Recently, in accordance with the Notice on Announcing the List of Candidates for the 2025 Ningbo Leading and Top-notch Talent Training Program (Yong Ren She Han [2026] No. 24), three core talents from Ningbo Topcentral New Materials Co., Ltd., including Mr. Ma Yiming, Founder and CEO of Topcentral, have been selected for the 2025 Ningbo Leading and Top-notch Talent Training Program, covering the second and third talent tiers. Prior to this selection, another core R&D talent of the company had successfully passed the full-cycle assessment and completed the program training. To date, a total of four technical backbones from Topcentral have been enrolled in Ningbo’s leading and top-notch talent training sequence.
The Ningbo Leading and Top-notch Talent Training Program is designed to strengthen independent talent cultivation and support the city’s “520” scientific and technological innovation system construction project as well as the “361” trillion-level industrial cluster development initiative. Divided into three tiers, the program focuses on selecting outstanding young and middle-aged professional and technical talents engaged in digital industries, green petrochemicals, high-end equipment, traditional advantageous industries, and emerging & future industries. With a five-year training cycle, selected talents will receive special funding and systematic support for research capacity improvement, academic exchanges, and industry-university-research cooperation.
All newly selected Topcentral talents are deeply engaged in the core track of PCR recycled plastics. They have long been committed to frontline laboratory research and industrialization, focusing on tackling key technical bottlenecks of “downgraded recycling” that plague the industry, serving as the core backbone driving the company’s continuous technological iteration.
As a national-level specialized, sophisticated, unique and innovative “Little Giant” enterprise and national high-tech enterprise, Topcentral has always prioritized “talent win-win” as its core development strategy since its founding in 2019. Led by Founder Ma Yiming, the company has built a sound R&D system and established a Zhejiang Provincial Postdoctoral Workstation and a municipal-level Polymer Materials Engineering Technology Research Center. R&D personnel account for 43% of the company’s total workforce, forming a tiered talent structure featuring “doctor-led research, master backbone teams, and young and middle-aged engineers for on-site technical breakthroughs”.
Empowered by its robust talent reserve, the company has achieved fruitful innovative results:
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Led the formulation of 7 national standards and 3 industry & group standards
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Holds 82 authorized patents, including 48 invention patents
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Achieved domestic mass production breakthrough of zero-carbon PCR-PC core technology in 2020
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Independently developed the BesTrace® blockchain traceability system to solve the industry-wide traceability dilemma of recycled plastics, taking the lead in realizing the industrialization of plastic “closed-loop same-grade recycling” in China
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All products have obtained ISCC PLUS international certification, serving global leading chemical enterprises such as SABIC and Toray, as well as multiple Fortune 500 companies
Over the years, Topcentral has continuously optimized its talent introduction, cultivation, retention and development mechanism. Internally, it has built a comprehensive R&D and innovation incentive system to encourage technical talents to participate in national standard formulation, major special project research, and new technology transformation and application. Externally, it has carried out in-depth industry-university-research cooperation with universities and research institutes. The latest selection of multiple core talents into the municipal top-notch talent program represents official recognition from Ningbo’s human resources, science and technology authorities of Topcentral’s outstanding talent cultivation achievements and R&D strength. It further consolidates the company’s talent barrier in the high-end PCR recycled materials industry.
Taking this opportunity of multiple core researchers being selected for the municipal top-notch talent program, the Topcentral team will embrace the official recognition and expectations with down-to-earth dedication to recycled material R&D. From repeated formula debugging in laboratories to stable mass production on production lines, the company adheres to the original aspiration of advancing plastic recycling technology and facilitating low-carbon development. In the future, the team will continue to work on the front line of technological research, make full use of talent support resources, transform R&D concepts into high-quality industrial products, and empower the green and low-carbon development of the industry with self-developed new recycled materials.
