Environmental Protection "Golden Hoop" In Printing And Dyeing Industry Is Facing Severe Test.

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The key link of improving the added value of textiles in the industrial chain is not only a high technology and high added value industry, but also a key industry of energy conservation and emission reduction and environmental protection in the textile industry.

Without printing and dyeing, textile and garment will have no color and some functional effects. Fashion is impossible.

As one of the most important industries in the textile industry this year, it encountered the most severe test in history.

In March of this year,

The Ministry of protection sent a letter to 58 units to solicit opinions on the feasible technical guide for pollution prevention and control in textile dyeing and finishing industry.

The guide covers nearly 3000 textile dyeing and finishing enterprises in China. The core of the guide is to change the current situation of lack of technical support in environmental management, and establish a technical management system that matches the environmental protection situation and various links of environmental management in the current and future period, so that enterprises and environmental protection departments can conveniently and quickly understand the technical status, scope of application, effect, environment and economic benefits of pollution prevention from open channels, and correctly select and use advanced and efficient technology or equipment.

Since April 1st, the standard of sewage charges has been more than doubled in Zhejiang province.

The standard of sewage charges for five types of heavy metals in water pollutants and air pollutants is adjusted to 1.8 yuan from the equivalent of 0.7 yuan and 0.6 yuan respectively.

In addition to all the factors except five kinds of heavy metals, the standard of sewage charges is adjusted from 1.4 yuan to 0.7 yuan per pollutant equivalent.

This will undoubtedly bring great impact to printing and dyeing enterprises. The price of raw materials such as dyestuffs and other raw materials will increase, labor is expensive and labor is difficult. More and more stringent environmental requirements will make printing and dyeing enterprises feel pressure.

In October 19, 2012, the Ministry of environmental protection and the General Administration of quality supervision and Quarantine jointly issued the "water pollutants emission standard for textile dyeing and finishing industry" (GB4287-2012). It clearly stipulates that from January 1, 2013, the COD concentration of nanofiltration effluent from printing and dyeing enterprises will carry out the standard of 200mg/L, and the concentration of COD in the effluent of the straight line will be carried out by the standard of 100mg/L, and the standard limit will be further increased to 80mg/L from January 1, 2015.

But the reality is that many places can not be implemented at all. "There is only one way to meet the standards mechanically, and to close the printing and dyeing enterprises."

A printing and dyeing enterprise official said, "for a decades of development industry, this is obviously not feasible.

Take practitioners as an example, only about 200000 people in Shaoxing alone are engaged in printing and dyeing industry. Shutting down enterprises will seriously affect social stability.

In July 18th, the Wujiang district government of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province issued the circular on stopping production of antimony related enterprises in the whole region.

The notice said that due to the recent fluctuations in the water quality of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang section, some of the indicators were abnormal, so as to ensure the safety of downstream drinking water, therefore, from now on, the implementation of temporary discontinued measures for printing and dyeing enterprises in the region.

At the same time, Jiangsu provincial environmental protection department, Suzhou Environmental Protection Bureau and Wujiang District Environmental Protection Bureau inspectors will be inspected by house. Once discovered, enterprises that have been allowed to manufacture themselves will be pferred to public security organs according to law, and they will be accountable to the administrative heads of the districts.

Although printing and dyeing enterprises in Wujiang, Jiangsu have resumed work, the impact on printing and dyeing industry is very serious.

Chen Zhihua, President of the China printing and dyeing industry association, once suggested: "we can not push all the pressure to the printing and dyeing link, just like a glass of pure water, you add sugar to it, and then ask for the removal of sugar in the later stages. This will not only increase the difficulty, but also cause serious waste of resources.

The entire textile industry must be controlled from the source, raw materials supply enterprises upstream and downstream of printing and dyeing, and sugar without water supply will not result in the removal of sugar from water by printing and dyeing enterprises.

In early December, at the annual meeting of printing and dyeing management held in Guangdong, the industry experts predicted that the emission standard of industrial air pollutants in textile printing and dyeing industry is expected to be introduced soon.

This puts forward higher requirements for textile printing and dyeing industry.

"The price of raw materials such as dyestuffs jumped this year, causing the net profit margins of printing and dyeing enterprises to be eroded.

But it's not terrible. What's terrible is all kinds of environmental protection now.

And the standards emerge in an endless stream and become more and more stringent. For example, in early 2013, the State stipulated that the indirect emission value of COD concentration of wastewater should be reduced to 200mg/L, and the current requirement is that aniline and other 3 emissions shall not be discharged.

Now some printing and dyeing enterprises have been pushed to the brink of survival.

A number of enterprises responsible person said, "although printing and dyeing enterprises can still maintain profitability, the introduction of some national standards will inevitably lead to serious problems in the whole industry without considering the actual situation."