
Category ‘Raw Materials’
Zhongfu Shenying Carbon Fiber Co, Ltd for Zhongfu Shenying SYT45F – 48K carbon fibre
Zhongfu Shenying’s SYT45F carbon fibre is a large-tow carbon fibre specifically developed for the wind power application field, primarily used in manufacturing pultruded carbon plates for wind turbine blade spars. As the primary load-bearing material in wind turbine blades, it not only reduces blade weight but also, thanks to its exceptional mechanical properties, enables the design of larger blade profiles. This advancement supports the lightweighting and upscaling of next-generation wind turbine blades.
Jiangsu Bi-Gold New Material Stock Co., Ltd for its high-performance carbon fibre thermoplastic prepreg
High performance carbon fibre thermoplastic prepreg and its products can withstand temperatures above 200°C for a long time, and have excellent comprehensive properties such as self-flame retardancy, wear resistance, self-lubricating, solvent resistance, and good processing performance. Compared to metallic materials, it is lightweight and high strength. Compared to thermosetting composite materials, it has advantages such as good moisture and heat resistance, good toughness, fatigue resistance, no shelf life, recyclability, and short molding cycle. Widely used in aerospace, military, medical and other fields. After years of technological accumulation abroad, it has been widely applied in various aviation structures such as engines, large aircraft, helicopters, and drones. There are already a large number of mature cases in motor shaft sleeves, pump valve isolation sleeves, and medical fields. The domestic development is relatively lagging behind and is in a state of small-scale application. Production Place: Jurong, Jiangsu, China.
Freshape SA for HiWood, the world’s first wood fibre paper reinforcement
HiWood as a highly competitive material across multiple industries, including aerospace, automotive, marine, sporting goods, and consumer electronics. Freshape has spent years pioneering a disruptive innovation pathway, culminating in the industrial-scale implementation of its proprietary continuous wood modification technology. Production Place: Today, HiWood production has reached ton-scale reactor capacity for fibre treatment and has been fully integrated into a continuous, batch-scale production line at Freshape’s manufacturing facility in Shanghai, China.
Harbin FRP Institute Co., Ltd. For its high heat-resistant bismaleimide resin and its composites for aerospace vehicles
A domestically produced T800 carbon fibre prepreg with a thickness of 0.1mm was prepared using a high heat-resistant bismaleimide resin matrix through hot melt pre-impregnation process. The fibre and resin have excellent matching performance, low volatile content, and long storage period of the prepreg. Research has been conducted on the process and parameters of prepreg, resulting in the preparation of grid reinforced structural products and large complex high-temperature resistant composite cabin sections. These products have been applied in multiple key models in the aerospace field, making significant contributions to the national defence industry. Production Place: Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.
Category ‘New Applications’
Shanghai Cedar Composites Techonology Co., Ltd, CRRC Tangshan Co., Ltd., Taizhou Municipal Railway and Second Project Co., Ltd. for their carbon fibre arco bogie
A domestically produced T800 carbon fibre prepreg with a thickness of 0.1mm was prepared using a high heat-resistant bismaleimide resin matrix through hot melt pre-impregnation process. The fibre and resin have excellent matching performance, low volatile content, and long storage period of the prepreg. Research has been conducted on the process and parameters of prepreg, resulting in the preparation of grid reinforced structural products and large complex high-temperature resistant composite cabin sections. These products have been applied in multiple key models in the aerospace field, making significant contributions to the national defence industry. Production Place: Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.
Sinoma Wind Power Blade Co., Ltd. for its Sinoma 112 onshore high-performance blades
Sinoma’s 112-10MW onshore blade has achieved a breakthrough in multi-scenario application through innovative design: it is suitable for the special environment of “Desert”, and the low roughness sensitivity design ensures the reliability of strong wind and sand conditions; It can be used as the core component of the technical transformation project, and the power generation of the old unit can be greatly increased through the power increase and efficiency improvement scheme; Adapt to the needs of distributed wind power and “wind-solar-storage” multi-energy complementary projects. Through the integrated optimization of pneumatics, structure and materials, the product can reduce costs while ensuring performance, providing efficient solutions for onshore large megawatt units and promoting the large-scale development of the industry. Production Place: Baicheng, Jilin, China.
Zibo Langda Composite Materials Co., Ltd for its mirror-finished carbon fibre roller
It is applied in industries such as electronics, new energy, printing & packaging, and optical films, used in processes like material transmission, coating, and lamination to improve product quality and production efficiency. It can be adapted to various high-speed and high-precision processing equipment. With strong auxiliary performance, it ensures uniform force on materials during coating, lamination and other processes. It has excellent adaptability, capable of stable operation in environments with different temperatures, humidity and corrosion. It fully meets customers’ needs for high-precision, high-efficiency production and high-quality products, effectively improving product yield. Production Place: Zibo, Shandong, China.
Zhuzhou Times New Material Technology Co., Ltd. for its TMT recyclable thermoset wind turbine blade
Large-scale onshore/offshore wind turbine generators. Production Place: Zhuzhou, Hunan, China. Technical Features: Zhuzhou Times New Material Technology Co.,Ltd (TMT) is actively developing sustainable life cycle solutions for wind turbine blades. Confronting the industry challenge of low-value recovery for end-of-life traditional thermoset blades, the company leveraged its profound expertise in composite materials to conduct systematic research in material modification, process optimization, and equipment adaptation. In 2023, this culminated in a technological breakthrough: China’s first recyclable thermoset wind turbine blade, Model TMT86A, successfully completed manufacturing and passed full-scale validation tests.
PetroChina Shanghai Advanced Materials Research Institute Co., Ltd. and Beijing Graphene Institute Co., Ltd for their oil pipeline with self-heating graphene-skinned composite
Large-scale onshore/offshore wind turbine generators. Production Place: Zhuzhou, Hunan, China. Technical Features: Zhuzhou Times New Material Technology Co.,Ltd (TMT) is actively developing sustainable life cycle solutions for wind turbine blades. Confronting the industry challenge of low-value recovery for end-of-life traditional thermoset blades, the company leveraged its profound expertise in composite materials to conduct systematic research in material modification, process optimization, and equipment adaptation. In 2023, this culminated in a technological breakthrough: China’s first recyclable thermoset wind turbine blade, Model TMT86A, successfully completed manufacturing and passed full-scale validation tests.
Category ‘Process & Equipment’
Zhongfu Carbon Fiber Core Cable Technology Co., Ltd and Harbin Institute of Technology for their equipment and process for thermoplastic composite rebar forming in marine engineering
Marine engineering, concrete structure reinforcement, railway and rail transit, wind/solar power, environmental engineering projects, hydraulic engineering, agricultural greenhouses, emergency/disaster relief, and building structure reinforcement. Production Place: Lianyungang, Jiangsu, China.
AVIC Manufacturing Technology Institute for its Manufacturing Technology Institute automatic fibre placement software (MTI AFPS)
The independent wire-laying software based on the secondary development of CATIA, nd has completed the development of independent and localized wire-laying software with complete functions, basically realizing the visualization of trajectory planning, analysis of trajectory, and simulation of machining process, etc., and carried out the verification of the actual wire-laying on the wire-laying equipment. Production Place: Beijing, China.
Lishi (Shanghai) Instruments Co., Ltd for its G1C dual-lens automatic crack tracking and detection system
The G1C dual-lens fully automatic crack tracking and detection system is mainly applied to fracture toughness testing of composite materials, polymer materials, metal materials, etc. It is particularly suitable for crack propagation monitoring in scenarios such as interlaminar fracture and interface fracture, and is widely used in aerospace, automobile manufacturing, material research and development, quality inspection institutions and other fields. It can meet the testing requirements of multiple international standards such as ASTM and ISO. Production Place: Shanghai, China.