The Hexi Corridor in Gansu Province by car, take the Guazhou, the Yumen, on Xinjiang, where there is a world of giant windmills. Tall tower formations, three or four meter long arm of the wind blades rotate, the momentum of spectacular.
January 2011, the National Development and Reform Commission of Energy announced: Gansu, Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang, the growth rate of wind power installed capacity quickly marked the end of 2010, total installed capacity of wind power in China reached 41.827 million kilowatts, compared with 2009 greatly increased 62% year on year,glue stick for the first time surpass the U.S. as the world superpower of wind power installed capacity.
"Superpower does not mean that the first power." Harsh climate and environment in western China, the Gobi desert of Mustang dust clouds of Feishazoudan, perennial frost rain erosion, Noon super ultraviolet, not only the giant windmill facing unprecedented challenges, but also to the world's industrial coatings out of a difficult problem.
Surface coatings for industrial equipment, "armor." How to make this layer of "armor" against the harsh climate and environment before the bulletproof, is the paint industry to address the cutting-edge issues.glue gun Let the ancient Silk Road into a clean energy corridor at the same time, Gansu for the design of the domestic "Golden Flower" almost certain.
"Foreign brand" sink like a stone.
China's wind power started late, and land-based wind farms, mainly in the "Three North" areas and sandstorms in the desert prone areas. Since 2005, China's wind power installed capacity to an annual rate of 100% of the rapid development of new installed capacity in 2009 as the world's speed.
With the substantial growth rate of installed capacity, wind power coatings market in China engaged in a fierce battle. From Denmark, Germany, Italy, the U.S. chemical paint companies, some of which are Fortune 500 International brands, and they by virtue of their use in the field of wind power for many years of experience and proven heavy-duty protective coatings, paints the first to become China's wind power market, "hegemony."
But the west wind allows the these international big-name "complain incessantly." By design, wind power generation equipment should be 20 years of life, but because of the erosion of sand, and some "foreign brand" equipment running for less than 5 years have blurred state. Wind power in the State Engineering Research Center for Coating and Protective Coating Laboratory, a large number of fan blades were badly worn materials, silent witness to the development of wind power in western China a difficult process.
Practice has proved: many international big names to adapt to the complexity of the maritime environment, the European continent, but the soil in western China is "hard" services, and ultimately only one or two companies, through the development of research and development and localization improvements, found a strong anti-wind abrasive capacity of wind power firm monopoly coatings market in China, reaping lucrative profits.
Some experts even predicted: the desert wind and sand erosion can not be resolved, not suitable for western China to develop wind power.
International big price cuts three.
This struggle for markets, so that occupies a corner of the Northwest Yongxin Group researchers angry. The Group Chairman Kang Haijun said: "To promote the country's new energy development, for the benefit of society, we must raise domestic production of wind power paint the banner!"
Yongxin Group's predecessor was founded in 1965, Northwest Paint, paint industry was once a national model for enterprises, and in the heavy anti-corrosion coatings, industrial coatings, resins, latex paint, wood coatings industry leader in the fields.
As early as 2000, in the east of Yumen the Sanshilijingzi State Power Longyuan clean source of wind farms, the construction of Gansu Province, the first wind farm, a total of 12 units, 6 units brush the paint on the Northwest Yongxin . Over time, was wrapped units Novel fiber coating without loss, while the brush unit of foreign brands have been "covered traumata."