there is still a large gap between domestic synthetic fiber products in terms of quality and category compared with the world's advanced level, the so-called category gap, that is, the gap in differentiation. For those large synthetic fiber manufacturers, the same acrylic fiber, they can play with flowers, can produce a variety of products with different functions, such as artificial silk, imitation peach skin, far-infrared fiber, antibacterial and deodorant fiber, flame retardant fiber, waterproof and moisture-permeable, antistatic fiber and so on. In contrast, domestic products are still dominated by conventional products. The proportion of differentiated fibers is small, the variety is single, and the proportion of domestic synthetic fibers is less than 15%, while most of the developed countries abroad are about 40%.

Domestic synthetic fiber manufacturers still have small scale, scattered production capacity, and lack of ability to compete with large foreign companies. For example, the average production scale of polyester filament is only 4,330 t/a, the national average production scale of polyester staple yarn is only 9,120 t/a, and the national average of acrylic fiber is 25,000 t/a, which is relatively large compared with the world's advanced level. For example, the average polyester filament in Taihu area has reached 16,000 t/a, the average polyester staple yarn has reached 72,000 t/a, and the average acrylic fiber has reached 65,000 t/a, and the gap is still very large.

In addition, there are some gaps in technology and cost. At present, the technical equipment of domestic chemical fiber enterprises is basically introduced in complete sets, and there is a decentralized construction and small and complete, coupled with the historical burden, its own funds are tight, capital construction and technological transformation mainly rely on debt construction, production liquidity mainly depends on loans, production depreciation and repair costs are large, and the cost is high. The labor productivity of chemical fiber enterprises is also relatively low, with a per capita physical labor productivity of only 10 tons, while in the same period South Korea is 85 tons and Taihu is 115 tons, a huge difference.