Tang Bofei, a member of Shanghai Inventors Association, chairman of Shanghai Lanfei Fine Chemical Technology Co., Ltd. and director of Shanghai Sumaru Daily Chemical Factory, is a 75-year-old kind old man. With love and sincerity, he finally invented "Double Eight". To this end, the author interviewed him.
Author: I came here with admiration. You have been in the army for many years. How did you get in touch with miners and make friends?
Tang Bofei: I work in the army 1 1 year. After job-hopping, I worked in a chemical plant and later served as the director. I remember that once the Beijing Invention Association organized us to visit a Shanxi coal mine, and a deputy director said, "Can you inventors invent a washing liquid for the bottom coal miners in China to wash the coal black off the miners?" This sentence deeply touched me and made me sprout the desire to invent this washing liquid.
1990, a business trip to Pingdingshan coal mine in Henan province. Unexpectedly, this trip touched me even more, and my heart could not be calm for a long time. To my shock, there are 1 miners. Their family has to feed four people, eat two meals a day, go down the well before dawn, come up at 3 pm, and stay in the well for at least 9 hours or even 10 hours a day. Chewing pickles, eating cold cakes or steamed bread, there is even the danger of lack of oxygen and gas explosion hundreds of meters underground. I feel how hard the life of miners is! Compassion arises spontaneously: I must help them change the status quo and improve their lives and health. This is a wish hidden in my heart.
Later, I went to Pingdingshan Coal Mine dozens of times to learn about the lives of miners. A 43-year-old migrant worker with only primary school education was diagnosed with tertiary silicosis and scabies after working in the mine for 12 years. In order to support his family, he had to dig coal in the well. Everything in his house is dirty and rotten, and the bedding is black and greasy. He told me that it's not that his wife is lazy and can't take care of her for a few days after washing. He sleeps in black clothes that can't be washed clean every day, and there are bloody scabies on his body ... but what can he do? When I heard the miners' words, "This is our miners' life! "That kind of sadness is really unpleasant, and it's hard for me to forget. I decided to put aside years of cosmetic research and think about giving timely help to the bottom coal miners to solve their suffering.
Author: As early as 1987, you invented hand sanitizer and got a patent. You have been the founder of the famous "hand sanitizer concept" in the cosmetics industry. What difficulties did you encounter in developing new products of "Shuangba" facial cleanser, and how did you overcome them?
Tang Bofei: There is no contradiction between my original research on makeup and beauty and my current research on "Shuang Ba" cleanser. They come down in one continuous line, but "Shuang Ba" is different from skin cleanser and has its own characteristics. I invented a special hand sanitizer before, and I think I can definitely find a solution to the coal black and help the miners relieve their pain.
The whole family insisted on opposing it. Because beauty and skin care have become an indispensable part of people's lives, businesses are all about making money, and women's businesses are easy to do. If you develop coal miners' products, no matter how good the products are in the future, will there be a market? Will they be willing to spend money on it? The wife doesn't understand, and the son objects. To this end, I hesitated and hesitated. When the indelible black of the miners emerges in my mind, the eyes that I look forward to under the mine will rise in my heart again. How can I abandon them? Once, I deliberately took my wife, who is a doctor, to the mine. She was very touched when she saw the actual plight of miners' lives. She said that it seems that your work is meaningful and worth doing. Later, my son also became my assistant.
From 65438 to 0993, officials from Shanxi Coal Mine Bureau and I went to Xishan Coal Mine twice to investigate the lives of miners. It takes several hours to walk the barren hills in the mining area, and dry food should be brought for lunch when going down the well. It was these two unforgettable trips to Shanxi that strengthened my determination: I must develop a new product to help miners take a bath!
I have seen that because miners have been exposed to coal dust for a long time, there will be more pollutants such as oil and coal dust on the skin surface and inside and outside the respiratory tract. If they are not cleaned promptly and effectively, their image and health will be seriously affected. However, it is difficult for miners to wash off these black coals with bath products.
I made friends with the miners, went down the well with them and went into the bathhouse together. Seeing Lao Liu, a 40-year-old Shanxi man, is very helpless. He pointed to the red spots on his body and said, "Look at these red spots. It's all skin diseases caused by coal black, which is particularly itchy. I don't want to take a shower every time I come from the mine, because every time I take a shower, these places itch when they touch water. When they itch, I want to scratch them with my hands, but the more I scratch, the more I itch, and it becomes a vicious circle. " I saw a situation similar to Lao Liu's-occupational diseases caused by coal black are widespread in coal mines. For various reasons, this occupational disease cannot be effectively solved for the time being.
In 2004, when China Occupational Safety Association conducted a national occupational health survey, it was found that the top three skin diseases caused by coal black were calluses, tinea pedis and tinea manus, with patients accounting for 72.6%, 20. 1% and 19.4% respectively. Although this kind of dermatosis will not kill miners like pneumoconiosis, it will bring great pain to miners.
Doing research requires money. All the savings at home have been spent and the house has been mortgaged. It will be difficult to borrow more money. With my decades of credibility, I finally found the funds to maintain basic research. I devoted myself to research and development, but I failed many times. I went to the library to look for information, sum up experience from failures and constantly improve my products. I just hope to finish this invention as soon as possible, because my eyes always tremble with the expectant eyes of those workers and friends in the mine.
During more than ten years of research and development, I have been to coal mines in Shanxi, Henan, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and other places, and I have been to mining areas many times, and I have repeatedly tested and verified them. In 2003, the special cleaning liquid for industrial and mining enterprises finally came out, and the next year, this product won the national patent.
Author: What are the advantages of the product you invented? What is the market prospect?
Tang Bofei: These products use ion exchange principle and small molecule technology to enhance decontamination ability, so as to remove deep oil stains and thoroughly wash away harmful substances such as carbon black, carbon, lime powder and coal tar. Moreover, I also added high-permeability natural marine shell protein to the product, which has the special effect of moisturizing the skin and reducing the wrinkles and roughness of the skin.
After the product was produced, it was tested in Huainan Coal Mine in Anhui and Dazhu Coal Mine in Sichuan, and won unanimous praise. "Double Eight" washed away the coal black on the miners' faces, and they proudly said, "We workers have faces!"
The appearance of "Shuangba" special cleansing liquid for industrial and mining has brought good news to nearly ten million miners in China. "Shuangba" can quickly remove black, clean skin, relieve itching and deodorize, and it is very convenient to use, with good effect, and it does not need to be rubbed vigorously, which effectively avoids the damage to the skin and fully embodies the humanized characteristics of the product.
1989, my invention won the second prize of Shanghai Patent Technology Achievement Implementation, and in the same year, won the bronze prize of the 4th National Invention Exhibition. In 1992 and 1995, he won the Shanghai Outstanding Entrepreneur Award for Invention and Implementation twice. 1999, "Double Eight" won the gold medal in China Patent Technology Expo. Qiushi magazine and dozens of newspapers and TV stations reported this invention. I feel more responsible in the face of honor. I will continue to improve production technology, reduce costs and make products more perfect.
In 2008, this patented product specially designed by me for miners was awarded as a high-tech achievement transformation project in Shanghai. In 2008, it was supported by Shanghai Science and Technology Project Innovation Fund and won the national patent gold medal.
Honor can only explain the past, and new innovation goals are still ahead. We will continue to strive to invent more and better patented products for coal miners to use.