As 2020 draws to a close, the ongoing boom in slate construction in the domestic ceramics industry has cooled down, and many production areas and companies have gradually entered a period of kiln shutdown and maintenance. However, the Guangxi Tengxian production area is still in full swing. scene.
Recently, the "Ceramic Information" newspaper learned during a visit to Zhonghe Ceramics Industrial Park in Teng County, Guangxi that currently 7 new production lines of 5 ceramic companies within the jurisdiction of Teng County are under intense construction, with a total investment of 1.51 billion yuan. , after all are completed, the Tengxian production area will add 191,000 square meters of daily production capacity, and the annual new production capacity will reach 63 million square meters (based on 330 days).
Official data shows that as of October 2020, a total of 44 ceramics and ceramic supporting companies have signed contracts to settle in Tengxian Ceramic Production Area, 20 have been put into production, and a total of 45 sets of ceramic production lines and 12 sets of ceramic supporting production lines have been built. The total volume is 884,500 square meters, and the total annual ceramic tile output is approximately 300 million square meters.
In addition to the 7 production lines under construction this time, 10 ceramic production companies settled in Teng County, including Mona Lisa, Oceano, and Jianyi, will plan to build a total of 35 production lines in the future.
▲Aerial view of Teng County Zhonghe Ceramics Industrial Park
Oceano still has 12 lines to be built
The level of intelligent manufacturing continues to improve
In recent years, Teng County has always maintained an open and welcoming attitude towards the expansion of production capacity of existing enterprises. As long as the expansion of production capacity of enterprises adheres to green, intelligent and branding, and ensures economic benefits, social benefits, industrial taxation, etc. If certain improvements are made in aspects compared with the past, the governments of the producing areas will provide corresponding support.
In the view of Wu Junliang, Litai Brand Marketing Director, the Teng County production area in Guangxi is not only increasingly favored by first-tier brands in Guangdong, but the automation and intelligence of the production lines are also rising. Teng County is not only a hot spot for domestic first-tier enterprises to invest and start business, It is also a gathering place for the world’s top equipment and technology.
▲ Smart production line at the first base of Oshennoteng County
In particular, ceramic manufacturers in Tengxian County, represented by Mona Lisa and Oceano, have built production lines in recent years that not only adopt a streamlined full-coverage module configuration in appearance, but also have excellent performance in fast firing, preheating, cutting and cracking, etc. Optimized design is also adopted; energy consumption, brick moving, temperature difference, automaticScientific and specialized treatment has also been carried out in areas such as digitization of chemical and combustion systems and intelligent kiln management and control, fully realizing automatic computer control, realizing remote and efficient management of production lines and big data cloud technology, and transforming past qualitative descriptions and experience management into Smart manufacturing of data management and data production empowers industrial application scenarios. The level of automation, informatization and intelligence has reached the leading level in the industry.
▲Oshennoteng County First Base Intelligent Production Line
It is understood that the first base of Oceano Ceramics signed a contract to settle in Teng County on November 8, 2017. The base covers an area of 990 acres, with a total investment of 1.45 billion yuan, and plans to build 6 high-end high-end factories with a total annual output of over 50 million square meters. After the intelligent production line for wall and floor tiles is completed and put into operation, the annual output value will reach 2 billion yuan.
At present, three production lines have been built in the first base of Oshennoteng County. The fourth production line of the first base is being stepped up this time.
▲The 4th production line of the first base in Oshennoteng County under construction
Qu Bin, deputy general manager of Guangxi Tengxian Oceano Ceramics Co., Ltd., previously stated in an exchange with the "Ceramic Information" newspaper that in recent years, driven by the expansion of brands and channels, Oceano has adhered to the national "origin and sales" strategy. The supply chain layout always adheres to high requirements and standards in terms of product quality, greenness and intelligence of production lines. The company has one production line under construction at the first base in Oshennoteng County and two production lines to be built in 2021. They will cooperate with the best equipment manufacturers in the industry to promote the intelligent manufacturing of Oceanonoteng County Base to a higher level.
At the same time, on September 24 this year, Oceano and the Teng County Government formally signed a framework agreement on the investment in the ceramic production project of Teng County’s second base. Oceano’s second base will invest another 2.5 billion yuan and build another 10 This modern ceramic production line will also elevate the intelligent level of ceramic production in the Teng County production area to a whole new level.
Building a smart model factory, Mona Lisa
All 11 lines will be integrated into the big data center
As the first ceramic production enterprise in the Tengxian production area to use natural gas on a large scale, Mona Lisa’s Tengxian base has always been at the forefront of the industry in terms of clean production and intelligent manufacturing of the production line.
The Mona Lisa Teng County base has a total investment of 2 billion yuan and plans to build 11 intelligent production lines. Currently, all four production lines in the first phase and one section have been completed and put into operation.
▲Mona Lisa Teng County Base Intelligent Manufacturing Control Center
In terms of intelligent manufacturing, the base's intelligent big data center can fully display the operation and cost status of each process in real time online every minute and every second of the existing production line, becoming one of the model factories for intelligent manufacturing in China's building ceramics industry. one.
Monalisa Group Director Zhang Qikang introduced that Monalisa is fully aware of the importance of intelligent production, and the Tengxian base has also fully considered the green, digital, informatization, and environmental protection of the production line in equipment selection. Intelligent and environmentally friendly production lines adhere to the industry's highest level of leadership. Each production line is equipped with no more than 60 production personnel to create a Mona Lisa intelligent whole-factory demonstration workshop, completely subverting the production labor of ceramics. Intensive public awareness truly realizes the "business beauty" of Mona Lisa.
▲The actual scene of continuous ball milling at the Mona Lisa Teng County Base constructed by Henlitai
▲The actual scene of the intelligent complete line production of Mona Lisa in Teng County, Guangxi, built by the Litai brand
The three production lines currently under construction at the Mona Lisa Teng County base belong to the first and second phases. In addition, the four subsequent production lines in the second phase will be further improved in terms of intelligent systems, and the intelligent manufacturing big data center will also Introduce third-party institutions to systematically build the intelligent system of the entire base's production lines, and integrate all 11 production lines into the big data center to strengthen the intelligent manufacturing level of the big data center in Teng County Base.
▲The Mona Lisa Teng County Base Phase I and Section 2 project under construction
In 2020, 12 more ceramic accessories companies will be signed
Tengxian ceramic industry supporting facilities continue to improve
As the most dynamic production area with development potential in China, against the backdrop of industry-wide reshuffles that continue to intensify and front-line companies’ market concentration increasing, Guangxi’s Teng County has become a destination that attracts the most investment attention from domestic front-line companies. One of the production areas, the supporting facilities in the production area have been continuously improved in recent years.
In March 2019, 8 outstanding ceramic companies including Otao Technology, Yuansheng New Materials, and Mingdu CeramicsSupporting enterprises have settled in Teng County, laying a solid foundation for the improvement of the ceramic industry chain in Teng County.
On October 22, 2020, the "2020 Centralized Signing Ceremony for New Enterprises in the Ceramic Industry" in Teng County, Guangxi was grandly held in the conference room of the Teng County People's Government. This signing brings together 12 ceramic companies and ceramic supporting companies from Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang and Teng County. The contracted land area reaches 1,088 acres, and the total investment contract signed exceeds 2.7 billion yuan. The projects involved include rock slabs, photovoltaic The fields of power generation, glazed tiles, ceramic glazes, washed mud, packaging boxes, aerated concrete, kilns and raw material equipment manufacturing have greatly improved the comprehensive industrial supporting level of Teng County Ceramics.
▲Teng County's "2020 Centralized Signing Ceremony for New Enterprises in the Ceramic Industry"
Huang Dongming, Secretary of the Tengxian County Party Committee, emphasized in his speech at the signing ceremony that in the future, Tengxian County will continue to promote the upgrading of ceramic parks, enterprise technology upgrades, and industrial environmental protection upgrades, strictly manage the ceramic parks, and create a people-oriented, clean and tidy environment with birds singing and flowers fragrant. The ceramic park allows everyone to share the results of the development of Teng County's ceramic industry and form a strong industrial cohesion and cohesion.
Regarding the line construction strategy under the current market conditions, Wu Liangjing, chairman of Tengxian Gongbao Ceramics Co., Ltd., said that the future market must belong to companies with stable quality, embracing trends, and complete channels, especially for large-scale products. As it becomes an increasingly market trend, Gongbao Ceramics will rely on its strong channel advantages to seize opportunities and seek greater development.
▲The first production line project of Gongbao Ceramics under construction
Wu Liangjing said frankly that it took less than four months from the start of construction of the company's production line in early October this year to the scheduled ignition on January 27, 2021. The key to the high efficiency lies in the Teng County Party Committee and County Government's strict supervision of the company's operations. It has provided great support in terms of land approval and implementation of various procedures, and the government will provide quick and timely assistance to enterprises in difficulty.
Introducing a natural gas giant with an annual gas transmission capacity of 1.4 billion m³,
Guarantee stable gas supply and reduce costs for Tengxian Ceramics
On the afternoon of November 27, at the centralized signing ceremony for the 17th China-ASEAN Expo held in Nanning, Guangxi, Beijing Gas and the Teng County People's Government officially signed a contract.
▲Signing Ceremony
At present, the energy policy of Tengxian Ceramics Industrial Zone for enterprises is that the government encourages enterprises to use clean energy and strictly evaluates enterprise production in accordance with the latest national environmental protection standards. As long as the enterprise can meet the national green production standards, it can produce safely. For "coal The Tengxian County People's Government does not make a "one size fits all" policy and does not set a timetable.
"Beijing Gas still decided to sign a contract and settle in Teng County even though the Teng County People's Government did not require companies to use natural gas across the board. This highlights the group company's strong market awareness." General Manager of the Southwest Center of Beijing Gas Group Xu Xin introduced that Beijing Gas decided to settle in Teng County because of its superior local business environment and huge future market potential.
As the largest single urban gas supplier in the country, Beijing Gas Group ranks among the best in the country in terms of pipeline network scale, number of gas users, annual gas consumption, and annual sales revenue. It is also the only domestic company with a cumulative natural gas supply volume exceeding An enterprise with an annual gas supply of over 10 billion cubic meters and a daily gas supply of over 100 billion cubic meters.
▲Beijing Gas’ LNG emergency storage and distribution station project located in Zhonghe Ceramics Industrial Park in Teng County
For companies that actively require the use of natural gas in the Tengxian market, Xu Xin introduced that Beijing Gas will implement dual gas sources of pipeline natural gas and LNG to provide stable gas supply to the companies settled 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Beijing Gas has built The annual gas transmission capacity of pipeline natural gas can reach 1.4 billion m³, and the recent LNG 1000 m³ gas storage facilities can fully guarantee the stability of corporate gas sources.
At the same time, with the implementation of the special natural gas plan in Teng County, urban natural gas has begun to gradually develop. Beijing Gas Group also plans to invest in the construction of LNG emergency peak shaving storage and ship filling station projects in Wuzhou Lingang Economic Zone, Guangxi to further improve Natural gas guarantee capacity, improve the utilization rate of clean energy in the region, and promote the rapid, sustainable and green development of Teng County's social economy.
The planned total investment of the project is approximately RMB 2.6 billion, and the investment and construction will be carried out in three phases. The planned LNG loading and unloading capacity is 1 million tons per year, and it is planned to build two 6,000m³ LNG loading and unloading berths and five 3,000-ton LNG bunkering terminals. After the project is fully completed and put into operation, it is expected that the output value will reach 2 billion yuan, the tax revenue will be 120 million yuan, and it will provide more than 400 jobs. The signing and subsequent implementation of these projects will have a great impact on the future of Tengxian Ceramics Enterprises.The supply of natural gas provides a solid guarantee and will reduce the cost of gas consumption for ceramic enterprises.
More importantly, General Manager Xu Xin emphasized that in order to solve customers' worries, Beijing Gas will provide comprehensive and thoughtful services to cooperative customers, from various gas procedures to gas activation and gas safety production maintenance. It will provide a "one-stop" solution to promote the green and clean production of Tengxian ceramic enterprises.
(The article is reproduced from Ceramic Information)
