Polyaryl ether nitrile (PEN) has broad application prospects. At present, my country’s market demand still relies on imports.

Polyaryl ether nitrile (PEN) is a linear aromatic polymer compound and a new thermoplastic special engineering plastic containing a large number of rigid aromatic rings, oxygen ether bonds or thioether bonds in the molecular chain. Polyaryl ether nitrile is a member of the polyaryl ether family. It has good corrosion resistance, flame retardancy, heat resistance, radiation resistance, creep resistance, insulation, etc., and is widely used in machinery manufacturing, automotive parts, Aerospace, electronics and electrical, food processing, national defense and military and other fields.

Polyaryl ether nitriles have excellent properties, but with the expansion of application fields, the market’s functional requirements for polyaryl ether nitriles are increasingly increasing. In order to expand application scenarios and meet multi-faceted market demands, the market for functional polyaryl ether nitriles continues to attract attention. Functional polyaryl ether nitrile products include sulfonated polyaryl ether nitrile (SPEN), PEN-COOH, carboxyl PEN fiber, etc. Polyaryl ether nitrile has excellent comprehensive properties and can be used to replace special engineering plastics such as polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) and polyether ether ketone (PEEK). It has broad prospects for market development and utilization in the future.

The technical barriers to polyaryl ether nitrile are high, and there are only a small number of mass-produced companies in the world, mainly concentrated in the United States, Japan and other regions. Among them, DuPont of the United States is the leading company in this field. Research on polyaryl ether nitrile in my country started in the 1980s. However, due to the complex preparation technology, the development speed of my country’s polyaryl ether nitrile industry is slow, and the current market potential has not yet been fully opened.

According to the “2022-2026 China Polyarylene Ether Nitrile Project Investment Feasibility Research Report” released by the Industrial Research Center, polyarylene ether nitrile Ether nitrile has a wide range of applications. In recent years, with the development of my country’s economy, the demand for polyaryl ether nitrile in the fields of electronics and electrical, aerospace, and mechanical processing has been increasing. The potential demand will increase to about 16,000 tons in 2021. However, due to high production technical barriers and limited domestic production capacity, my country’s current demand for polyaryl ether nitrile still relies on imports, which is not conducive to the long-term development of the industry.

In order to improve the independent supply capacity of polyaryl ether nitrile, polyaryl ether nitrile has been included in the national new material strategic transformation project and the national 863 major project. Driven by national policies, my country has gradually realized the industrial production of polyaryl ether nitrile. Domestically, companies developing the polyaryl ether nitrile market include Sichuan Feiya New Materials, Hubei New Sule New Materials, Sichuan Energy Investment Sichuan Chemical New Materials, etc. Among them, the polyaryl ether nitrile project of Sichuan Energy Investment Sichuan Chemical New Materials has entered the ” Guidance Catalog for the First Batch Application Demonstration of Key New Materials (2021 Edition)”.

Industry analysts said that as one of the special engineering plastics, polyarylene ether nitrile has excellent comprehensive properties and has broad market development and utilization space. The technical barriers to polyaryl ether nitrile production are high, global production capacity is limited, and my country’s market demand still relies on imports. However, with increased national support, my country’s polyaryl ether nitrile industrialization process has accelerated, and independent supply capabilities have continued to improve. In addition, factors such as technological progress and demand upgrading will also drive the polyaryl ether nitrile market towards functionalization, high purification, and environmental protection. upgrading.