Posted on 28 Jul 2015
The environmental protection moves in China will impose bigger impact on raw
materials than steel production, Qian said, as most Chinese steel mills are
able to meet environmental standards nowadays.
With continuous huge investments on environmental protection in the past two
years, many small steel manufacturers that fail to meet the standards have been
ruled out amid steel price depression, according to senior official with
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
Steel, cement, electrolytic aluminum industry and others were used to be high
energy-consuming and highly polluting, but after years of efforts, ”those
sectors are now energy-saving and environmental friendly” and have turned into
“competitive industries”, Huang Libin, deputy director with MIIT, said at the
press conference on July 22.
Chi Jingdong, Vice President of CISA, feels the same way. “The steel
manufacturing process nowadays are growingly green and the improvement in
product quality also boosts energy saving and environmental protection” and
“most steel mills in China can meet present national standards’.
70-80 percent of energy used in steel production is now provided by secondary
energy generated in steelmaking process, and coal consumption per unit steel
has fell from 1.5 tons of standard coal one decade ago to now 500 kilograms,
said Chi.
