Panzhihua City tries its best to build a world-class vanadium and titanium industrial cluster.

Published: Sep 6, 2021 11:37

A few days ago, the author learned from the Bureau of economy and Information Technology of the Eastern District of Panzhihua City, Sichuan Province, that the Eastern District of Panzhihua City, focusing on promoting the joint development of the "three circles", strives to build a modern industrial system of "411", make good use of Panxi world-class vanadium and titanium resources, and make every effort to create a world-class vanadium and titanium industrial cluster, and accelerate the high-quality development of modern industrial agglomeration in the Eastern District.

According to Peng Chengfu, deputy director of the Economic and Information Technology Bureau of the Eastern District, "4" in the modern industrial system, namely, washing mineral processing industry, iron and steel and extended processing industry, titanium deep processing industry, smelting auxiliary refractory industry; "3" is powder metallurgy industry, vanadium industry, green building materials industry; "1" is clean energy, graphite, advanced magnetic materials and other emerging industries. This year, the region's planned industrial output value will exceed 85 billion yuan, an increase of 8% over the same period last year, of which the vanadium and titanium industry is the top priority.

Peng Chengfu pointed out that in the future, Panzhihua East District will, on the basis of improving the downstream industry chain of vanadium and titanium, continue to increase efforts to attract investment in lithium power new energy and new materials industries, and accelerate the development of lithium power new energy and new materials industries.

On the road of speeding up the development of vanadium and titanium industry, the eastern district of Panzhihua City vigorously implements the cluster investment breakthrough project, pays close attention to key areas and key enterprises, and carries out investment promotion of "building chain, replenishing chain, extending chain and strong chain". We will speed up the improvement of the "Map" of the Vanadium and Titanium Industry chain in the East District. Relying on the core enterprises such as Panzhihua Iron and Steel Company and the advantages of vanadium and titanium resources, it is clear that the East High-tech Industrial Park focuses on the development of vanadium and titanium leading industries. Project packaging and professional investment are carried out around the comprehensive utilization of vanadium and titanium resources, new vanadium and titanium materials, advanced machinery manufacturing, powder metallurgy and other fields. It has successively introduced, landed and cultivated Hongyu new material castings and intelligent manufacturing, Ruida high-end vanadium-titanium flux-cored wire, vanadium-nitrogen alloy expansion and transformation of Panzhihua Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., and a number of enterprises and projects with high scientific and technological content and leading role.

Panzhihua East District will vigorously promote "machine replacement" and "system replacement", speed up the cultivation of "famous enterprises" and "famous brands", and achieve the joint improvement of "quantity" and "quality". We will implement major projects to increase efficiency, speed up the construction of the Panbao Titanium Industrial Park project, and vigorously promote the completion and commissioning of the 2000 tons titanium ingot project of the Aviation Titanium New Materials Company and the titanium alloy production line project of the Prius Company. The 123000-ton precision titanium / steel sheet cold rolling production line project of Gangcheng Group, the Hongtai annual titanium pipe project with an annual output of 2500 tons is expected to be completed by the end of December this year, and the production capacity of the Huien medical titanium consumables project has been released.

Peng Chengfu said that the Eastern District of Panzhihua will also increase support for scientific and technological innovation and actively carry out scientific and technological innovation leading projects by means of "going out" and "bringing in". Form an industry-university-research cooperation alliance with more than 50 scientific research institutes across the country, implement industry-university-research projects in the field of vanadium and titanium by setting up special cooperation funds for schools and localities, and building Panzhihua branch centers for engineering technology; promote the introduction of high-level talents, focus on attracting and training high-end talents in the vanadium and titanium industry, achieve regular exchange of talents, and invite foreign vanadium and titanium experts to Panzhihua regularly to participate in the technical research of the project.

At the same time, Panzhihua East District has further strengthened the construction of "green channels" for major projects and key enterprises and standardized coordinated services, improved service efficiency, and made great efforts to create an investment environment that is pro-business, safe and rich. We will continue to strengthen the guarantee of factors of production, make and issue the measures for supporting the introduction of Vanadium and Titanium Deep processing Industry Enterprises (projects) (interim), establish a "red list" system, and put more than 20 vanadium and titanium production enterprises, including Panzhihua Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., into the list of key support enterprises. formulate assistance measures; actively implement preferential tax policies such as direct power purchase, preferential railway freight, preferential iron ore resource tax, and preferential income tax for vanadium and titanium enterprises to reduce the burden on enterprises. In recent years, the Eastern District has accumulated more than 300 million yuan of funds to support the development of vanadium and titanium industry at the national and Sichuan provincial level.

With the combination of strong and strong, the lithium battery anode material industry breaks the ice and sets sail. Peng Chengfu said that with the carbon peak, carbon neutralization goal put forward, the new energy battery industry has expanded rapidly. In order to further realize the industrial transformation, in the first half of the year, Sichuan Mulun New material Technology Co., Ltd., a local enterprise in the eastern district of Panzhihua City, and Jiangxi Zhonghe New carbon material Technology Co., Ltd. signed a new energy project cooperation agreement. The two companies have adopted a simulated corporate shareholding system to transform eight existing graphitization furnaces of Mulun Technology to have an annual output of 7000 tons of negative electrode materials, and are required to be put into production this year. On the basis of the first phase of production, we will begin to build the second phase of the negative material production line, and strive to start the second phase of the project within this year, which will be put into production next year, so that the East District will have an annual production scale of 30000 tons of lithium battery anode materials and extend the relevant industrial chain. to achieve the ice-breaking start of the new energy industry in the East.

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