‘Unwavering support for the industrialisation of the new material of Taolium, helping it to become a new generation of aerospace materials!’ -- was the theme of their discussion on this trip.

‘Aluminium is light but too soft, ceramic is hard but fragile, can the two be combined to generate new materials that are both strong and light?’ Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Materials Science and Engineering Professor, Yangtze River Scholar Wang Haowei Geng heart not sleep for 30 years, leading the Shanghai Jiao Tong University special materials research team, developed a completely independent property rights of the ceramic aluminium new materials.

It is understood that the ceramic aluminium new material has the characteristics of high strength and light weight, temperature and labour resistance, vibration damping and low expansion, easy to work and easy to shape, even if the external force ‘Tarzan pressure’, it can also do ‘still’. Juneyao Group joined hands with Shanghai Jiaotong University at the end of 2015 to prepare for the promotion of new materials, and in September 2017, it registered and established Tao Aluminium Research Institute Co. At present, under the cooperation between Huaibei City Government and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Juneyao Group, Anhui Tao Aluminium New Material Research Institute, this strategic material has been applied in aerospace, high-speed rail and other fields, and carried out a variety of component tests in Commercial Aviation, Commercial Development, and Commercial Aviation of China to achieve in-depth cooperation, pointing to the ‘new generation of aviation materials’. The material has also been applied to the pistons of FAW heavy trucks, and its quality is better than that of overseas competitors. The first ultra-light luggage made of this material will be launched after the Spring Festival, aiming to make it a world-class Chinese luxury brand.

One generation of material, one generation of aircraft. He Dongfeng, chairman of COMAC, and Wu Guanghui, chief designer of domestic aircraft C919, said in the seminar that from steel, to aluminium alloy, and then to carbon fibre, the aviation materials in the history of human aviation has gone through three generations, but China has never had its own materials, and the original innovation of Taolu's new materials is encouraging.

At the meeting, COMAC, Aluminium Corporation of China, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Anhui Province and Huaibei City Government relevant persons in charge said, will play the advantages of all parties, continue to firmly support the ceramic aluminium new material research and development applications and industrialisation.

It is reported that the meeting agreed to be led by Aluminium Corporation of China, invested in the construction of aviation materials production base in Huaibei, in cooperation with COMAC, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Juneyao Group and Huaibei Municipal Government, to accelerate the large-scale industrialisation of ceramic and aluminium new materials in the field of aviation.