The perfluorinated polyether project test of Chenzhou Fluorine Chemical Company has been successfully completed recently, which has successfully broken the monopoly of perfluoropolyether lubricants by foreign enterprises and filled the gap in China.

Organic fluorine industry has been listed as one of the six priority areas in the "15th Five-Year Plan" for the development of chemical industry science and technology. Chenzhou Municipal Committee and the Municipal Government attached great importance to scientific and technological innovation, and gave strong support to the research and development and pilot test of perfluoropolyether project, which was listed as one of the thirteen pilot demonstration projects in Chenzhou and the first pilot project in Chenzhou City.

Perfluoropolyether (PFPE) is a kind of high molecular polymer, with the characteristics of heat resistance, oxidation resistance, radiation resistance, corrosion resistance, low volatility and non-flammability, and is a very reliable lubricant in harsh environment, widely used in aerospace, nuclear industry, magnetic media and other high-end fields. With the rapid progress of science and technology, its application fields are more and more extensive. However, the core technology of the industry has been mastered by several well-known international companies and some products belong to the category of "export restrictions", which seriously affects the implementation of related projects in key areas such as aerospace in China.

Chenzhou Fluorine Chemical Company aimed at the domestic blank, organized R&D team to tackle key technical problems, and achieved success in the pilot test in 2011. In early 2015, the company invested about 25 million yuan to build a pilot plant with annual output of 10 tons of perfluorinated polyether. After more than two years'exploration, the company has made a great deal of optimization and improvement on perfluoropolyether process and related equipment, achieving fruitful results. The pilot plant has reached the production standard, and the safety and environmental protection met the relevant national policy requirements, receving good responce from the users. It can replace imported high-end lubricating oil products in the military and nuclear industries application.

At the conclusion appraisal meeting, members of the appraisal team agreed that the pilot project of perfluoropolyether of Chenzhou Fluorine Chemical Company is a green process with low emission and low pollution, and has completely independent intellectual property rights, high production safety factor and controllable safety; the 20 tons of qualified products produced during the pilot test period are comparable to the quality of the first-class international companies and fully recognized by customers, which is conducive to breaking the monopoly position of foreign enterprises in the industry; the project has better social and economic benefits.

In the next five years, Chenzhou Fluorine Chemical Company will focus on the perfluorinated polyether project to develop new fluorinated materials with high added value upstream and downstream. The company planned to invest 300 million yuan in the industrial production of perfluoropolyether projects to achieve the target of annual production of 200 tons of perfluoropolyether and sales revenue of 200 million yuan.