Release of Work Plan for Transformation and Upgrading of Cement Industry in Shandong Province (2024-2026)

2024-07-01 17:05:09

Shandong Province issued the Action Plan for Upgrading the Building Materials Industry (2024-2026), which aims to promote the green, low-carbon and high-quality development of the building materials industry. The action plan focuses on the cement industry and puts forward the tasks of stable growth, structural adjustment, digital transformation, green manufacturing and safety improvement.

Recently, The Department of Industry and Information, the Development and Reform Commission, the Department of Science and Technology, the Department of Finance, the Department of Natural Resources, the Department of Ecological Environment, the Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Areas, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Emergency Management and the Market Supervision and Administration of Shandong Province jointly issued the Notice on the Action Plan for the Transformation and Upgrading of Building Materials Industry in Shandong Province (2024-2026) (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice").

The circular pointed out that the building materials industry is an important basic industry of the national economy and a traditional pillar industry of Shandong Province. In order to implement the spirit of documents such as "Work Program for Steady Growth of Building Materials Industry", "Work Program for Digital Transformation of Raw Materials Industry" and "Implementation Plan for High-quality Development of Green Building Materials Industry" issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and in accordance with the decision-making and deployment of provincial Party committees and provincial governments and the requirements of "Action Plan for Technological Reform and Upgrading of Traditional Industries in Shandong Province", we will promote the transformation and upgrading of building materials industry in Shandong Province. To achieve green, low-carbon and high-quality development, this action plan is formulated.

The circular puts forward general requirements, guided by Xi Jinping's socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics in the new era, thoroughly implements the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, bases itself on the new stage of development, completely, accurately and comprehensively implements the new development concept, speeds up the construction of a new development pattern, and promotes the green, low-carbon and high-quality development of the building materials industry in the province. We should adhere to the parallel of steady growth and structural adjustment, stabilize market expectations, do a good job in linking up production, supply and marketing, promote scientific and orderly development, and promote the deep transformation of building materials industry in development. Insist on strengthening the stock and expanding the quantity simultaneously, optimize the industrial product structure, promote the renewal of equipment and technology, develop new building materials industries, and cultivate new quality productivity. We should attach equal importance to excellent supply and market expansion, enrich product varieties, improve product quality, enhance brand influence, and promote the building materials industry to achieve effective improvement in quality and reasonable growth in quantity. The development goals and key tasks of the cement industry involved in the

notice are summarized as follows:

Development goals:

In 2024-2026, the province's building materials industry will maintain steady growth. Digital transformation has been accelerated, and the numerical control rate of key processes in major industries has reached more than 70%. To improve the level of energy efficiency, the proportion of production capacity above the benchmark level of energy efficiency in cement and ceramics industry will reach 30%, the proportion of production capacity above the benchmark level of energy efficiency in flat glass industry will reach 20%, and the production capacity below the benchmark level of energy efficiency in building materials industry will complete technological transformation or be eliminated.

We will guide the orderly withdrawal of inefficient production capacity and strictly prohibit new production capacity for cement and flat glass. Actively play the role of trade associations, strengthen industry self-discipline, and promote quality and efficiency. Improve the intrinsic safety level of enterprises and promote standardized and orderly development.

The key task is to

break through key common technologies. Focus on the R & D and application of common core technologies, support qualified enterprises to actively participate in the "unveiling of the list" and undertake key R & D tasks. The cement industry has concentrated on tackling the technology of replacing fuels in cement kilns and the technology of internal circulation boiling calcination.

Promote the renewal of advanced equipment. Guiding building materials enterprises to increase equipment renewal and technological transformation, and upgrading the level of technical equipment in the industry. Centering on energy conservation and carbon reduction, the cement industry has promoted energy-saving technical equipment such as low-resistance cyclone preheaters, high-efficiency grate coolers, advanced energy-saving grinding technology, and low-resistance cyclone dust collectors; centering on process transformation, the cement industry has promoted roller press raw material grinding technology and cement packaging automation in cement production, and the ceramic industry has promoted new dry milling technology. Around safety production, advanced equipment such as intelligent grab crane, kiln infrared combustion temperature measurement imaging system, natural gas on-line monitoring equipment, intelligent storage and transportation system, intelligent management and control system and safety chain system will be promoted.

Speed up the construction of key projects. Cement Industry Focuses on Promoting the National Building Materials Industry's Major Scientific and Technological Tackling Project "Unveiling the List and Taking the Lead" Cement Boiling Calcination < a Href = "https://price.ccement.com/Price_list-1-s0-e0-p0-c0-k100059-b0.

accelerates digital transformation.". Promote enterprises to speed up the digital transformation of production lines, focusing on equipment interconnection, data-driven, production intelligent control, and optimize the process flow. Implement the requirements of the Guidelines for the Construction of Intelligent Manufacturing Standard System in Building Materials Industry (2021 Edition), and support enterprises to actively participate in the formulation of key technical standards in cement, glass, building sanitary ceramics and other subdivisions. Promote the construction of carbon emission prediction platform for carbon asset management in building materials industry, and explore the fine management of carbon emission. Promote the application of intelligent manufacturing equipment, and update new intelligent equipment such as unmanned transport vehicles, inspection robots and intelligent detection equipment in raw material industries such as cement. Regular training courses on digital and intelligent transformation of building materials industry will be held to strengthen the awareness of enterprise transformation and enhance the level of transformation.

Promote raw material substitution. Accelerate the substitution of non-carbonate raw materials in the cement industry. On the premise of ensuring product quality, increase the proportion of calcium-containing solid waste resources such as carbide slag, phosphogypsum, fluorgypsum and red mud to replace limestone, improve the comprehensive utilization efficiency of dolomitic limestone associated with existing limestone, reduce the emission of carbon dioxide, accelerate the popularization and application of new low-carbon cement varieties, and gradually reduce the consumption of carbonate. Improve the utilization level of solid waste resources in the production process of building materials products, and support the use of cement kilns for harmless co-disposal of waste. Improve the quality and application level of cement, glass, concrete and other products, and promote the reduction of product use. By 2026, the proportion of raw material substitution in the cement industry will increase to about 3%.

Promote green manufacturing. Strengthen the green management of the whole life cycle of enterprises, and build a green manufacturing system with high efficiency, cleanliness, low carbon and recycling. The building materials industry focuses on pollution reduction, carbon reduction, energy saving and consumption reduction in cement, glass, glass fiber and other fields, and upgrades related equipment and technologies such as raw material preparation, furnace control, crushing and grinding. Supporting building materials enterprises to strive for A-level environmental performance, and supporting the development of new inorganic non-metallic materials such as special cement, quick-setting materials, new energy glass, high-end automotive glass, advanced ceramics, composite building ceramics, mineral functional materials, graphene and modified materials, high-performance fibers and composite materials. Promote the development of green products, green factories and green supply chains, and strive to reach 80 green factories above the provincial level in the building materials industry in the province by 2026.

Accelerate chain supplement, strengthen chain and extend chain. Promote the "cement plus" development model, accelerate the transformation of traditional cement suppliers to integrated building materials service providers, and extend to commercial concrete, ready-mixed mortar, cement products, building parts and other fields. Accelerate the application of prefabricated buildings, promote the construction of factories, industrialization and parts, and increase the proportion of new building area.

Promote intensive development. Give full play to the resource endowment and location advantages of various regions, highlight the cultivation of market players, promote the investment and construction of major projects, strengthen the horizontal agglomeration and vertical integration of industries, strengthen the leading enterprises and the docking of upstream and downstream industries, and strive to build a number of characteristic industrial clusters of small and medium-sized enterprises with prominent main industries, distinctive features and brand influence. A number of industrial clusters with output value of over 10 billion yuan will be built around green high-quality cement, high-end glass new materials and special glass (electronic glass, etc.), building ceramics and functional ceramics, waterproof materials and geosynthetics, glass fiber and composite reinforced materials, assembly buildings and other fields.

Speed up the adjustment of industrial structure. Strictly implement the replacement policy of cement and flat glass production capacity, and strengthen the management of high energy consumption and high emission projects in accordance with the relevant policies and regulations of the province's "two high" industry management. We will guide the orderly withdrawal of inefficient production capacity and resolutely eliminate backward production processes, technologies and equipment. In accordance with laws and regulations, mandatory standards and policy requirements in the fields of safety, environmental protection, quality and energy, we will strengthen supervision over key energy-using units and high-consumption and low-efficiency enterprises. Leading enterprises and third-party organizations are encouraged to jointly carry out resource integration and merger and reorganization to further optimize the industrial layout.

Improve the intrinsic safety level of enterprises. Strengthen the safety management of building materials industry, urge enterprises to implement the main responsibility, do a good job in personnel safety training, and improve the safety awareness of all employees in enterprises. Regularize the supervision of safety production in cement industry, prevent major safety risks, and promote the safe and stable development of the industry. Promote the technological transformation of "mechanized replacement, automated reduction and intelligent unmanned" in building materials industry enterprises, strictly follow the catalogue of elimination of backward technical equipment for safe production in building materials industry, do a good job in the transformation and elimination of process equipment, and improve the intrinsic safety level of enterprises.

The notice also attached the Work Program for the Transformation and Upgrading of the Cement Industry in Shandong Province (2024-2026). The full text is as follows:

Work Plan for the Transformation and Upgrading of the Cement Industry in Shandong Province (2024-2026)

I. Development Goals

In 2024-2026, the structure of the cement industry in Shandong Province will be further optimized and the endogenous power will be further enhanced. Intelligence has reached a higher level, the numerical control rate of key processes has reached more than 70%, the proportion of raw material substitution has increased to 3%, the energy consumption per unit product of cement clinker has been reduced by more than 3%, the production capacity of cement clinker has reached 30% of the benchmark level of energy efficiency, and all the renovation and transformation below the benchmark level of energy efficiency have been completed. Production lines that fail to complete energy-saving transformation on schedule or whose energy efficiency is still lower than the benchmark level after transformation are eliminated and withdrawn.

2. Main tasks

(1) Resolving excess capacity

1. Cement clinker and grinding capacity should not be increased in disguised form in the name of energy saving, consumption reduction, environmental protection and other projects, so as to ensure that the cement production capacity of the whole province is only reduced but not increased. To speed up the elimination and withdrawal of inefficient production capacity, except for special cement clinker and chemical supporting cement clinker production lines, all cement clinker production lines of 2500 tons per day or less will be integrated and withdrawn by the end of 2024.

2. Adhere to the normal peak staggering production of cement, promote energy conservation and emission reduction, reduce pollutant emissions, and play an active role in the prevention and control of air pollution. Strengthen industry self-discipline, improve the level of fine management of enterprises, effectively reduce costs, and promote the orderly development of the cement industry. Support cement enterprises to enter the national carbon trading market steadily and orderly, and effectively control the release of excess capacity.

3. Hold regular docking talks between building materials suppliers and construction enterprises, promote precise docking between cement enterprises and demanders, adjust product structure according to the actual needs of project construction, strengthen quality management, and ensure the smooth progress of major projects. Strengthen the upstream and downstream supply chain of the cement industry chain, further reduce logistics costs, and promote the stable operation of the industry.

(2) Optimizing the product structure

4. Supporting the development of high-quality, high-durability cement and concrete, focusing on the development of special cement for high-speed, high-speed rail, marine, nuclear power, tunnel and other projects. Accelerate the integration and development of the industry, guide cement production enterprises to extend to sand and gravel aggregates, commercial concrete, ready-mixed mortar, prefabricated building parts and other fields in accordance with the "cement plus" development model, and transform to integrated building materials service providers.

5. Develop all kinds of fiber cement coated boards, modeling decorative boards, structural super-thick boards, thermal insulation decoration, anti-explosion and fire-proof composite boards with various building functions. Research and development of all kinds of prefabricated building insulation and structural integration composite external wall panels, standardized, universal, easily removable, reusable partition panels, roof panels, floor panels and their node design and structural structure. Continuously expand the application of integrated wall materials in the field of industrial and civil construction and decoration engineering.

6. Take the cascade utilization of limestone resources as the core, and develop the calcium-based new material industry at different levels. Accelerate the development of calcium-based new material industries such as high-activity calcium oxide, calcium hydroxide, light calcium carbonate, nano-calcium carbonate and food-grade calcium carbonate, and extend downstream related industries to better enhance the value of resources.

7. Research and development of new carbon fixation products preparation technology, using fly ash, steel slag, carbide slag, red mud, slag, coal gangue, calcium-containing construction waste and other solid wastes as raw materials to produce carbon fixation aggregate, carbon fixation brick and carbon fixation stone products. Construction of demonstration production lines, improvement and upgrading of carbon dioxide mineral solidification technology, and broadening the application channels of solid waste.

Accelerate

the digital transformation of cement production lines, make full use of advanced modern information and intelligent technologies such as "industrial brain" and 5G, and realize the overall upgrading of production processes. Promote intelligent manufacturing equipment, focusing on the application of new intelligent equipment such as unmanned transport vehicles, inspection robots, intelligent inspection and testing equipment. Carry out special training on digital transformation for building materials enterprises.

9. Promote cement production enterprises to adopt information technology to reconstruct production management system, and use big data, industrial Internet platform and other means to carry out quality process control, production process control, energy control control and safety control, so as to realize the interconnection of upstream and downstream in the whole process of manufacturing and application.

10. Select a number of benchmarking enterprises for intelligent manufacturing in the cement industry to transplant and promote the transformation experience and model in the industry. We will carry out the cascade cultivation of digital transformation in the cement industry, cultivate typical demonstration cases in key directions such as intelligent factories and intelligent application scenarios at different levels, and play a leading role. By 2026, we will strive to cultivate 30 typical cases at the provincial level and 10 typical cases at the national level.

(4) Promoting green and low-carbon development

11. Increasing the proportion of clean energy such as solar energy and wind energy in the cement industry. Enhance the energy "self-sufficiency" ability of cement enterprises and reduce their dependence on fossil energy and external electricity. Strengthen the cascade utilization of waste heat resources, support and encourage cement enterprises to use their own facilities and sites to implement waste heat and pressure utilization, and build distributed photovoltaic, wind power generation, energy storage and other facilities. We will encourage the application of alternative energy sources such as hydrogen energy, biomass fuels, waste textile fabrics, waste tires and garbage derived fuels in cement kilns, and intensify efforts to tackle key problems in the utilization of alternative fuels.

12. Increase the solid waste disposal capacity of the existing production line, ensure the stable supply of solid waste, and effectively exert the solid waste disposal capacity. Optimize the production process of co-disposal, carry out research on reducing the concentration of carbon monoxide in co-disposal waste gas, and reduce the energy consumption of burning. Enhance the ability of cement kilns to co-dispose of urban garbage and sludge, and ensure the construction needs of "waste-free" cities and green towns.

13. Carry out research on the technology of preparing low-carbon cement by classification and separation to reduce the clinker coefficient in cement. Develop and produce masonry cement, promote the replacement of ordinary admixture by ultra-fine powder with industrial solid wastes such as blast furnace slag and fly ash as the main raw materials, and increase the proportion of solid waste resources replacing clinker in cement.

14. To implement the requirements of the State's Opinions on Promoting the Implementation of Ultra-low Emission in Cement Industry, formulate and issue the consolidation and upgrading plan for the transformation of ultra-low emission in cement industry in the whole province, and speed up the completion of the shortcomings of combined denitrification technology and clean transportation in cement kilns. Support enterprises to strive for A-level environmental performance, and new reconstruction and expansion projects meet the requirements of A-level environmental performance indicators.

(5) Accelerating the renewal of

equipment and technology 15. Accelerating the elimination of backward and inefficient equipment and old equipment, and promoting the energy efficiency upgrading of key energy-using equipment. According to the Advanced Level of Energy Efficiency, Energy-saving Level and Access Level of Key Energy-using Products and Equipment (2024 Edition), focusing on the improvement of energy efficiency level, we will promote the upgrading of key energy-using equipment such as fans, motors, transformers, pumps, air compressors and boilers in the cement industry, and promote the application of energy-saving equipment with energy efficiency of Grade II or above.

16. Focusing on emission reduction, carbon reduction, energy saving and consumption reduction, the relevant production processes such as raw material preparation, kiln control, grinding and crushing were upgraded. We will promote the technological transformation of low-resistance cyclone preheater precalcining system, high-efficiency grate cooler, modular assembly integration of cement kiln lining system, roller press for raw material final grinding, oxygen-enriched oxy-fuel combustion, advanced energy-saving grinding and cement packaging automation.

17. Concentrate on tackling the technologies of circulating boiling calcination in cement kiln and green hydrogen calcination of cement clinker. Focus on the development of high belite cement, limestone calcined clay low carbon cement and other products. We will further improve the carbon capture, utilization and storage projects that have been put into operation, upgrade the technical level and provide technical support for their popularization and application.

3. Safeguard measures

(1) Strengthen organizational leadership. Relevant departments should strengthen coordination, refine work measures, focus on the implementation of various tasks, regularly evaluate the implementation of the plan, study and solve major problems in the implementation process, and timely adjust strategies to ensure the orderly transformation and upgrading of the cement industry.

(2) Strengthen quality supervision. Promote the construction of standardized laboratories in enterprises, implement the requirements of General Portland Cement (GB 175-2023), and improve the quality of cement products. Strengthen the publicity and promotion of standards to ensure the effective implementation of standards. Establish a standard implementation supervision mechanism to supervise and inspect the implementation of standards to ensure the effective implementation of standards.

(3) Give full play to the role of associations. Give full play to the role of industry associations as bridges and links, take the lead in building industry cooperation platforms, and provide information, technology and management consulting services for enterprises. Organize and carry out docking activities between upstream and downstream enterprises, and open up marketing channels. In accordance with the requirements of the Notice of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment on Further Improving the Normalized Peak-Staggered Production of Cement, we will organize and implement peak-staggered production in the cement industry, strengthen industry self-discipline, prevent vicious competition among enterprises, and ensure standardized, orderly and stable development.

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Due to the continuing downturn in the downstream construction industry, some Korean cement companies predict that domestic cement demand will fall below 40 million tons in 2025.