Recently, millet YU7 sales continue to climb, for the new energy vehicle market to bring a new round of boom. This also marks the success of carbon fiber automotive applications to break through the "aristocratic" shackles, officially entering the monthly sales of 10,000 models market. Behind this global "phenomenal breakthrough" is the synergistic effect of the carbon fiber industry chain - raw materials and processing and molding and many other aspects of the growing maturity of the product cost to promote the significant downturn in the market continued to light put the urgent need for carbon fiber scale applications to open up an unprecedented market space.
In the process of industrialization of carbon fiber, processing and molding is the key bottleneck and one of the most potential breakthrough directions. HRC, as a pioneer enterprise in this field, relying on the leading technological advantages, complete equipment investment and rich project experience, is ready to lead and promote this change in a positive posture.
Breaking through the limit of traditional process, realizing the leap of mass production
As a typical representative of strategic emerging materials, carbon fiber has long occupied an important position in the R&D and manufacturing of high-precision industrial fields due to its outstanding lightweight advantages, mechanical properties and comprehensive stability. In recent years, along with the industrial transformation and upgrading and green low-carbon development of the dual drive, carbon fiber industry continues to get the national level of key concerns and policy support. In the "14th Five-Year Plan" outline of the major projects column has been clearly put forward to strengthen the carbon fiber and other high-performance fibers and their composite materials research and development applications. However, limited by the traditional thermosetting manufacturing process of production efficiency and complex processes, its scale, application has always faced serious challenges. Taking the thermo-compression tank molding process as an example, from cutting and preparing materials, mold layup to curing and molding, to appearance inspection, processing, assembly size inspection, varnish surface treatment, appearance inspection, need to go through more than ten processes, each step of the quality control and process convergence have an important impact on the production tempo and the overall yield. Based on years of deep-rooted heritage, HRC has taken the initiative to carry out research and development of key work nodes and processes, constantly optimizing the layout of the production line in practice, and making key improvements in the lean capabilities of molding manufacturing, personnel skills matching and decomposition, automated product processing and assembly, and assembly line spraying operations.
At present, HRC has become the only company in the world that realizes the mass production of thermosetting carbon fiber parts and components for 10,000 vehicles per month, setting up a new benchmark with the production capacity that refreshes the industry's limits and transforming the "impossibility" that has long constrained the development of the industry into a practical solution, which provides a realistic possibility of the mass application of carbon fiber for mid-range vehicles.
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Multi-Technology Path to Mass Production Reserves, Enabling a New Chapter of Industrial Applications.
With the in-depth practice of the lean production concept and the gradual emergence of the scale effect, HRC is accelerating the batch supporting application of thermoset parts products in more mainstream consumer models. In terms of interior and exterior parts, products with unique aesthetic effects and differentiated qualities, such as mirrors, tailgates, seat back panels, etc., have reached a monthly production capacity of 10,000 pieces; in terms of structural parts, HRC has taken the lead in realizing the batch production of middle-channel reinforcing beams, carbon pods, etc., which comprehensively unleash the practical value of carbon fiber materials in lightweighting, impact resistance and other dimensions of engineering performance. In addition, the company also focuses on the R&D and innovation of large-scale and high-efficiency thermoplastic mass production process, giving full play to its unique efficient molding capability, significant cost advantage and sustainable value, and providing rapid mass production services for a series of thermoplastic standard products, including instrument panels, center control trim panels, door trims, wheel trims, and C-pillar reinforcement beams. At present, HRC has formed a complete process layout covering two major technological routes, namely thermoset and thermoplastic, which flexibly meets the needs of different application scenarios such as structural body parts, interior and exterior trims, showing strong process adaptability and market adaptability, and further promoting the breakthrough of the traditional high-end application limitations of carbon fiber materials and accelerating the penetration into the mass consumer market.
From 10,000 meters high to urban road surface to dry meters low altitude, comprehensive through the application boundary
From 10,000 meters high general aviation, to the ground speeding new energy vehicles, and then to 1,000 meters low altitude aircraft, carbon fiber is constantly deep into the modern manufacturing industry of each vein, casting the industrial picture of the thousands of forms. As a technological innovator and promoter rooted in the carbon fiber manufacturing industry, HRC has established unique competitive advantages in many emerging race tracks by relying on the advantages of local geographical location and international cutting-edge technology vision, and giving full play to the ability of cross-field technology migration, and constructed the application layout of "high altitude - ground - low altitude". At present, the company not only continues to lead in the automotive carbon fiber parts market, but also successfully entered the global aviation manufacturing supply chain, becoming a partner of Airbus, Commercial Airplanes and other first-class aerospace host enterprises, and highly recognized by customers for its excellent quality. Riding on the "low altitude economy" new wind mouth, carbon fiber composite materials as a low-altitude aircraft "take-off" just need, the market demand spurt, HRC also ushered in a new development opportunity again, as a global scarcity of carbon fiber parts and components research and development, airframe design, As a first-class partner with global scarcity of carbon fiber parts research and development, airframe design, manufacturing and assembly of the whole chain of capabilities, the company is currently involved in the development and manufacture of a considerable number of mainstream models in the existing domestic low-altitude market to varying degrees, including the Xiaopeng Huitian "Land Carrier", "Traveling Old X2", the Beluga Airline W5000 We have developed and manufactured a number of mainstream models, including Xiaopeng Huitian's "Land Carrier", "Old X2", and Moby Dick W5000.
Tackle the necklace technology, build the whole life cycle ecological closed loop
Throughout the layout of China's carbon fiber industry chain, long faced with the structural challenges of "upstream raw materials concentration, weak processing in the middle reaches", processing and molding as a connection between the raw materials and the end application of the mid-range link, there is a significant technological disconnect. In this regard, HRC has assembled a highly specialized team of experts to fill in the gaps in many aspects of R&D and production, from R&D, engineering design, industrial mass production to recycling and reuse, and has realized the technological barriers throughout the entire life cycle of carbon fibers, and has been awarded the National Specialized, Specialized and New "Little Giant", and three of its companies have been awarded the recognition of "National High and New Technology Enterprise". High-tech enterprises". It is especially worth mentioning that in the field of recycling and reuse, in the face of the "carbon fiber waste recycling", an industry-wide problem HRC with pioneering patented technology and exclusive business model for the industry to provide an important technical path, which also gained a high degree of affirmation of the international giants, including Airbus, through the Airbus Aircraft Life Cycle Service Center (ALSC) and the Airbus Aircraft Life Cycle Service Center (ALSC), the company has been awarded the "National Specialized, Specialized and New" small giant. By cooperating with Airbus Aircraft Life Cycle Service Center (ALSC) to launch China's first aircraft dismantling and recycling project, and exploring 100% carbon filament recycling technology and industrialized application with Hafei Airbus, we have promoted the green transformation and upgrading of the industrial chain.
In the era of booming new materials industry, China Smart Manufacturing is writing its own brilliant chapter. From the new energy automobile to the low altitude aircraft to take off, the Chinese brand with innovative strength to constantly refresh the world perception. In this profound change led by the material revolution, driven by intelligent manufacturing and synergized by the whole industry chain, HRC is both a firm practitioner and committed to becoming a key enabler, helping Chinese brands to stand out in the global industrial upgrading track and create a more brilliant future!
Source: HRC Hengrui Carbon Fiber.
Source: HRC Hengrui Carbon Fiber