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(Here in after referred to as 'Proshare Environmental Protection') is a high-tech environmental protection enterprise with technological innovation as the core driving force, focusing on the third generation of nano-composite thin film type (TFN) high-end reverse osmosis, nanofiltration and material separation membrane research and development and industrialisation. The following is a comprehensive description of its development and industry position from multiple dimensions:
I. Company Background and Core Positioning

Establishment And Development History

Founded on 17 February 2017 by Dr. Lin Xiaofeng, a doctor of materials science from the University of Strasbourg in France, Proshare Environmental Protection is headquartered in Nano City of Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP), with nearly 2,000 square metres of research and development office space and 15,000 square metres of production base. Relying on a team of overseas returned PhDs, the company takes 'breaking foreign monopoly and realising the localization of high-end membranes' as its mission, focusing on the research and development of the third-generation TFN membrane technology to fill the gaps in the domestic market.
Capital And Financing

The company has completed several rounds of financing:

Angel round (2020): Tsinghua Fund invested;

Pre-A round (2023): Xinghang Venture Capital and Fuder Venture Capital participated, amounting to tens of millions of RMB;

Series A (2024): led by Wing Sheng Capital and followed by Suzhou Science and Technology Fund, with funds for production expansion and automation upgrading.

The continuous favour of the capital market confirms its technical strength and market prospect.

II. The core technology advantage

TFN Membrane Technology Breakthrough

The core product of Proshare environmental protection is the third generation of TFN membrane, compared with the traditional TFC (thin film composite) membrane, the thickness of the separation layer can be as low as 20 nanometres, which significantly improves the flux (water permeability increased by more than 30%) and reduces energy consumption, and at the same time, it has the characteristics of super-hydrophilic, oxidation, acid and alkali resistance, and so on. For example, in the production of raw materials for lithium batteries, its customised membranes can reduce customers' costs by more than 20%.
Autonomous Capability Of The Whole Industrial Chain

The company has achieved full independent production from membrane sheet, membrane element to membrane system, with equipment independent research and development rate of more than 80%, and established the first TFN coating line with an annual output of millions of square metres in China. In addition, through the 'membrane application laboratory + custom development platform + intelligent data system' to form a rapid feedback and iteration mechanism to meet the individual needs of different industries.

III.Product Application and Market Coverage

Industry Application Scenarios

Proshare environmental protection products have penetrated into a number of high-growth areas:

New Energy: separation and purification of raw materials for power batteries (e.g. lithium anode materials, electrolyte);

Petroleum And Petrochemical: refinery wastewater treatment and resource recovery;

Semiconductor: ultrapure water preparation;

Environmental Engineering: desalination, industrial wastewater regeneration.

Among them, the three major fields of new energy, petroleum and petrochemical, and semiconductor contribute 60% of the revenue in 2023.

Benchmark Customer Cases

The company has served Sinopec, Ningde Times, Zijin Mining, Shenghong Refining and Chemical, Willey and other industry head enterprises, and 10% of the customers are Fortune 500. Typical cases include:

Providing acid-resistant nanofiltration membranes for Sinopec, replacing imported products and reducing operation and maintenance costs;

Customised lithium battery material separation membranes for Ningde Times, improving production efficiency and product consistency.

IV.Market Position and Competitive Landscape

Pioneer Of Domestic Substitution

China's high-performance membrane materials market size of 91.2 billion yuan (2023), but the high-end market has long been monopolised by imported brands and other foreign companies. Proshare environmental protection through technological breakthroughs to achieve domestic substitution, its TFN membrane performance to reach the international leading level, to become the first TFN domestic manufacturers to achieve mass production.
Proshare environmental protection by virtue of patent barriers (30 + patents) and the whole industry chain advantage to occupy the first opportunity. In the international market, its products are more cost-effective and can be customised for development, gradually increasing its global share.

V. Honours, Qualifications and Social Recognition

Industry Certifications And Awards

Qualification: ISO9001 quality management system, high-tech enterprise, director unit of China Membrane Industry Association, provincial speciality, speciality, speciality, speciality, speciality, speciality, speciality, speciality, speciality, speciality and so on;

Technical Awards: China Membrane Industry Association Science and Technology First Prize, Suzhou Industrial Park Intellectual Property Financial Innovation Award;

Talent Honours: Dr. Lin Xiaofeng was selected as Jiangsu Province 'Double Creative Talent', Jinji Lake Science and Technology Leading Talent, National High-level Talent, Gusu Leading Talent.

Media Coverage And Evaluation 

36Krypton, VentureBond and other mainstream media have reported on its financing progress, saying that it 'accelerates the process of domestic substitution'. Suzhou Industrial Park regards it as a benchmark enterprise in the nanotechnology industry, emphasising its exemplary role of 'driving industrial upgrading with innovation'.

VI.Future Prospects and Challenges

Development Opportunities

Policy Support: the national 'double carbon' goal promotes the surge in demand for environmental protection technology;

Industry Demand: new energy, semiconductor and other industries continue to rely on high-performance membrane materials;

Technology Iteration: TFN membrane application potential in synthetic biology, biopharmaceuticals and other emerging fields to be tapped.

Potential Challenges

Scale Production: need to further expand production capacity to meet market demand;

International Competition: technology blockade by foreign enterprises and price war may intensify;

Talent Reserve: continuous introduction and cultivation of high-end material R&D talents.

Summary

Suzhou Proshare Environmental Protection has become a leading enterprise in the field of high-end membrane materials in China with the double-wheel drive of 'technology autonomy + application customisation'. Its success is not only reflected in the technological breakthroughs and customer expansion, but also through domestic substitution to help China's environmental protection industry chain of independent and controllable. In the future, with the expansion of production capacity and the development of emerging markets, Proshare environmental protection is expected to occupy a more important seat in the global membrane materials market.

02 Company Profile

Suzhou Proshare Environmental Protection Technology is a national high-tech membrane enterprise founded by a team of overseas returnee doctors led by national overseas high-level talents, focusing on the third generation of nano-composite thin film type (TFN) high-end reverse osmosis, nanofiltration and material separation membrane R & D and industrialisation, is the only manufacturer of the third-generation nano-composite thin film TFN in the country.
Approved by Suzhou Industrial Park Management Committee, Proshare headquartered in the world's largest nanotechnology industry application community - Suzhou Nano City, currently has a R & D office space of nearly 2,000 square metres, the production site of nearly 3,000 square metres.
The company has entered a period of rapid development since 2022, with rapid business growth and gradual expansion of application cases, and has made breakthroughs in a number of areas with benchmark cases.
Dr Lin Xiaofeng, the core expert of R&D, graduated from the University of Strasbourg, France, and obtained a doctorate degree in materials science, has been awarded the leading talents of the park, Gusu leading talents, provincial double creativity, and the introduction of national major talent project, and has achieved the first application and industrialisation of TFN technology on nanofiltration membrane, and has developed and manufactured the products and production equipment completely independently and basically. The products and production equipment are completely self-developed and localised, and the company has pioneered the third generation of TFN membrane production process which is leading in the world. The company has obtained more than 31 patents.
Proshare TFN has a completely independent and innovative production process, from the base membrane to the membrane sheet to the membrane element are manufactured by ourselves and most of the equipments are developed and assembled by our team, with our membrane application laboratory, R & D customisation platform and intelligent data management system to achieve an efficient feedback mechanism and rapid product iteration.

Company History

2016
The doctoral team led by Dr Lin Xiaofeng, an expert of the National Major Talent Introduction Project, returned to China.
2017
Suzhou Proshare headquarters and R&D centre was established and settled in Suzhou Nano City
2018
- The first TFN coating production line in China, achieving mass production in the same year.
- The products are applied to drinking water, pure water, ultra-pure water, water reuse and other fields.
2019
Serving many listed companies, Proshare membranes are stably applied in many environmental protection fields such as textile wastewater, rubbish leachate, high salt and high COD wastewater and so on.
2020
- Angel investment from Tsinghua Fund
- Replacing imported products for the first time in many fields
- SPEC quality service
2021
- Become a qualified supplier of Sinopec
- Products are widely used in traditional water treatment, emerging and special industries.
- Achieve important breakthroughs in special membranes for lithium extraction from salt lake and acid-base recycling
2022
- Shenzhen Proshare, Changsha Proshare, Fujian Proshare and Biomedical Business Unit were established successively.
- Became the first batch of domestic high-end membrane suppliers in synthetic biology, lithium battery, copper foil and other emerging industries.
2023
- Completed Pre-A round of financing
- Jiangxi Proshare was established
- Completed the first domestic replacement of seawater desalination membrane for the first Chinese international luxury cruise ship.
- Achieved important breakthroughs in PCB, recycled water, electronic ultra-pure water and other fields.
2024
- Completed Series A financing
- Qingxi Technology was established
- Proshare(Yancheng) and Shanghang Proshare were established.
- First prize of China Membrane Industry Association Science and Technology Award
- Exported to many countries and served listed semiconductor companies in Japan
- Provincial speciality, speciality and new small and medium-sized enterprises