With the rapid development of smart phones, the touch display industry has shown an explosive growth trend. As one of the important materials of touch display, OCA optical adhesive has many advantages such as excellent optical performance, filling property, ITO compatibility and reliability. From the initial application of touch display of smart phones and tablets, it has been Gradually penetrate into the fields of car display and smart wear. The global OCA optical adhesive market size will also grow rapidly from USD 900 million in 2017 to USD 1.05 billion in 2020.
For a long time, the high-end OCA optical adhesives used for the full lamination of touch display screens have been basically monopolized by international material giants. Japan's Mitsubishi Chemical and the United States 3M have a high market share, while many domestic manufacturers have products due to insufficient technological research and development capabilities. The performance is not up to standard, occupying only a part of the low-end rework market and the low-demand general fitting market.
At present, this situation has been broken by Suzhou Fanset Material Technology Co., Ltd. Since the acquisition of OCA Optical Adhesives Division of Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. in 2016, Suzhou Fanset Material Technology Co., Ltd. has taken product innovation as the core, intelligent demonstration workshop as the platform, and customer demand-oriented. The journey of the supply chain of well-known external module manufacturers and consumer electronics terminal brand customers has made significant progress after one year of production.
Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. is one of the originators of the optical adhesive industry in the world. It has a long history. The technical level and performance of its OCA products are at the international advanced level, as are 3M and Mitsubishi. Through the purchase of Hitachi Chemical's technology platform, patents and equipment, Versett established the first and currently the only factory in the Zhangjiagang Free Trade Zone that can produce high-end fully-laminated OCA optical adhesives. It has preliminary mass production capacity in March 2017. And began to import well-known customers at home and abroad.
At the beginning of its establishment, Versett established a business philosophy centered on R & D and product performance. Established a cutting-edge technology R & D center in Japan and an independent R & D and innovation platform in Zhangjiagang. By digesting and absorbing Hitachi's existing technology, combining the technological advantages of the Japanese R & D center with the advantages of the Chinese R & D team close to the market, the company continues to develop innovation. 19 patents were granted and more than ten new patents were applied. Since 2016, it has won honors such as Jiangsu Province's high-tech cultivation and storage enterprises, and Suzhou demonstration smart workshop.
With the upgrade of ultra-thin, ultra-narrow bezels, full-screen, flexible screens, and automotive touch display products, conventional full-fit OCA has been unable to meet customer needs. The R & D center teams in Japan and China focus on the continuous improvement of research and development technology and production technology, and have realized product upgrade and innovation, and developed a series of new OCA optical adhesive products. The new product itself not only has excellent optical properties and adhesion, but also has excellent performance in terms of fillability and environmental reliability. In particular, in terms of reliability, no bubble bounce occurs under the aging test conditions such as 85 ℃ / 85% RH1000H, xenon lamp aging test, and QUV, which can adapt to complex sea, land and air transportation conditions and extreme cold and heat changes. Can meet the demanding use requirements of vehicle users. At present, the Fanset product group covers the entire field of touch function film bonding, hard-to-hard full bonding, and flexible display bonding applications, providing customers with excellent material support for developing high-performance display products.
In terms of capacity layout, all four intelligent precision coating production lines imported from Japan have been installed and debugged. After successfully absorbing and absorbing Hitachi's technological advantages and OCA mass production experience, the capacity has been continuously released, which can provide the market with an annual output of 360 10,000 square meters of OCA optical adhesive production capacity supply, the second phase of an annual production of 4 million square meters of optical plastic factory has been under construction. Under the uncertain environment of international trade environment, Fanset has expanded its local production capacity in China to increase the level of localization of OCA and assist domestic and foreign customers to stabilize the supply chain.
Work with customers to grasp the new era of the touch screen industry
After more than a year of hard work, with the vigorous cooperation and integration of customers, Fanset's products have gradually been promoted in the Chinese market and gradually entered the supply system of well-known international and domestic customers.
In the field of smart phones, Fansai's OCA products have passed the rigorous tests of Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd., a well-known domestic display manufacturer. After being applied in batches on LG, Gome, Qiku and other smart phone products, the latest ultra-thin 100um The full-fitting high-segment filling model has been determined to be used in the latest models of domestic first-tier brands; at the same time, through cooperation with the well-known domestic module manufacturer Offi Optics, Fansai's OCA products are also part of Huawei mobile phone projects Get customer recognition.
In other consumer electronics fields such as tablet computers, notebooks, e-books, Fansai OCA products also have outstanding performance. In the Foxconn-owned GIS industry group, Fansai's OCA products have been applied to laptops from many first-tier brands such as Microsoft, Lenovo, HP, etc .; at Wistron, the latest ultra-thin Xiaomi and Acer brands produced by it The product provides supporting for mass production; in particular, through cooperation with TPK Yihong, Fanset's high-reliability OCA products outperformed the PK with international major brands, and won large orders for Amazon e-book products in June. Customer technical experts praised Verset "you are our hero".
2018 is the first year of in-vehicle intelligent display. Driven by Tesla, BMW, Mercedes-Benz and other internationally renowned car manufacturers, Smart car has been regarded as another market focus after Smart phone. Do not open large size and high performance display touch products. Based on the original Hitachi automotive products, Fanset has optimized the formulation and improved the production process to develop a new generation of automotive OCA products with acrylic systems. It is the only one in the market that can compete with the expensive liquid silicone hydrogel products in the automotive market. OCA products. At present, through the cooperation with Sharp, it has achieved mass supply in high-end models of BMW and Ford.
Conclusion
Fanset has always maintained the pace of common growth and common development with customers, and is constantly broadening the path of advanced OCA optical adhesive materials, and going further and further. Through matching with upstream and downstream, and jointly developing and establishing a strategic partnership with customers, Suzhou Fansai will become an internationally competitive OCA production base of optical glue in China.