Multi measures to standardize the upgrading and upgrading of printing and dyeing industry

The Ministry of industry and Commerce issued new rules and measures to standardize the transformation and upgrading of printing and dyeing industry.

In July 14, 2017, the Ministry of industry and information issued a draft of "standard conditions for printing and dyeing industry (2017 Edition)", and proposed a number of measures to promote the restructuring and transformation and upgrading of the printing and dyeing industry. The new edition of the standard conditions will be completed at the end of July 2017, after which the official regulations will be introduced and implemented. The entry conditions for the printing and dyeing industry (revised edition of 2010) will be abolished at the same time. The specific contents include:

1) the layout of the enterprise: the location of the printing and dyeing enterprises should conform to the national industrial planning and industrial policy, and the scenic spots, natural reserves, drinking water protection zones and the main rivers are not allowed to build new printing and dyeing projects, and the projects that have been built need to be closed, relocated or transferred. The new printing and dyeing projects should not be built in areas with water shortage or poor water quality. The construction of new projects in the relatively abundant water source areas should be concentrated in the industrial park. The enterprises outside the park should be moved into the garden, and centralized heat supply and concentration of pollutants should be carried out.

2) technology and equipment, printing and dyeing enterprises should adopt advanced technology, energy saving and environmental protection equipment, the newly built or expanded and reconstructed production lines should reach or close to the international leading level, prohibit the use of state eliminated backward production technology and equipment, and disable the second-hand equipment that can not reach the energy saving and environmental protection.

3) quality management, the quality of the printing and dyeing enterprises should meet the standards of the state or industry, the qualified rate of the product is over 95%, and the specialized agencies or personnel should be set up to supervise the situation of energy, water intake and discharge. Support enterprises to use information management tools to improve management efficiency and level.

4) resource consumption: the energy consumption and water consumption of the printing and dyeing enterprises should be reached. For example, the energy consumption of cotton, hemp, chemical fiber and blended woven fabrics is not more than 30 kilograms, and the water intake is not more than 1.6 tons.

5) with regard to the comprehensive utilization of environmental protection and resources, printing and dyeing wastewater should handle or access centralized wastewater treatment facilities, on-line monitoring, discharge standard, and water reuse rate of more than 40%. Enterprises should regularly implement cleaner production audit, carry out energy audit and improve cleaner production level.

New regulations enhance environmental requirements, squeeze small and medium enterprises to survive

Compared with the standard conditions of the printing and dyeing industry in 2010, the new regulations further tightened the regulations on energy consumption and water intake, for example, the comprehensive energy consumption and water intake ceiling of cotton, hemp, chemical fiber and blended woven fabrics were reduced by 14.3% and 20% compared with the previous rules, and the energy consumption and water intake standards of other products such as yarn and knitted fabrics were also reduced by 8.3%~21.1%. The water reuse rate was raised from 35% to 40%.

At the same time, printing and dyeing industry as a high emission and high energy consumption industry has been tighter regulated. The new regulations further improve the environmental protection standards, and require enterprises to adopt advanced technology, energy saving and environmental protection equipment, standardize enterprise production and operation, and promote energy saving and emission reduction and cleaner production in printing and dyeing industries.

Some small and medium-sized enterprises, because of their small scale and low level of equipment automation, are difficult to meet the new regulations' requirements for environmental protection and energy consumption, and may be eliminated.

Local policies continue to overweight, printing and dyeing industry concentration is expected to improve.

In late June 2017, Hangzhou municipal government issued the implementation plan for the prevention and control of air pollution in Hangzhou in 2017, and proposed to promote the shutdown and merger and reorganization of the printing and dyeing industry in Xiaoshan District, and to reduce the printing and dyeing enterprises from more than 40 to 19 in 2021. Prior to the central environmental inspection team in December 2016 and April 2017 stationed in Guangdong, Fujian and other places for verification, environmental protection is not up to standard enterprises.

Suspend production and rectification, and will also be stationed in Zhejiang for environmental supervision in the future.

The printing and dyeing industry in China has the characteristics of "high regional concentration and low concentration of industry". The production capacity of printing and dyeing is mainly concentrated in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Fujian, Guangdong, Shandong and other provinces. In 2016, the total capacity of five provinces was 95.79%. The local government's environmental policy continues to be overweight, and the environmental inspection is becoming more stringent. It will also shrink the supply of industries and drive market share to the tap. In 2017, environmental verification in Guangdong, Fujian and other places led to the tension in the supply of local printing and dyeing and the increase of dyeing costs. The capacity of Zhejiang region was also expected to shrink after the policy continued to be added, which led to a steady increase in dyeing costs.

The printing and dyeing industry will continue to produce capacity, and the civil aviation shares of environmental protection standards are expected to benefit.

The printing and dyeing industry standard conditions (2017 Edition) will improve environmental protection and energy consumption standards and eliminate some backward production capacity. The annual processing scale of aviation and civilian stock printing and dyeing is about 1 billion 20 million meters, with a market share of 2%, ranking the top five of the industry. The company introduced advanced production equipment, the overall energy consumption, pollutant emissions, recycled water level and other indicators in the industry leading level, to meet the new industry standards. Limited by environmental indicators in Zhejiang, it is more difficult for companies to expand or merge. The growth of performance mainly comes from quality upgrading and price increase brought about by capacity. At present, the company's order is full, the implementation of the new regulations will further shrink the industry capacity, with the industry supply gradually shrinking, the future of dyeing fee will improve space, the airlines will continue to benefit as the industry leader.

Risk warning: the implementation of environmental protection policy is not enough, the cost of such as dye or coal prices rise sharply.