China'S Boulders Achieve "World Cup" Champion In 25 Years.

In the past 40 years of reform and opening up, a history of Chinese enterprises has surged and surged.

Open up the great masterpiece of this era of wind and rain, the image of Chinese megalith is particularly brilliant.

In the past 25 years, the famous glass fiber factory has grown into a large multinational company. From the industry followers butterfly to the global weathervane, the change of the identity of the giant stone is a legend. In the past 25 years, the total assets from less than 60 million yuan, less than 5000 tons per year to total assets exceed 24 billion yuan, and annual capacity exceeds 1 million 500 thousand tons.

In the past 25 years, Boulder has constantly climbed to the peak of scientific and technological innovation, intelligent manufacturing and reduced efficiency. It has become the leading enterprise in the global glass fiber industry and has become a tide of the "one way" initiative, which has become a typical sample of high quality development of Chinese enterprises.

"The success story of China's boulders provides valuable and fresh experience for the reform, innovation, management and going out of our enterprises."

Song Zhiping, party secretary and chairman of China Building Materials Group, commented on the story of "turning stones into gold".

The first episode of "turning the stone into gold": laying the foundation

"External indestructible, melting internally"

Glass fiber is made of ore.

Born in the United States 80 years ago, because of its high temperature resistance, corrosion resistance, high strength and good insulation, it has been widely used in aerospace, pportation, electronics, electrical appliances, building materials, energy saving, environmental protection, infrastructure, sports and leisure fields, and has become a new generation of composite materials instead of steel, wood, stone and other traditional materials.

In 1972, Zhang Yuqiang became attached to glass fiber.

This year, Zhang Yuqiang repeatedly handed back a drawing machine from Jiujiang, Jiangxi. Therefore, the Shimen collective factory, which was on the verge of collapse, began to pform to make glass fiber, and boldly stepped up a pioneering road to catch up with the frontier technology.

Along the way, we made steady progress. In 1989, as the first batch of joint-stock pformation enterprises in Zhejiang Province, Tongxiang Zhen Shi Limited by Share Ltd was established and established a standardized corporate governance system, which laid a good foundation for further development.

In 1993, when the Tongxiang economic development zone was established, Zhang Yuqiang shook the rocks at the helm and rushed out of Shimen, forming a joint venture with four local units.

The start of the giant stone can be said to be very difficult. At that time, the domestic glass fiber enterprises used the glass fiber production technology of the Soviet Union, by melting the ore powder into glass balls and then drawing the wires. The technology adopted in Europe and the United States was the direct drawing of the ore powder, that is, the wire drawing line of the pool kiln, which made the production cost lighter and the product quality better.

Faced with the technical blockade in Europe and America, Zhang Yuqiang decided to do it himself.

As a result, five units jointly invested 75 million yuan to invest in the construction of 8000 tons annual production line of pool kiln drawing, and opened the road of independent R & D production line.

At that time, the investment of 75 million yuan was astronomical.

The Asian financial crisis in 1998 brought the boulders into trouble again, almost bought by foreign counterparts.

At that time, there were two choices in front of Zhang Yuqiang, either being eaten by the industry tycoons from the United States, but he could still be a senior executive with a high salary, or he could go public with the central enterprises and China Building Materials Group to explore the way of mixed ownership reform.

Zhang Yuqiang finally chose the latter and described the choice in one sentence: "external indestructible, melting itself inside."

In 1999, the giant stone group joined hands with China's building materials to set up China's huge stones, and successfully listed, raising 210 million yuan of funds to solve the urgent need of the enterprises.

With the capital, the largest stone production line in 2000 was the largest annual production capacity of 16 thousand tons of non alkali glass fiber tank furnace drawing line, and entered the ranks of the first group of glass fiber industry in one fell swoop.

Second steps of "turning the stone into gold": upper level

At least five years ahead of others in technology.

If we say the first ten years of megalith, we are committed to laying the foundation.

Since 2004, the key word of enterprise development is on scale and upper level.

"Technological innovation is the pivot for us to pry up the world of fiberglass!" the development course of the more than 20 years of megelite is a story of continuous innovation and full staff innovation. It is also a marathon running to catch up with technology.

Over the past 25 years, boulders have carried out numerous technological innovations to tackle the technology blockade and pursue the right to speak in the industry.

No matter from the indigenous crucible to replace the platinum furnace, or to carry out the alkali free combined furnace and the middle alkali kiln drawing, whether it was built in 2000, the first production line of the annual production capacity of 16 thousand tons in China, or the record of the largest production line of the largest kilns in the world after that, the megalith gradually established a technological innovation system with "independent research and development as the main technology, supplemented by technology, and integration of production, teaching and research", and gradually realized the pformation from technology followers to technology leaders.

With technological innovation, the optimization and upgrading of the product structure will be promoted, and the boulders will continue to climb to the commanding heights of the industry.

In 2004, the demand for high-performance glass fiber was growing rapidly in the face of new energy and other emerging fields. Because of the fact that the high-performance glass formula has been monopolized by large US companies and the market has not been able to achieve low-cost and large-scale production for a long time, boulders have challenged this world-class problem.

After 8 years of hard work, the giant stone team finally developed E6 high-performance glass fiber. This is China's first high-performance glass fiber formula with independent intellectual property rights and international patent authorization.

Innovation is endless.

Today, the sales volume of E7 products independently developed by megelite is increasing year by year. E8 products have achieved efficient production in 10000 ton tank kilns, realizing the comprehensive surpass of competitors in the field of glass formulation, and E9 products are being developed according to plan.

Innovation blossoms.

At the national science and Technology Awards Conference in 2016, the "high performance glass fiber low cost mass production technology and complete equipment development" project was awarded the two prize of national science and technology progress.

At the same time, this achievement built a demonstration line in the giant stone Egypt factory, and realized the first export of technology to China's fiberglass industry.

"From import to output, this is a capability."

Zhang Yuqiang believes that this is the most proudest.

With "at least five years ahead of others in technology" as pilotage lights, boulders continue to enhance their capability of independent innovation and achieve "double lead" in terms of scale and technology.

In 2018, 24 new products such as Lloyd's register were added to the megalith, totaling 129 product certifications, 91 new patent applications, 46 authorized patents, 581 authorized patents, 112 inventions, and 18 national standards.

While promoting product structure optimization and upgrading, boulder is committed to playing the role of leading enterprises, further reducing the energy consumption per unit product through technological innovation, controlling pollutant generation from the source and upgrading the treatment technology of three wastes, setting up a benchmark for green manufacturing in the industry.

The trilogy of "turning the stone into gold": Internationalization

"Go out bravely, walk resolutely, and come back successfully."

A month ago, the twenty-fourth annual international fiberglass annual meeting of China's megalith was held in Tongxiang's boulder headquarters, bringing together nearly 1000 guests from more than 100 countries and regions around the world to discuss the quality development of the global composite industry.

Hosting the annual international glass fiber annual meeting is a wonderful footnote for the internationalization strategy of giant stones.

The internationalization strategy of boulders began in 1995. Under the guidance of Zhang Yuqiang's idea of "building the market first and building the factory behind", after 20 years of development, Boulder has established a perfect global marketing network, especially in the United States, Europe and other places where glass fiber consumption is concentrated. Boulders have become mainstream suppliers.

In 2012, megalith officially launched the strategy of building overseas factories, with the first choice of Egypt, which is adjacent to Europe, zero tariff, anti dumping, abundant labor resources and strong domestic demand in the future.

After 6 years of hard work, huge stones have been built in Egypt for 3 large-scale production lines.

And supporting projects such as packaging materials are closely followed, and a modern production base has sprung up.

The international capacity project, which has a total investment of over US $600 million, is China's largest investment entity in Egypt, with the most advanced technology and equipment and the fastest pace of construction.

As a landmark project for the implementation of globalization strategy, the project not only fills the blank of the glass fiber manufacturing industry in the Middle East and North Africa, but also has milestone significance for the internationalization of China's glass fiber industry.

In August this year, when Chairman Xi Jinping proposed the "one belt and one road" initiative 5th anniversary, the annual production capacity of 200 thousand tons of fiberglass production base in megalith Egypt has been fully put into operation.

At the same time, the Boulder has spread far North America.

In December 2016, the annual output of 80 thousand tons of glass fiber production line built by megalith invested US $300 million was laid down in Richland County, South Carolina, and became the largest investment enterprise in Richland county since 1984.

After more than a year's construction, at 14:18 on the eastern time of the United States, at 14:18 October 18th, the giant stone company produced 80 thousand kilns per kilo kiln.

The production line is independently designed and built by the boulders, and the design technical indexes reach the most advanced level in the world.

At present, the capital construction of the giant stone company has been completed, the equipment has entered the stage of full installation, and the recruitment training has been carried out in an orderly way.

The dream of building a factory at the source of fiberglass will soon be realized. The giant stone is one step closer to the goal of "three continents and five continents".

It is noteworthy that with the opportunity of "one belt and one road" initiative, the tentacles of globalization of megalith continue to expand.

At present, boulders are speeding up the inspection of new overseas bases and improving the global strategic layout so as to meet the needs of future emerging markets for fiberglass and increase their market share.

"We will go out bravely, walk resolutely and come back successfully," Zhang Yuqiang said.

Fourth steps of "turning the stone into gold": intellectualization

"In the next five years, rebuild a huge stone".

Traditional manufacturing embraces the Internet age, and boulders always lead others.

Since 2012, every progress made by the intelligent development of megalith has been recognized by the outside world and won the model honor awarded by the Ministry of industry and information for many times.

For example, in 2017, the megalith was selected by the Ministry of industry and commerce as the twin demonstration unit of glass fiber intelligent manufacturing and industrial Internet, and only ten in the whole country.

When most enterprises begin to "machine substitutions" and "integration of two technologies", the giant stones of Yong chao chao have been fully manufactured and manufactured intelligently.

"Intelligent manufacturing should be positioned at the leading level of the industry, and it should be embodied in the sense of advance. It should be embodied in the improvement of the comprehensive competitive level, and the full coverage, the whole process and the omnidirectional aspects should be realized so as to achieve full intelligence."

Zhang Yuqiang said.

In August of this year, the first line of China's giant stone new material intelligent manufacturing base has an annual output of 150 thousand tons.

The production line has been put into operation and a brand-new glass fiber intelligent manufacturing plant has been displayed in the eyes of the world.

Yang Guoming, President of China's megalith and Vice-President of megalith group, said in his speech: "reviewing the history of giant stone intelligent manufacturing strategy is decisive and difficult.

We firmly grasp the favorable opportunity for the rise of the new round of technology and industrial revolution, which is deeply integrated with information technology and manufacturing industry. We are committed to promoting the profound pformation of the production mode of fiberglass and vigorously launching the four pioneering journey at the core of intelligent manufacturing.

According to the introduction, the latest glass fiber production line not only integrates advanced experience in the past, but also innovating the application of super large pool kiln technology, intelligent manufacturing technology and green manufacturing technology, and further improves production efficiency, energy efficiency and product quality, reduces operating costs, shortens the cycle of product development, and comprehensively improves the level of intelligent production. It is an intelligent green benchmark production line in fiberglass industry.

China's megalith new material intelligent manufacturing base, which has a total investment of over 10 billion yuan, is expected to be completed and put into operation in 2022, involving 450 thousand tons of roving production line and 180 thousand tons of spinning production line.

After completion, the total scale of glass fiber roving in Tongxiang production base will reach 1 million 250 thousand tons, and the electronic cloth production capacity will be 1 billion meters, so as to achieve the goal of doubling the capacity of glass fiber in headquarters.

Good wind relies on strength to set sail at that time.

In the 40 years of reform and opening up and the 25th anniversary establishment of megalith, China's boulders have opened a whole new chapter. In the next five years, with the mission of "leading innovation in intelligent manufacturing and making contributions to the development of composite materials", taking "maintaining the leader of the global glass fiber industry" as the vision, taking "manufacturing intelligence, production and marketing globalization, control precision and development harmonization" as a strategic move, the boulders will continue to implement the third pioneering undertaking focusing on internationalization. At the same time, we will focus on promoting the fourth pioneering work with "intelligence" as the core, and reconstructing a boulder in five years.