IWG Yongte Nai: High-end PUR is the continuation of "source innovation" and another innovative achievement of intelligent collaboration
2024 06/28
For a long time, the home furnishing industry has always been large but not strong. This is mainly because: once consumer demand is insufficient, especially when market competition is fierce, the industry as a whole is easy to fall into the quagmire of product homogeneity. At this time, there is often a lack of strong supply chain companies to lead the industry out of the quagmire and promote consumption through their technological innovation. However, this situation is also quietly changing. Just as we have strong supply chain companies like Huawei and CATL in emerging fields, IWG Yongte Nai has also seized the excellent opportunities of history again and again under the giant screen of the times to confirm its own value.
IWG Yongte Nai. As an important supply chain brand in the field of woodworking adhesives, it has won wide recognition in the industry with its strong R&D strength and accurate grasp of user needs. At the "Category Leap · Technology Breakthrough" summit held in Jiashan, Zhejiang recently, IWG Yongte Nai once again led the industry and demonstrated its "high-end PUR multi-material gluing process", which has attracted widespread attention from the industry.
With the continuous advancement of market demand for high-end and light high-end customization, the scope of material selection and combination application has increased accordingly. How to ensure stable bonding between different materials has become an important interest concern for brands in terms of technology. In response to this challenge, Yongtenai has successfully developed high-end PUR multi-material bonding technology and its solutions. This technical solution is not only suitable for a variety of substrates such as density board, particle board, solid wood, aluminum, etc., but also can bring high environmental performance, high appearance and high efficiency to brand partners on the basis of reliable gluing.
At the seminar, IWG Yongtenai demonstrated the innovative application of PUR technology combined with EB recycled veneer technology. The EB process uses high-energy electron beams to cure paint, and EB recycled veneer is a paint treatment method before leaving the factory. The finishes produced under this process have good skin feel, anti-fingerprint, stain resistance, long-lasting color, diverse colors, and excellent environmental performance. Its industrial production is similar to printing.
When EB finishes are bonded to MDF, PB and solid wood substrates, high-temperature hot pressing is generally used. The solution brought by IWG Yongtenai can effectively prevent the deformation of wood caused by heat, as well as the shortcomings of low efficiency, long product cycle and relatively limited industrial application when using low-temperature hot pressing.
The innovative application of PUR gluing process combined with EB recycled veneer not only solves this pain point, but also provides strong support for the industrial production of paint products, which is expected to promote the further development of the entire industry.
In addition, for the PET flat lamination process widely used on the market, IWG Yongtenai has also developed PUR penetration glue to effectively optimize the process.
At present, PET is widely used as a finish through PUR flat lamination. Its advantages are that the surface is delicate and the production is efficient and convenient. However, this process has extremely high requirements for surface flatness and requires additional leveling process on the substrate processing, but there are problems of high-temperature hot pressing deformation, energy consumption and cost. The PUR penetration glue developed by IWG Yongtenai can flatten the uneven substrate and cure the base layer at low temperature to achieve the effect of leveling the paint. Obviously, this innovative process can not only reduce the cost of PET lamination, but also significantly improve production efficiency.
How to achieve the quality and texture performance that high-end customization should have under the high efficiency and cost advantages of industrialization is a common concern and long-cherished demand in the home furnishing industry. As a rising national brand, Yongtenai actively undertakes the important task of breakthroughs in key technologies in the industry, and continues to present valuable innovative technology applications with "source innovation", reflecting its mission, value and upward spirit given by the times.
In conjunction with the latest two-component adhesive products, Yongtenai specially launched a process method of two-component penetrating glue + PUR flat paste + finishing materials. This method can not only connect to the EB process, thereby partially replacing the paint effect, but also connect to the PET finish, and use a lower cost than single-sided PET to achieve double-sided PET bonding.
Its advantage is that it surpasses ordinary products with melamine finishes in terms of material effect, quality performance, production operation, environmental protection performance, etc., and in terms of cost control, it is much better than paint process processing, and can replace solid wood/painted high-end products in some scenarios.
If woodworking brand partners apply this technology and craftsmanship, they will truly achieve "real light luxury (real light high-end)" between general and high-end in terms of price positioning, allowing middle-income people to obtain their own equivalent products.
The so-called "great era" refers to a period of great changes in society, politics, economy, science and technology. The current Chinese society chooses to develop new quality productivity and embrace the great era characterized by intensive scientific and technological innovation. Relevant scholars have even given a theoretical formula for the development of new quality productivity:
New quality productivity = (revolutionary breakthrough in science and technology + innovative allocation of production factors + deep transformation and upgrading of industries) × (labor force + labor tools + labor objects) optimization combination
It can be seen that revolutionary breakthroughs in science and technology are the first variable elements to develop new quality productivity. At this stage, any major independent technological breakthroughs in emerging fields may become a new engine for China's economy to leap forward again.
In fact, it is long and difficult for chemical companies to achieve innovation. However, in the past few years of corporate practice, IWG Yongte Nai has always regarded finding revolutionary breakthroughs in technology in the industry as its highest task. In the past 1-2 years, based on solid technical research and development, Yongtenai has launched for industry partners: PUR edge banding based on 4.0 high-speed production line, intelligent collaborative glue supply chain management solutions, independent breakthroughs in important raw materials of AB two-component rapid composite glue, and the fastest 40-second rapid composite PUR coating process for wooden doors, plus the high-end PUR multi-material gluing process brought this time.
With the successful completion of IWG Yongtenai Huangdao Smart Collaboration Factory in 2022, the foundation of Yongtenai's smart collaboration has been initially established. Smart collaboration is the source of R&D innovation and technical services. High-end PUR multi-material glue cooperation, as a "R&D collaboration" branch of smart collaboration, also includes product collaboration and service collaboration factors. Behind this is huge investment in funds and personnel.
Obviously, on the one hand, Yongtenai is regardless of cost and contributes high-value products and solutions with independent research and development; on the other hand, it can also be seen that Yongtenai has always empowered customers around the PUR gluing process. In fact, it has long anchored PUR as the company's current unswerving technology development strategy, and the route is extremely clear.