Pioneers of water printing technology water printing technology

In January 2005, impressed by the sincerity of the Tieling City Investment Recruitment Group in Liaoning Province, Ms. Sun Fang took the scientific research results she had spent more than ten years researching - the patented water printing technology. Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province moved to Tieling and began the most challenging and exciting entrepreneurial journey in her life. At this time, she was already over fifty years old! Four years later, Liaoning Rentian Technology Co., Ltd. she founded has become the largest industrial production base of environmentally friendly water-printed patterned wood-plastic new materials in China. Its products are A truly formaldehyde-free, pollution-free, zero-emission environmentally friendly decorative material. At present, the project has achieved annual sales revenue of 165.8 million yuan and profits and taxes of 26.35 million yuan. It can be expected that this project will create huge economic and social wealth for the society with its broad market space.

The magical water printing technology

The movable type printing invented by Bi? during the Northern Song Dynasty of my country made outstanding contributions to the spread of world civilization. This technology was called by later generations. One of China's "Four Great Inventions". However, printing technology in the traditional sense can only be performed on a flat surface. When encountering various fine crafts and products with different curved surfaces and shapes, traditional printing technology becomes insufficient.

The water printing technology studied by Sun Fang is very related to the daily life of ordinary people. Many families like to use wood when decorating to meet the needs of environmental protection. However, the quantity of wood is limited after all, so businesses use various scrap wood strips to glue them into composite boards, and then paste stickers with wood grain on them with glue. On composite board. Since the formaldehyde content of glue is very high, the formaldehyde content of this kind of board pasted by glue will naturally exceed the standard, which will bring great harm to people's health and living environment. The technology studied by Sun Fang does not use glue, but directly uses the water printing technology she invented to print wood grain effects on various boards. No glue is needed, which greatly improves the environmental performance of the product.

At Rentian Company, the reporter saw that several large-scale production workshops have been built and put into use, and construction workers can also be seen busy in large empty factory areas. According to reports, the company currently covers an area of ??200,000 square meters and has total assets of 410 million yuan. The company plans to invest a total of 1.8 billion yuan in seven years and build the "Billion Project" in three phases to achieve a total industrial output value of 10 billion yuan and profits and taxes of 3.1 billion yuan.

Walking into a production workshop, busy workers are constantly shuttling between piles of wood-plastic panels and automated mechanized production lines. At the reporter's request, Sun Fang and several workers began to demonstrate to reporters what water printing was all about.

A worker took a piece of translucent film printed with wood grain and laid it flat on the water surface. After about a minute, the film began to gradually absorb water and soften. After that, Sun Fang and a worker took a 23-meter-long wood-plastic board, placed it on the softened film and immersed the board in the water. In just one or two seconds, the board was quickly extracted from the water. . The reporter was surprised to find that the film printed with wood grain had adhered to the board. According to reports, after being washed, dried, spray-painted and other processes, this kind of wood-printed board will be shiny, highly simulated, and has wear-resistant, fire-proof, corrosion-resistant, waterproof, moisture-proof and other properties, and can be completely replaced PVc wood grain laminating technology, blister technology, laminating technology, wood grain paper laminating technology, heat transfer wood grain technology and hot melt laminating technology, etc.

Sun Fang introduced that the wood plastic material used in water printing is to process the wood powder produced during the processing of various plant straws into plant fiber powder, and then add polymer raw materials to make artificial wood. It can replace the current formaldehyde-containing density boards, particle boards, sandwich boards, veneer boards, etc. "Since wood-plastic materials can be directly made into various specifications of profiles, plates, and wires, carpenters may lose their jobs!" Sun Fang said half-jokingly.

If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, it would be difficult for reporters to imagine the magic of water printing.

When the reporter picked up the translucent film invented by Sun Fang and looked at it carefully and kept asking, he realized that this film is the core of water printing technology. In order to study this film, Sun Bangfang spent a lot of time For more than ten years, it is difficult for outsiders to imagine how much ups and downs I experienced during this period.

Gold always shines

Sun Fang, who is 55 years old this year, can be said to be a celebrity. The company he oversees has hundreds of millions of yuan in fixed assets. However, she is simple and easy-going and never puts on makeup. She looks a little haggard due to years of hard work in her career. At first glance, Sun Fang looks extremely ordinary. In fact, she always positions herself as a technician or engineer.

However, anyone who is familiar with Sun Xiufang knows that she has been an extraordinary woman since she was a child. After getting along with her for a long time, you will find that she is optimistic and cheerful, and there seems to be a fire in her heart that will never go out, and she will always maintain a strong fighting spirit. For many years, she has adhered to a famous saying: gold always shines.

Her family life has been difficult since she was a child. Children of poor people have long been in charge of their own affairs. Sun Fang has endured hardships and stood hard work since she was a child. The difficult environment has tempered her perseverance. Due to the heavy family burden, Xiao Bangfang was unable to go to school until he was ten years old. The school is 4 kilometers away from home. She walks alone to and from school. She has never been afraid of anything, and has never been late or absent from class. Because of her hard work, diligence, and lack of shame in asking questions, her academic performance has improved by leaps and bounds. After the first grade, students will go directly to the third grade, and after the fourth grade, they will jump to the sixth grade. And in the fourth grade, he became the study committee member of the school's Young Pioneers Brigade. She also learned simplified musical notation, pedal piano, trumpet, etc., and became the backbone of the school's literary and artistic talents.

During this period, she also read a large number of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign literary masterpieces. Among them, the ones that most shocked her young heart were "Fire King Kong", "How Steel Was Tempered" and "The Story of Liu Hulan", etc. Revolutionary literature book. It was the noble dedication of those heroic heroes that sustained her entire life.

After graduating from college, Sun Bangfang was assigned to Mudanjiang City. She secretly determined that no matter where she was assigned, she would be a piece of gold and shine there. Sun Fang's first place of residence was a transistor factory run by the district and sub-district offices. Sun Bangfang, who had just arrived, took the initiative to take on an arduous scientific and technological research task in the factory. The scientific research conditions at that time were very difficult. At the critical moment of scientific research, she did not sleep a wink for more than 20 days in a row. Sun Fang made a good start for the factory to achieve greater glory, and has since embarked on a long road of invention and entrepreneurship.

Due to her outstanding work, Sun Fang was once recommended by the organization department to work in a district government agency with a promising career. However, Sun Fang, who loved doing research, soon offered to work at Dongfang Instrument Factory, a township enterprise in the suburbs of Mudanjiang City, which was suffering serious losses. She went to the market to gather information and actively developed new high-tech products. Soon she earned 280,000 yuan for the factory. The factory quickly paid off all the loans from the three banks, and its employees' wages were guaranteed, and they also received considerable monthly bonuses.

Three years later, the economy of a certain town's electromechanical factory suffered a major decline and quickly fell into a trough. As a result, Sun Fang was once again ordered to be in danger. After Sun Fang came to the Mechanical and Electrical General Factory, she faced heavy pressure. The first major thing she did was to streamline the organization, cut redundant staff, and introduce scientific management methods. At the same time, she is more actively looking for projects and developing new products. After various efforts, the factory was revived again.

Some people say that Sun Fang is a lucky general. She will bring life wherever she goes. Some people say that Sun Fang is a born inventive genius. During those years when he worked in township enterprises, he successively undertook more than a dozen scientific research projects and used the power of science and technology to bring huge wealth to township enterprises. However, Sun Xiufang doesn't think so. She feels that success and sweat are inseparable. She always uses the famous saying "gold will always shine" to motivate herself. It is precisely because of her persistence and never-say-die spirit that she has achieved success. One after another, magic that others cannot copy.

She made inventions for her husband

Because she was busy with work and career, she made mistakes again and again in personal matters. The spring of 1992 was the spring when she solved a lifelong event. This year Sun Fang was 38 years old.

This was also the year when her career was successful. At this time, she was the director of Xinglong Dongfang Instrument Factory. Her husband, Cao Hongzhi, is an employee of the Mudanjiang Post and Telecommunications Bureau.

In 1993, Cao Hongzhi got a nickname called "Cao Sanxi"! Cao Hongzhi, who got this nickname, was beaming every day. The so-called "three joys" are: first, Cao Hongzhi found a good partner, second, he was allocated a big house, and third, he gave birth to a son. Lao Cao lost his mother when he was young, and his father was ill and paralyzed in bed. The father and son depended on each other, so they never found a suitable partner. When I was 41 years old, I was introduced to Sun Fang.

At the end of the year he got married, Lao Cao gave birth to a fat son. The work unit took care of the older young man and gave him a house. As soon as Lao Cao was happy, he started to decorate the house. In order to renovate his house, Lao Cao bought white porcelain boards (a kind of plywood) which were the most fashionable decoration materials at that time, and wanted to wrap all the walls of his new house with this material. Not only that, Lao Cao also lived in the new house being renovated every day and personally supervised the work. More than two months later, the house was decorated, but before Sun Fang and his wife could move in, something happened to Lao Cao.

On this day, Sun Fang had just returned home and found Lao Cao squatting at the foot of the wall. When asked, Lao Cao said that he could no longer see, which shocked Sun Fang. The good days had just begun, and her husband became blind. Sun Fang really wanted to cry without tears. Later, Lao Cao's eyes became more and more serious, and she had to resign and took her husband on the road to seek medical treatment. You can imagine how torturous the treatment process was for Sun Fang, who is older and younger. "If Lao Cao's eyes cannot be cured, how will he live in the future?" This made Sun Fang dare not imagine.

But what exactly caused the blindness? No one in the couple could tell. At Tongren Hospital in Beijing, after careful analysis, the doctor came to the conclusion that surprised the two people. Lao Cao's eyes were blind due to formaldehyde poisoning. The culprit was the glue used in the decoration!

“I was shocked after the doctor said it. The plywood itself was three layers of plywood, and then the white porcelain board was glued to the wall. I bought 13 barrels of it at that time. All the glue was used up. At that time, I thought that my husband had bought chemical materials into our house and turned our house into a small chemical factory, and it would be dangerous for us to live in it," Sun Fang recalled.

After more than eight months of treatment in Beijing, Lao Cao finally managed to save one of his eyes. Reading requires not only wearing glasses, but also a magnifying glass.

Being nearly blind, Lao Cao had to leave his job at the Post and Telecommunications Bureau. At this time, Sun Fang felt very painful. She married late and suffered such bad luck. However, the two hearts that had experienced hardships became closer and closer. But seeing her husband's loss of alertness and helpless expression, Sun Fang had a strong thought in her heart. Sun Fang thought to herself, are there any decorative materials that do not use glue? Sun Fang wanted to find a technology to keep glue away from decorative materials!

After Sun Fang set this goal, he began to look for ways to technology to replace it. Sun Fang studied semiconductor physics, but loves polymer chemistry. Sun Fang was determined to develop decorative materials that did not require glue.

Sun Bangfang had already contracted a small electronics factory in Mudanjiang, and she built a chemical laboratory in the electronics factory. She thought hard: There is no need to glue the wood grain, just print it on!

The idea is good, but it is difficult to do. Decorative materials come in different shapes, and there is such a printing machine. ? Although he has a goal, several years have passed and Sun Fang has never found a suitable way.

One day in 1996, Sun Fang, who was checking information, suddenly noticed a piece of information on the Internet. There was a process in Japan called water printing, which could print various patterns on plastic. This information made Sun Bangfang very excited. Sun Fang immediately called Japan through international long distance and asked to purchase this technology. However, the answer she received was that they would not sell it! Although Japanese companies rejected Sun Fang's request to purchase technology, she did not give up and went to Japan specifically, hoping to impress Japanese companies in person.

But when she arrived in Japan and saw water printing, Sun Fang was disappointed.

In Japan, Sun Fang discovered that the film used by Japanese companies for printing could not be used and needed to be re-developed. Because the film breaks after being put into water for 30 seconds. If you want to print an 8-meter-long profile, or a 6-meter-long profile, there is no time to operate, so the technology is not up to standard and you can only print some small parts.

After research, Sun Fang discovered that the raw material of this film is either a secret or glutinous rice starch, which is environmentally friendly and can even be imported. The secret lies in how to make the membrane stay in the water longer.

After figuring out the cause of the problem, Sun Fang became excited. She began to import expensive membranes from Japan and conduct experiments in the water every day. As he continued to invest, more and more money was spent, and everyone around him felt distressed. In the view of her husband Cao Hongzhi, he was throwing money into the water over and over again!

At this time, Sun Fang could no longer care about her small electronics factory and handed it over to her The eldest brother Sun Shaohuan, but all the money earned by the electronics factory was invested by Sun Xiufang in his own experiments, which gave the manager Sun Shaohuan a headache.

A few years have passed. Although she has put in a lot of effort, her research has made no progress, and there are more and more complaints around her. Sun Fang was busy working during the day and doing experiments at night. She often worked in the laboratory until late at night, and sometimes even spent the night on the sofa in the laboratory. She also suffered from financial losses and mental pressure. However, she was not discouraged even though she was exhausted physically and mentally. She gritted her teeth and persevered. She always believed that if there is hope, there will be success!

Success lies between chance and necessity

One day in January 2002, when the Spring Festival was about to come, Sun Bangfang was still happily pouring out the bottles and jars in her laboratory. Lao Cao, who had always been supportive of his wife, couldn't bear it anymore as he became both a father and a mother over the years. He rushed into Sun? Fang's laboratory, became furious with his wife, and gave an ultimatum: Either put down the experiments in his hands and go home to prepare for the New Year, or get divorced the next day!

Lao Cao and Sun? Fang made a big fuss. This time, Lao Cao filed for divorce. The stubborn Sun Bangfang also panicked. She cried and asked herself, must she continue the experiment? The wronged Sun Xiufang I was very sad, but when I thought about it carefully, I realized that my contribution to the family in the past seven or eight years was too little. Forget it, stop the experiment and go home to take care of the children and the elderly! Thinking of this, Sun Fang poured out the raw materials sadly. into the experimental tank, and then returned home sadly.

Early the next morning, Sun Fang went to the laboratory to pack things up and stop the experiment. But she never thought that when she walked into the laboratory and looked into the sink, she was so happy. The membrane that was originally broken and dissolved in a few dozen seconds was still floating on the water all night long! At this moment, all the sadness, grievances and excitement came together. This is a feeling that cannot be expressed in words!

Sun Fang's first thought was to tell Lao Cao, who was sulking at home, as excited as if they had a son again. But before the joy passed, Sun Fang was dumbfounded again. The raw materials thrown into the water randomly were not recorded at all. How the various raw materials were proportioned was already a mess. Sun Fang couldn't figure out which raw material played the role. However, she was still very happy to see the results.

"I feel that I will definitely succeed. As long as these raw materials are there, I will find it one day!" Sun Fang said.

Sun Fang began to infer the test results. However, the process of reverse engineering is very troublesome. We have to make hundreds of recipes every day and pick them back bit by bit. In the process of reverse push, the raw materials are not put in all at once. Sometimes 1 gram is not enough, so 1.1 grams, or even 1.05 grams, 1.005 grams are put in. This one is put in the right way, but that one may be wrong.

Just this step took Sun Xiufang another year. Finally, one day in December 2002, Sun Fang's glutinous rice starch printing film, through the action of stabilizers, stayed firmly on the water surface without breaking for a long time, and was successfully printed on a large wooden board.

Since then, the water printing technology that Sun Fang spent nearly 10 years researching has finally reached the top of the world.

On the surface, Sun Fang's successful research and development of water printing technology was an accident. In fact, it took her nearly 10 years of loneliness, perseverance and loneliness to achieve it. From her husband's blindness to researching water printing technology, Sun Fang has experienced countless hardships during this period. However, Sun Fang has overcome it step by step with extraordinary stubbornness and perseverance, and finally fulfilled her dream.

Patent industrialization continues

Successful invention does not mean successful industrialization. In a sense, industrialization is more difficult than invention! However, for this strong woman with nearly 20 years of experience in the enterprise, it does not seem to be that difficult.

After the successful invention of water printing technology, in 2004, Sun Fang developed a wood-plastic board made of crushed straw powder and pressed with polymers. This kind of board does not require adhesives such as glue, which saves a lot of wood and is environmentally friendly.

During this period, Sun Fang began to run around again to raise funds and make all preparations for industrialization. In October 2004, he applied for a national patent for water printing technology.

One day not long after, Sun Fang unexpectedly received a call from Japan. The caller was an old acquaintance of hers, the person in charge of the water printing company in Japan. This time, it was the Japanese who succumbed to her technology and offered to purchase Sun Fang's newly developed patented water printing technology. After being rejected by Sun? Fang, the Japanese company proposed to build a joint venture factory with Sun? Fang in Japan. The Japanese side proposed a total investment of 400 million yuan, and gave Sun Fang 25% of its technology shares.

However, such favorable conditions did not impress Sun Bangfang. Although she is short of funds to transform technology into industry at this time, in Sun Fang's view, today's results are based on the pain of losing her husband's eyesight. She hopes that more people can enjoy it. Her results. If it is taken to Japan for production but cannot be produced by oneself, this will cause immeasurable losses to the country. Sun Fang said: "For me, the original intention of developing this product is not how much money I want to make. If I can use my technology to turn decorative panels into zero formaldehyde and zero emissions, that will be the pride of us Chinese people. It’s not mine alone.”

In China, the news that Sun Fang had developed a new patented technology for water printing also spread like wildfire, and all kinds of flowers and applause came to his face. In the past few years, Sun Fang's scientific research achievements have received great attention from governments and leaders at all levels, including the country and Liaoning Province, and they have spoken highly of Sun Fang and the new water printing technology and products she invented. This technical product won the "China International Patented Technology and Product Gold Award" and the first prize of Tieling City Science and Technology Invention Award in 2006. In 2007, it won the Liaoning Province Famous Product Gold Award, and was listed as a key support for the 2008 old industrial base project by the National Development and Reform Commission. Sun Fang herself also won the "National May 1st Labor Medal" in 2007, and in December 2008, she won the "Fourth New Century Female Inventor" jointly awarded by the State Intellectual Property Office, the All-China Women's Federation and the China Invention Association. Honorary title.

In January 2005, Sun Fang chose Tieling City, Liaoning Province as a partner. She came to Tieling from Mudanjiang and set up Liaoning Rentian Technology Co., Ltd., specializing in the production of floors, doors and windows with water printing technology. In the first year of production in 2007 alone, Sun Xiufang saved 5,080 cubic meters of wood for the country. At present, the total investment of Liaoning Rentian Technology Co., Ltd. founded by Sun Fang has reached 410 million yuan, and in a few years, it will save the country 528,000 cubic meters of wood every year. And Lao Cao also understood his wife at this time. Lao Cao lives with his son in Mudanjiang. He hopes that his wife will not be distracted and concentrate on doing a good job in her career.

Faced with the flowers and applause that came to her face, Sun Fang was not complacent. She said lightly: Success is loss! Yes! She has experienced countless successes and also lost many, many.

For example, when doing research on water printing, she slept on the sofa for ten years and lost the happiness of her family. She didn’t watch TV for ten years, didn’t put on makeup for ten years, and wore black clothes for ten years. Sometimes she couldn’t take a shower or wash her feet for a long time. . After founding Liaoning Rentian Technology Co., Ltd., she now has to do more things every day. The company is booming, and she has to be busy inside and outside all day long. She will have more successes and losses!