Enabling a new era of green development

-Written at the time when Sinoma Yichang High-end Calcium Silicate Substrate Line 3 and 4 was put into production

On April 12, after nearly two months of trial operation, the third and fourth high-end calcium silicate board production lines of Sinoma Yichang Energy Saving New Materials Base under the building energy-saving industry section of Sinoma Energy Saving Co., Ltd. (referred to as "Sinoma Energy Saving") were officially put into operation. Ma Mingliang, Secretary of the Party committee, chairman and President of Sinoma energy conservation, said that this is another pragmatic measure for the company to actively respond to the comprehensive utilization of industrial tailings and enable green development.

Empowering Green Development to Open up a New Bureau

From December 24 to 25, 2020, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council held a symposium on central enterprises, requiring central enterprises to actively participate in the "carbon peak, carbon neutral" campaign and play a leading and exemplary role. Zhou Yuxian, secretary of the party committee and chairman of China Building Materials Group, made arrangements for the green development of China Building Materials Group, pointing out that it is necessary to speed up the adjustment of industrial structure, increase scientific and technological innovation, promote industrial upgrading and structural optimization, and vigorously develop strategic emerging industries; encourage cement kilns to co-dispose of waste, improve the comprehensive utilization level of industrial solid waste, and purchase green products through capital leveraging.

In accordance with the "4335" overall strategic plan of China National Building Materials Group and the relevant requirements of business integration and high-quality development, Sinoma Energy Saving is determined to build a main force of pollution reduction and carbon reduction with industrial tailings preparing green new material calcium silicate board as the main product. As a new material industry platform to co-ordinate the direction of energy conservation in energy-saving buildings, Sinoma Energy Conservation (Wuhan) Co., Ltd (hereinafter referred to as "energy-saving Wuhan") came into being. Prior to this, it was "born" two years earlier and was born out of the only scientific research institute of my country's calcium silicate board industry-Sinoma (Yichang) Energy-saving New Material Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Sinoma Yichang") has laid a good foundation for Sinoma's energy-saving development of calcium silicate board new material industry. By the end of 2018, the company has formed an annual production capacity of 10 million square meters of high-end calcium silicate substrates and 1 million square meters of coated boards and thermal insulation and decoration integrated boards. At the 2020 China Concrete Exhibition and China Concrete and Cement Products Industry Conference, Sinoma Yichang was awarded the "2019 National Top Ten Calcium Silicate/Fiber Cement Board Enterprises". The production of the third and fourth lines has enabled the company's high-end calcium silicate/fiber cement board to reach an annual production capacity of 20 million square meters, and the company's R & D, production and processing capabilities and market competitiveness have reached a new level.

The country's big enterprises know how to make good use of materials.

Public information shows that during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, China National Building Materials Group's comprehensive energy consumption, nitrogen oxide emissions, and sulfur dioxide emissions per 10,000 yuan of output value decreased by 25%, 35%, and 57%, respectively, which far exceeded the national "13th Five-Year Plan". Planning for emission reduction targets. Cao Jianglin, deputy secretary of the party committee and general manager of China Building Materials Group and chairman of China Building Materials Co., Ltd., said that energy conservation is an important economic means to achieve the goal of green development, while China Building Materials has unique advantages and foundation in energy-saving technology and material research and development.

Sinoma Energy Saving, as a listed company platform with specialized technical services for energy conservation and emission reduction under China Building Materials Group, aims at "promoting products for the benefit of mankind" and takes "materials to create a better world" as its mission. In recent years, Sinoma has pushed the green new material industry of calcium silicate board to become bigger and stronger.

Why is calcium silicate board so favored?

Professor Xu Zheng, chairman of Yichang, Sinoma, told reporters that calcium silicate board is an excellent material for green buildings. It has superior characteristics such as fire prevention (reaching A1 standard), thermal insulation, anti-corrosion and mothproof, waterproof and moisture-proof, sound insulation and sound absorption, light weight, high strength, green and harmless, etc. It is more energy-saving, environmental protection, earthquake resistance and impact resistance than traditional boards. It can be widely used in the fields of interior and exterior wall insulation decoration, ceiling, and the design and installation of plasticity, time-saving and labor-saving. In recent years, with the national assembly building promotion efforts continue to increase, around the calcium silicate board market demand. Whether it is used for composite lightweight wall panels, or directly used for interior and exterior wall insulation decoration, ceiling, floor lining, calcium silicate board has become an important "role" in prefabricated housing construction ".

However, who would have thought that the main raw material used in the new material of calcium silicate with many superior characteristics mentioned above was a kind of "waste"-quartz sand tailings.

Zhongcai Yichang is located in Dangyang City, a famous cultural city of the Three Kingdoms not far from the Three Gorges exit of the Yangtze River in western Hubei. The main reason why the company was located here is that there is the largest float glass production enterprise in Hubei Province, which produces a large amount of quartz sand tailings and waste mud every year, which not only occupies the land, but also causes serious pollution to the ecological environment. The purpose of Sinoma Yichang is to use green and low-carbon technology to "turn waste into treasure" and dig for gold in the abandoned tailings of the past.

Quartz sand tailings is actually a kind of "misplaced resources", which contains tailings, waste residue and waste mud after quartz mining screening, and tailings account for most of them. The chemical composition of quartz tailings is mainly silica, and the impurities are mainly feldspar, clay, mica, iron minerals, etc. As long as the rational development and scientific utilization, it can eliminate pollution, turn waste into treasure, broaden the scope of mineral application, and improve the added value of minerals., And the development prospect is broad.

Looking at the products loaded and shipped out of the factory, Xu Zheng said proudly, "Low carbon and energy saving run through the whole production process and even the whole life cycle of calcium silicate board. It can be said that from raw materials to finished products and to subsequent use, they are all contributing to pollution reduction and carbon reduction! It not only helps the society solve the headache of environmental protection problems, but also creates good economic benefits.

Activate innovation chain Derivative industry chain

As the largest and earliest green new material industry base under Sinoma Energy Conservation, Ma Mingliang, the head of the company, is very concerned about the Sinoma Yichang calcium silicate board project. He has repeatedly asked about the construction progress of the new production line and visited the construction site. When investigating the company's third-and fourth-tier construction, he particularly emphasized that the new material industry must take technological innovation as the main focus, and continue to work hard on product types, specifications and quality, and extended deep processing.

Silicon calcium board workshop

In fact, in recent years, Sinoma has taken calcium silicate board as a green demonstration product and focus, fully activated the innovation chain, worked hard to derive the industrial chain, and achieved a series of results. Its subsidiary Sinoma Energy Conservation Central Research Institute regards calcium silicate board as the focus of the new material business sector, and tilts in terms of talents, resources, funds and other elements, providing strong technical support for the expansion and strengthening of the new material industry of the silicate version. Its Wuhan Building Materials Industry Design and Research Institute is the first scientific research institute in China to carry out the research and design of calcium silicate board, and has accumulated rich experience in the research and development and design of new calcium silicate board materials and their production equipment. it has a high voice in the domestic and foreign markets and the same industry, and is the most influential general contractor service provider for the design of calcium silicate board production line in China. The world's largest single-line calcium silicate board production line with an annual output of 10 million square meters is being developed by the institute, with the participation of energy-saving Wuhan.

As a management and operation platform, energy-saving Wuhan plays an important role in the energy-saving innovation chain of Sinoma. The company is committed to becoming a leader in the integration of the green new material calcium silicate board industry, a leader in industrial upgrading, a pioneer in market applications, and a defender of industry interests. Since its establishment, it has seized the "outlet" and used capital flexibly. Means, adopt a market operation model, give full play to the agglomeration effect, promote management integration in an orderly manner, and accelerate industry integration innovation.

Coating board workshop

Located at the front end of the industrial chain, Zhongyuan Yichang is the pioneer of the new material industry planning of Zhongyuan energy-saving calcium silicate board. This time, the company's third and fourth lines have been put into production to release large-scale production capacity, and the implementation of "single product, single line" and intelligent upgrading has made the calcium silicate board series product structure richer, more high-end positioning and more powerful functions, providing more perfect all-round solutions for different customer groups in the market.

What is even more gratifying is that around the goal of "carbon peak and carbon neutrality", Sinoma Energy Conservation actively implements the national "One Belt One Road" initiative and the development concept of "green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains". The layout and construction of calcium silicate board production lines, including Sinoma Yichang New Material Research and Development Base, Sichuan Calcium Silicate Board Production Base, Nigeria New Material, Egypt New Material Project, etc, it has formed a complete industrial chain with scientific and technological research and development, engineering design, equipment manufacturing and product production as the main line. Ma Mingliang requested that all relevant companies and projects should actively participate in the domestic international double cycle, increase efforts and accelerate the pace to promote the high-quality development of the calcium silicate board new material industry, and make greater contributions to the green development goals of China National Building Materials Group.