On December 28, workers in the production workshop of Messi Biology located in the city’s high-tech zone were rushing to produce and rush to fill orders. “The active magnesium oxide we developed has become an important component of oil catalysts in the Middle East, and has achieved cumulative sales of 360 tons this year.” Feng Wenjie, the head of the company, said that at the end of last year, the city’s high-tech zone helped them build an innovation consortium to increase the quantity and quality of order production. Since the beginning of this year, product sales have reached 25 million yuan.
In the past, Messi Biology was in a situation of fighting alone in product research and development and market sales, with insufficient scientific research strength, key core technology research and development obstacles, and market sales once encountered bottlenecks. Understanding the needs of the company, the staff of the Science and Industry Statistics Bureau of the City High-tech Zone helped coordinate the company to connect with universities and colleges, upstream and downstream advantageous enterprises, and contacted the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to provide scientific research, a company in Tibet to provide hydromagnesite raw materials, and a company in Henan to provide sales terminals, forming an integrated R&D, production, and sales process. At the end of last year, four units formed the first innovation consortium in the city’s high-tech zone.
“In the past, magnesium oxide used in medical rubber plugs has always relied on imports, with high costs and technology controlled by others. Recently, with the help of the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, we have developed a highly active magnesium oxide, realizing the transformation from dependence on imports to independent production.” Feng Wenjie said.
With the joint efforts of the members of the innovation consortium, the products of Messi Biology have been widely used in silicon steel, food and medicine, optical glass, 5G new materials and other fields. On this basis, they are also continuing to increase investment in research and development. Feng Wenjie introduced that now, the product of highly active magnesium oxide has been upgraded to the third generation, with indicators better than foreign levels, and it is expected to achieve annual sales of 20 million yuan after production.