"In less than 10 years, the calcium carbide industry in Shanxi has been thrown out of the top 10 by the country's oldest leader. The companies that are still adhering to it are also half dead." On August 20, the 24 members of the Shanxi Calcium Carbide Industry Association were together When discussing industrial development, many people are tempted to think of this reality. Filtration Products,Hot Gas Filtration Elements,Seawater Filter,Extruder Screens & Polymer Filters Anping Guangtong Hardware Wire Mesh Co.,Ltd , https://www.gthardwaremesh.com
So, how did Shanxi's calcium carbide industry come to this stage? How should we develop in the future?
The "12th Five-Year Development Plan for the calcium carbide industry", which has just been released on the old list, has a production statistics for the major calcium-producing areas in the country during the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period. In this list, Inner Mongolia ranks first in terms of the proportion of its national production capacity by about 30%, followed by Shaanxi, Ningxia, Gansu, and Xinjiang. Shanxi, the country's national leader, was not found on this list.
An expert from the Shanxi Calcium Carbide Industry Association told CCIN that after the throne of Shanxi's “National No. 1†was won by Inner Mongolia for the first time in 2003, there was no longer a comeback. "Don't say there is no Shanxi on this list, and there will be no Shanxi on the top 10 list," said the expert.
Li Sanwen, secretary general of the Shanxi Provincial Calcium Carbide Industry Association, told CCIN that before 2002, the production of calcium carbide in Shanxi Province had been maintained at one-fourth of the national total, ranking first in the nation's calcium carbide production provinces. In 2003, the output of Inner Mongolia jumped to the top in the country, and Shanxi took second place. Since then, the ranks of Shanxi's calcium carbide industry have retreated. According to Li Sanwen, from January to June this year, the production of calcium carbide in Shanxi Province was 178,800 tons, accounting for only 2.07% of the country's total output, ranking 12th in the country.
According to the CCIN reporter from the "Shanxi Economic Yearbook," the total output value of Shanxi's calcium carbide industry has accounted for 10% of the province's total chemical output value for many years, and the highest year once accounted for 12%. It is one of the important pillar industries in Shanxi's chemical industry. Today, 43 households of calcium carbide enterprises in the province have either been suspended for a long time or have been suspended for half a year or have gone bankrupt.
Loss of adjustment The decline in the calcium carbide industry in Shanxi has caused many people to attribute the poor policy environment in Shanxi, especially the high electricity prices.
CCIN reporters repeatedly heard during the interview that the person in charge of the company had complained that they had to face the same unnerving and puzzling question of the price of electricity every year: the electricity used by the calcium carbide companies in Shanxi province was different from that outside the province. price. The same is the production of calcium carbide products, which is the electricity generated by Shanxi's power plants. The price paid by enterprises in the province is much higher than that of enterprises outside the province.
The expert from the Shanxi Province Calcium Carbide Industry Association confirmed this to CCIN reporters. He said that in view of the current situation, the price of electricity used by Shanxi for calcium carbide enterprises in Shaanxi is 0.42 yuan/kWh, while that for local calcium carbide enterprises in Shanxi is 0.537 yuan/kWh, and electricity is consumed by Shanxi calcium carbide enterprises. Kilowatt-hour higher by 0.11 yuan. "Only this one will cause the production cost of calcium carbide in Shanxi to increase by 400 yuan per ton. The unfair treatment of electricity prices has severely restricted the production of calcium carbide in Shanxi Province, and the market share of Shanxi's calcium carbide enterprises has dropped sharply."
In contrast, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia and other regions rely on low-priced electricity supplied by Shanxi Province to produce calcium carbide, which in turn is sold at a price lower than the cost price of calcium carbide in Shanxi Province. This has squeezed Shanxi's domestic calcium carbide market, making Shanxi calcium carbide companies In the competition, one after another defeated.
To this end, Shanxi Calcium carbide company began in 1996, within 10 years of six successive government departments, requesting "reduction of electricity tariffs", requiring the implementation of large industrial electricity prices, enjoy peak and valley electricity prices. But 10 years of requests, reports, and appeals ended in failure.
However, this view of calcium carbide companies in Shanxi is not recognized by government agencies.
According to an official who declined to be named, the Shanxi Provincial Economic and Trade Commission stated that the high price of electricity in Shanxi’s calcium carbide industry was an external cause. The most important factor was that it had not kept pace with the country’s elimination of backwardness and “accommodated small and big†structural adjustments.
Li Sanwen said that as early as 1999, the former State Economic and Trade Commission issued the Order No. 6 requesting that the calcium carbide furnace with an annual production capacity of 10,000 tons of calcium carbide be eliminated at the end of the year, and that the open type calcium carbide furnace be eliminated in the following year. At that time, only one Taishan calcium carbide plant in Shanxi Province was able to retain the calcium carbide furnace, and all others were eliminated or replaced.
However, the Shanxi calcium carbide industry has not yet made effective adjustments. Instead, it continues to place its hopes on local government departments to provide preferential policies for the protection of Shanxi's "competitive product." Enterprises will only insist on "reduction of electricity charges."
In April 2006, the calcium carbide company in Shanxi Province again wrote the provincial government and requested preferential policies to support it. To this end, the Shanxi Provincial Economic and Information Commission carried out a four-month investigation. On August 14, 2006, the final conclusion they announced was: Shanxi Calcium Carbide "is on the verge of shutting down the entire industry," the problem is not "the high price of electricity for calcium carbide," but in "the calcium carbide industry overcapacity, low level of technology and equipment, structure is not Four major problems, such as rationality and serious pollution, have still not been fundamentally resolved."
According to the survey data provided by the Economic and Information Commission of Shanxi Province, the average annual calcium carbide production capacity of calcium carbide enterprises in the province is only about 20,000 tons. Only one enterprise with a production output of more than 100,000 tons and one small-scale enterprise with a capacity of 50,000 tons or less account for the entire province. More than half of the total number; from the perspective of technology and equipment, there are only two large-scale fully enclosed submerged arc furnaces with advanced technology, effective control of emissions, and comprehensive utilization of resources. The rest are mostly internal combustion-type mines with a capacity of 10,000 to 50,000 tons. Hot stoves, there are a few less than 10,000 tons and open type calcium carbide stoves in operation. Due to the small scale of the company and its backward technology and equipment, it is difficult to co-ordinate the arrangements for the comprehensive utilization of resources, and a large amount of carbon monoxide and high-temperature residual heat in the exhaust gas cannot be effectively recovered.
It is said that the attitude of the government is very clear. However, at this time, the structural adjustment of the calcium carbide industry in Shanxi still has no progress.
“Everything has reached this level, some regions and enterprises are still working on 'small calcium carbide'. For example, in some areas such as Changzhi and Jincheng in Shanxi, calcium carbide construction has been listed as a local key construction project, and land, taxation, and other benefits have been granted. As of 2007, three small calcium carbide enterprises, including the Jinneng Xinlong Chemical Co., Ltd., in Changzhi County, were still launched. A number of small calcium carbide furnaces and open calcium carbide furnaces that were banned and eliminated by the State were also revived.†The official said.
However, during the same period, great progress has been made in the structural adjustment of the national calcium carbide industry. According to statistics from the China Calcium Carbide Industry Association, by the end of 2010, there were 54 calcium carbide producers with output of more than 100,000 tons in the country, of which the output of the top 10 companies totaled 3.927 million tons, accounting for 26.1% of the country’s total production. The trend of large-scale enterprises has noticeably accelerated. At the same time, elimination of outdated production capacity of 3.05 million tons exceeded half of the national plan; the proportion of closed-type calcium carbide furnaces in China has increased from less than 10% in 2005 to 40% in 2010.
Determined to fight for the best In September last year, Shanxi Province issued an ultimatum for companies that were included in the blacklist of enterprises that had been shut down. If the outdated production capacity cannot be eliminated on time, a mandatory shutdown must be implemented, and the power supply companies will adopt mandatory power cut measures. By the end of the year, Shanxi Province has eliminated a total capacity of 1,482,200 tons of outdated calcium carbide.
The government moved the truth and the calcium carbide company finally couldn't sit still.
On August 20 of this year, the Shanxi Caidestone Industrial Association held its fourth general meeting in Zhangzhou. A total of more than 40 people from calcium carbide companies and experts attended the meeting. At the meeting, 24 members conducted reflections.
Wang Yingxian, chairman of Shanxi Xingying Shixing Chemical Co., Ltd., said: “It is better to wait for the preferential price policy than to work hard to make structural adjustments.†He said that the calcium carbide industry in Shanxi has lost its “bossâ€. The status may not necessarily be a bad thing. It actually provides an opportunity for our adjustment. In the future development, we can no longer compete for the first in production, and we must strive for the first in terms of scale, quality, and technology. He analyzed that, compared with open-burning internal combustion furnaces, sealed furnaces can not only greatly reduce tail gas emissions, but also can use tail gas as a fuel to be comprehensively used. The production cost per ton of calcium carbide can therefore be reduced by more than 200 yuan. Therefore, calcium carbide companies with small scale of production, backward technology, and inability to comprehensively utilize resources will surely be eliminated, and only large companies can survive. The country’s industrial policy is to promote the structural adjustment and industrial upgrading of high-energy-consuming industries. Using the industry’s words, it is “guaranteeing the protection of the countryâ€. The so-called "protecting the big" means that enterprises must achieve a certain scale of production, production costs should be low; "guarantee" is to protect advanced production technology, security shut-off stone furnace. To become a target of the government's "guaranteeing good," companies are required to practice hard.
The understanding that “there is no longer the greatest competition and the best competition†has become the consensus of the company.
According to Yun Kui, director of the Shanxi Hongzhou Longjin Chemical Calcium Carbide Plant, the newly revised “Entry Conditions for the Calcium Carbide Industry†encourages the development of a circular economy model for the integration of calcium carbide and chlor-alkali, and some domestic chlor-alkali enterprises that have the necessary conditions have Is preparing to build its own calcium carbide production plant. In this situation, Shanxi Calcium carbide enterprises should take the chlor-alkali chemical industry as a leader, take the environmental protection governance as the starting point, and realize the recycling economy industrial chain of coal gangue/limestone-electricity-electricity calcium carbide-chlorine/vinyl chloride-cement integrated production.
This proposal has become the common pursuit of calcium carbide companies in Shanxi.
Last year's elimination of backward production capacity has freed up capacity and space for advanced technologies such as the development of new types of calcium carbide furnaces in Shanxi. It is understood that the Shanxi Yangmei Group's 1 million tons (phase 400,000 tons) calcium carbide project, Shanxi Coal Investment Company with a total investment of 1.1 billion yuan, and Lishe Chemicals Co., Ltd. are producing 600,000 tons of calcium carbide project, Shanxi Leixin 500,000 tons/year of closed-type calcium carbide furnaces and other projects have adopted large-scale closed-type calcium carbide furnaces, hollow electrodes and other key national calcium carbide industry to promote advanced energy-saving emission reduction technologies. The 1 million-ton calcium carbide project of the Yangmei Coal Group adopts the domestically-produced advanced domestic production technology of six sets of 40,000-kilovolt safety-enclosed calcium carbide furnaces with the largest capacity in the country, and supporting dry dust removal systems, gas-fired lime kiln and computer centralized control management systems. After these projects are completed, they will become the main force for restructuring the industrial structure of Shanxi's calcium carbide.
Li Sanwen said in an interview with CCIN reporters that this is the direction of Shanxi's calcium carbide industry.