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China’s Graphene industry set to skyrocket in 2014

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Although many industry analysts have predicted that mass commercialization of graphene may still be years away due to a number of product and process obstacles, I disagree.

Earlier last year, the graphene-based capacitive touchscreen already started mass production in China, not to mention the Chinese smartphone maker AWIT INC sold out its first batch of 2000 units of graphene-smartphone AWIT AT26 priced at CNY 799 just recently. This supports my position that China’s graphene industry is not only well underway, but will skyrocket in 2014. Additionally, we should anticipate more graphene-based products to be launched on the consumer goods market later this year.

Fact — China has become the world’s biggest developer of graphene sector. Now let’s review what has happened with the graphene industry in China in the last year:

• On December 26th, the mass production of large area single-layer graphene sheets production line with an annual one-million square meters capacity (the first phase) has put into operation in a graphene industrial park in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, which is mainly used for touch screens, flexible displays etc, according to Chongqing Morsh Technology. Chongqing graphene industrialization base is to focus on flexible touch-screen displays, electronic chips cooling components, electrode materials for lithium ion batteries, graphene transistors etc.
• On December 20th, China’s Ningbo Morsh Technology announced that it has begun operations the world’s largest mass production line of high-quality graphene material in Ningbo City of Zhejiang Province. The plant provided an annual capacity of 300-ton of graphene per year in the first phase, and after being constructed its second-phase project, which will have an annual productive capacity of 1,000 tons of graphene material. This marks the beginning of a new era for low-cost mass production of high quality graphene, while become an industrial raw material of large supply.
• On November 18th, associate with Jiangnan Graphene Research Institute, The Sixth Element(Changzhou) released that its first phase mass production line of high-quality graphene powder with an annual 100-ton capacity began operation in the country’s first graphene industrial park (Wuxi graphene industry park) in Wuxi City of Jiangsu Province. While a Chinese smartphone maker (located in Wuxi graphene industry park) AWIT INC, officially released on the same day that it has sold out its first batch of 2000 units of graphene-smartphone AWIT AT26 priced at CNY 799. This marks graphene material has been entered into the consumer goods market.
• On July 13th, China graphene industry technology innovation strategic alliance was formally established in Beijing. The Technology Innovation and Strategic Alliance of Graphene could not only set up the bridge for the provincial government and the graphene enterprises, but also help bring together all resources in the industry chain, innovation chain and service chain and enhance the development capability of the graphene industry, according to the official site.

“China is the most active” in developing commercial applications for graphene. Chinese government not only encouraged more provinces to form a coalition and promote the development of the industry, but also stepped up the work on designing related standards. Many local governments plans to promote the graphene industry as a characteristic and strategically leading sector, in order to build the city into a pioneer of graphene-related technological innovation and application, which issued a series of documents on boosting the graphene industry and driving the upgrading industries.

We have just witnessed the development of China’s graphene industry at an unprecedented rate in the past year, some graphene industrialization bases have been established in Wuxi, Qingdao, Shenzhen, Ningbo and Chongqing respectively.​

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The graphene has become the focus of various scientific research institutions and production enterprises in recent years. Despite an entire graphene industry in China is also still at the early stages and has not yet formed a complete industrial chain, however, with the cost of graphene material continuously declining and the continued strong growth in construction investment in graphene and related sector, trend shows that China’s graphene industry is gradually forming some emerging clusters, while it can be expected that this trend will become more and more obvious in the next few years.​

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“China is leading the world in the industrialization of graphene as it has begun mass production,” said Shi Haofei, a researcher with the Chongqing Research Institute with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. However, I believe that the fastest-growing demand for graphene is being driven by Chinese electronics manufacturers in this year, while China’s graphene industry starts to take off in 2014.​

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