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Putuo District, Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province, since last year due to not meet the requirements of environmental protection rectification closed enterprises, the vast majority of chitin production enterprises. Not long ago, the author and from Zhoushan City Economic and Trade Commission was informed that not only is the Putuo, the city of chitin enterprises suffered environmental crisis.
New bright replacement plastic
Chitin in shrimp shells as raw materials, it is a very potential of natural biological resources, widely used in food, medicine, chemical industry. From an environmental point of view, growing in plastic to create a global "white pollution" the occasion of chitin as an ideal membrane material, but is expected to be a substitute for plastic. Experts had noted that the human society, "the 20th century was the century of plastics, the 21st century is the century of chitin."
Zhoushan shrimp shells and more advantageous conditions for the production of chitin. As early as 2001, the city has more than 40 manufacturers of chitin. "Ninth Five-Year" period, Zhoushan chitin production of glucosamine hydrochloride in the highest export value reached 50 million U.S. dollars over the year, as important marine biological products in Zhejiang Province.
The rise of chitin industry, but also to the fishermen, shrimp production enterprises from the sale of shrimp shells to benefit.
In recent years, the coastal parts of Zhejiang Province, the development of the industry's high hopes. Fish processing industry in Taizhou, chitin is considered and shrimp, surimi, fish meal products tied one of the four characteristics. Experts had suggested that the chitin industry training to become a new bright spot in the province's marine economy.
Chitin industry in trouble
So optimistic about prospects for the development for many years, why Zhoushan chitin industry in trouble almost overnight? The original, it has been latent with a big hidden: the production process of pollution.
Chitin roughing the pollution caused by production process very serious. It is reported that production of a ton of chitin, to produce hundreds of tons of waste water. In recent years, enterprises scattered around the Zhoushan of chitin, small scale, unable to separate pollution control, generally the direct discharge of untreated sewage.
Last year, the Zhejiang People's Congress in ecological construction and environmental law enforcement city inspection, development of Mao Industrial Area, Putuo District, pollution is included in the province one of the 35 rectification, the main pollution sources are the three chitin by local businesses result.
Leading high-end market. The Zhoushan City, chitin generally small-scale enterprises, production and marketing low-end products, delays in big business. Some environmentalists believe that before the closure of these companies actually earned the money to avoid the cost of environmental protection products.
Era of increased environmental awareness, environmental protection, storm frequency, the Zhoushan these margins are not high, technical reserves are not strong chitin companies bear the brunt of this.
Chitin Industrial Way Out
The industry believes that the chitin Zhoushan unconformity industry has to scale, not to engage in research and development to pursue high added-profit, can only become "the weak" position. In fact, chitin industry in Zhejiang Province are facing the industry is small, low grade of products, technology and equipment behind, market competition and industry support for weak disorder and other issues. And industry experts has long been about "cultivating new economic growth point, the development of industry planning, strengthen industry, we established the technical support system" recommendations, and build some of the industry R & D centers like chitin body, just as companies such as short-sighted historical reasons are not effective.
Experts believe that if business leaders can take the initiative to change awareness, integration of the power increase investment, Zhoushan chitin industry may not be a breakthrough in key areas. Zhejiang textile industry developed which combine the characteristics of the chitin fiber as the main development of functional textiles direction. These high-tech industry is encouraged by the government guiding the direction of the industry. After all, the only large-scale, high-end products in order to obtain greater profits, can guarantee the environmental costs of inputs.
In fact, chitin industry is facing an embarrassing situation in Zhoushan is a national phenomenon. With the domestic chitin the strengthening of industrial pollution, the industry will face a brand new pain. But behind the crisis at the same time and opportunity. From this perspective, Zhoushan chitin industry suffered earlier this environmental crisis, forcing the company may be able to find a new path.
