Aluminum processing companies will be shut down if they do not implement "coal gas conversion"

Due to the requirements of the Central Environmental Supervision Commission in July and August, some aluminum companies that do not meet the requirements of environmental protection need to implement the task of upgrading and upgrading the equipment in the second half of the year. The aluminum companies in Gongyi District need to complete the transformation of “coal to gas” equipment by November 3rd.

Previously, the Central Environmental Protection Group was stationed in Gongyi City, Henan Province, which is a heavy metal processing base in Henan Province, and all gas companies that use the gas in Gongyi District need to be replaced with natural gas equipment. Most aluminum processing companies have stopped production for some time.

It is not only the aluminum companies in Gongyi District that are affected by the environmental protection measures. Prior to the Huoji Hongjun Company in Inner Mongolia, the five aluminum rod factories including Far East and Tianshuo were also shut down for rectification in July, and Huo Mei Hongjun planned a new one. The production capacity of 50,000 tons of electrolytic aluminum was put on hold because of environmental issues.

It is understood that the overall suspension of aluminum production in Gongyi and Inner Mongolia has a minor impact on the downstream demand of aluminum and has not caused significant changes in aluminum prices and aluminum premiums.

Aluminum processing companies will be shut down if they do not implement "coal gas conversion"

In recent years, the domestic environmental protection efforts have been continuously increased. Under heavy pollution control, many companies have been severely punished. Among them, the most typical representative is that Luoyang Xiangjiang Wanji Aluminum Co., Ltd. was opened more than 9600 million yuan a year and a half. Astronomical fines equal to the company’s three-year profit.

In July of this year, the first batch of central environmental protection inspection teams were stationed in Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Henan, Guangxi, Yunnan, and Ningxia provinces, setting off a storm of environmental protection supervision at the local level. According to statistics, more than 100 people have been detained by criminals for destroying the environment and polluting the environment; more than 2,000 people in party and government departments have been held accountable, and most of them have been given administrative discipline by the Party. Some steel mills, mining sites, and smelters that have environmental problems are punished for rectification and even dismantling.

In response to the Central Environmental Protection Inspector, Zhang Xiaode, director of the Ecological Civilization Research Center of the National School of Administration, said that because of the inertia of thinking and the drive of local interests, the importance of environmental protection in some regions has not been fully understood. The Central Environmental Protection Inspector “strikes a heavy blow”, on the one hand, it is to rectify specific environmental problems; on the other hand, it sends signals to the whole society, so that people fully understand that environmental protection is related to the development of the national economy and social stability.

Analysts believe that based on the dual needs of environmental governance and stable growth, it is expected that the support and implementation of environmental protection policies will increase in the second half of the year. Not only aluminum enterprises, the entire non-ferrous metals companies should pay attention to environmental protection and take appropriate measures to avoid encounters. Unprecedented environmental penalties.