Coatings: The level of innovation in fine chemical industry needs to be improved urgently

China Coatings Network
: Fine chemical industry is one of the most dynamic innovation areas, representing a country's chemical industry development level. In 2014, China's fine chemicals output value of about 3.5 trillion yuan, that year the national chemical industry output value of about 8.8 trillion yuan, the fine rate of about 40%, and the United States, the European Union and Japan's fine rate has reached more than 70%. It can be seen that the level of development of fine chemical industry in China needs to be improved urgently, and the space is huge.
The 13th Five-Year Plan period, the fine chemical industry should base on scientific and technological innovation, strengthen the research and development of key common technologies, products and equipment and industrialization application demonstration, while finding ways to make good use of various financing platforms, through adjustment and optimization of product structure to enhance the international competitiveness of products.
, optimize the joint development model of industry, science and research, and establish a long-term mechanism of win-win cooperation. During the 11th Five-Year Plan period, the Ministry of Science and Technology and other six ministries of the State Council actively promoted the establishment of strategic alliances for industrial technology innovation, and implemented a number of scientific and technological projects through several pilot alliances. Many strategic alliances have been set up throughout the country, combining the various innovative elements of institutions of higher learning and research institutes with the strong demand for new technologies by enterprises, enhancing the relevance of scientific and technological topics, speeding up the process of transforming scientific and technological achievements into real productivity, and achieving certain results. During the "13th Five-Year" period, further efforts are needed to optimize the joint scientific and technological innovation model of industry, education and research.
, strengthen the top-level design, the implementation of catalytic technology innovation projects. The core of fine chemical industry is catalytic technology, 60% of the fine chemical products produced globally each year and 80% of all fine chemical processes are related to catalysis. At the same time, the catalyst itself is an important variety of fine chemical industry. In a sense, most of the world's well-known chemical companies through monopoly catalysts, high-end equipment and other core technologies and dominate the world chemical industry's level of technological development. At present, China specializes in fine chemical catalysts and applied technology research tasks are less, and the booming fine chemical industry is very out of harmony. Therefore, during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the competent industrial departments should attach great importance to the innovation and development of catalytic technology, implement catalytic technology innovation projects, and support the optimization and upgrading of the fine chemical industry.
, hydrogenation, esterification, alkylation and asymmetric synthesis are typical fine chemical reaction processes. In the task design and content selection of catalytic technology innovation engineering, we should choose typical reactions for the innovation development and industrial application demonstration of catalytic technology, and effectively promote the achievements of innovation.
third, "up and down the extension", extending the industrial chain. "Up extension" is to expand upstream to reduce costs and enhance the competitiveness of enterprises. However, because fine chemicals are characterized by small quantities, varieties, technology-intensive, high value-added, do not have a considerable scale of product production capacity and marketing capacity, the general fine chemical enterprises to upstream development is extremely difficult. Relatively speaking, most fine chemical enterprises are directly facing the needs of end customers, its downstream development and extension is a possible choice. Specific ideas and directions are: the product to do deep and fine, after the market segment to increase the same type of product brand to adapt to customer needs in all aspects; New on the same or similar functions of other products, rich product line; Or the original location of raw materials companies, but also "play football", into a supplier of end products.
, strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights and establish a mechanism for sharing results and benefit-sharing. Fine chemical industry is a technology-intensive industry, which is shown as fast information renewal, strong confidentiality and strong patent monopoly. The development time of raw drug products such as medicine and pesticides is long, the cost is high, and the success rate is very low. And industries such as
coatings
, cosmetics and other products to match technology-based, but also often because the formulation technology is "a layer of window paper", enterprises are mostly reluctant to apply for patents. Even state-level support for science and technology projects, by enterprises as relying on the unit to break through key technologies and the formation of scientific and technological achievements, and because enterprises are not willing to train competitors, it is difficult to form a results-sharing mechanism. Therefore, the industry should concentrate on exploring a set of practical results sharing and benefit-sharing mechanism.
, expand financing channels and help science and technology innovation and industrial upgrading. Fine chemical enterprises are mostly small and medium-sized enterprises, from the bank loan is extremely difficult, the road to listing financing is also very difficult. Therefore, many enterprises have long relied on private lending to develop, high financing costs, financing risks and poor continuity of access to capital. In recent years, with the further deepening of the reform of the national financial and financial system, various financing platforms have been emerging. Fine chemical enterprises should choose suitable financing channels according to the actual situation. At the same time, the state should urge the financial system to improve the financial support policies and operating mechanisms for small and medium-sized enterprises, actively promote the legalization and standardization of private financing, and build a multi-natured and multi-way financial platform to support the development of small and medium-sized enterprises.
Zhenyi, Secretary-General of the Strategic Alliance for Technological Innovation in the Fine Chemical Catalytic Industry