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With the rapid development of smart phones, the touch screen industry has shown an explosive growth trend. As one of the important materials for touch screens, OCA optical adhesive has many advantages such as excellent optical properties, filling, ITO compatibility and reliability. From the initial bonding application of smart phones and tablet touch screens, it has gradually penetrated into the fields of car displays and smart wear. The global market size of OCA optical adhesive will also grow rapidly from US$900 million in 2017 to US$1.05 billion in 2020.

For a long time, high-end OCA optical adhesives used for full bonding of touch screens have been basically monopolized by international material giants. Companies such as Japan's Mitsubishi Chemical and the United States' 3M have a high market share. However, many domestic manufacturers have insufficient technical research and development capabilities, resulting in substandard product performance, and only occupy part of the low-end rework market and the general bonding market with lower requirements.

At present, this situation has been broken by Suzhou Fanset Material Technology Co., Ltd. Since acquiring the OCA optical adhesive 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 as the guide, and has started the journey of fully introducing the supply chain of well-known domestic and foreign bonding module manufacturers and consumer electronics terminal brand customers, and has made significant progress one year after the start of production.

Independent research and development, building a product innovation platform

Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. is one of the originators of the world's optical adhesive industry with a long history. The technical level and product performance of its OCA products are at the same international advanced level as 3M and Mitsubishi. By purchasing Hitachi Chemical's technical platform, patents and equipment, Fanset established the first and currently the only factory in China that can produce high-end fully bonded OCA optical adhesives in Zhangjiagang Free Trade Zone. In March 2017, it had initial mass production capabilities and began to certify and introduce well-known international and domestic customers.

Fanset established a business philosophy centered on research and development and guided by product performance at the beginning of its establishment. We have established an advanced technology R&D center in Japan and an independent R&D innovation platform in Zhangjiagang. By digesting and absorbing Hitachi's existing technologies, we have combined the technical advantages of the Japanese R&D center with the advantages of the Chinese R&D team close to the market, and continuously developed and innovated. So far, we have 19 authorized patents and more than ten new patents. Since 2016, we have successively won honors such as Jiangsu Province High-tech Cultivation Enterprise and Suzhou Demonstration Intelligent Workshop.

With the upgrade of ultra-thin, ultra-narrow frame, full screen, flexible screen, car-mounted and other touch display products, conventional full-fit OCA can no longer meet customer needs. The R&D center teams in Japan and China focus on the continuous improvement of R&D technology and production processes, realize product upgrades and innovations, and develop a series of new OCA optical adhesive products. The new products themselves not only have excellent optical performance and adhesion, but also perform well in step filling and environmental reliability. Especially in terms of reliability, there is no bubble rebound phenomenon under 85℃, 85%RH, 1000H, xenon lamp aging test, and QUV aging test conditions. It can adapt to complex sea, land and air transportation conditions and extremely cold and hot conditions, and can meet the demanding use requirements of vehicle users. At present, Fanset's product family covers the entire field of touch function sheet bonding, hard-to-hard full bonding, and bendable flexible display bonding applications, providing customers with excellent material support for the development of high-performance display products.

In terms of production capacity layout, four intelligent precision coating production lines imported from Japan have been fully installed and debugged. After successfully digesting and absorbing Hitachi's process advantages and OCA mass production experience, production capacity has been continuously released, which can provide the market with an annual production capacity of 3.6 million square meters of OCA optical glue. The second phase of the plant with an annual production capacity of 4 million square meters of optical glue is already under construction. In the context of uncertainty in the international trade environment, Fanset has expanded its production capacity in China and improved the localization level of OCA to help domestic and foreign customers stabilize the supply chain.

Join hands with customers to grasp the new era of touch screen industry

After more than one year of hard work, with the strong cooperation and integration of customers, Fanset's products have been gradually promoted in the Chinese market and have gradually entered the supply system of well-known international and domestic customers.

In the field of smart phones, Fanset's OCA products have passed the strict tests of Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd., a well-known domestic display manufacturer. After batch application on smart phone products such as LG, Gome, and Qiku, the latest ultra-thin 100um high-level filling model has been determined to be used in the latest models of domestic first-line brands; at the same time, through cooperation with O-Film, a well-known domestic module manufacturer, Fanset's OCA products have also been recognized by customers in some projects of Huawei mobile phones.

In other consumer electronics fields such as tablets, notebooks, and e-books, Fanset's OCA products also have outstanding performance. In Foxconn's GIS Group, Fanset's OCA products have been used in laptops of many first-line brands such as Microsoft, Lenovo, and HP; in Wistron Group, it provides mass production support for the latest ultra-thin products of Xiaomi and Acer brands; especially through cooperation with TPK, Fanset's high-reliability OCA products have outperformed international brands, and in June, it won a large order for Amazon's e-book products. Customer technical experts praised Fanset "You are our hero".

2018 is the first year of in-vehicle intelligent display. Driven by internationally renowned car manufacturers such as Tesla, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz, Smart car has been regarded as another market focus after Smart phone. The interface of human-vehicle interaction is naturally inseparable from large-size and high-performance display touch products. Based on the original Hitachi in-vehicle products, Fanset has developed a new generation of acrylic system in-vehicle OCA products by optimizing the formula and improving the production process. It is the only OCA product in the market that can compete with expensive liquid silicone hydrogel products in the in-vehicle market. Currently, through cooperation with Sharp, mass supply has been achieved in high-end models of BMW and Ford.

Conclusion

Fansat has always maintained a rhythm of common growth and development with customers, and is constantly expanding the road of advanced OCA optical adhesive materials. Through supporting upstream and downstream, working with customers to jointly develop and establish strategic partnerships, Suzhou Fansat will surely become a Chinese OCA optical adhesive production base with international competitiveness.