Sanitation machinery: Chaoyang industry to be sprayed

In recent years, a large-scale urbanization movement has opened the curtain in China.

According to the Urban Blue Book released by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, as of 2009, the urbanization rate in China was 46.6%, the urban population was 620 million, and the scale of urbanization ranked first in the world. In the next five years, China’s urbanization level will increase by another 4 percentage points, and the urban population is expected to reach 700 million people, surpassing the rural population for the first time.

With the acceleration of urbanization, the problem of garbage disposal in cities has also become the focus of attention. According to the prediction of the State Environmental Protection Administration, the annual output of urban waste in China will be 152 million tons in 2010, and will reach 210 million tons in 2015 and 2020. This will undoubtedly provide a good business opportunity for companies engaged in R&D and manufacturing of urban sanitation machinery.

After 15 years of hard work, Zoomlion (000157) Sanitation Machinery Co., Ltd., born out of the fifth research room of Changsha Construction Machinery Institute, has exceeded 2 billion yuan in sales in 2010. Its annual production capacity has exceeded 5000 sets, making it the largest in China. Environmental sanitation machinery research and development and production base, and won the "China sanitation machinery market customer satisfaction first brand" title.

Compared with Zoomlion’s prestigious concrete and lifting machinery, Sanitation Machinery seems to be only a “little brother”. However, this "little brother" is very likely to grow into one of the pillars of the China United.

"As China's urbanization process speeds up, there will be huge market space for urban garbage removal, disposal equipment, and sewage treatment equipment." Zhan Chunxin, chairman of the board of directors at Zoomlion's 2010 annual general meeting of shareholders, stated that.

It is reported that this year Zoomlion Sanitation Machinery Co., Ltd. is expected to achieve 100% growth.

Huge Business Opportunity Under "Rubbage Fortress"

Zoomlion Environmental Sanitation Machinery Co., Ltd. is a division of Zoomlion that specializes in the research, development, manufacturing and marketing of environmental protection equipment. Currently, it manufactures cleaning machines, washing vehicles, cleaning machines, municipal maintenance equipment, snow removal machinery, and garbage collection and transportation. Nine types of nearly 100 varieties of environmental sanitation machinery products and systems, such as equipment, garbage compression station equipment, landfill equipment, and kitchen garbage collection and transportation and recycling systems, are applicable to urban and rural areas, high-grade highways, Sanitation operations at companies, airports, mines, docks, and construction sites.

From the initial annual production of 20 sets to the current annual production capacity of 10,000 sets, the explosive growth of Zoomlion Sanitation Machinery Co., Ltd. is closely related to the acceleration of urbanization in China in recent years.

According to statistics, from 1996 to 2005, the number of newly added urban and rural population in China exceeds 20 million; from 2006 to 2009, the number of newly added urban and rural population is about 15 million. By the end of 2009, the total urban population in China was twice the total population of the United States, which was 1/4 higher than the total population of the EU-27.

Although the rate of urbanization has risen rapidly, China’s urbanization has been characterized by typical incomplete urbanization, and urbanization has been severely inconsistent with the speed and quality. An important aspect of this inconsistency is the low quality of the city. "There are a lot of problems.

“The issue of the rubbish siege has been proposed long ago, but it has not been effectively solved. Many cities have taken detours on the issue of garbage disposal. At that time, they simply piled up and landfilled, laying a hidden danger for future development. A giant 'bomb' is lurking underground in the city. Therefore, if you do not solve this problem for large and medium-sized cities that are in rapid development, it will make the further development of the city difficult.” pointed out by Shen Jianshan, a research fellow at the Energy Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. .

Statistics show that out of the 668 large and medium-sized cities outside the county, 2/3 of the cities in China are surrounded by garbage, and 1/4 of them have no landfill sites. The accumulated land occupation of urban landfills in China exceeds 500 million square meters, and the economic loss exceeds 30 billion yuan each year.

"Beside the ever-changing changes in the city, the maintenance of the urban environment has long been owed to the account. Many urban mechanized sweeping rates are still relatively low and cannot keep up with the rapid development of the city." General Manager, Senior Engineer, Zoomlion Sanitation Machinery Co., Ltd. In an interview with a reporter from the China Economic Times, Fang Guohao stated that garbage is called “misplaced resources.” The value of rubbish depends to a large extent on the extent of waste sorting. However, in many places, classifications are not done well. They should not be buried and should not be burned.

“Using waste oil as an example, to recover the leftovers from restaurants, we can extract the oil through decomposition, remove impurities, and convert the available biogas. If this is done, not only can the oil flow be prevented. Back to the table, you can also achieve the utilization of waste resources." Fang Guohao said.

Due to the rapid development of urbanization in recent years and the increase of municipal solid waste, the State Council this year issued the “Opinions on Further Strengthening the Municipal Solid Waste Disposal Work”, which stipulates that by 2015, the harmless treatment rate of urban domestic garbage will reach more than 80%. The municipal waste, provincial capital cities, and city planning cities are all harmless. 50% of the district-level cities initially implemented the classification and collection and treatment of food waste. The proportion of utilization of municipal solid waste resources has reached 30%, and municipalities directly under the Central Government, provincial capital cities and cities with separate plans have reached 50%. By 2030, the city's municipal solid waste will basically be harmlessly treated, and domestic garbage will be collected and disposed of in a comprehensive manner. The municipal solid waste treatment facilities and services extend to small towns and villages, and urban and rural household waste disposal approaches the average level of developed countries.

The improvement of urban environmental awareness has provided a good opportunity for the development of the environmental sanitation machinery manufacturing industry. According to the National Development and Reform Commission’s plan, during the 12th Five-Year Plan period, the annual growth rate of China's environmental protection industry will reach 15%, and it is expected that the annual growth rate of garbage disposal equipment will reach 20%-30%.

“The sanitation machinery is hailed as a sunrise industry with huge potential for development. There is ample room for market demand. It can be said that Zhonglian Sanitation Machinery Company has only just begun. We will achieve greater development in the future.” Fang Guohao said.

Independent research and development to guide the market trend

In recent years, the three major events of the Beijing Olympic Games, the Shanghai World Expo, and the Guangzhou Asian Games have been successively held, which has greatly enhanced the pride of the Chinese people and opened the window of the world to understand China. In these three major national events, Zoomlion is a major supplier of urban sanitation equipment.

“Our cleansing vehicle was specially developed during the service of the Beijing Olympics. The Olympic Organizing Committee requested that there be no paper on the road, and solved the problem that the original sweeper swept through the wind and dust.” Fang Guohao believes that participation in the three The grand event increased the level of technological development and strengthened the awareness of its first brand of sanitation machinery.

According to report, Zoomlion’s multi-purpose cleaning vehicle developed for independent service of Beijing Olympics has filled gaps at home and abroad and has full intellectual property rights. It has been awarded “City Curb and Curb Cleaning Truck” and “Cleaning Vehicle Collision Avoidance Spray”. There are six national patents, such as rods, and "wash vehicle anti-splash devices." This type of road washing vehicle adopts high-pressure and low-flow methods for cleaning. It has the characteristics of strong decontamination and efficient water saving. The cleaning speed can reach 15 kilometers per hour.

At present, Zoomlion's environmental sanitation machinery business scope mainly involves cleaning and collecting equipment for domestic garbage. Its sweeping and high-pressure cleaning equipment has the largest market share, accounting for approximately 60% of the market share. Its transfer equipment (garbage compactor) market share ranks first in the country.

“As the environmental awareness of the public has been strengthened, the requirements for the level of urban environmental management have also become higher and higher. It also requires us to come up with advanced equipment and meet the requirements of the market.” In Fang Guohao’s view, Zhonglian Sanitation Machinery Co., Ltd. The average sales growth rate is about 40% or more, benefiting from the opportunities brought by urbanization and the accumulation of Sinotrans's research and development in environmental sanitation machinery technology.

As a company with the background of national research institutes, Zoomlion Sanitation Machinery Co., Ltd. has created the most authoritative expert-level R&D team in the industry through the precipitation and accumulation of scientific research technology in the past 40 years. The forefront of the industry is known as the "expert of environmental sanitation machinery manufacturing." In recent years, Zhonglian Sanitation Machinery Co., Ltd. has launched new products or improved products every year. The products can meet the market demand and guide the market. This has also made the company's position in the industry increasingly prominent, and its market share has increased year by year.

In order to meet the demand for building a low-carbon city, Zoomlion took the lead in research and development of urban energy-saving sanitation equipment powered by new energy sources. The ZLJ5071TSL Lithium Battery Powered Road Sweeper, China’s first scientific research and development system, can save 60 liters of diesel a day; that means a car can reduce CO2 emissions by 43.2 kilograms per day. In addition, the use of pure electric chassis and electric drive fan and hydraulic pump, with a large load capacity, low noise, no emissions pollution and other advantages. While the noise of traditional municipal sanitation vehicles was more than 90 decibels during operation, the use of electric-powered vehicles in new energy municipal sanitation vehicles was very quiet. Below 60 decibels, there was almost no noise.

In order to solve the increasingly serious ecological and food safety problems caused by restaurant-kitchen garbage, Zoomlion Sanitation Machinery Co., Ltd. set up a special "food waste disposal project team" to invest a large amount of research and development funds and technical personnel, with Tsinghua University and Central South University. , Hunan University and other institutions and research institutes cooperated to develop a system for the harmless, reduced, resource, and energy-based processing of restaurant-kitchen garbage with independent intellectual property rights. This technology can convert food waste into high value-added end products such as "biogas and biogas power generation," "organic compound fertilizer," and "industrial grease." At the same time, the processing system is also equipped with an advanced sewage treatment system, an exhaust gas treatment system, and an automatic control system, forming a set of advanced kitchen waste processing system with advanced technology.

Change to a solution provider

In the interview, Fang Haoguo has been emphasizing to reporters: “The sanitation machinery company is not only a business unit of Zoomlion, but it will be the prototype of the entire environmental industry of Zoomlion.”

Recently, with the approval of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, headed by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Zoomlion and the National Mayor Institute for Research and Development, the only institute in the world that engages in urban public equipment technology consulting, development and research - "Midtown City Public Equipment Technology The Institute "is officially incorporated in Beijing.

From the single road cleaning to the current subdivision of road cleaning, garbage collection and transshipment, and other concepts, the concept of “urban public equipment” is proposed, which shows that urban environmental issues are getting more and more attention.

The so-called “urban public equipment” refers to all types of equipment that provide normal services for the city, such as maintaining the normal operation of the city, providing city functions and services, and responding to all kinds of sudden events. It will be integrated with urban infrastructure to provide urban residents with Maximum service.

Zeng Shaohua, director of the Institute of Standards Quota of the Ministry of Construction, pointed out at the Fourth “China City Development Mayor’s Summit” that while China’s urban construction has made great achievements, some issues should be highly valued, such as the security situation in urban construction. More severe, including construction safety, quality and safety of large-scale public buildings, infrastructure operation safety and possible urban disasters, as well as appropriate urban emergency management.

Participating experts also believe that at present, China’s urban public equipment industry can basically meet China’s demand for urban public equipment. However, due to the late start of China’s urban public equipment, our government’s functional departments lack the experience of urban public equipment operation and management, and are deploying urban public facilities. There are serious shortcomings in equipping and systematically operating urban public equipment.

The "China City Urban Public Equipment and Technology Research Institute" established this time provides mainly applicable, economical, scientific and forward-looking urban public equipment system for urban construction and management, and promotes the comprehensive development of urban public equipment technology in China. development of. Using systematic and comparative concepts to assist city managers in clarifying urban construction ideas, assisting in solving urban individualized needs, improving the imbalance between economic development and urban management, and alleviating the increasing urban ecological and environmental pressures in the process of urbanization. The ability of cities to respond to unexpected events creates the basic conditions for building a green, ecological, safe and civilized city.

“As the environment is increasingly valued and environmental protection standards have been improved, Zoomlion Sanitation Machinery Company has started its development from a pure equipment supplier to a device integrator and an investment operator. Future Sanitation Machinery Company is not limited to providing It is a stand-alone machine, but it provides a set of urban public facilities and systems to solve urban environmental problems."

Fang Guohao told reporters that in the future, China United Environmental Sanitation Machinery will also focus on the formulation of urban environmental standards. For example, in a city with a population of 1 million, the rate of mechanical cleaning should be reached, and the rate of harmless treatment of domestic garbage should be reached. Through the formulation of these standards, the awareness of urban operators can be improved and the quality of the city can be improved.