May 7, 2009 Shanxi News Shanxi Daily
Scientific Development has bucked the trend and turned danger into opportunity.
Report from our correspondent (reporter Liu Mingliang) when financial tsunami raid and come, when numerous traditional industries that rely on resources are hit hard, Shanxi Hongte Coal Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. rises against the trend, not only needle coke products in short supply, other products also produce and sell two flourishing. In the first quarter of this year, the volume of tar treated increased by 133% year-on-year, and the sales revenue increased by 12.2%.
On April 19, the reporter came to the country’s largest coal tar deep processing enterprise Shanxi Hongte Coal Chemical Industry Co., LTD., the front is a busy production scene: raw materials into the factory, factory products two streams of traffic, each production line at full load operation…… What is more exciting is that recently, Hongte needle coke is not only used in the production of UHPφ600mm×2400mm graphite electrode in Kaifeng Carbon Co., LTD., but also passed the steel making test of Wuyang Iron and Steel Company, which has the most stringent requirements in domestic steel making conditions, and The Italian Dexing Company of Tianjin No. 2 Steel Pipe Steel–making Plant. The results show that the shape of current electrode tip, oxidation resistance and single consumption of steel making are similar to those of foreign electrodes. At this point, the company’s coal series needle coke product quality has reached the world’s advanced level, will greatly enhance the market competitiveness of China’s carbon enterprises.
Since its establishment 7 years ago, Hongte company has continuously promoted the research and development of new products and technologies based on coal tar by independent innovation. At present, the company has formed an industrial chain to break the foreign monopoly, to fill the domestic blank. It has formed the largest coal tar processing unit of 450,000 tons/year in China. The only 50,000 tons/year coal series needle coke device in China; The world’s largest and the first set of 40,000 tons/year naphthalene anhydride plant in China.
It has the world’s advanced level, the first set of special asphalt processing equipment of 250,000 tons/year, new process carbon black device of 60,000 tons/year and 3×6000KW exhaust power generation device in China. The product processing depth is 3 to 5 years ahead of the domestic industry, and it has the ability to process primary, primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary products of coal chemical industry. More than 30 kinds of coal chemical products can be successfully extracted from coal tar in 5 series of 3 grades. With independent intellectual property rights of technology in the company’s overall share of 100%, “coal industrialization of needle coke production technology” won the national invention patent, the industry naphthalene vaporization, fixed bed gas phase catalytic oxidation of benzene anhydride production process, such as three inventions has been the state intellectual property office of the official acceptance, with 19 patents.
At present, Hongte coal needle coke project with annual output of 100,000 tons is under construction, and the development and reserve of asphalt based carbon fiber, activated carbon fiber, nuclear graphite, graphite cathode, ultra-high power electrode and other high-end carbon material production technologies are also stepping up. By the end of this year, the company will become the world’s largest coal-based needle coke manufacturer with an annual output of 150,000 tons. Next year, the company will build the largest anthraquinone project with an annual output of 4,000 tons and a carbon fiber test facility with an annual output of 1,000 tons.