What Kind Of Hard Core Technology Does China'S Antarctic Expedition Team Wear For 13 Years?

On November 23, the second group of members of the Chinese Antarctic expedition, dressed in the explorer's custom-made team uniform and carrying the "Xuelong 2" icebreaker, left Shanghai for the Antarctic Great Wall Station and other places to carry out scientific research missions. So far, the two groups of members of China's 38th Antarctic scientific expedition have gone out of the expedition and are expected to return to China in mid April 2022.

It took nearly 40 years for China's Antarctic expedition from the first five-star red flag to the 38th expedition. As a product selected for China's South (North) polar expedition, China's first Pathfinder of outdoor products (300005, SZ) has been "fighting side by side" with the delegation experts for 13 years.

Pathfinder recently signed another brand cooperation agreement with China Polar Research Center. On the occasion of the Antarctic expedition, Pathfinder released a Global Limited of 2000 copies of polar cold proof clothing to honor all the scientific researchers who have contributed to China's South (North) Pole expedition, integrating the technology that has been intensively studied for more than ten years into this garment.

　　 Hidden in“ Penguin suit ”Behind the clothing revolution

Antarctica is the land of dreams and the last mysterious pure land on earth. There are many mysterious mysteries sleeping in the ice and snow of ten thousand years. It is of irreplaceable value for human beings to understand the earth and explore the universe.

In 1989, China Polar Research Center was established. For our country, Antarctica is a new field without any experience, even without a complete map of Antarctica, and the corresponding support equipment is also very scarce.

The annual average temperature in Antarctica is 25 degrees below zero, and the extreme minimum temperature is nearly 90 degrees below zero. Take the Great Wall Station in Antarctica as an example. This is the "tropical" area of Antarctica. The average temperature in July is - 7.8 ℃, the highest is 2.6 ℃, and the lowest is - 28.5 ℃. There are 205 days of gale with annual wind speed exceeding 10 meters per second.

The extreme minimum temperature is nearly 90 degrees below zero

In such an environment, scientific research team members work for hours, and keeping warm is the most basic requirement. However, at that time, Chinese scientists could not purchase ready-made polar equipment on the market, so they had to design their own. Shanghai Academy of Textile Sciences has developed down jacket fabrics for China's Antarctic expedition after many experiments, and Shanghai down factory has made thousands of sets of Antarctic down jacket Down Jackets And Xia kaofu. Tianjin sports shoes factory, Tianjin Greater China rubber factory and Tianjin Changzheng shoe factory have developed the summer shoes and cold proof boots for China's Antarctic expedition. Thus, the first set of Antarctic scientific research equipment was obtained through the collection of multi-party collection from the south to the north.

With the deepening and development of polar expedition in China, higher requirements are put forward for outdoor equipment to adapt to the extreme environment. In October 2009, Pathfinder officially signed a contract with the State Oceanic Administration, which became the "exclusive product of China's polar expedition team", making up for the gap in this field in China.

Today, Pathfinder, as the "selected product for China's South (North) polar expedition", has escorted the Chinese Antarctic expedition team for the 13th consecutive year, providing a variety of equipment, such as extremely cold suit (Penguin suit), frigid suit, inland snow boots, polar scientific research stormsuit, etc., to meet the needs of the scientific research team.

Li Ming (left), chairman of Pathfinder group, and Chen Nan, director of China Polar center support department

Chen Xu, CO CEO of Pathfinder outdoor, said that as the leader of China's outdoor brand shouldering the responsibility of social development, toread will continue to cooperate with China's South (North) polar investigation team in the future to jointly promote the polar investigation work, closely integrate the outdoor equipment research and development with the polar work content, and provide protection for the expedition members' research, work and life in the polar region, To contribute to the development of scientific investigation in China.

Chen Xu (left), CO CEO of Pathfinder outdoor and Zhao Yanping, former Xuelong and Xuelong 2 Captain

　　 Penguin suit, spacesuit... These clothes are originally related to Pathfinder

During the 13 years of fighting side by side with China's South (North) polar expedition, how to provide comprehensive outdoor protection for the team members, design and produce clothing and equipment with national characteristics while embodying scientific and technological innovation, has been the direction that pathfinders have been striving for, and have achieved "0" breakthroughs in many fields.

The surface of Antarctica is full of gravel and ice. If you walk with ordinary shoes, it is easy to sprain your feet and your shoes are easy to break. Therefore, Pathfinder has developed the first special shoes - "inland snow boots", which can withstand a low temperature of - 50 ℃ and bend 40000 in water It is impervious to water. The soles are made of safree bionic rubber. The soles are antiskid. It is very safe to walk on ice and gravel.

"Penguin clothing" can withstand the severe test of - 70 ℃, and the warmth retention rate is more than 50%, which is far ahead of the exploration in the field of thermal insulation in the same industry.

The members of the scientific research team used ice drills to drill holes for sampling

In the past, the improvement of the clothing and equipment of the scientific research team needed to wait for feedback from the team members after experiencing the polar reality, and then redesign, print and produce according to the feedback. A series of processes were cumbersome and long. In 2010, the Pathfinder R & D center was completed, with its own outdoor product testing laboratory and the - 70 ℃ walkable low temperature resistance laboratory. The latter can simulate the extreme cold environment and carry out extreme low temperature test on raw materials and finished products, greatly shortening the cycle of polar professional equipment research and development and testing.

Pathfinder R & D Center

It is not just the north and south polar regions. In December 2020, China and Nepal sent survey teams to jointly confirm the latest height of Mount Everest. The climbing suit, which is closely related to the life safety of the height measuring team, is the himex high altitude climbing one-piece down jacket developed by the Pathfinder team.

Pathfinder himex polar series products support Everest elevation survey team in the whole process

As early as 2016, Pathfinder established cooperation with China Aerospace in many fields. On October 16, this year, shenzhou-13 manned spacecraft was successfully launched at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The 13 sets of equipment developed by Pathfinder, including cabin integrated work clothes, split work clothes, cabin leisure clothes, cabin vest, sleeping bag, waist bag, gloves, eye mask and sleeping bag bag bag, will spend the whole six months with Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and ye Guangfu. (related reports in the past: Shenzhou 12 returns home, Pathfinder uses science and technology to create the most hard core joint name in space history)

As early as 2016, Pathfinder established cooperation with China Aerospace in many fields

From the first inland snow boots to astronauts' cabin work clothes, behind the "hard core" products, Pathfinder has been pursuing scientific and technological research and development. Since its establishment, Pathfinder has been strictly controlling the product quality, and has established an effective quality standard system. It has strictly produced and implemented more than 50 internal control standards, and participated in the drafting of 25 national and industrial standards. According to the financial report, the R & D investment of Pathfinder will be more than 42 million yuan in 2020, accounting for 4.63% of the operating revenue (R & D intensity).

　 Astronauts wear cabin work clothes developed by Pathfinder

Re engrave "Penguin suit", explorers further explore the life of scientific research products

In recent years, Pathfinder has been exploring the application of scientific research products to daily life. This year, when Shenzhou 12 manned spaceship was launched, Pathfinder joined hands with China Aerospace · space innovation brand to launch the "space Pathfinder" co branded series, which made space science and technology daily and won the praise of many space enthusiasts.

On the occasion of China's 38th Antarctic expedition, Pathfinder released a global limit of 2000 copies of polar cold proof clothing in honor of all scientific researchers who have contributed to China's South (North) polar expedition.

In terms of design, the replica presents the appearance of polar working Penguin clothing to the greatest extent. In the Antarctic scientific research, we need to be light and easy to operate, so the penguin suit has many pockets, which is convenient for researchers to carry thermos cups and supply food. The replica retains this multi pocket design, allowing the wearer to travel light even without a backpack.

At the same time, in order to strengthen the windproof and warm keeping function, the replica "Penguin suit" brim is designed in a forward style, with windproof cuffs and free and flexible drawstring at the hem, which can effectively prevent rain, snow and cold wind. Double pull placket design, one pull "release" unrestricted.

What's more, the replica "Penguin suit" has upgraded and optimized the technology content, adding Tief Pro x2 waterproof technology and Tief as, which are originated from cooperation with national defense X3 durable anti-static technology and Tief fresh x2 antibacterial fresh technology and many other practical outdoor technologies enable ordinary consumers to experience the safety and comfort brought by professional polar technology.

At present, such as Pathfinder, an outdoor brand with science and technology as its core is ushering in a "good era". Since 2021, the normalization of the epidemic situation, the centralized holding of the Tokyo Olympic Games and the Beijing Winter Olympic Games have greatly stimulated the public's demand for fitness. This year's double 11, Pathfinder's "one suit, three wear" classic stormy clothing sold 80000 pieces in Weiya's live studio.

In the future, under the background of the national fitness strategy, the consumption scale of sports industry will usher in a new round of growth Pathfinder It will have a greater market discourse power because of its numerous professional technologies.