【Premiering Nov. 27】New Materials and New Power: How to Reduce Carbon Emissions at the Source?

峰瑞资本·November 21, 2022

Going live this Sunday at 10 a.m. sharp.

This Sunday, November 27 at 10:00 AM, the third episode of "FreeS Fund Dialogues: Environmental & Carbon Series" — New Materials and New Power: How to Reduce Carbon Emissions at the Source? — will go live. Wu Jin, founder and CEO of Songchen Power, and Yu Xuduo, founder and CEO of Huayu New Materials, will join Qianhang Yan, early-stage project lead at FreeS Fund, for a conversation about fresh insights from the industry, emerging opportunities, and lessons learned from building companies. Both founders focus on heavy industry scenarios — automotive, petroleum, and mining — and have converged on power systems as their entry point to drive energy conservation and emissions reduction from the ground up.

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▎What They'll Discuss

#Fresh Insights

Compared to other materials, what are carbon fiber's advantages? What role does it play in our daily lives?
What shifts in the materials industry have enabled carbon fiber's widespread adoption?
Energy and mining are heavy industries that sound traditional and are dominated by large B2B customers. How do they differ from public perception, and what new changes are underway?
How can petrochemical and mining industries leverage new power control systems to transition from "overpowered, underutilized" setups to precision energy-saving modes?

#Seizing Opportunities

How was the opportunity discovered to combine carbon fiber composites with automotive power components? What impact will carbon fiber have on the new energy sector?
How do you view the evolution of industrial digitalization and intelligent upgrading in China?
How have environmental and dual-carbon policies affected the new materials and equipment drive control industries? What opportunities do they present?
Beyond new energy vehicles, what other industries hold promise for carbon fiber?

#Entrepreneurial Lessons

How do you translate cutting-edge tech into reliable products?
How do you read capital market temperature? In a colder climate, how do you formulate survival and growth strategies?
What experiences and gains have you accumulated, and what pitfalls have you encountered?
What's it like to persist with entrepreneurship during the pandemic? Did you pivot along the way?
What three keywords define your 2022? What new ideas or reflections have you gained?

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▎Guest Profiles

Wu Jin, founder and CEO of Songchen Power. Wu holds a bachelor's degree from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, and has years of experience in technology commercialization, incubation, investment management, and government/SOE collaboration. He brings extensive expertise in industrial resource对接, relationship maintenance, and project management.

In November 2020, Wu founded Songchen Power. The company is dedicated to guiding traditional industrial enterprises through digital transformation via industrial internet and industrial digitalization. It addresses pain points in process industries including high energy consumption, excessive physical nodes, complex routing, fragmented supply chains, and rigid control logic — providing flexible, intelligent, efficient, and energy-saving standardized power system solutions. Centered on power equipment (electric motors) in industrial production, Songchen Power upgrades traditional electromechanical control systems into integrated "compute-control-drive" module units, enabling intelligent upgrades across perception, inspection, control, and operation of electric drive equipment — building the foundation for a fully connected, intelligently coordinated smart manufacturing ecosystem.

Yu Xuduo, founder and CEO of Huayu New Materials. Yu holds a Master of Management and a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Toronto. After graduation, he worked at Ford Motor Company (Canada) in the Powertrain and Chassis Purchasing department, focusing on supplier quality management. His subsequent role at International Automotive Components Group (China) enabled him to build close relationships with major domestic and international OEMs.

Addressing the longstanding challenge of domestic carbon fiber drive shaft production, Yu led the Huayu New Materials team to become the first in China to overcome key technical hurdles in low-cost manufacturing, reliable connection, and natural frequency/critical speed performance regulation — securing multiple invention patents. Today, Huayu New Materials has completed supplier certification with multiple automotive OEMs and become one of the few domestic suppliers of automotive-grade carbon fiber drive shafts, with products entering mass production.

Moderator: Qianhang Yan, early-stage project lead at FreeS Fund. Yan focuses on intelligent upgrading in broad industrial applications and early-stage projects driven by frontier technology. Representative investments include Xingluo Gene and LimX Dynamics. Before joining FreeS Fund, Yan developed next-generation intelligent orthodontic automation algorithms for a leading dental alignment company. During his doctoral studies, he specialized in CAD/CAM intelligent optimization algorithms, publishing multiple papers in top-tier journals.

▎Further Reading

The US-China Biotech Race: What Opportunities Exist for Synthetic Biology Startups? | FreeS Fund Dialogues

Understanding Carbon Emissions to Find the Path to Carbon Neutrality | FreeS Research

How We Think About Green Investment | FreeS Research

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