China's lithium battery market is in great demand -Lithium - Ion Battery Equipment
Lithium-ion batteries are widely used in portable appliances such as laptop computers, cameras, and mobile communications due to their unique performance advantages. Large-capacity lithium-ion batteries have also begun to be used in new energy vehicles. It is expected that lithium-ion batteries will become one of the important power sources for new energy vehicles in the 21st century, and will be used in artificial satellites, aerospace and other fields.(Lithium - Ion Battery Equipment)
Statistics show that smartphones and notebook computers are important application markets for lithium-ion batteries in consumer electronics. From 2016 to 2017, the growth rate of lithium-ion batteries in my country's consumer electronics field has stabilized, but the demand remains at a high level. Benefiting from the rapid development of the new energy vehicle industry, my country's lithium-ion battery industry has maintained rapid growth in the new energy field since 2012. In 2017, my country's lithium-ion battery output was 10.023 billion, a year-on-year increase of 27.81%. The increase in the market demand for lithium-ion batteries will drive the leap-forward development of my country's lithium-ion battery industry.
Among the four core materials of lithium-ion batteries in my country, positive and negative electrode materials and electrolytes have been localized, but high-end lithium-ion battery separators are still technical shortcomings. The separator is one of the key components of lithium-ion batteries. The quality of the separator directly affects the battery capacity, charge-discharge cycle life, flame retardant and anti-explosion safety performance and other indicators. At this stage, my country's domestic diaphragms are mainly supplied to the low-end 3C battery market, and high-end diaphragms still rely heavily on imports.
In 2017, my country ranked first in global power lithium battery sales, and the market demand is large. Therefore, there are many lithium-ion battery production companies in my country, with more than 200 companies. It is the country with the most lithium-ion battery production companies in the world. my country has formed a relatively complete power lithium battery industry chain. The battery industry is large in scale, but not strong enough. The world's best lithium-ion battery separator materials come from two Japanese companies, Asahi Kasei and Tonen Chemical. Ninety percent of the domestic lithium-ion battery aluminum-plastic film market is monopolized by Japanese manufacturers.
In 2017, the scale of my country's lithium battery market reached 113 billion yuan. In the future, the number of high-quality automotive battery separator materials that my country will need every year will reach hundreds of millions of square meters. If the development of lithium-ion batteries is not controlled by others, it is an urgent issue for the entire power lithium battery industry to break through the high-end diaphragm technology of lithium-ion batteries as soon as possible.
Industry analysts said that high-end separator technology for lithium-ion batteries has a very high threshold, which requires not only huge capital investment, but also a strong R&D and production team, skilled technical processes and high-level production lines, and it is difficult to break through in a short period of time. . With the advancement of science and technology in my country, more and more attention is paid to the lithium-ion battery separator technology, and domestic companies will increase their research and development efforts. It is believed that in the near future, my country's lithium-ion battery industry will break through the technical bottleneck, break the foreign monopoly, and take the initiative in its own hands.