At the construction site of Yidong Group's coal gangue comprehensive recycling project in Ordos' Juungar Economic Development Zone, thousands of employees are working hard to ensure that the project, with a total investment of 230 million yuan ($32.04 million), progresses on schedule.
According to Li Xiaolong, vice general manager of Yidong High-tech Materials Co, a 20,000-square-meter raw material storage shed will be delivered for production by the end of August, and all monolithic projects and auxiliary facilities, including the raw material shed, control room, grinding workshop, and factory roads, will be completed by the end of September. By the end of October, single-machine trial production will be initiated, and by November, the entire line will enter trial operation.
The construction site of the coal gangue comprehensive recycling project bustles with activity. [Photo by Wang Liman/WeChat account of Nuan News]
As the country's first specialized and standardized coal-based kaolin production line, the project is centered on the green mission of "turning waste into treasure". After production begins, it will process 1 million metric tons of coal gangue annually and produce 1 million tons of standardized kaolin raw materials.
The coal gangue comprehensive recycling project advances rapidly, with plans to start production within the year. [Photo by Wang Liman/WeChat account of Nuan News]
The project has already planned ahead for the market. Within the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, raw materials will be supplied to Hohhot's Qingshuihe county and the Juungar Industrial Park. Outside the autonomous region, products such as industrial and building ceramics will be sold to places such as Chaozhou, Handan, and Henan province.
Through project introduction, industry cultivation, and platform construction, Juungar Banner has turned its "environmental burden" into an "industrial treasure". It has established 24 key projects in inorganic non-metallic materials and launched 12 new material products, with its "industry, academia, and research" integrated system becoming increasingly mature.
