I have been sharpening my sword for 17 years. From planting an entrepreneurial seed that year to successfully landing on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in September this year, Dai Zexin and his “Youcai” Resources”, ushering in its own “youth” era.
This is a seed with tenacious vitality, this is a seed with magical power. Every step of its growth confirms the power of scientific innovation.
For more than ten years, Chairman of Youcai Environmental Protection Resources Technology Co., Ltd. Dai Zexin digs deep into the “rich ore” of textile regeneration and allows the once inconspicuous waste textiles to be “reborn”. This not only opens up the road to circular economy in the textile industry, but also fills the technical gap in China’s use of polyester textiles to produce high-quality colored polyester short fibers. .
“One tendon”-Yugong Yishan “Nugging Gold” Waste
With the improvement of people’s living standards and changes in consumption patterns, many people’s clothes have changed from “not enough” to “endless”. According to statistics, my country produces more than 20 million tons of waste textiles, mainly polyester fiber, every year. However, the recycling and recycling of polyester fiber started late, resulting in serious waste of resources and solid waste pollution.
How to overcome this problem and pick the “fruits” at the top of the circular economy industry chain “?
As early as 2003, Dai Zexin was eyeing the “treasure” of waste textiles. “. No industry standard? Then do your research! For more than ten years, Dai Zexin and his scientific research team have been “drilling” with the spirit of Foolish Old Man to move mountains.
Because of the need to recycle old clothes and fabrics, Dai Zexin was often misunderstood at that time. Known as the “King of Rags”, people say he deals with rags and garbage all day long. But he ignored other people’s comments and plunged into the rag pile to do his own research. Soon, he discovered that there were three main bottlenecks in the recycling and reuse of recycled waste textiles. “The standards for waste textiles are not uniform, there is a lack of a complete recycling system, and the physical quality of fiber products produced using traditional spinning technology is poor.”
In response to these problems, Dai Zexin and his scientific research team participated in the “Thirteenth Five “key R&D plan topics – high-efficiency and flexible preparation technology of regenerated polyester fiber by physical and chemical methods, responsible for high-efficiency liquid phase viscosification and homogenization of regenerated polyester fiber products, spinning and molding of regenerated polyester short fibers and other physical and chemical regenerated polyester Key technologies for industrialization.
Physical and chemical spinning preparation technology realizes “from fiber to fiber” Efficient regeneration not only costs less, but also has performance comparable to virgin polyester. Dai Zexin still vividly remembers the scene when this technology was first used in the workshop. “It requires machines to continuously produce finished products, and we continue to debug them based on the problems presented by the finished products.”
In order to make the product more perfect, Dai Zexin also took the initiative to send samples to customers and make modifications according to their requirements. “At that time, 20 The core team of people spent all day in the workshop, and lost four to five million yuan during the debugging stage, just to produce high-standard products. This also laid the foundation for us to win high-end customers.”
Dai Zexin has never regretted this “investment”. Aiming at the high end, improving technology, and promoting chain replenishment, chain extension, and chain strengthening, Youcai Resources is moving towards the high end of the circular economy industry chain.
“A piece of cloth” – innovation empowers “beautiful regeneration”
Independently developed high-tech technologies have enabled a large number of companies to occupy leading positions in industry segments and occupy a place among the “hidden champions” of the industry. In fact, over the years, the secret behind the steady and long-term success of Jiangyin entrepreneurs is their persistence in technological innovation.
The same is true for Youcai resources. During the development process, Youcai Resources actively carried out industry-university-research cooperation, and successively established industry-university-research cooperation relationships with Jiangsu University, Nanjing Institute of Technology, and Donghua University.
On the one hand, for the recycling of upstream raw materials and waste textiles, companies are rooted in regeneration The polyester industry continues to carry out technological upgrading and product innovation, and continuously develops new products and new technologies in the field of polyester fiber recycling. On the other hand, in response to the “green and circular” application scenarios of downstream polyester products, the company has laid out the low-melting fiber market with advantages such as recyclability and low organic volatility, and is committed to creating “resource consumption – products – �The “bioresources” closed-loop material flow model realizes the full cycle of textiles from raw materials, processing, application, waste to regeneration.
With With the continuous deepening of school-enterprise cooperation, cutting-edge technology has allowed the once inconspicuous waste textiles to be “beautifully regenerated”. Youcai Resources’ products are now widely used in engineering non-woven fabrics, civilian felt carpets, environmentally friendly sound insulation and noise-absorbing decorative materials, Automobile and high-speed rail interior materials, functional composite special fibers, clothing fabrics, etc., promote the development of the textile recycling market.
Through scientific and technological support and scientific research funding guarantee, Youcai Resources’ “Industrialized Integrated Technology for Efficient Regeneration of Waste Polyester and Fiber Preparation” won the second prize of the 2018 National Science and Technology Progress Award. Currently, Youcai Resources has 120 national patents, 7 high-tech product certifications, and has participated in the formulation of a number of industry standards.
“A Dream”-Capital is only for green waters and green mountains
On September 25 this year, as “Youcai Resources” was successfully listed on the small and medium-sized board of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Dai Zexin ushered in the joy of ringing the bell. He smiled and said that it was finally “done.”
This “listing dream” has been planned by Dai Zexin for 5 years. Looking back on these 5 years , Dai Zexin is quite pleased. In the past five years, Youcai Resources has achieved a “butterfly transformation” from small to large. “Although we also encountered difficulties in various aspects such as funding and technology during this process, we have continued to benefit from industry-university-research cooperation and government departments. With constant ‘logistical supplies’, we successfully solved these problems. ”
When making his last statement to the China Securities Regulatory Commission, Dai Zexin said emotionally: “The purpose of our listing is to leverage the capital market, where capital and technology fly side by side to promote corporate development. ”
Listing is just a new starting point for an enterprise. How to fully Give full play to the guiding and leveraging role of the capital market to empower the development of enterprises? Dai Zexin is full of ideas.
“Stick to the main business and deepen the green cycle Economically, develop more new green fiber materials to replace the traditional materials in the past, reshape the green, environmentally friendly and low-carbon concept of new fiber materials, and contribute to the country’s green waters and green mountains! “Dai Zexin hopes that the government will give the company a “giveaway” after “helping it get off the ground.” “The listing of a company is a complete rebirth. We hope that the government and relevant departments can further ‘step up’ in modern corporate management, risk control, etc., so that we can Enterprises develop healthier and more sustainably. ”
Editor’s note:
Behind the listing of enterprises, without exception, it reflects the persistence of outstanding entrepreneurs in the real economy and their persistence in innovation and development. , also shows a vivid interpretation of the entrepreneurial spirit of “dare to climb and create first-class”.
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