Introduction - the confusion of the endless
Use "Confused! To describe our unsaturated polyester resin industry bosses mood is the most appropriate. In fact, not only the owners of unsaturated polyester resin industry, in the whole of China's small and medium-sized private enterprise owners, how many are not living in "confusion"? This is especially true for chemical companies.
Stricter and stricter policies on safety and environmental protection, stricter and stricter tax policies, higher and higher minimum wage standards, higher and higher product technical standards... All these are pressing down on the original competitiveness of the vast majority of small and medium-sized unsaturated polyester resin production enterprises in China. In addition, the higher and higher threshold of loans, industrial access and so on, makes the living environment of these enterprises change in essence. Move or close? This severe problem has been placed in front of Chinese unsaturated polyester resin business owners. China's unsaturated polyester resin industry is in the historical stage of transformation from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period.
In recent years, an important train of thought that local government develops economy is to attract investment. Even in many places, attracting investment has become the only power of local economy. All preferential policies, land, taxes, fees and so on are tilted to the investment promotion and capital introduction enterprise, and at that time, old between enterprise intangible was desolate, so in these business owners in the mind, more or less have some don't balance, some resentment, to some extent, also affect the enthusiasm of their pursuit of long-term development. Doubtless, the long-term development of an area economy, cannot leave input, come from the increment input of external especially, accordingly, the policy of attracting investment that bases itself on economic long-term development is correct undoubtedly, this had been proved by a lot of developed area place. However, investment in the short term, will bring some problems, mainly is the government resources of a large number of tilt, make these companies hire from the outside came in in the short term it cannot contribute to local finance, even in the first two or three years, local government subsidies to the new enterprise, therefore, in terms of sight, the backbone of the local economy, We still need to rely on old enterprises to do support. However, the problem lies in the many problems that these old enterprises have accumulated over the years, especially the historical problems left by chemical enterprises in environmental protection and safety, which can no longer support the sustainable development of these enterprises. The future of old enterprises is not only a problem for enterprises, but also an unavoidable problem for local governments.
Hard Choices
On May 11, 2009, a sudden toxic gas leak from Huangtuxinxing Chemical Plant shocked Jiangyin and quickly spread across the country through the news media and the Internet. This became known as the "511" incident.
After the incident, the local government quickly took all effective measures to reduce the negative impact on the local society, one of which was the strong measures of suspending production for rectification and relocating all chemical plants within a certain time limit. Petition signs are posted in front of every chemical plant. This has been in the vortex of the financial crisis for the chemical plant, is no different from worse. The owners of the chemical plant were suddenly dazed by the blow and did not know what the future was. However, as the town's largest chemical production enterprises, the management of Jiangsu Fuling Chemical Co., Ltd. is very calm, in addition to a round of emergency meetings every day, there is a topic has become a day or even all the time in the enterprise has been repeatedly mentioned ----- to speed up the relocation!
In 2009, as the only chemical enterprise in the city's "retreat from the town into the garden", many people were surprised at the foresight of Fuling Chemical. "511" hit all of Huangto's chemical plants hard, but it led to a turning point. And this turning point, from the relocation of Fuling Chemical has begun.
Debate about the relocation has never stopped before the "511" incident, not only among Huangtu's colleagues, but also within the company of Fuling Chemical. In Jiangyin, although not many people really know the full name of Fuling Chemical Industry, no one knows the chemical plant in Huangtu Triangdi. In recent years, the whirlpool of public opinion has never left the old enterprise with more than 20 years of history. With the outbreak of blue-green algae in Taihu Lake, the management of the enterprise was keenly aware that no matter how hard they tried to continue production at the original site, the road had come to an end. In March 2006, Fuling Chemical filed a formal request to the local government for relocation. At that time, their idea was very simple. The so-called relocation was to move to a place far away from people. As soon as the news of relocation came out, the merchant buretions from various places, such as Yancheng, Rudong, Lianyungang, etc., all of a sudden, the originally very simple question of where to move became a problem perplexing the management of Fuling Chemical in the face of so many tempts. After repeated inspections and studies, repeated weighing, comparisons and calculations, they finally settled on Lingang New City New Material Industrial Park, located in Shizhuang, Jiangyin, under the encouragement of Mayor Gu Shaonong. This Jiangsu Province level chemical industrial park was taken as the final destination of the enterprise. It was during this inspection and inspection that a question gradually became the main topic of discussion among the management of Fuling Chemical Company: Is relocation just another place for production? One after another, the introduction of national management policies, the changing attitude of foreign governments, and the constant rumors in the common people, all make the enterprise management have to re-examine the positioning of enterprise relocation. If it is only to change the location of production, then the relocation is like wearing new shoes to go down the old road, and this old road, how long can it go?
In the summer of 2007, the Huangtu grape festival was held as scheduled. In order to ensure the smooth progress of the festival, the government asked some chemical enterprises to stop production, and this stopping-off for more than 70 days. At this time, the management of Fuling Chemical made a historic determination - enterprise transformation! The so-called transformation refers to the development mode of the enterprise, which completely breaks away from the traditional production mode, takes safety and environmental protection as the forerunner of enterprise operation, and people-oriented and social responsibility as the highest principle of enterprise development. The strategy has been determined, the next is the choice of technical solutions. The first is the treatment scheme of the wastewater from the production process. In China's unsaturated polyester industry, there has always been a dispute between incineration method and biochemical method for the treatment of process wastewater. Incineration method is to burn waste water by incinerator. This method has the advantage of thorough treatment and no waste water discharge. The disadvantage is that the cost is high. The biochemical method is to dilute the wastewater first, reduce the high concentration of COD to a certain degree, and then treat it by the method of biological anaerobes to meet the discharge standard and send it to the sewage treatment plant for treatment. The advantage of this method is low operating cost, the disadvantage is not thorough treatment, and the winter effect is very poor. Although as early as 1998 when the "Taihu Lake Pollution Control Zero Point Action", Fuling Chemical had already adopted the incineration method to treat wastewater, but in the face of more and more domestic counterparts are adopting the biochemical method as a low-cost treatment method, different views also emerged among the enterprise management. In order to finalize the wastewater treatment method, the main management of the enterprise went around and studied the advanced experience of the major counterparts in the world, Japan, Germany, the United States and the Netherlands. Finally, they decided to burn the wastewater and achieve zero emission. Once the water problem is solved, the greater difficulty is how to solve the waste gas in the production process. Taste, which has been a problem facing all chemical plants, has been the focus of discussion in recent years. If the problem with waste water solutions is primarily cost, the problem with waste gas solutions is that there are no effective alternatives. Although some professional companies come to us and provide various methods, the final results are not ideal after field investigation. Looking for the optimal method of waste gas treatment has become the most critical link in the transformation of Fuling chemical enterprises. The test again and again, the failure, dismantled, installed and dismantled, in more than two years of time, nearly a hundred times of tests, until the middle of 2009 before moving more than a month of time, finally put the exhaust gas treatment device test success. This device has not only applied for the national invention patent, but also become the most obvious symbol that Fuling Chemical is different from the domestic counterparts.
More difficult than the process of moving, as people say, is the idea of moving, and the transformation needed to make it happen. The procedure is more of a procedure problem, and the change of thinking, it is the enterprise to pay the cost of innovation. Corporate transformation is easy to say, but technically it's not that hard to do. However, why so many chemical enterprises stop at transformation, stagnation in relocation? To put it bluntly, it's a question of cost. Because the direct consequence of the transformation is the substantial increase of the cost, what can support the transformation of the enterprise to continue to survive, is the key to enterprise transformation. This problem also exists for Fuling Chemical. Their answer, in fact, is simple: increase revenue and reduce spending. Open source means to upgrade the grade of our products and improve the technical content and added value of our products through technological innovation. When the enterprise moves, a number of products of Fuling Chemical won the title of provincial science and technology new products, a number of products through the United States, Germany, Britain, France and Norway technology certification, in 2007 won the title of "Jiangsu Province high-tech enterprises", in the early move, won the title of national high-tech enterprises; Throttling means reducing consumption to reduce costs. Among them, water saving has become a fruitful measure to reduce consumption in Fuling Chemical. In 2007, Fuling Chemical was awarded the title of "Water Saving Enterprise in Jiangsu Province", reducing water consumption by more than 3 million RMB per year.
From March 2006 to September 2009, in three and a half years, Fuling Chemical has gone through a hard road of thought purgatory. Painful thinking, difficult choices, continuous innovation, accompanied by the enterprise through more than a thousand sleepless nights. Looking back now, fortunately, their relocation idea of "seeking survival by enterprise transformation and development by technological upgrading" has laid a new solid foundation for the future of this old enterprise. This point, from the relocation of the new look of Fuling Chemical, we have a deep feeling.
The new biography of the veteran creates brilliance again
In front of us, is in jiangsu province department of environmental protection monitoring center of a test report, this is a new factory normal production condition of fu ling chemical unorganized emissions of ozone concentration test results, the test time is on November 9, 2009 to November 11, 2009, for three consecutive days continuous testing, the production rate of more than eighty-five percent. According to the national standard, the standard unit for the concentration of odour allowed to be discharged is 2000, while the test results of Fuling Chemical showed that the lowest value was 72 and the highest value was 131, both significantly lower than the national standard. The result, to some extent, indicates that the transformation of the old company has been a great success.
On December 8, 2009, the 39th annual meeting of China Composites Industry Association was held in Jiangyin. On the agenda was a visit to the new factory of Jiangsu Fuling Chemical & Chemical Co. Ltd. Delegates were attracted by a sign, a river, a screen and two chimneys at the new Fuling Chemical complex.
One brand is "Jiangsu Unsaturated Polyester Resin Engineering Research and Development Center" hanging at the gate of Fuling Chemical Research Institute. Jiangsu province is the birthplace of the national unsaturated polyester resin, in this industry all the world to China's investment of multinational corporations are all concentrated in Jiangsu, therefore, Jiangsu in the country and even the world's unsaturated resin industry position can be imagined. And behind this brand, full of Fuling Chemical in the technical innovation of countless hard work. Among the hundreds of unsaturated polyester resin fields in China, if anything, Fuling Chemical is actually two different companies. One is the first to go out of the country, to the international market, the other is twenty years as one day adhere to technological innovation. In 1989, when the first container loaded with Fuling Chemical button resin went out of the country, people had not thought about the future changes and development of this enterprise. In the years that followed, one container from the small town of Juan soil sent to Hong Kong, Japan, Canada, UK, Ireland, Belgium, India, Vietnam, Egypt, the united Arab emirates and other dozens of countries, in ten years' time, fu ling chemical almost monopolized the export business of this industry in China, rich resin, became synonymous with unsaturated resin in China. What supports the products of Fuling Chemical to go abroad? Technological progress is surely the only answer.
Walking into the modern laboratory of Fuling Chemical Research Institute, you can find all kinds of functions, from quality inspection, product development to application technical service, covering all technical fields of the industry in which the enterprise is located. In terms of technological progress, the cooperation between industry, education and research has played an important role in the development of this enterprise. Fuling Chemical has a long history of cooperation with colleges and universities. In 1988, the birth of its famous 888A button resin was inseparable from the guidance and help of experts and professors from Shanghai Chemical Design Institute and Shanghai East China University of Science and Technology. After the relocation, Fuling Chemical is now cooperating with Nanjing University of Technology to carry out an industry-university-research plan with a larger scale and a more long-term impact on the development of the enterprise, from the optimization of existing products, the expansion of medium-term technology to the selection of long-term strategic direction of technology development. In the past two years, Fuling Chemical participated in the formulation and revision of nine national standards as the first drafter and the main drafter, and established its position in the industry. The 1000M broadband high-speed Internet fiber at the entrance of the enterprise research institute attracts every visitor and shows the prospect of the future technological progress of the enterprise. For the majority of those struggling at the lower end of the market, what does the Fuling brand tell them?
Is a river, around the rich ling chemical new factory district a man-made river, the landscape river, up to seven meters bring rich ling chemical industry is not only beautiful scenery, is a water circulation in production of reservoirs, one is able to provide more than ten thousand tons of fire emergency pools of water, but also provides a sanitary water factory all toilets, even don't have to flush the toilet water, Fuling Chemical's efforts to save water can be seen. Cooling water consumption has always been a large waste resource in resin production, and water-saving transformation involves the redesign and construction of many infrastructure of enterprises. The investment of 15 million yuan saves 3 million tons of water every year, which is a big part of Fuling Chemical's new plant. Due to the country for new chemical enterprises to evaluate water consumption, water consumption standard has become one of the hot topic of representatives during the annual meeting, fu ling chemical exploration in water saving, colleagues who also want to move out of a small problem, is also a beneficial enlightenment, that is, the road must go.
One screen is the computer screen in the Fuling Chemical factory. For those who moved the valve inside the workshop for more than ten years of the old operator, how can not think of, now to sit on the floor of the computer room to control the whole production process of resin, even hundreds of meters away from the raw material pump, can also be controlled freely with a click of the mouse. Perhaps for many petrochemical industry, DCS is not a mysterious technology, but in China's unsaturated resin industry, this is a new thing. The technical content of resin, in addition to the performance index, the most important is the stability of quality. In the past resin production, the process parameters were mainly controlled by the experience of the workers, and the reaction end was determined by manual test