On November 26 last year, the Express reported good news: "The world's most expensive rubber technology bid for $100 million could not buy this technology that was monopolized by foreign companies for 66 years and was eventually broken by the Zhejiang people."

From the success of the laboratory to the real well-being of the people, happiness is a bit faster. Yesterday, at the head of the Hangzhou Bay Sea-crossing Bridge in Jiaxing, Deputy Governor Mao Guanglie and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Tsinghua University Chen Xu together laid the foundation stone for the halogenated butyl rubber production line.

Halogenated butyl rubber is a kind of sealing material. With it, the car's bulky body won't quickly run out of gas in the tire, keeping the tire pressure normal all the year round. With it, it can't touch the medical medicament of air. Can safely stay in the container.

In the past two years, China has risen to be the world’s number one car producer and seller, and it consumes hundreds of millions of tires every year. This kind of rubber consumption has climbed by more than 30% each year: it reached 250,000 tons last year, and it sold at least 60,000 yuan per ton. The people of the country have paid 15 billion yuan for this kind of rubber.

All this money was given to foreigners. The West has produced halogenated butyl rubber for 67 years, and China has yet to make a star.

Zhejiang Xinhui Synthetic New Material Co., Ltd. throws the problem of making halogenated butyl rubber to Tsinghua University, and has no intention of inserting it. Tsinghua University has spent more than 20 years developing and forming reactors. This reactor has been used to make nanomaterials. Trying to use it to make rubber is actually quite suitable. With the reactor, the post-processing problem of halogenated butyl rubber was solved. The first set of halogenated butyl rubber production technology with independent intellectual property rights was released by the Chinese people.

Zhu Dequan, chairman of Zhejiang Xinhui Company, said that by the end of next year, this production line on the beach will be able to build up rubber by horsepower, with an annual output of 72,000 tons, accounting for a quarter of the country's total annual demand.

The use of domestic technology to build rubber, energy saving, less sewage, and more desirable is that Zhejiang's cheap rubber production costs will impact the global market.

Zhu Dequan made a comparison. In Zhejiang, investing 2 billion yuan will create a rubber production line with an annual output of 150,000 tons; German companies will build workshops in Singapore, and the production line with an annual output of 100,000 tons will cost 4 billion euros. In addition, the labor costs, operating costs, and transportation costs of the Zhejiang factory are relatively low. In the next three to five years, the decline in the cost of automobile tires can be expected.

The site of Hangzhou Bay was selected to allow China's first halogenated butyl production line to take its place. Zhu Dequan said that the factory was built on the beach and the workshop was only 2 kilometers away from the 10,000-ton terminal.

The main raw material for rubber production is 100,000 tons a year. This raw material must be imported from Saudi Arabia. The giant wheel is on the dock and a 3 kilometer pipeline is used. The liquid raw material flows directly from the dock to the workshop. The chemical reaction heats the steam and it is near. The chemical plant can produce steam during the production process, and Xinhui builds tubes to introduce steam into the workshop. When making rubber, ethylene is an essential coolant. This kind of thing is not a good service. Long-distance transport not only requires each vehicle Thousands of yuan of special vehicles, and explosive. It is precisely that a company around the Xinhui factory can produce ethylene, and then it will pull a pipe to introduce ethylene into the workshop.