As of 2011, it has a staff of 435 people, 125 on-the-job scientific and technological personnel, and a total value of scientific research equipment and equipment of more than 70 million yuan; it is a scientific research institution directly under the Ministry of Agriculture and is the oldest and largest agricultural product in China. Processing Research Institute.
The research areas of the institute include the application foundation of natural rubber, processing technology and application, standardization technology, "three wastes" treatment and comprehensive application; storage, preservation and application of tropical fruits, tropical energy crops and other tropical economic crops. Advanced processing technology, quality safety and standardization.
The institute has fixed assets of nearly 50 million yuan and is equipped with instruments and equipment for natural rubber processing, food and agricultural product processing, and fine chemical product research and analysis, such as scanning electron microscopes, transmission electron microscopes, atomic absorption spectrometers, and gas phase spectrometers. Chromatograph, gas chromatography-mass spectrometer, gas chromatography-mass spectrometer-mass spectrometer, high performance liquid chromatograph, liquid chromatography-mass spectrometer-mass spectrometer, infrared spectrometer, thermal analyzer, laser particle size analyzer, element Analyzer, rubber processing analyzer, rotorless rheometer, universal material tensile testing machine, laboratory internal mixer, supercritical CO2 extraction device, molecular distillation device, programmed cooling device, fully automatic fermentation tank, three-effect vacuum concentration Equipment, experimental sewage treatment system, ultrafiltration system, microwave chemical reaction system, etc.
Researchers from the institute successfully developed standard rubber production technology and equipment and built China's first standard rubber processing plant. Developed a series of new natural rubber varieties such as Tianjia rubber and latex, pre-vulcanized natural rubber latex, epoxidized natural rubber and latex, clay natural rubber, natural rubber for radial tires, latex chlorinated natural rubber, low-protein natural rubber and latex, etc. ; Developed production technology for extracting hecokinine and ticokinine from sisal waste, extraction technology for piperine and pepper oleoresin from pepper, extraction technology for vanillin from vanilla orchid, new technology for extracting highly active bromelain, and application of natural rubber latex The production technology of water grass and sisal carpet backing sponge, the production technology of epoxidized natural latex applied to fiberglass cord dipping and the microbial coagulation technology of natural latex, etc. In particular, the natural rubber miscellaneous standard rubber continuous production line and cashew nut processing equipment developed by the institute have been exported to African and Southeast Asian countries many times, enjoying a good reputation at home and abroad and achieving good economic and social benefits.
As of 2011, the unit has established China's own natural rubber processing technology system (including standard system), bringing China's natural rubber processing technology to the international advanced level; and promoting the safety of China's tropical fruits and vegetables and other agricultural products and processing technological progress; has won more than 170 scientific and technological achievements, including nearly 50 national or provincial and ministerial level achievement awards, including 2 second-class national scientific and technological progress awards in the past three years; made contributions to the quality and safety of China's tropical agricultural products and the progress of processing technology made outstanding contributions. 1 Hainan Provincial Science and Technology Achievements Transformation Special Prize, 1 Hainan Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award first prize and 1 second prize each, and Yunnan Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award third prize. A number of patented technologies have been promoted and applied across the country, and various academic papers have been published. More than 300 articles.