Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Improves Access to Fluoride Industry

The threshold of the fluorine chemical industry has been improved and the integration has accelerated. The existing hydrogen fluoride production enterprises will not be able to meet the environmental protection, energy conservation and consumption reduction requirements before the end of 2013 and will be subject to suspension of production or withdrawal.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released on the 24th "hydrogen fluoride industry access conditions (Draft for Comment)", it is proposed to prohibit the construction of new hydrogen fluoride as the final product of the production company, is strictly prohibited the construction of new, expansion of non-raw materials with hydrogen fluoride production facilities.

Hydrogen fluoride is a key intermediate product for the chemical deep processing of fluorite and other fluorine-containing resources and the development of the fluorine chemical industry. China’s fluorite reserves and production rank first in the world, among which proven reserves account for more than 50% of the world’s total reserves, and are known as “resource rare earth” and “gold industry”. However, in recent years, domestic fluorspar uncontrolled mining, a large number of low value-added exports, reserves of reserves of resources has rapidly declined.

To this end, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that it will focus on the status quo of China's industry, "to control total volume, optimize the allocation" of fluorine resources, and promote the healthy and sustainable development of the industry. The existing hydrogen fluoride production enterprises should pass the transformation and meet the requirements for energy saving and consumption reduction by the end of 2013; if they cannot achieve the transformation, they must suspend production or withdraw from production on schedule.

According to the above-mentioned consultation draft, the new hydrogen fluoride production plant and newly established fluorine chemical industry enterprise should comply with the local industrial development plan and the overall land use plan, and should have stable and reliable fluorite and other resource guarantees, and must have access to environmental capacity and safety capacity. Fluorine pollutants (including fluorine slag materials, liquids and gases, the same below) Treatment and resource utilization facilities and hazardous chemicals storage and transportation facilities, vigorously develop circular economy development zones (including industrial parks, industrial clusters, and with).

The total scale of hydrogen fluoride for newly-built production enterprises shall not be less than 50,000 tons/year, and the production capacity of newly-built hydrogen fluoride production facilities shall not be less than 20,000 tons/year (except for the production of hydrogen fluoride by comprehensive utilization of resources). At the same time, it is forbidden to use fluorspar as a raw material and adopt a direct water absorption process to newly construct and expand hydrofluoric acid production facilities. The hydrofluoric acid application enterprise shall, based on the actual needs of production balance, build a hydrofluoric acid production device on the spot using hydrogen fluoride as a raw material to achieve the clean production of hydrofluoric acid.

According to the Shanghai Securities News, in the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan”, the fluorine chemical has been singled out as a special plan. The state will implement mandatory resource integration, and the related companies will focus on the development of lithium hexafluoride electrolyte electrolyte lithium hexafluorophosphate, new fluorine-containing intermediates for new pharmaceutical and pesticide products, and industrial upgrading.