Recently, the Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Department approved the establishment of “Guangdong Ultra-thin and Ultra-thick Electrolytic Copper Foil Engineering and Technology Research Center” relying on Huizhou United Copper Foil. It calls for “continuous improvement of research and development capabilities and achievements transformation capabilities to provide strong technical support for the development of related industries in our province”.

Nord (SH600110) is the first copper foil company in China, with 35% market share of copper foil for lithium ion batteries. Its wholly-owned subsidiary Huizhou United Copper Foil Electronic Material Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “United Copper Foil”) is known as “Copper Foil Huangpu Military Academy” in the industry. With 4.0 central control room of copper foil industry, it can realize real-time monitoring of key process parameters, remote intelligent control, data storage and analysis, leading the domestic industry; presided over the formulation of Guangdong provincial and national industry standards for “Electrolytic Copper Foil for Lithium Ion Batteries”; 210-420 micron VLP super thick electrolytic copper foil is the only domestic manufacturer for high-power automobile printing. Lines, matching BMW, Mercedes-Benz and other high-end European and American cars; 6 micron lithium copper foil is the domestic leader, Japan Panasonic Corporation designated as the United States Tesla electric vehicle battery matching supplier; domestic top 10 power battery manufacturers are long-term stable partners.

In April this year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other four ministries jointly issued the Action Plan for Promoting the Development of Automotive Power Battery Industry, which clearly put forward the development goal of “concentrating on breaking through the key technologies of materials and components, battery monomers and systems, and greatly improving the performance and safety of battery products”. As Xin Ji Guobin, Vice Minister of Industry and Information Technology, put forward, “the development of new energy vehicles ultimately depends on the development of new energy vehicles”. How far can power batteries go? This is the common sense of mission and urgency of all colleagues in the copper foil material research and development industry.
For the national strategy of vigorously developing the new energy automobile industry, the shareholder Nord shares have long been far-sighted and ahead of schedule. The pilot plant of national R&D center with a total investment of 150 million yuan started construction in Huizhou United Copper Foil in July this year. It is expected to be completed and put into operation in March 2018, which will greatly improve the grade and level of software and hardware of the “Guangdong Ultra-thin and Ultra-thick Electrolytic Copper Foil Engineering Technology Center” built by Huizhou United Copper Foil.
Huizhou United Copper Foil has strong R&D strength and sufficient technical reserves. As the key materials urgently needed for power batteries, new products such as high tension resistance and high elongation copper foil (increasing the expansion coefficient of batteries, ensuring the safety of batteries and prolonging the life of batteries), 5-micron ultra-thin and porous copper foil (increasing the energy density of batteries, increasing the endurance mileage of power batteries and lightening consumer electronic products) have been conquered, and will be put into the market in batches. It will play an important role in promoting the performance and safety of battery products.
Huizhou United Copper Foil will strive to become a talent training center, a special copper foil manufacturing center, and a national research and development center. Actively develop new energy automobile, power, electronics, aerospace and other industries related to supporting products and high-tech, and strive to achieve Nord shares to become a “global leader in lithium, electricity and copper foil industry” vision!