Sailun Dongjiakou factory construction underway

On 20 July 2022, the launch ceremony of the Advanced Polymer and Metal Materials Industrial Park in Qingdao City, Shandong Province was held. Tyrepress noted that among the seven projects that started construction, the Functional New Material Industrial Park belonging to the National Engineering Research Center for Rubber and Tire (NECRAT) was included.

According to Chinese news reports, the main investors of the NECRAT project include Sailun and Qingdao Joinsyn New Materials Company. The two expansion plans announced by Sailun at the end of June, a project with an annual output of 30 million sets of high-performance radial tyres and 150,000 tons of OTR tyres, and a project with an annual output of 500,000 tons of functional new materials, appeared in the construction list of Functional New Material Industrial Park.

NECRAT in made up of MESNAC, Qingdao University of Science and Technology and Sailun Group. According to public reports, the NECRAT platform includes more than 100 companies and has built a complete chain of chemical rubber raw materials, information software, equipment manufacturing, production technology, tyre products, waste tyre recycling, and international marketing networks. NECRAT director Yuan Zhongxue is the chairman of Sailun Group. According to NECRAT, Yuan Zhongxue also attended the launch ceremony on 20 July 2022.