Inorganic salt industry: curbing excess mitigation

Sinochem Xinnet.com is accelerating the transfer of methods, adjusting the structure, and continuously improving the quality and efficiency of economic development. It is the main direction for the development of inorganic salt industry during the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period. In the first year of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan”, the inorganic salt industry carried out solid work around this theme and achieved good results.

In several major sub-sectors of inorganic salts, over the past years, overcapacity and “two high and one capital” products, such as yellow phosphorus, chromium salts, calcium carbonate, etc., last year’s production capacity remained at the same level as or slightly decreased from the previous year. The overcapacity momentum was curbed. The potassium and potassium fertilizer products that are in short supply due to shortage of resources have achieved new breakthroughs in output growth and resource development last year. In 2011, the total capacity of potash and potash fertilizers in China increased by 12.3%, and the total output reached 3.8 million tons (reduced pure potassium oxide), a record high and the self-supply rate of domestic potash fertilizers was further increased.

There are many inorganic salt industries in China with large technology spans and weak basic management. In the first year of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan”, the inorganic salt industry determined the structural adjustment, energy conservation and emission reduction targets, and formulated a number of regulations and standards that the industry urgently needed. Formed a report on the “Research on the Industrial Structure Adjustment of the Inorganic Salt Industry during the Twelfth Five-Year Plan”, and formulated the “Detailed Rules for the Implementation of Yellow Phosphorus Industry Access Requirements” and the “Management Measures for the Yellow Phosphorus Industry,” and the “Discharge Standard of Inorganic Chemical Industry Pollutants—Cyanide. Chemicals, ****, phosphorus oxychloride industry access conditions, the "12th Five-Year Plan for Industrial Cleaner Production," "Phosphorus Chemical Industry Pollutant Emission Standards," and "Strontium Salt Industry Pollutant Emission Standards 》, "Yellow phosphorus industrial pollutant discharge standards", "secondary carbon industry access conditions", "chromium salt production and construction management regulations", "national encouragement of circular economy technology, process and equipment directory (2011) 》Inorganic salts, management documents such as Direct Catalogue of Zinc Oxide and Sodium Silicate Environment and Economic Policy Catalogue.

A series of industrial policies have guided the inorganic salt industry to accelerate the pace of adjustment and transformation. Yuntianhua Group shut down eight small-scale and heavily polluting yellow phosphorus production facilities and eliminated 22,000 tons of backward production capacity. At the same time, the company actively develops the glass fiber new material industry, and its products are developed with high added value and refinement. Fufu Group continued to increase its investment in science and technology, and continuously extended the phosphorus chemical industry chain to develop industrial, ceramic, civil, food, pharmaceutical and electronic grade products. Fluoride Corporation completed the lithium electronics industry chain layout, with lithium hexafluorophosphate as a breakthrough, with lithium battery as the focus, developed electrolyte, positive and negative materials, separators, power management systems, and further inorganic fluorine chemical, lithium-ion battery The research and development of materials and photovoltaic materials has become China's leading inorganic fluoride and lithium industry leader.

In May last year, the National Development and Reform Commission issued the "Industrial Structure Adjustment Catalogue (2011 edition)", which classifies white carbon (except gas phase method) as a restricted product. The promulgation of this policy has brought great influence on the expansion, listing, and other work of white carbon production enterprises such as Wuxi Chengcheng Company and Fujian Zhengsheng Company. Enterprises have reflected difficulties in the China Inorganic Salt Industry Association. The Association learned from market research that the latest developments in the world's development of green tires are expected to stimulate demand for silica. Inorganic salt associations and industry leading companies have communicated with the China Petrochemical Federation many times and reported this to the National Development and Reform Commission. Finally, the National Development and Reform Commission agreed with the feedback and resolved the industrial policy issues of the development of silica.

In mid-August last year, Luliang, Yunnan Province, after it was exposed to illegal dumping of chrome slag, has attracted the attention of the industry. China's Inorganic Salt Industry Association immediately launched an emergency mechanism and held an emergency work conference in Beijing on August 22. All the 13 chromium salt production companies in the country attended the meeting. The leaders of the National Development and Reform Commission and the China Petrochemical Federation attended the meeting and heard important reports on the company’s situation. The conference brought a deep education to all companies in the chromium salt industry. Based on the awareness of environmental protection, the industry established a notification system for chromium residue retention and harmless treatment and disposal of chromium salts to achieve simultaneous prevention and treatment. purpose.

In addition, last year, various inorganic salt industries carried out grass-roots research activities, strengthened learning exchanges among various sub-sectors, and understood the current status and difficulties of the industry, as well as hot issues, and played a role in promoting industrial restructuring across the industry. For example, the Phosphorus Chemicals research group has successively investigated the industrial situation in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Hubei, and Jiangsu. Inorganic silicide research group, carbon dioxide research group, chromium salt research group, calcium carbonate research group went to Hunan, Hebei, respectively. Tianjin, Nanyang and other places investigated.