Fujian Fuwei New Materials signs contract for a carbon fiber production project with an annual output of 4,000 tons, involving an investment of 2.39 billion yuan

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On November 8, the signing ceremony for the EPC general contract of Fujian Fuwei New Materials Co., Ltd.’s project to produce 4,000 tons of high-performance carbon fiber per year was held in Yongan, marking the official entry of this provincial key project, with a total investment of 2.39 billion yuan, into the actual construction phase. The total project duration is set at 386 calendar days. According to the plan, the project will complete the intermediate handover of the construction works on October 31, 2026, and commence trial operation with material feeding on December 1 of the same year; this project will fill the gap in large-scale production of high-performance carbon fiber in Fujian Province. The project’s products target the high-performance carbon fibers of T700 grade and above, which are in urgent demand in China. The project will involve the construction of 2 polymerization units as well as 2 spinning and carbonization production lines, thereby creating a complete production system that goes from raw filaments to finished carbon fibers. Polymerization workshop: 2 batch-type polymerization units will be built, using a one-step polymerization process with dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) as the solvent; the annual production capacity for polyacrylonitrile (PAN) filaments will be 8,000 tons ； Spinning workshop: Equipped with 2 dry-jet wet spinning production lines that produce high-performance filaments through processes such as water washing, drawing, and drying for densification; the thread speed reaches an advanced level ； Carbonization workshop: Equipped with 3-meter-wide pre-oxidation furnaces as well as low-temperature/high-temperature carbonization furnaces customized by American Harper International; the capacity of each carbonization line is 2,000 tons per year, resulting in an overall capacity of 4,000 tons of high-performance carbon fiber per year ； Supporting facilities: new DMSO tank farms, acrylonitrile tank farms, finished product warehouses, substation stations, circulating water systems, air compression stations, and intelligent control systems will be installed. In addition, incinerators and high-efficiency desulfurization and denitration devices will be provided to ensure that waste gas emissions meet regulatory standards. Intelligence and sustainability: The project integrates a Production Control System (PCS) and an Energy Management System (EMS) to achieve digital monitoring of the entire process. At the same time, by using energy-efficient equipment and waste heat recovery systems, its overall energy consumption per unit of product is lower than the industry average, which is expected to result in a reduction of approximately 100,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year.