since this year, hunan xiangwei co., ltd. has stepped up its effort to explore new product applications in the principle of “serving production and serving the market” so far, pva fiber, the main product of the company have seen new applications in the anti-crack of cement mortar, tile fixing, and papermaking.
the service staff of hunan xiangwei has been, on the one hand, gathering information on the application of their products to compare with leading enterprises in the industry and find the blanks, and on the other hand making good use of technological intelligence to identify research progress and opportunities to enter new fields. selections, pilot projects and trials have been conducted based on the specific features and performance of the company’s products. based on trial results, the company has carried out research to improve product performance in support of the exploration of new applications and product marketing.
at the beginning of the year, technical service staff of the company launched a targeted cooperation project with a real estate company in huaihua city and technicians visited the customer’s construction sites to do experiments with an aim to determine the optimal dosage of pva in cement mortar. with three sample apartments delivered, the customer was quite satisfied for the anti-crack effect of pva use in cement mortar and started to purchase pva fibers for similar construction projects.
in late march, the company had some technical exchanges with a paper mill in guangdong on the use of pva in papermaking, introducing in detail the performance, features and test methods for pva fibers. in early april, the paper mill launched a trial of the pva fiber products and the feedback was quite positive. in one and a half months, the use of xiangwei pva fibers was rapidly increased in the paper mill. the said paper mill here is known to be one of the largest manufacturers of carton paper in china and a leading enterprise in the industry. by putting pva fivers into use in this mill, xiangwei may be able to find further opportunities in the papermaking industry. (liu shijiang)
