Ceramics Industry: Urgently Urgent to Transform and Upgrade

Since last year, with the intensification of normal weather in fog and haze in China, the Central Government and local governments have continuously strengthened the implementation of energy conservation and emission reduction in the treatment of floods and industrial production. One after another meeting, one after another special rectification The actions all demonstrated the government’s determination to rectify the traditional heavy polluting industries and its policy orientation for the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries.

The Ministry of Environmental Protection has issued air quality data for 74 cities including Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta region and municipalities, provincial capital cities, and cities with separate plans. "Foshan air quality is no longer at the bottom of the Pearl River Delta!" It's really gratifying! But surprisingly, Zhaoqing, which has long been known as a livable city and tourist attraction, has become the most polluted area in the Pearl River Delta region in March. ** It is widely believed that the main reason is that the government has introduced high-polluting production companies for fiscal revenue and caused more and more serious pollution. Many of the accusations point to Foshan ceramics companies.

Severe environmental protection policies such as a "Sword of Damocles" hanging high on the head, in the actual production also met with "everyone shouting" embarrassing situation, the ceramic industry for many years of transformation and upgrading is a simple pollution transfer it? What kind of bottleneck is encountered in the development of clean production, emission reduction and emission reduction?

Foshan Tao Enterprise: Industrial Transfer is Not an Explanation of Pollution Transfer Zhaoqing’s air quality rankings were bottomed out. Zhaoqing City Environmental Protection Bureau said in an interview with local media that there are many reasons. The most important reason is that it is affected by geographical and weather factors. . Zhaoqing City is located in the west of the Pearl River Delta and is in the downwind direction of Guangzhou, Foshan and other cities. After the polluted air was blown to Zhaoqing, it was unable to spread out because of the obstruction from all sides. Secondly, the weather conditions in Zhaoqing in March were relatively stable, mainly due to the breeze, and the polluted air gathered in Zhaoqing was even less able to be blown out. However, this statement clearly cannot appease anger. Even Zhaoqing citizens have published blog articles accusing the government of not having a bottom line and accepting Guangfo's large polluting enterprises for fiscal revenue. In fact, today's Zhaoqing has failed to obtain much economic benefit from these enterprises. It can be described as “poor and polluting”. He prefers to choose "poor and ecological". The point of view drew the echo of the large number of netizens.

In terms of geographical factors, Zheng Yanxiang, general manager of Foshan Taoshifu Ceramics Co., Ltd., expressed similar views: “The terrain of Zhaoqing may be a bit like a basin, and industrial production of exhaust gas is difficult to disperse, so the pollution in the area becomes relatively serious. It's up."

Foshan ceramics enterprises in the year of the closure of the tide of transfer, there are many companies are the nearest to Zhaoqing Gaoyao, Dinghu and Sihui and other places. After several years of rectification, the air condition in Foshan has greatly improved, and the air condition in Zhaoqing has been deteriorating. So, is the transfer of Foshan ceramics a direct transfer of pollution?

the answer is negative. Zheng Yanxiang said: “Actually, every time the ceramic industry shifts, its environmental protection level will rise to a higher level. The Nanzhuang ceramics company moved to Zhaoqing and other places in the past. So in the future, ceramic enterprises in Zhaoqing and other places will also be transferred to other places. The government will set a certain threshold for the enterprises that have moved in, and companies will not be able to move the original production model directly. It is understood that in the past the ceramics factory in Nanzhuang was limited by the original site and other factors, it was difficult to Improve production equipment and take more end-of-pipe measures. At that time, the ceramic factory did not dare to approach. The smell was very big and it was very pungent. It made people feel uncomfortable. Today's ceramic factories, even if they do not use natural gas, simply feel a little scent in the workshop and do not feel uncomfortable.

The Association took the lead in drafting standards and guiding industry emission reductions. The “Ceramic Industry Pollutant Emission Standard” (GB 25464-2010) currently in force is implemented from 2010. As some of the contents of the standard (such as exhaust emission limits) deviate from the actual conditions of the building sanitary ceramics industry, despite the company invested heavily in the transformation of environmental protection equipment, there is still no ideal effect, many companies report that the standard has major defects, affecting the construction of China's building Environmental protection work in the ceramics industry. Last year, the reporter also heard from Kong Haifa, secretary-general of the Foshan Ceramics Institute, that the current pollutant discharge standards were too stringent. If the implementation is implemented in earnest, the ceramic industry will suffer. Some leading companies in the industry who responded positively, even if they used more advanced environmental protection facilities, found that there was a higher chance of exceeding the national standard.

Therefore, in order to promote the sustained and healthy development of the industry and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises, the China Building Sanitary Ceramics Association released on March 1st the “Emission Standards for Pollutants for Construction and Sanitary Ceramics Industry” (Association Standards) led by it. ) In the consultation draft, those who are enthusiastic about the environment and who care about the development of the industry during the month can reply to the relevant opinions.

According to industry insiders, some major domestic brands have invested heavily in the introduction of technology and equipment from abroad to conduct denitrification treatment. However, due to the need to change the equipment in the first 2 to 3 years, the cost is too high for the ceramics companies and the country is concerned with power plants. Denitrification treatment will be subsidized, but not for the ceramics industry. Excessive treatment costs will seriously affect the healthy development of the industry.

The government has strengthened the supervision of ceramic enterprises and promoted the transformation of the industry. The issue of environmental protection is a common topic in recent years. Renovating industrial pollution, implementing cleaner production, saving energy and reducing emissions, and promoting the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries have become the current hot topics. The schedule for related governance work by the central government and governments at all levels is becoming more and more compact. The State Council issued the "Policy on the Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution" and clarified the determination of environmental governance. Premier Li Keqiang presided over the executive meeting of the State Council to study and deploy further strengthening of air pollution such as smog. In March, the central government once again convened a work conference on energy conservation, emission reduction and climate change to promote the implementation of energy-saving emission reduction and low-carbon development related work.

In terms of fuel use at the source of pollution, the governments of the various ceramic producing regions in the country have gradually introduced policies that restrict the ceramic enterprises in the production area from completing “coal gas reform”.

Zhaoqing City issued the “Zhaoqing City Comprehensive Work Plan for Improving Environmental Air Quality”. The main issue that caused the low air quality in Zhaoqing City was that industrial enterprises, especially ceramics, and the cement industry consumed large amounts of energy, such as coal consumption. The program required ceramics. The industry must undergo transformation and upgrading. Before the end of the year, the ceramics enterprises in the city must complete the upgrading and acceptance according to standards. The Zhaoqing Municipal Government also specially convened a promotion meeting for the special work on the comprehensive management of environmental air and informed the city of the status of industrial ceramics production enterprises in the transformation and upgrading work. It pointed out the problems and put forward specific work measures. According to the introduction of a ceramics factory in Zhaoqing City, the Zhaoqing City Government requires companies to have at least one production line to change natural gas before the end of this year.

In contrast, Foshan City will set this year as the "Environmental Protection Law Enforcement Year," and further increase environmental law enforcement to curb the high incidence of illegal sewage behavior. After the end of the Spring Festival this year, a number of special operations were launched to crack down on illegal and polluting enterprises, and all of them were directly exposed. Regarding the emission of ceramics companies, the relevant person in charge of the Chancheng Environmental Protection Bureau had previously told reporters that the ceramic industry would be investigated to further clarify the major pollution problems existing in ceramic companies and then take actions to accelerate the pace of clean energy transformation of ceramic enterprises.

Recently, the reporter learned from contact with the chief engineer of Foshan Qirun Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. that the Foshan environmental protection department will strengthen the supervision of denitrification in the ceramic industry this year, and the ceramic industry's governance work in this area is imperative.

The national environmental protection policy has been tightened like a “sweeping spell” and the ceramics industry has taken off the “three high” hats. The pace of transformation and upgrading toward clean production, energy conservation, consumption reduction and emission reduction must be accelerated.