Kangde Investment Group (hereinafter referred to as “Kangde Group” or “Kangde”) and the Italian LEONARDO Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “LEONARDO Company”) jointly established the aviation composite material industry base to land in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu. The construction of the project is a major upgrade of the carbon fiber lightweight industrial platform (high-end carbon fiber manufacturing, carbon fiber composite material design, R&D and manufacturing) built by the Kangde Group and Kangdexin Group, which will form an important part of China's “big aircraft strategy”. Strategic support, and is expected to be used in wind turbines in the future.
The total investment of the Conde Aviation Composites Industrial Park project is 30 billion yuan. It is planned to be divided into four phases and completed in 2025. The first phase of the project will invest 5 billion yuan, covering an area of 400 mu, with a construction period of 2 years. After completion, it will provide fuselage components for carbon fiber composites for CR929 wide-body aircraft, master the advanced design, R&D and manufacturing core technology of large-scale aircraft carbon fiber composite materials, and promote the design, manufacture and inspection technology of composite components for large passenger aircrafts in China. Take a new step.
Zhong Yu said that there is a big gap between China's aviation composite materials and foreign countries. With the deepening of domestic large-scale aircraft manufacturing, the localization of aviation composite materials is becoming increasingly important.
Xie Fuyuan, president of Kangde Composite Materials, believes that in the carbon fiber production system of Kangde, T700, T800 and T1000 have achieved stable production, and the data is rich and controllable. From this point of view, further application of the product to civilian passenger aircraft has become increasingly mature. In addition to following the country's large aircraft strategy, the Conde Group is aiming at the production of composite materials in the field of aircraft manufacturing, and it is also unrelated to the rapidly developing civil aviation industry.
The R&D and manufacturing capability of large passenger aircraft is an important indicator of a country's aviation level and an important indicator of a country's international competitiveness. China has already positioned its large domestic aircraft as a major strategic project of “playing action and iconic role”. However, the development of large passenger aircraft is a huge system engineering, and aviation core technologies such as aero-engines, avionics systems, and high-end materials are in urgent need of breakthrough.
As a well-known enterprise in China's polymer materials, the carbon fiber industry platform built by Kangde and Kangde New has achieved high-end and platform-oriented, and is moving toward scale. The platform includes high-performance carbon fiber from Zhonganxin Technology Co., Ltd., Kangde New European Composites R&D Center in Munich, Kangdexin-Redding European Automotive Design Center, and Industrial 4.0 Intelligent Manufacturing Plant of Kangde Composite Materials Co., Ltd. . Among them, Zhonganxin's high-performance carbon fiber production line has achieved stable mass production of industrial grade T700, T800, T1000, T1100 and M series. The Kangde Carbon Valley project is under construction in Shandong Rongcheng. After it is put into production, it can be realized. With an annual output of 6,000 tons of high-performance carbon fiber and 30,000 tons of high-performance carbon fiber composite materials, it can meet the light-weight needs of high-end technical equipment and civil fields in automobiles, civil aviation, wind power, rail transit, and ships. These have laid a solid foundation for the aviation composites industry park.
According to the newly disclosed 2018 quarterly report of Kangde, the company achieved operating income of 10.835 billion yuan in the first three quarters of 2018, an increase of 14.65% year-on-year; the net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies was 2.201 billion yuan, an increase of 17.14%. The company expects the net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies to change from 2,722 million yuan to 3.217 billion yuan in 2018, an increase of 10.00% to 30.00%.