As an important part of the new materials industry, the new chemical material industry is a new field with more vitality and development potential in the chemical industry. Policies such as the “14th Five-Year Plan” and “Double Carbon” strategy have all positively driven the technology of the industry effect.

New chemical materials involve organic fluorine, organic silicon, energy saving, environmental protection, electronic chemicals, inks and other new materials. They refer to those currently developed and under development that have excellent performance or certain special functions that traditional chemical materials do not have. Of new chemical materials. New chemical materials have great application space in the fields of automobiles, rail transit, aviation, electronic information, high-end equipment, energy saving and environmental protection, medical equipment, and urban construction.

Main categories of new chemical materials
Classified according to industrial categories, new chemical materials include three categories: one is high-end chemical products in new fields, the other is high-end varieties of traditional chemical materials, and the third is new chemical materials produced through secondary processing (high-end coatings, high-end adhesives) , Functional membrane materials, etc.).

New chemical materials mainly include engineering plastics and their alloys, functional polymer materials, organic silicon, organic fluorine, special fibers, composite materials, electronic chemical materials, nano chemical materials, special rubber, polyurethane, high-performance polyolefins, special coatings, special There are more than ten categories including adhesives and special additives.

Policy drives technological innovation of new chemical materials
The development of new chemical materials in China began in the 1950s and 1960s, and relevant supporting and normative policies were successively introduced to create a good growth environment for China’s new chemical materials industry. Since the beginning of the 21st century, China’s research on new chemical materials has been The development has achieved a number of breakthrough research results, and the new materials developed have been successfully applied in many fields and have brought good news to the development of many industries in China.

Analysis of the “14th Five-Year Plan” related technical planning for the new chemical material industry

Facing the “14th Five-Year Plan”, in view of the problems that the industry faces small total volume, unreasonable structure, few original technologies, lack of support for common technologies, and core technologies being controlled by others, the New Material Industry Innovation Development Forum has determined to make up for shortcomings, improve performance, and promote applications. , Keep an eye on key tasks in four fronts.

In accordance with the “Fourteenth Five-Year Development Guide for the New Chemical Materials Industry” issued by the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation in May 2021, it is planned that during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, my country’s new chemical materials industry’s main business income and fixed asset investment Maintain rapid growth and strive to achieve high-end and differentiated industries by 2025, with significant changes in development methods and a significant improvement in the quality of economic operations.

Analysis of the technology drive of the new chemical material industry by the strategy of carbon neutrality and carbon peaking

In fact, the dual-carbon strategy continuously optimizes the structure of the industry and upgrades the technical level of the industry through development with constraints, and promotes the development of the economy in a higher quality and more sustainable direction. Through analyzing the structural transformation of the supply and demand side of chemical products, explain the driving effect of this strategy on the new chemical materials industry.

The impact of the dual carbon goal is mainly to optimize supply and create demand. Optimizing supply is embodied in the compression of backward production capacity and the encouragement of new processes. The new production capacity of most chemical products is strictly limited, especially the high energy consumption and high emission products in the traditional coal chemical industry. Therefore, the production of replaceable new chemical materials and the use of new catalysts are used to increase the utilization rate of raw materials and increase the exhaust gas. Reduce carbon emissions and gradually replace existing backward production capacity.

For example, the latest DMTO-III technology of Dalian Institute of Chemical Technology not only reduces the unit consumption of methanol to 2.66 tons, the new catalyst also increases the yield of olefin monomers, avoids the C4/C5 cracking step, and directly reduces carbon dioxide emissions. In addition, BASF’s new technology replaces natural gas as the heat source for steam cracking of ethylene with a new furnace with electric heaters, which can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by up to 90%.

The creation of demand also has two meanings: one is to expand the application demand of existing new chemical materials, and the other is to replace old materials with new materials that are environmentally friendly and low-carbon emissions. The former takes new energy as an example. New energy vehicles use a large number of materials such as thermoplastic elastomers, which directly increase the demand for related new chemical materials. In the latter, the replacement of old materials by new materials will not significantly increase the total amount of terminal demand, and more will affect the use of raw materials. For example, after the promotion of degradable plastics, the use of traditional plastic films has decreased.

Technical development direction of key areas of new chemical materials
There are many types of new chemical materials. According to the scale of the subdivided material industry and the degree of competition, the new chemical materials are divided into three major types of technologies and their application fields: advanced polymer materials, high-performance composite materials, and new inorganic chemical materials.

Advanced polymer materials technology

Advanced polymer materials mainly include silicone rubber, fluoroelastomer, polycarbonate, silicone, polytetrafluoroethylene, biodegradable plastics, polyurethane, and ion exchange membranes, and various sub-categories. The popular technologies of sub-categories are summarized and analyzed. China’s advanced polymer material technology has a wide distribution and a wide range of applications. Among them, the fields of organic polymer compounds and basic electrical components are highly active.

High-performance composite materials

The research hotspots of China’s high-performance composite materials industry are organic polymer compounds, basic electrical components, and general physical or chemical methods or devices, accounting for nearly 50%; Molecular organics are used as ingredients, and methods or devices used to directly convert chemical energy into electrical energy are highly technically active.

New inorganic chemical materials

At present, new inorganic chemical materials mainly include graphene, fullerene, electronic grade phosphoric acid and other sub-categories. However, in general, the development of new inorganic chemical materials technology is relatively concentrated, and the active areas of patented technology are concentrated in basic electrical components, organic high Molecular compounds, inorganic chemistry and other fields.

During the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, the state formulated relevant policies to encourage and guide the rapid development of the new chemical material industry, and the new chemical material industry has become one of the areas where the Chinese market is currently growing well. The forward-looking analysis believes that for the new chemical materials industry, on the one hand, policies guide the technological development direction of the new chemical materials industry, and on the other hand, the policies are good for the development of the new chemical materials industry, and then promote social capital to increase the innovative research and development of new chemical materials technology. With investment, the technological activity of the new chemical material industry is rapidly heating up.