---------Issue on “new construction material in China”11.2001
　　　　　　　　　　　　　----------Issue on“communication of glass fibre” 1.2002 　

　　Solid surface is one kind of man-made stone seriers,which are produced by macromolecule and filling material according with the request of hygiene and sanitation through vacuum shaping and temperature-autocontrolling to get its chemical reaction.The products make great differences to traditional solid surface where products behave exactly in the same way ,density to be extremely getting high,can be polished at will, have no mark of connecting after polishing,freely shaping process with common woodworker . It resist and roll over, resist press , resist and assault and the crooked intensity is much higher than the natural stone material,no pores,extremely low to absorb water,able to bear dirty,hinder alkenem,bear heat ,nonpoisonous and tasteless,free colors,extensively used in building &decorating ,furniture and cabinet surface.Solid surface divide into acrylic acid and polyester according to their raw material and artwork.The former has high cost, miscellaneous technology,high price,so the more than 95% of the domestic production is the polyester solid surface at present.

　　The earliest solid surface in china marketplace is DU PONT CORIAN.From then in short several years our solid surface began to develop.Nowadays already several hundred enterprises not of uniform size have produced this kind of product and some foreign suppliers sell their own products in china.It is estimated that the annual turnover is above one billion yuan. Employees are up to several tens of thousands. These formed a new rising industry. One may well say to develop rapidly,contribution to the country and society.I studied solid surface so farm,saw and heard of our country people producing solid surface and knew its developing process since the beginning of 1985.I deeply realized that this is an undertaking of having a bright futurea and will benefit this society in the course of normally developing.On the other hand I am very worried that the present unordered development may cause enoumous losses to the development of this new industry.

　　Exactly speaking,since solid surface bagan in1995 in china, it was being mainly used in producing cabinet and wash basin.In the early days solid surfaces are sold up to about 2000 yuan per meter (thickness subter-600mm) and each of board too in 2000 yuan (2440x760x12.7mm),even one basin can be sold for 1000 yuan more than.At that time raw materials cost too high than now ,it is obvious trade that sudden huge profits surprising really at that time.

　　With the constant development of the economy developing of our country,more and more persons became richer. Consume concept changed too.Some high-living people daintily chose expensive solid cabinet surface.The market was expanding gradually.Many consumers accepted the products.Should say the early factories and a few news media which reported and introduced the products contributed to solid surface.

　　The market prospects are good, then a large number of producers set foot in this trade on later stage of the 1990s last century, This trade had already formed the tendency of overflowing from the end of the 1990s to beginning of this century..Some factories took old technology without &lacking key equipment ,hand-made, jerry-produced to reduce the cost,did not care the inherent quality by every possible means.Some factories used hand-paste colophony and water-proof& fire-retardant,ordinary stone powder instead of pointed colophony.So many many products of low price and bad quality were sold (you can buy the board 2440x760x12.7 mm 400 yuan/ piece)and so named solid surface.All these products have no inspection.There are many bubble and pores inside and on the surface.They have pollution ,volatility smell, and the intensity is extremely low,which cannot achieve the requirement of food hygiene at all.When you use them you will find that they will craze ,transfigurate and turn color sometime.Costumers complain constantly after using,which have influenced the prestige and future of this kind of product seriously.Besides, some factories had to reduce the price in order to occupy certain market share.Thus result in suffering the loss even going bankrupt seriously, Have restricted the sound development of solid surface seriously.

　　Reasons of this kind of state at present are in many aspects. It is a lot of enterprises that only pay attention to lowering costs , pay attention to make great efforts exploiting market at first.Protection of intellectual property right( patented technology or technological secret) of oneself didn’t mind at all in the face of enterprise.Then some person that forget what is right at the sight of profit make a fresh start and get up a gang of people.They work as a boss.Others who bribed by huge sum of money way that undermine the foundation run factory.This made one factory become much factories: Some who understood some technology visited and walk the whole country to offer some solid sufaces user technology to found the factory and earn money.If they Went ahead in one place conservativly( not hand over the technological secret to the user ) for a long time after succeeding,if unsuccessful, evade the solution of a problem by walking away from where.The ones that suffered a loss are investors naturally . This kind of phenomenon is more general in the coastal and early manufacturing enterprise.
On the other hand, some resin, filling manufacturing enterprise and sellers for expanding their own sale of product, Propose" purchase not so good as produce solid surface" too.If you buy resin, filling they will offer some simple so-called" prescription" and" craft" promptly. What is more, some professionals technique dealer not understanding technology , utilize a bit technology plagiarized , utilize some media advertisement not check on tightly( donnot check at all, on pay the bill ), break out loudly sham publicity, what" 50-100 sq.meter of factory building" does it say, Worker 4-8 people, about 4000 of equipment investment, annual profit 1,200,000 more than".And preceded in the name of" the new and high technology, the gold industry", raise the upsurge of production of solid surfaces to get large shame gains. According to" furniture" incomplete statistics of magazine, the whole country have several hundred thousands of factories began this project. But a lot of enterprises are namely the day going bankrupt while beginning.
Moreover, for a lot of consumers, the quality of the inherent quality of the materials have no way of distinguishing solid surface entity.The media lacks the introduction in this respect.Some producers, in order to sell the products with low quality out too, Often by hook or by crook, even sample that show consumer quality better, give customer the inferior products finally. Users in using when discovering defective in quality, the manufacturer wants to evade responsibility by every possible means .The manufacturer had already changed to a new form or the trace has been difficult to look for.At the same time because buyer one's own economic strength limited, and also pursue the fashion, some of poor quality and low price have popular market too.

　　A little that even need notice, our country is still in the developing section of market economy now. Every laws and regulations related to it are not very sound.Even if there is regulation in this respect, because the quality level of the material does not have personal security which concerns consumers, the government bother about. Come to say together from market access these that there is not any obstacle never too.The materials have volume of production and marketing at home , but the country and even the whole industry about this do not have a unified standard even to this day.Some producer, include some output heavy producer apply mechanically and suit some foreign standards of our country very much. Some even apply mechanically the metal standard, others are standards that has already been eliminated.One's own quality of the material can not be reflected ,that can't be totally true at all. And some bad producer know standard why thing even, Only make a copy of the technical indicator of the products of some other producers. According to the regulation of our country's" Standardization Act" , the industrial products do not allow to be produced without standard.But who are managing the present state?

　　 Speak of quality, I think at present having and deserve discussion a bit, that so-called international problem of quality authentication. Say enterprise make international quality authentication is right, but international quality authentication and product quality are two entirely different things.However some advertisment of producer let consumer think passing international product quality authentication is all right now. Let alone trick among the much quality authentication too many now, seriously speaking , much international authentication is too false , have no credibility at all.

　　For making this promising industry developing healthily, I think I might as well set about from the following several respects :
　　1、Taken the lead by State Bureau of Building Materials Industry, capable and representative enterprises participate in, Make and implement the standard of the solid surfaces as soon as possible.Have standard, the government department can have the standard to this industry . Government department can go on essential rectification to this industry.The products with low quality are forbidden to be produced without exception, Allow and list still more , so as to ensure consumer and most legal interests of manufacturer( organization build up to have more feasible coordination organizations at present, and even if how important todiscuss evenly does it have organization function in this respect).
　　2、To issue media of sham publicity, make false fake traffic false technological source unit to swindle wealth, the administration for industry and commerce should clear up them , investigate his responsibility to the persons who violate,in case it is egoistic to victimize again.
　　3、Some who have economic strength but does not have technological strength, product quality do not reach a standard , Want have a a developmet in the field ,can introduce ripe technology and key equipment, Select the raw materials for use rationally, improve the processing technology, promote the products quality .
For production equipment the present state is:first, to cost a huge sum of money( millions of yuan and even several ten million yuan) introduce the foreign equipment, secondly having one vacuum mixer( domestic relatively general) .The two just really mix . Bring a large amount of air into when taking shape , shake and prop up and wipe flat method not to rank and then bubble, and join material, increase resin quantity, but products have a large number of bubbles ,not real solid surface Material though with high costs, specially spending a huge sum of money introduce the equipment which occupy the place , energy consumption is high and its depreciation charge, maintenance cost, interest are very high.Production is profitless thoroughly.
Now there is a professional research unit that take use of practical experience both at home and abroad , ,making great efforts to study vacuum equipment, adopt ordinary to mix, not to use bubble material , adopting the vacuum equipment when takes shape.They solve above-mentioned problems . Implement the production line continuous productive process from making pieces, batching, mixing, shaping, solidification, sanding, cutting,etc.. The production line has lower cost, high production efficiency ,and occupy little space .One small-scale product line cost 300,000 have above 10 millillion yuan annual output. The large-scale production line is only 500,000 yuan( annual output can be up to 20 million yuan).
　　4、Go out of the condition of the material using as solid kitchen surface at present. In application of building decoration and furniture material, for instance thin board, cylinder, square column, door covering, boarder, handrail, various kinds of furniture surface etc., Have producer make sample at present ,but use board processing shaping the second time. The processing method is tedious, producting weakly, the one that quote is very high price too.Uusers are difficult to accept. So,we must work out the production technologies of moulding, assembly line , in order to raise the efficiency, lower costs, acceptable in this way.In this respect, some research unit obtain and succeed partly already too .There are no producer at home and no market now.Once open the market, its capacity will be up to tens of billion yuan , The prospect is very captivating .
　　5、Some relevant scientific research departments should unite the manufacturing enterprise of raw materials , accelerate the profundity developmental research of this product, Consolidate existing achievement , develop wider use , excellent new product, new technology. In the future, the acrylic material is a developing direction of solid surfaces.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　 SHI HUIYU



Ｔhe developing direction of the solid surface

History and current situation

　　The earliest solid surface in our country originated from the beginning of the eighties of the 20th century, had gone through three development climaxes for over 20 years.It may well be full of twists and turns or ups and downs, suffer many setback.

　　Produce one imitative granite, marble lamination appearance beautiful decorating board with stone and mylar first, once over one hundred units participated in researching and developing and popularizing in the whole country.The way of production seem to be simple but had high technology.Because of little invest sure markets,manufacturers were up to a thousand once.Because of simple technology,different quality they lose prestige soon.Because over one hundred units participating in researching and developing did not really solve their technology key problems,all gave up studying. The manufacturers were except that a few were reasonable, and had selling market among a small circle, the others went bankrupt because of the unripe technology blindly.This made this industry not form scale and market.Practice has proved all products produced by the enterprises whose technology reach a standard are still one kind products.Although the board used at some building last so far yet intact and beautiful more than ten years.

　　In the beginning of 1990s,one kind of special-shaped products of artificial agate, artificial marble,cleaners,and had a good prospect market.Imitated group by group,several hundred factories raise a malignant competition all over the whole country in short-term.Quality declines to an enormous extent, bad honour. This destroyed products with vitality in reputation.Except a few that produced wash-basin only,others several hundred manufacturer closed.

　　Middle and later periods of 1990s named solid surface rose.The product have more advantage than the first two kinds of solid surface.It approves to be but popular consumer gradually,become a new industry in the ornament materials.It’s a pity new industry met with spirit Li. In short one year nearly thousand factories also emerged at home(more than 95% got on the job with indigenous methods without professional and technical personnel and dedicated device).A large amount of products with low quality were produced in a rough way entered the market at extremely low price. This damaged the reputation of this product seriously.

　　Because above-mentioned several climax bring a lot of negative effects, some insiders think the prospect is remote and at a loss as to what to do.Someone think the product have no future at all even. It is one leaf that hinder eye see view of Mount Tai. Practice prove high-quality products are popular and sell well ,with the strong vitality constantly again.And those fake and forged products are cast aside by consumer constantly and have no leeway in surviving gradually. The producers manufactured in rough way have already begun to go bankrupt one after another.

　　Developing direction and market prospects
　　I think material application of solid surface too light ( limited to kitchen, clearners use only). Its wide application await to be developed, especially dysmorphism artificial stone, top-grade handicraft and artificial stone wall ceramic tile, furniture surface,etc.. The technology of this increasing production is getting getting riper day by more day already.It has enormouser market( according to the rough to estimate at least at several more than hundred billion yuan), Its foundation is: It can substitute natural stone material, top-grade pottery, timber , metal ornament materials . As regards its application, I have divided a proportion for reference: Kitchen and cleaners 10% ( at present popularizing better trade), furniture surface fabric should be 10%, special- shaped products Whether( side , cylinder, the doors and windows covering, handicraft, handrail, lineses,etc. ) should be 40%, wall face bricks, floor tile, for 40%( with wasted stones, beautiful wear-resisting , with import ceramic tile a match for). Three material compared with existing similar material are beautiful thereafter, ornament result is top-grade and luxurious, Moderate price and physics and chemistry performance are fine. Once these outstanding projects are perfected and finalize the design to push the economic benefits that the market will produce enormous social benefit summation of hundred billion yuan progressively.Will also and protect the national mineral resources and indirect benefit of the forest reserves at the same time . This's that this industry and all relevant employees pursue finally and developing direction.

　　Development condition that should possess
　　How could benefit the nation and the people and realize these magnificent goal .Three terms on none of can be dispensed with: 1、deep love for this item inventor and scientific and technical personnel of undertaking study intensively and solve serial technological difficult problems of large-scale production, ( include material, equipment, mould, crafts), to perfect and finalize the large-scale production technology and introduced with relevant department to the market; 2、enterprisers farsighted to know the technological discovery, know and pay attention to the project while being remarkable, Invest the large-scale production, spend the strength expanding the product market; 3、government department pay attention and support of this industry, make relevant policy come and protect inventor and legitimate interests of entrepreneurs, try one's best to prevent all behavior of diminishing this new industry .
Although the prospect is bright in the frustration of going through in solid surface manufacturing industry of China, I call upon government department, insider and relevant trade personage draw the experience and lessons, define the direction, makes the goal, strengthen confidence conscientiously, build Chinese solid surface industry cultivate and grow up, let this industry contribute for the state and the people.

SHI HUIYU