After 50 years of development, China's FRP industry has been highly recognized, the level of technology and industrial equipment has been greatly improved, the relevant standards system is also improving. But there is still a certain gap with the international advanced level, the future needs to be promoted from applications, research and development, and so on.
China's glass fiber reinforced plastic industry began in 1958, and then, with the rapid development of reform and opening up, great progress has been made in technology, type, scale, application and so on, and a relatively complete industrial system has been formed.
The development and progress of the glass fiber reinforced plastics industry benefits from the performance improvement and output increase of raw and auxiliary materials, including glass fiber, unsaturated polyester resin, phenolic resin, epoxy resin and so on.
The glass fiber as an example, according to the prospective industry Research Institute released the "Chinese glass steel industry sales demand and investment forecast analysis report" data show that in 1958, China's glass fiber production capacity is only 500 t, the yield was 106 T; by 2013, glass fiber production has reached 2 million 850 thousand t, occupy the first in the world.
Not only yield a substantial increase, the technology level is rising, the electric boosting and application of new technology of melting, pure oxygen combustion have appeared, the high quality, high performance glass fiber to achieve the scale of production, to help provide for the development of FRP industry.
After a great breakthrough in the glass fiber reinforced plastics industry, its application area continues to expand. From the aerospace, shipbuilding, transportation, construction, energy saving and environmental protection, medical, electronic and electrical appliances, from oil to defense, sports, sports equipment, glass steel has become indispensable basic material in many fields.
Next, FRP will continue to break, shorten the gap with the international advanced level, and will present the following trends.
First of all, raw and auxiliary materials toward high-performance development, thereby promoting the technical progress of FRP industry, equipment upgrading and product upgrades. High performance is the current direction of raw and auxiliary materials, glass steel industry can take this opportunity to achieve industry upgrading.
Secondly, the high-end glass fiber reinforced plastics products, mainly to the aviation industry, automotive lightweight direction. It is the mainstream of the development of all walks of life in China to break through in the high-end direction, and the glass fiber reinforced plastic industry is no exception. Glass industry is expected to benefit from the boom in the aviation industry and the development of lightweight cars.
Third, equipment, technology and intelligent become an important trend in the development of the industry. Artificial intelligence technology advances by leaps and bounds, industrial production intelligence has become one of the future trends. In this context, the glass fiber reinforced plastic industry is bound to enhance the level of intelligence, further to the high level, large-scale, precision direction.
Finally, green development and cleaner production are the necessary requirements for the development of the industry. In this regard, the glass steel industry should start from many aspects, such as the use of new materials, improve the recycling system, and promote environmentally friendly products, etc., in order to alleviate the pressure on the environment.