Baotou rare Earth High-tech Zone: promote "rare Earth +" to high-end field with the power of science and technology

We should not only transform and upgrade "extend the chain to expand the chain", but also take green as the bottom to "climb to the high end". Since the beginning of 2022, the rare earth industry in Baotou rare Earth High-tech Zone in Inner Mongolia has continuously optimized the industrial ecological environment, increased investment in scientific and technological research and development, planned at the fastest speed, prepared for the most practical measures, and promoted with the highest efficiency around the development strategy of "2mm 2n". We will further increase the intensity of technological research and development and the transformation of scientific and technological achievements in the application of rare earths, demonstrating the determination of "sprint at the start and decisive battle at the beginning," and continue to use the power of science and technology. Boost the "rare earth +" industry to the high-end field.

Aim at the frontier and explore the key common technologies

Recently, the six color powder production lines of Inner Mongolia Jingtao Zirconium Industry Co., Ltd. are extremely busy and are adding full horsepower to the sample production of green and sea-blue powder. Ren Yucheng, deputy general manager of the company, said that the original particle size of the colored rare earth zirconia powder produced by the company's high energy ball milling technology has reached the nanometer level, has the characteristics of uniform particle size and high sintering activity, and has been recognized by the market. Orders have been received from the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta regions.

"We are a science and technology enterprise. thanks to the good business environment of the rare Earth High-tech Zone in 2021, the enterprise has received strong support in project approval, science and technology project declaration, intellectual property declaration and protection, as well as 3 million yuan of support funds. it has played a role in promoting the next development of the enterprise." According to Wang Sikai, general manager of the company, the company is working with Baotou Materials Research Institute of Shanghai Jiaotou University, Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology and Beijing Aeronautical Materials Research Institute to develop rare earth ceramic thermal barrier coatings. This technology belongs to the domestic "neck jam" technology. The rare earth ceramic thermal barrier coating used on the turbine engine blade of military aircraft can block the attack of the high temperature of 1500 degrees for the turbine blade, effectively play the role of thermal insulation, and can greatly increase the service life of the turbine blade.

In Baotou Changan permanent Magnet Motor Co., Ltd., the vitality and achievements brought by scientific and technological innovation are also dazzling in the development process of rare earth industry.

"Changan permanent Magnet, as a scientific and technological small and medium-sized enterprise and national high-tech enterprise based on R & D, has reached the leading domestic and international advanced level in many technologies." Zhang Jipeng, general manager of the company, said proudly.

According to Zhang Jipeng, the special motor produced by Changan permanent magnet takes nearly 42 days and nights to turn around at low speed and 50000 revolutions per minute at high speed. It can work in ultra-low temperature and high vacuum environment at-196C, and can also work in a high temperature environment at 150C. In addition, the high-efficiency, low-noise watertight motor developed by the company has solved a number of industry problems and realized the work at the depth of 11000 meters.

Zhang Jipeng believes that R & D investment is the basis and guarantee of technological innovation. During the 13th five-year Plan period, the company's annual R & D investment accounted for more than 20%, driving the enterprise's main economic indicators to achieve more than 20% growth. During the 14th five-year Plan period, we will further increase investment in scientific research and strive to increase the main economic indicators of enterprises by more than 30% through technological research and development. "

Do enough features to promote rare earths to the high-end field

At the beginning of the new year, there has been frequent news of the rare earth industry in Baotou rare Earth High-tech Zone.

Baotou's first foreign academician workstation settled in rare earth high-tech zone. The academician workstation for the application of rare earth magnetic materials, led by Schuldmit, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, will inject new impetus into the high-quality development of the rare earth industry.

On February 10, the Torch Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology formally approved the rare earth high-tech zone to become the first batch of units to implement the special action of "1 billion yuan" in the scientific and technological financial innovation service of the Ministry of Science and Technology, promoting the agglomeration of financial resources to scientific and technological enterprises. we will promote the improvement of the level of scientific and technological financial

Not long ago, four new rare earth products from the rare earth high-tech zone were selected into the first batch of new materials in Inner Mongolia Autonomous region, which were identified as ultra-high purity and low impurity lanthanum and cerium products of Inner Mongolia Xinyu rare Earth functional material Co., Ltd., neodymium (yttrium) iron boron lightweight rare earth permanent magnet material of Baotou Tianshi New rare Earth Materials Co., Ltd., and honeycomb porous out-of-stock catalyst of Inner Mongolia Seagate Environmental Technology Co., Ltd. Magnet of Baotou Yingshi dilute Magnetic New material Co., Ltd.

We will adhere to the direction of developing high technology and realizing industrialization, strive to have more than 150 national high-tech enterprises and national science and technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises, and ensure that the intensity of funding for research and experimental development (R & D) is more than 4.1%. This is another set goal for the scientific and technological innovation work of the rare earth high-tech zone since 2022.

This year, the rare earth industry of rare earth high-tech zone will try its best to improve the scale and quality of each industrial chain. Permanent magnet materials focus on promoting the Jinli permanent magnet project with an annual output of 20000 tons, Antai science and technology with an annual output of 20000 tons, Ketian Magnetic Industry with an annual output of 8000 tons of high-performance rare earth permanent magnets and devices, Earth Bear annual output of 5000 tons of high-end manufacturing high-performance rare earth permanent magnet materials and devices to achieve output and efficiency, promoting the design and production capacity of magnetic materials to reach more than 150000 tons, accounting for about half of the country. Hydrogen storage materials promote the strategic cooperation between Zhengwei Group and Haoming rare earth to speed up the construction of Ni-MH battery project. it is estimated that the output will reach 200 million amperes in 2022 and the output value will exceed 2 billion yuan. We will speed up the expansion of production scale and promote the diversified development of hydrogen storage materials on the basis of the existing project with an annual output of 200 tons of new rare earth magnesium nickel based hydrogen storage alloy electrode materials. Polishing materials promote Fuhai New Materials annual output of 9000 tons of high-performance multi-purpose polishing materials project, Mingxin Science and Technology annual output of 3000 tons of high-performance rare earth polishing materials industrialization project to achieve output and efficiency, and build a national production and sales center of polishing materials.

In terms of terminal applications, we will vigorously develop rare earth permanent magnet motors, expand the "rare earth +" industry, strengthen cooperation with leading enterprises of magnetic sensors, and establish a research and development and production base for a new generation of magnetic sensitive components. We will promote the large-scale mass production of rare earth bearing steel, promote the all-round development of rare earth optical functions, catalytic auxiliaries, special alloys and other fields, and create hundreds of billions of industrial clusters.

Innovation is the most important thing in industrial development. The rare earth high-tech zone will persist in taking the action of "invigorating Mongolia through science and technology" as the leader, give full play to the main role of enterprises, strengthen the construction of the carrier of innovation platform, implement major scientific and technological projects, and focus on solving key common technological problems in the industry. to provide scientific and technological support for the high-quality development of the rare earth industry.