this year, our glass production has been rising steadily and has reached full production. On the morning of April 20, there was a busy scene in the factory building of Rainbow Group (Shaoyang) Special Glass Co., Ltd. The person in charge of the enterprise told reporters that the company is grabbing production orders while studying technology to expand production capacity.
Shaoyang City, located in the central and western part of Hunan Province, is an old industrial base city in China, and its development once lagged behind in the province. In recent years, local traditional industries have been transformed and upgraded, and high-tech industries have been introduced and developed. Driven by new technologies and technologies, the new display material industry represented by the "two pieces of glass" of cover plates and substrates is gradually growing.
Rainbow Glass, located in Shaoyang Economic Development Zone, Hunan Province, is a high-precision special glass manufacturing enterprise. Here, the ultra-high temperature glass liquid in the dust-free workshop flows evenly on the surface of the overflow brick and gradually converges into a board. The minimum thickness of this cover glass can be controlled at 0.4 mm, and the seemingly "fragile" appearance has excellent resistance to falling and scratching. "Our products are widely used in mobile phones and new energy vehicles of major brands at home and abroad, and the market is very optimistic about us." Rainbow glass general manager Peng Yinping said.
Rainbow Group (Shaoyang) Special Glass Co., Ltd. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Xiao Wei)
reporter learned that Shaoyang Municipal Government and Rainbow Group jointly built a research and development center, implemented industrial transformation around original achievements, successfully developed a mass production process of high aluminum silicon cover glass, and successively put into operation two production lines in 2019 and 2021, with glass production exceeding 4.2 million square meters last year. In another enterprise in the
industrial chain, Hunan Shaohong Special Glass Co., Ltd., fine sand is melted at the hot end and formed at the cold end to make high-end special glass. "We are concentrating high-quality resources to tackle key core technologies." Liu Zhengmao, deputy to the National People's Congress and chairman of Hunan Shaohong, said. Automatic production line of
Hunan Shaohong Special Glass Co., Ltd. Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Xiao Wei)
In February 2022, 8 production lines in Shaohong, Hunan Province, with a total planned investment of 20 billion yuan, were completed, and the production of high-standard LCD substrate glass projects was launched based on international advanced technology.
Confidence comes from excellent technology. "This kind of LCD substrate glass is only 0.5 mm thick, ultra-long, ultra-wide and ultra-thin, and has extremely high transmittance, thermal stability, physical stability and chemical stability." Liu Zhengmao introduced that after the completion of the project, the annual output of glass will reach 70 million square meters.
"In the past, when we mentioned Shaoyang, we only thought of traditional industries such as hardware, leather bags, shoes, clothing and so on.". Now, with the new material glass industry as the representative, the continuous development of high-tech industry has injected new hope into us. Yin Hongfang, a liaison officer in Shaoyang Jingkai District, said.
In recent years, Shaoyang, Hunan Province, has further promoted the construction of industrial chain, issued a new display material industry development plan, and made every effort to build a 50 billion-grade new display material industry cluster. Shaoyang "Intelligent Manufacturing" has gradually gained a place in the market.
At present, Shaoyang City has built a research platform for special glass industry, gathering more than 80 downstream enterprises. The special glass industry cluster with an output value of nearly 20 billion yuan is producing at full speed and full of confidence.