Recently, the 2026 Longfor Innovation Conference and the first Spark International Science and Technology Innovation Market were held in Zhengzhou, Henan.
The conference focuses on the research and industrialization of cutting-edge technologies for new materials, bringing together well-known universities, enterprises and scientific research institutions to build a high-level, international industry-university-research collaborative innovation platform.
During the conference, the “AI Empowered Advanced Waterproof Materials Innovation Alliance” jointly sponsored by Oriental Yuhong (002271.SZ), the National Key Laboratory of Advanced Waterproof Materials, and the School of Materials Science and Engineering of Peking University was officially unveiled, marking that my country’s waterproof industry has officially entered a new development stage of deep integration of artificial intelligence and industry.
As a core segment in the field of construction and building materials, waterproof materials are a basic industry that ensures the safety of construction projects and achieves long-term operation and maintenance of infrastructure. It is also a key sector for the upgrading of my country’s new green building materials and new materials industries.
The establishment of the “AI Empowered Advanced Waterproof Materials Innovation Alliance” has achieved deep integration of upstream and downstream resources in the industry.
It is understood that the alliance has attracted dozens of research institutions and industry chain stakeholders, including BASF (China), Wanhua Chemical, Guangdong Badfu, SUPCON Technology, China Construction Seventh Engineering Bureau, and Henan Airport, to build a full industry chain collaboration platform covering raw material research and development, intelligent manufacturing, engineering construction, quality inspection, and digital services.
By integrating academic research capabilities, laboratory R&D resources and industrial implementation experience, we break industry information barriers and technology silos, and comprehensively innovate the waterproof material R&D, production, service and achievement transformation model.
In terms of R&D model innovation, the alliance will rely on AI cross-scale intelligent design large models to reconstruct the R&D system, replace traditional empirical R&D with data closed-loop iterative models such as high-throughput computing, and promote the shortening of the R&D cycle from “ten years” to “months”; in terms of intelligent manufacturing, the alliance will promote the deep integration of AI into the entire process of product formulation, production and processing, and quality inspection to create an intelligent demonstration factory and a replicable digital transformation paradigm.
, to improve industry quality and efficiency, reduce costs and stabilize production; in addition, the alliance will build a large vertical model of the industry, lay out an “exclusive industry brain”, provide one-stop intelligent digital services to all participants in the entire industry chain, lower the industry’s technical threshold, reconstruct the industry service ecosystem, and rely on the entire industry chain collaboration platform to open up industry-university-research barriers, promote the sharing of technology, data and resources, accelerate the industrialization of scientific research results, and enhance the overall competitiveness of the industry chain.
As a co-sponsor of the alliance, Oriental Yuhong has given full play to its corporate advantages to promote all-round innovation and upgrading of the industry.
At the green building materials and advanced waterproof materials session held at the same time as the conference, Oriental Yuhong focused on key directions such as green and low carbon, smart durability, and engineering applications, and shared a number of highly practical technological achievements.
Among them, Liu Jinjing, director of the Technology Center of Oriental Yuhong Holdings and vice president of the manufacturing group, shared the topic of “Low-carbon technological innovation and engineering practice of asphalt-based waterproofing materials from a full life cycle perspective”. He systematically introduced a complete technical system covering low-carbon substitution of raw materials, energy conservation and carbon reduction in production processes, and full life cycle carbon footprint management. He also combined multiple major engineering cases to verify the technical value, providing a mature implementation path for the green transformation of the industry.
Liu Guoqing, Product Manager of the Technology Department of Oriental Yuhong High-Speed Railway Division, focused on the core needs of transportation infrastructure protection and presented the report “Comprehensive Prevention, Control and Operation and Maintenance Upgrading of Railway Bridge Diseases in the Context of Quality Improvement and Life Extension”. He deeply analyzed the causes of bridge diseases, launched an overall solution for high-performance durable waterproofing systems and anti-aging materials, explored the application of operation and maintenance monitoring and intelligent protection technology, and provided full-chain technical support to extend the service life of projects and ensure the safety of infrastructure operations.
Hai Mengfan, a R&D engineer from the Service Performance Research Department of Oriental Yuhong, is deeply involved in the heat and moisture transfer mechanism of building exterior walls and energy consumption optimization strategies. He shared “Thermal and Moisture Simulation Research on Building Exterior Wall Envelope Structures” and is committed to improving the durability of the envelope structure and the overall energy-saving effect of the building, and providing key data and technical support for the development of green buildings.
Industry analysts pointed out that the formation of an industrial alliance led by Oriental Yuhong is not the brand layout of a single company, but a key starting point to promote the transformation and upgrading of the entire waterproof industry.
In the future, relying on the collaborative innovation ecosystem of industry, academia and research, the domestic waterproof material industry will continue to iteratively upgrade in the direction of high performance, greenness, intelligence, and long-term effectiveness.
Oriental Yuhong will also continue to rely on its corporate advantages and scientific research platform resources, integrate high-quality domestic and foreign industry and scientific research resources, and continue to improve the new waterproof material technology system and industrial ecology.
