"China's tire industry has begun to produce high quality products, the direction of creating their own brand, and high-quality production of tires must be to support high-performance materials. Focus on the future, ahead of R & D is the consistent aim of Cabot. Kabo Special / Group of Xingtai Xuyang quality carbon black project will start in September this year, which will produce a production line in China was not yet the supply of ultra-reinforcing carbon black products, new brands. "Bot Vice President, General Manager of Asia Pacific Xinsheng Zhang, recently said in an interview.

    Has made several power projects in China

    Dr. Zhang Xinsheng Xingtai mentioned factory is the first phase of Cabot and Xuyang Group to jointly invest nearly 1 billion U.S. dollars, the design capacity of 130,000 tons / year of carbon black project is expected to break ground in September 2011, 2013 . The project will be developed using Cabot latest high-performance, high-quality carbon black production technology, the overall planned investment $ 450,000,000, will eventually form a 30 million ton / year scale.

    In addition to a joint venture with the rising sun, the Cabot in China, there are many projects under construction. Including the investment of approximately $ 50,000,000 in Jiangxi, a joint venture with Blue Star Group extension of fumed silica production line, production capacity from the current 5,000 tons / year to expand to 1.5 million tons / year; invested $ 25,000,000 in the construction of Tianjin, the world's largest masterbatch grain production, the annual production of 4.5 million tons, is expected to put into operation in May this year.

    Dr. Zhang Xinsheng said, and now the demand for carbon black in western China is still relatively small, especially for high-performance product needs, but its potential can not be overlooked, Cabot concerned about the possibility of investment in all parts of China, as long as conditions are ripe, Cabot will increase investment in China.

    In the "special" characters to make a fuss

    China carbon black oversupply of prominent contradictions. In this context, Cabot is still aggressively expanding in China's total production capacity of carbon black, for what consideration?

    Dr. Zhang Xinsheng said, in fact, whether it is in short supply or oversupply, the key is to see what your product can provide special properties and special uses. As the mobile phone industry to Nokia, Samsung and other brands represented by the traditional market share is very high, but the development of Apple iPhone, not only the price is high, and to book a long time to get, a listing will flock to enter the mobile phone in one fell swoop industry leading enterprises. The mystery is, iPhone can provide to customers do not experience the same performance and value. The same is true of carbon black industry, every enterprise, in a tight market can be developed depends largely on the innovative capacity of enterprises, only more responsive to the market, and even a few steps one step ahead, leading the downstream industry product upgrades to century-old success. For example, Cabot's Xingtai items can be produced in China is not yet released new grade products, and Tianjin, the project will allow Cabot to achieve the goal of green plants.

    Dr. Zhang Xinsheng said that in addition to providing high-performance products, building a green factory is a manufacturer of carbon black to services. The carbon black production to achieve energy utilization, we must reach a certain size before they can be integrated. Cabot Tianjin plant is the world's largest carbon black production plant, the use of special design and technology, was able to achieve the comprehensive utilization of energy, rather than simply waste heat utilization. In the carbon black production, the biggest pollutant is sulfur oxides (SOx), Tianjin plant uses proprietary technology, SOx emission control much better than the national standard. In addition, the Tianjin plant also uses a multi-stage method of staged combustion to reduce nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions.

    One step ahead of high-performance reinforcement materials

    "And the Cabot carbon black plant in Shanghai and Tianjin, the biggest difference is that there is a line Xingtai factory will produce ultra-reinforcing carbon black, which will facilitate the formulation engineers to develop high wear resistance, low rolling resistance tires low power consumption, is a focus on the future of the material.