R&D and Innovation

Our commitment to R&D innovation is

a cornerstone of HSCC's boundless potential.

HSCC actively integrates global R&D resources, planning and establishing worldwide R&D centers and industrial incubation bases with a forward-looking vision. By building innovation-driven R&D hubs and developing a full-process platform focused on strategic priorities, HSCC is driving the transformation from cost advantage to innovation advantage.

R&D Center

Global R&D Center

Focusing on its main business, HSCC builds a forward-looking global R&D platform that integrates technology innovation, green development, certification, and social innovation, ensuring technological leadership in fibers, chemicals, and new materials.

Netherlands Caprolactam Technology R&D Center

The Netherlands Caprolactam (CPL) Technology R&D Center is a globally leading caprolactam technology platform, working with Fuzhou, Nanjing, and the Netherlands to establish a collaborative global innovation hub. With highly educated and experienced researchers in technology, chemistry, analytics, and chemical engineering, the Center is dedicated to developing breakthrough technologies and green development, improving existing production lines, increasing output, reducing energy consumption, and minimizing the carbon footprint.

Highsun Chemical R&D (CN) Center

Highsun Chemical R&D (CN) Center focuses on technological advancement, sustainability, and the development of new applications for intermediates and existing products in HSCC’s chemical business. The Center works across caprolactam-related fields including technology development, chemical research, process design, process safety (design, on-site, and protection), catalyst optimization, result analysis, and experimental design. It also maintains extensive collaboration with universities and research institutes.

Li Heng Polymerization R&D Center

With a daily PA6 polymerization capacity of 3-5 tons and covering a R&D area of 800 m², the Center adopts domestically developed two-step polymerization technology and multiple additive blending systems to develop PA6 & PA66 copolymer chips, high-transparency PA6 chips, high-moisture-absorption PA6 chips, graphene chips, and more. Its innovations span key areas including polymer material science, fiber processing technology, sustainable production methods, and performance enhancement.

Highsun Fiber Product R&D Center

Highsun Fiber Product R&D Center covers an area of 2,200 m² and is equipped with eight independent spinning R&D stations, a Barmag automatic doffing draw-texturing machine with 72 spindles, and multiple advanced physical testing devices. With comprehensive analytical and testing capabilities, the Center ensures advanced production technology standards. Backed by years of R&D and production experience, it has successfully developed high-strength polyamide, dope-dyed polyamide, recycled polyamide, graphene polyamide, and collagen polyamide fibers, achieving breakthroughs in differentiated polyamide fiber production technologies and product development.

Highsun Innovation and Development Center

Highsun Innovation and Development Center covers 2,000 m² and is equipped with state-of-the-art German Karl Mayer spandex warping machines, polyamide fiber warping machines, warp-knitting machines, circular knitting machines, and sampling warping machines, enabling full-process testing capabilities. It ensures downstream application stability across the entire industrial chain, diversifies product lines, and explores applications in apparel and home textiles, consumer goods, healthcare, automotive, and environmental protection. By innovating around application scenarios, it also accelerates R&D transformation.

Highsun Testing Technology Center

Highsun Testing Technology Center is a national laboratory accredited by CNAS. Covering a land area of 420 m², including 261 m² of laboratory spaces, it is equipped with industry-leading instruments for dynamic and static mechanical performance testing of fibers and fabrics, mechanical property testing, and physico-chemical analysis. The Center safeguards the superior quality of HSCC’s spandex products, ensuring a stable annual production capacity of 40,000 tons of differentiated spandex. It also provides strong technological support for R&D, product design, and process optimization. Through nearly a decade of research, the Center has successfully transformed numerous scientific achievements into practice, including the development of chlorine-resistant spandex, high-temperature-resistant spandex, easily dyeable and shapeable spandex, and process improvements for coarse-denier spandex.

Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Novel Polyamide 6 Functional Fiber Materials Research and Application

Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Novel Polyamide 6 Functional Fiber Materials Research and Application was officially established on March 23, 2020, under the authorization of the Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province. Jointly founded by Guangdong Highsun Meida New Materials and South China University of Technology, the Laboratory focuses on developing critical and common technologies in the polyamide industry. Its research covers fundamental studies on the design and processing of new civilian PA6 fiber functional materials, the development of preparation technologies for such materials, modification technologies and application research for specialty polyamide fibers, as well as the establishment of performance evaluation systems for novel PA6 fiber functional materials. With a gross floor area of approximately 3,500 m², the Laboratory employs more than 90 full-time researchers, and has appointed nine senior experts from academia and the industry to form its academic committee.

H-Tech Technology Development Center

H-Tech Technology Development Department (formerly the Meida Polyamide Technology Center) was established in 2001. In 2011, it was accredited as a National Enterprise Technology Center, becoming the first nationally recognized enterprise technology center in the Polyamide 6 industry. The Center currently employs 300 researchers, including more than 20 senior talents with PhD degrees. Since its accreditation, it has undertaken two national key scientific projects and three Guangdong provincial science and technology projects, led or participated in the formulation of 26 international, national, and industry standards, and filed 176 patents, including 94 invention patents and 82 utility model patents. In 2016, the Center was awarded the title of “National Scientific and Technological Innovation Platform for the Chemical Fiber Industry in China.”

Collaboration Between Industry, Academia, and Research

HSCC places strong emphasis on collaboration between industry, academia, and research, actively exploring integrated development models. We have partnered with leading domestic and international universities and research institutions—including Donghua University, Xiamen University, Fuzhou University, South China University of Technology, Guangdong University of Technology, the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the University of York, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), and KU Leuven. These collaborations have yielded a series of highly competitive products, effectively facilitating the commercialization of scientific and technological achievements. This enables the development of more high-tech products tailored to market needs while promoting technological advancement for both the company and the wider industry.

R&D Capabilities

Leading Technologies

HPO Plus® Caprolactam Production Technology

As the world's most mature, stable, safe, and environmentally friendly caprolactam production technology, HPO Plus® consistently delivers high-quality products suitable for demanding applications like high-speed spinning. Compared to other processes, it consumes significantly less energy and water while generating the lowest level of ammonium sulfate by-products. Furthermore, the technology produces no NOx or SOx emissions, effectively resolving the equipment corrosion and environmental pollution issues associated with traditional methods, establishing itself as a truly green and clean production solution. Additionally, HPO Plus® can be integrated with other technologies to produce large ammonium sulfate crystals with superior strength.

Large-Granule Ammonium Sulfate Technology

With a unique crystallizer, this technology produces ammonium sulfate in larger granules. Compared with small particles, large-granule ammonium sulfate maintains particle integrity during storage and transportation, ensures greater stability, and provides a slow-release effect in agricultural applications, thereby improving fertilizer utilization.

Hydranone® Phenol-Based Cyclohexanone Production Technology

This process hydrogenates phenol into cyclohexanol under a catalyst and then dehydrogenates it to produce cyclohexanone. After years of optimization, the technology has achieved 100% conversion with a short process flow, high yield, high product quality, and low emissions of the “three types of waste.”

French Air Liquide Patented Air Separation Technology

As a globally advanced industrial gas production technology, this sixth-generation air separation process features internal compression, structured packing, and full rectification argon production without hydrogen. It delivers products with superior stability, higher purity, and better quality. Key patented components include all-welded stainless steel rectification towers, vertical radial-flow purifiers, trip abatement systems, and argon recovery technology. The process excels in both product quality and efficiency, while ensuring operational safety with a high degree of automation, flexibility, and reliability.

Low-Temperature Cyclohexane Dehydrogenation Technology

This technology catalytically dehydrogenates cyclohexane by-products into purified benzene and hydrogen under low temperature and pressure conditions. It increases benzene utilization to over 99% and enables a closed-loop green circular economy within the production system. Compared with similar technologies, it operates at lower temperatures and pressures, reduces operational hazards, and has been granted a utility model patent.

PA6 Chemical Recycling Technology

This patented process facilitates the comprehensive recycling of waste fiber products, enabling the effective reuse of polyamide fibers. To date, it has secured seven European invention patents.

Key Industrialization Technology for Fine-Denier High-Strength PA6 Fibers

This technology achieves internationally advanced levels by integrating high strength, wear resistance, flame retardancy, and comfort into a single solution, thereby supporting the industrialization of high-strength fibers.

Ion Implantation Gas Filling and Storage Technology

This world-leading doped gas filling and storage technology is one of the few in China to hold full patent rights for both SAGI (adsorption-type negative pressure cylinders) and SAGII (mechanical negative pressure cylinders), with independent assembly and handling capabilities.

Electronics-Grade Hydrofluoric Acid Production Technology

This patented innovation, certified by TSMC manufacturing processes, utilizes improved key equipment materials to increase production capacity by over 60% while maintaining the same levels of energy consumption, cost, and quality.

Industry Recognition

National High-Tech Enterprise

National Base for Differentiated Polyamide 6 Product Development

National Demonstration Enterprise for Manufacturing Champions
CNAS Laboratory Accreditation

As of 2025

Over 1400 patents granted

National High-Tech Enterprise

National Base for Differentiated Polyamide 6 Product Development

National Demonstration Enterprise for Manufacturing Champions
CNAS Laboratory Accreditation

As of 2025

Over 1400 patents granted