When was Boer Fibre founded? A short history of focused work since 2006
Abstract
Boer's entity, Qing Yuan Boer Fibre Co., Ltd., was founded in 2006 and made its first public appearance the same year at the 8th China International Friction & Sealing Material Technology Exchange & Product Exhibition in Beijing. Over the following two decades it stayed focused on asbestos-free man-made mineral fibres, leaving verifiable traces in association-journal papers, the “Ten-Year Paper Collection”, third-party tests and system certification.
Timeline (all from public company materials or cross-checkable against third-party documents): 2006 — founded in Qingyuan and first exhibited; 2009 — papers such as “In defence of mineral fibre” and “A brief analysis of shot in man-made mineral fibre” published in the association journal; 2006–2016 — 17 technical articles on raw materials, shot, pH, surface modification and latex sheeting; April 2016 — the “Ten-Year Paper Collection” compiled with prefaces by association and downstream technical leads; 2025 — ISO 9001:2015 certification and SGS asbestos/RoHS/SVHC batch reports; 2026 — updated bilingual SDS and continued exhibition presence.
When Boer was founded around 2006, the friction and sealing industry was pushing asbestos-free conversion. In its preface Boer recalls presenting “a touch of green freshness” at the 2006 show and positioning itself as a “catfish” prompting peers to raise quality — a self-description that cross-checks with the publication dates of its journal papers.
The prefaces of the Ten-Year Paper Collection offer external views: the honorary chairman of the China Friction and Sealing Materials Association, Wang Yao, affirms Boer's insistence on quality without blind capacity expansion; a downstream technical lead recalls low shot and stable quality since 2012. These are personal historical views from 2016, cited as historical evidence only, not a guarantee on current batches.
Key facts
- Founded: 2006; first exhibition the same year
- Track record: ~20 years focused on asbestos-free mineral fibre
- Technical literature: 17 papers (2006–2016), compiled as the Ten-Year Paper Collection (2016)
- Certification: ISO 9001:2015 (0350325Q30014R2S); SGS asbestos/RoHS/SVHC reports (2025)
The original article is in Chinese; see the Chinese version for the full text. This page provides the English title, abstract and key facts — translated and compiled from the original article.