Hunan Zhongxin New Materials Technology Co., Ltd. established its enterprise technical center in March 2018. The center primarily focuses on the R&D of vanadium alloy products, including high-purity vanadium pentoxide, high-nitrogen high-purity vanadium-nitrogen alloy, high-quality vanadium-aluminum alloy, as well as the development of efficient and clean production processes and semi-automatic equipment for vanadium alloy materials, such as horizontal mixers, compactors, bag breakers, and semi-automated production lines.
Since the establishment of the enterprise technical center, the company’s leadership at all levels has given significant attention and support to staffing and financial investment. To strengthen the company’s technical capabilities and development of key new products, the center is actively cooperating with colleges, universities, and research institutes, hiring experts from research institutions to work at the company or serve as permanent consultants. The center also focuses on talent acquisition and development, adhering to a development path that combines industry, university, and research.
The company allocates a certain amount of funds each year to the center for technical R&D and acquisition of advanced testing, experimental, and processing equipment, providing the prerequisites for new product development. It has also introduced incentive mechanisms for new product development, significantly enhancing the company’s technological innovation capabilities and speed of new product development.
2018
Year of Establishment
40members
R&D Team Size
35millions RMB
Investment in Equipment
56
Independent Patents
Technical Team
The company boasts highly skilled and experienced discipline leaders and a high-quality team for technical R&D in the field of vanadium alloys. Currently, the company has approximately 40 R&D personnel, including an expert committee of 8 members. These experts cover various fields, including metallurgy, chemical engineering, materials engineering, automatic control, new energy, etc. The talent team is well-balanced in terms of expertise, age, and qualifications, and it is stable. Additionally, the company has set up the management committee of enterprise technical center.
The technical center has established a 500-square-meter R&D laboratory for vanadium alloy materials. It has obtained 63 independent patents and ISO quality management certificates. In 2021 it participated in the formulation of China national standard GB/T40301-2021 for vanadium trioxide. The center possesses more than 100 sets of cutting-edge R&D, testing, and engineering equipment. The R&D equipment includes inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometers, oxygen nitrogen analyzers, infrared carbon sulfur analyzers, high-precision electronic balances, visible spectrophotometers, oscillographic polarographs, etc. Pilot scale equipment includes crushing and mixing dust removal system equipment, mechanical vapor recompression, high-pressure and high-temperature reactors, and medium-high-temperature reaction furnaces. These are complemented by equipment operation monitoring systems and automatic control systems, ensuring the solid implementation of industrialization and product quality.