CHANGZHOU, China, Sept. 19 Changzhou-Chemicals
CHANGZHOU, China, Sept. 19 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- The ground breaking
ceremony of Changzhou Xinri Chemicals Co., Ltd. was held in Xinbei Industrial
Park on September, 13. It is said to be a new important measure to implement
the strategy of ''chemical industry development with priorities based on
environment protection'' by Changzhou National Hi-tech District (Xinbei
District). H igh ranking government officials attended the ceremony, including
Han Jiuyun, Yang Pingping, Dai Xiaowen and Jiang Xueqin.
Changzhou Xinri Chemicals Co., Ltd. is solely invested and set up by the
Macau Xinyang Group, which is a world-famous manufacturer of unsaturated
polyester resin. It covers a land area of 266 thousand square meters, with a
registered capital of USD49.98 million and a total investment of USD99.98
million. The completion of the phase I project will lead to a yearly capacity
of 250,000 tons of styrene, 100,000 tons of phthalic anhydride, 100,000 tons
of hydro-refining crude benzol, and 60,000 tons of unsaturated polyester resin.
It is estimated to realize sales of RMB4.5 billion and sales tax of about
RMB0.5 billion.
''This company will treat environment protection seriously, invest a large
sum of money to set up perfect facilities for environment protection and
ensure that they operate properly to reach the set standard of emissions,''
said Zhang Wenjun, chairman of the board of Changzhou Xinri Chemicals Co., Ltd.
Changzhou Xinri Chemicals Co., Ltd. will introduce the concept of a circular
economy in its project construction. Since some of the projects are
exothermal reaction and some are endothermal, a total of 200,000 tons of
standard coal can be saved through internal heat conversion. This will reduce
to a large degree the environmental pressure along the river and create an
economic value of about RMB150 million.
Meanwhile, Changzhou Xinri Chemicals Co., Ltd. and its associates will
strengthen construction of the industrial chain. Starting from the production
of hydro-refining crude benzol, benzol produced in the process can be used to
produce styrene, maleic anhydride and fumaric acid. These, together with
Phthalic Anhydride, can be used to produce unsaturated polyester resin; Maleic
anhydride and fumaric acid can be used to produce biochemical products, such
as aspartic acid.
Industrial chain refers a route through which one or several resources
flow to downstream industries crossing several industrial levels till they
reach consumers. The more related these industries are and the more tightly
these chains are connected, the higher resource allocation efficiency will be
achieved. Changzhou Xinri Chemicals Co., Ltd. and its associates will improve
its competitiveness, effectiveness and efficiency through an intensive
operation on large scale.
Before this event, Polynt Co., Ltd, a company listed in Italian stock
market, after its purchase of Changzhou BODA Fine Chemical Co., Ltd within the
district, spent more than RMB10 million on their own initiative to reconstruct
the sewage pipelines in the factory with the aim of 'zero emission'.
Meanwhile, production parameters of various products and automatic control
system in Polynt's Changzhou factory take a leading role worldwide. The sales
of the factory are estimated to break RMB1 billion in the coming two years.
Polynt's RMB10 million investment on sewage pipelines not only represents
the company's high sense of social responsibility, but it is also derived from
the ''new administration'' of Xinbei District: To implement the most strict
environment protection policy and to support the best while eliminating the
worst; strive to be people-oriented and to realize a sustainable development;
to build a harmonious industry and community while promoting both economy and
ecology.
For years, environment problems have been disrupting the development of
Xinbei District. After the establishment of the management committee of
Xinbei Industrial Park, the management members believe that the park can only
be saved through development of green chemicals and substitution of small
chemicals with large chemicals. So, they began a large-scale rectification to
the park, such as the clean river water project and protective forest isolated
area project, closed management and road accessibility around the park. The
traditional fine chemicals in the park is controlled, reduced and eliminated
by means of a strict access system based on environment protection while
logistics, warehousing and organic chemical raw material projects with large
production scales are given priority. Last year, the park refused 41 projects
that either did not comply with industry development or were polluting. 96
polluting chemical enterprises, electroplating enterprises and ''5 Small''
enterprises were closed down. Some more will be closed down later this year.
The district encourages enterprises to research and develop products with
high technology, small pollution, advanced techniques and broad market
potential. It reconstructs or upgrades small chemicals characterized by
small-scale, low technique and heavy pollution that take up valuable resources.
These measures cleared space for other good projects and helped the area along
the river to develop orderly and consistently into a new industrial corridor
and ecological corridor as well.
After a series of rectification in the chemical park, a new environment
was created where there are fish and shrimps swimming in the river and trees
standing along the road. What used to be dirty and chaotic has been marching
its way to a provincial level ecological industrial park. ''There are even
fish living in the pond of the chemical park. The environment has changeed a
lot, far beyond our imagination,'' said Hu Helin, assistant inspector of the
provincial environment protection bureau, when he was making acceptance-checks
in the district.
SOURCE Changzhou National Hi-tech District
