The municipal industry and information technology bureau has published its 2025 list of enterprise "one enterprise, one technology" R&D centres, and the company's nano-screening membrane programme is on it.
What the designation is for
The programme exists to push the centre of gravity of technical work into companies rather than institutes: it recognises a firm that has built a research capability around one specifickey technology, holds the IP for it, and can keep improving it without outside direction. Assessment covers the team, the equipment, the patent position and whether the technology is actually in production.
What was assessed
The company's entry rests on the nano-screening purification membrane: a membrane platform developed in-house, applied to industrial oil rather than water, and taken from micron-level to nanometre-level separation. The distinguishing properties claimed for it are precision, low energy demand, high throughput and a wide operating envelope — the last of which matters most commercially, because a plant rarely has one oil in one condition.
The team behind it was assembled with domestic and foreign specialists working jointly, and the technology is in series production rather than at pilot stage.
What it changes
Practically, the designation opens access to municipal R&D funding streams and to the project pipelines that run through them. Strategically it moves the company from being a user of published technology to being the place where a specific technology is held and advanced.
The next stated targets are the ones the field actually poses: oil purification, waste-oil regeneration, oil-water separation and water treatment, each with its own unresolved problems in membrane life and fouling.
