Break the foreign monopoly! Styrene process realized localization
Recently, Changzhou Ruihua Chemical Engineering Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Ruihua Technology" or "Company") announced the completion of nearly 100 million yuan in financing. This round of financing was led by Yida Capital.
Ruihua Technology was established in 2007 and is a professional company mainly engaged in engineering and technical services in the petrochemical field. Since its establishment, the company has been committed to the research and development and promotion of styrene localization process technology, and developed a series of chemical technical services on this basis, including expandable polystyrene, methanol to propylene carbon four cracking, and n-butane to Maleic anhydride , The development and authorization of complete sets of technology packages such as the dehydrogenation of diethylbenzene to divinylbenzene, and the co-production of propylene oxide and styrene (PO/SM), the manufacture of supporting core patent equipment and the production of supporting catalysts. In the petrochemical industry, the company's Ethylbenzene and styrene are in a leading position in China in terms of low energy consumption and low material consumption processes and technologies.
The company has strong technical strength. The founder, Dr. Zhigang Xu, has served as associate professor and deputy director of the Institute of Technology of East China University of Science and Technology. He has cooperated with Sinopec to complete the domestic production of the core reactor of my country’s first styrene plant, and obtained the first scientific and technological progress of Sinopec. First prize, Shanghai Science and Technology Progress First Prize, Shanghai Excellent Patent Invention Award, Shanghai Youth Science and Technology Venus and other honorary titles.
In order to maintain the continuity of styrene technology research and development and to seek technological progress in large-scale equipment in this field, as a professional technology company, Ruihua Technology has undergone ten years of continuous technical research on the basis of domestic styrene technology. Successfully developed the industrial application of ethylbenzene and 300,000 tons/year styrene package technology. The main indicators of this technology are at the leading domestic level, increasing styrene production capacity by 10%, reducing energy consumption by 21%, and extending the equipment operation cycle.
According to Dr. Xu Zhigang, Chairman of Ruihua Technology, the industrial application of 300,000 tons/year styrene complete technology is the first domestic device independently researched and developed by the company with independent intellectual property rights. It has excellent performance indicators and is currently the domestic styrene technology construction application. The largest scale and best operating performance device.
This complete set of technology successfully broke the foreign monopoly, marking a major breakthrough in my country's domestically produced styrene complete set of technology, and laid a solid foundation for the development of my country's super-large styrene project. Dr. Xu Zhigang said that the company will launch an 800,000-ton/year project in the near future, and strive to build a world-class super large-scale styrene complete set of technology to meet domestic and foreign market needs with advanced technology.
Yinzhi Wang, head of Yida Capital Project, said that my country is a major chemical country. After experiencing rough development during the period of unbalanced supply and demand, the supply-side reform of the energy-saving and environmental protection, large-scale, integrated, and clustered chemical industry is underway. A typical representative of professional chemical technology service companies with core technologies and continuous R&D capabilities will usher in an opportunity for rapid development.
Dr. Xu Zhigang, the founder of Ruihua Technology, is an authoritative expert on styrene-related technology in my country, and has cultivated a mature technical team with rich experience and capable of combining production, teaching and research. The company has in-depth research on oxidative dehydrogenation, hydrogenation, alkylation and other processes, and starting from the process of ethylbenzene dehydrogenation to prepare styrene, it continues to research and develop, and the process package category is gradually enriched. It has developed a supporting package from a single process package sales business. In the production and sales business of patented equipment and catalysts, some technologies are planned to be industrialized in the near future, and Ruihua Technology's anti-risk ability and profitability are continuously enhanced. After this financing, it is expected that with the help of capital, Ruihua Technology will make greater breakthroughs in the research and development of styrene and other technologies.
2026-09-09
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