Anhui Black Cat breaks through the technical difficulties of special carbon black, and its annual sales are expected to exceed 500 million yuan

Anhui Black Cat is located in Hefei Xinzhan High-tech Zone. In recent years, it has made significant progress in the research and development and production of special carbon black, a new industrial pigment material. This highly dispersible special carbon black has performed well in solving the problems of easy flocculation and difficult dispersion of traditional carbon black, and has been widely used in many important industries such as coatings, inks, and textiles.

Looking back at the company's history, founder Zhou Fengrui and his team have been operating pigment chemical products in the international market since 1999. But Zhou Fengrui quickly realized that trade activities alone could not fully realize the company's innovation potential. Therefore, Anhui Black Cat turned to independent research and development and production, aiming to enhance the company's market competitiveness by controlling the craftsmanship and quality of its products. It is understood that this transformation not only brought the company's first batch of profits, but also enabled Anhui Black Cat to access and absorb international advanced technology.

As a new pigment material, special carbon black faces many challenges in the research and development and innovation process, including international technology monopoly, raw material quality control, imperfect application systems and high costs. Huang Ying, general manager and executive deputy general manager of the company's special carbon black business unit, pointed out: "The process of developing new products is long and costly, usually taking three years and an investment of more than 10 million yuan."

In 2023, an important R & D project of Anhui Black Cat-"R & D and Industrialization of Key Technologies of Low Volatility and High Pigment Ecological Special Carbon Black" won the first prize for Scientific and Technological Progress in Anhui Province. Among them, the PowCarbon® 2429G product has significantly improved the blackness and gloss of the product in the application field with its high dispersibility and nano-level advantages, and has now been fully launched to the market. The company's expected sales in 2023 will reach 500 million yuan, and the sales growth rate is expected to exceed 50%.

Looking to the future, Anhui Black Cat plans to increase investment in research and development and application testing in the field of special carbon black new materials, aiming to establish and improve its application systems in various industries. At the same time, the company also plans to achieve independent listing in the next three years, and use the headquarters economic model and base in Hefei to achieve a global R & D, production and sales supply chain layout, thereby enhancing the global influence of Anhui New Materials brands and assisting the development of local new materials enterprise clusters.