1、Foreign engineering plastics industry started earlier

Foreign engineering plastics industry started earlier. In 1931, the United States DuPont Company first synthesized PA66 in the laboratory, and in 1939, PA66 was industrialized and was the first industrialized engineering plastic. 1950-1980 for the global engineering plastics industry research and development of rapid development period, Germany Bayer, the United States DuPont, the United States Strange Company has developed polycarbonate (PC), polyformaldehyde (POM), polyimide (PI) and other engineering plastics.

In comparison, China's engineering plastics started late, but the rapid development, has gradually formed a complete industrial chain with resin synthesis, plastic modification and alloy, processing and application related supporting capabilities, the industrial scale continues to expand, and exports continue to grow; Enterprise scale continues to grow, product varieties continue to increase; The level of science and technology is improving day by day, and some product technology and quality indicators have also approached the advanced level of foreign countries. In recent years, the industrialization of PPS, PI, PEEK and other special engineering plastics and downstream products has accelerated, and small varieties such as polysulfone, polyaryl ester, and special polyamide are in the stage of technology development and application research, and the industrialization process is slow.

2、Global engineering plastics advantage enterprises are distributed in the United States, Germany and other regions

With the rapid development of automotive, electronic, electrical, communication technology and machinery industry, the demand for engineering plastics with special excellent properties such as high strength, heat resistance, flame retardant has been rapidly increased.

At present, the production of engineering plastics in highly industrialized countries such as the United States and Germany is far ahead of the global level, and it is a better area for the development of engineering plastics in the world. The world's well-known engineering plastics production enterprises mainly include DuPont, Dow, BASF, Rhodia, Mitsubishi, Teijin and other enterprises.

From the perspective of the enterprise competition pattern of subdivided products, DuPont is the world's largest nylon resin manufacturer, SABIC company (after the acquisition of GE Plastics Group) is the world's largest modified PC, PPO manufacturer; Basf has strong competitiveness in the field of automotive engineering plastics.

3、Domestic engineering plastics enterprises are mainly foreign-funded and Sino-foreign joint ventures

In recent years, with the large-scale and large-scale construction of new engineering plastic devices in our country, the original devices with small-scale, intermittent, backward technological route and lack of competition have gradually withdrawn from the market.

From the perspective of enterprise types, domestic engineering plastics enterprises are mainly foreign-funded and Sino-foreign joint ventures, followed by state-owned, private and other types of enterprises. At present, China's main engineering plastics production enterprises include what Group, China Chemical Blue Star Group, Yuntianhua and a number of state-owned enterprises on the scale; At the same time, DuPont, Bayer, Teijin, Mitsubishi and other international well-known manufacturers have invested in China to build factories and expand the scale, and are important participants in China's engineering plastics enterprises; The development of private enterprises such as Tunhe, Jiangyin and Shili in Lanshan, Xinjiang, and Deyang in Sichuan is also more prominent.

—The main domestic PA production enterprises are Invista, what Group, Jiangsu Huayang, etc.

From the perspective of enterprise competition pattern of segmented products, the global polyamide engineering plastics manufacturers are mainly Invista, Ascend, DuPont, BASF and so on. From the perspective of domestic competition pattern, domestic PA66 manufacturers mainly include Invista, What Group, Jiangsu Huayang and so on; In terms of PA6, major domestic enterprises include Zhongjin New Materials, Haiyang Chemical Fiber, Luxi Chemical Industry, Xinhui Meida and so on.

—The main domestic PC manufacturers are Covestro, Luxi Chemical, Zhejiang Petrochemical and so on

At present, PC production technology is mastered in a few international factories, in recent years, although China has Zhejiang Fengfeng chemical, Luxi chemical and other domestic manufacturers have been put into production, but its production technology and international factories still have a lot of gaps. From the perspective of the production capacity of major domestic PC manufacturers, the main manufacturers are Covestro, Luxi Chemical, Zhejiang Petrochemical and so on.

—The main domestic POM production enterprises are Yuntianhua, Yankuang Luhua, Shenhuaning coal, Tianye Chemical and so on

International POM production is mainly concentrated in the United States, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands and other developed countries. Domestic POM enterprises mainly introduce technology, from the point of view of the production capacity of the main domestic POM production enterprises, the main production enterprises are Yuntianhua, Shenhuaning coal, Tiano Chemical and so on.

—The main domestic PBT production enterprises are Changchun Chemical, Kanghui petrochemical, Wuxi Xingsheng and so on

Global PBT manufacturers are mainly concentrated in the United States, Western Europe, Japan and South Korea, the main manufacturers are Celanese, Ticona, Teiji, Toray Company, Bayer Company and so on. From the production capacity of the main domestic PBT production enterprises, the main production enterprises are Changchun Chemical, Kanghui Petrochemical, Wuxi Xingsheng, Yizheng chemical fiber, Zhejiang Meiyuan, Lanshan Tunhe and so on.

—The main manufacturers of PPO are Saudi Basic Industries Corporation, Asahi Kasei, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical, Nantong Star and Xinbao New Materials

PPO is one of the most import-dependent engineering plastics in China, and it has been mainly dependent on imports for a long time. At present, there are only five enterprises in the world that truly master the 10,000-ton PPO industrial production technology, including Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), Japan's Asahi Kasei, Japan's Mitsubishi Gas Chemical, China Blustar's Nantong Star Synthetic Materials Co., LTD and Xinbao New Materials Co., LTD.

—The technical difficulties of industrialization of domestic special engineering plastics enterprises remain to be solved

At present, the domestic has initially realized the industrialization of PI, PPA, LCP, PEEK and other varieties, but compared with the advanced level of foreign countries, the industry as a whole is still in the early stage of development, and there are many difficulties in the process of industrialization of some technologies to be solved. Major global and domestic specialty engineering plastics manufacturers are as follows：

4、High performance or enterprise focus on research and development direction

In recent years, with the continuous technological and product innovation of relevant enterprises in the industry, the localization of engineering plastics has accelerated. In the context of technological research and development and the downstream application industry of engineering plastics, especially the accelerated development of strategic emerging industries, it is expected that the self-sufficiency rate of raw materials and the production level of engineering plastic products will continue to increase. In addition, with the improvement of lightweight, high strength, high temperature resistance, shock absorption, sealing and other requirements in automotive, modern rail transit, aerospace and other fields, high performance or as a key research and development direction of enterprises.