Both to carry the burden of fertilizer supply, but also to complete the "double control" target, but also to bear the pressure of falling product prices. Under heavy pressure, nitrogen fertilizer methanol industry transformation and upgrading road how to go? Recently, China Nitrogen Fertilizer Industry Association invited representatives of large domestic nitrogen fertilizer methanol enterprises to discuss this topic.

Cultivating core competencies

"We want to be the best ourselves and strive for the best return and the best result in the market competition." This is the opening statement of Tal Fuyuan, chairman of Linggu Chemical Group Co.

In the eyes of Tal Fuyuan, what is the best self? "On June 15, I visited Inner Mongolia Yuanxing Energy Co. Last year was a good year for the fertilizer industry, but the industry net profit margin was only 7.4%, while their company had a net profit margin of 30.27% last year, which is an example of high-quality development." Tal Fuyuan said that as a simple ammonia and urea company, Linggu's net profit margin in these ten years is less than 20%. Compared with enterprises like Yuanxing Energy, there is still much to be done in the high-quality development of nitrogen fertilizer and methanol enterprises, and the focus of future development should be to cultivate core competitiveness.

According to Tan Fuyuan, enterprises should be brave enough to face challenges and rely on innovation to solve various problems, while keeping the three bottom lines of safety, green development and moderate debt. Market competition is the most important consideration for the wisdom and ability of enterprises to allocate resources. To what extent enterprises can allocate resources, the market will return what kind of return. Enterprises should adhere to the goal, problem-oriented, to strive for the best results.

Strengthen the foundation of safety and environmental protection

As the national requirements for safety and environmental protection become stricter and stricter, the pressure for survival of Yunnan Shuifu Yuntianhua Co. "The company has invested close to 500 million yuan in safety and environmental protection in recent years. Safety and environmental protection is the lifeline, productivity and competitiveness, and the continuous investment in these years has made our safety and environmental protection foundation very solid." Liang Hong, Party Secretary and Executive Director of Shuifu Yuntianhua, said.

Setting a benchmark for the development of fixed-bed gasifier is the initial intention of Wang Zhihe, chairman of Hebei Dongguang Chemical Co. He said, "The company's 1.2 million tons/year urea project uses a fixed-bed gasifier. Although the development of fixed-bed gasifier is currently restricted to a certain extent by environmental protection policies, we are still able to hold on to this field because our environmental protection work is very much in place, and we will firmly develop the fixed-bed business in the future."

Optimizing and upgrading traditional industries

"Our exploration of the transformation path is more inclined to optimizing and upgrading traditional industries." Liang Hong said that Shuifu Yuntianhua has upgraded its urea products as a whole with a demand-oriented approach and fully switched to new fertilizers. But the traditional nitrogen fertilizer still has to be refined and done well, because guaranteeing food security is one of the four major positioning of Yuntianhua Group, and the group also proposes to be the national team to guarantee food security. And after the opening of the Sino-Lao railroad, the Group's location in Yunnan also has certain geographical advantages.

"Despite the current economic downward pressure, Mingquan Group still wants to position its business philosophy as 'optimizing fertilizers and strengthening chemicals'." Sun Honghai, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mingquan Group Co., Ltd. said that the enterprise should firmly grasp the main line of development, continuously refine and strengthen the basic fertilizer industry, and extend the industrial chain of high value-added products downstream.

The tightening of national energy policy has caused the traditional coal chemical industry to experience an unprecedented winter. Shaanhua Coal Chemical Group Co., Ltd. Party Secretary and Chairman Qu Zhancheng believes that, in the face of this situation, the traditional fertilizer industry must do a good job of industrial restructuring in the future, and take the road of integrated development of the product structure of the internal cycle, the complementary energy within the industrial chain, and the sustainable development of the enterprise trinity. As far as Shaanxihua is concerned, it should not only optimize the stock, promote the construction of intelligent factories, reduce consumption, increase efficiency and promote management with digital economy, and realize low-carbon green development, but also increase the quantity, and seize the opportunity to implement coal chemical, fine chemical and phosphorus chemical extension chain projects.

Explore inter-industry coupling synergy

In the face of the "double carbon" burden, for the traditional coal chemical industry and green new energy coupling development, some nitrogen fertilizer methanol enterprises have carried out a pilot test.

Gu Zhaohui, chief engineer of Henan Xinlianxin Chemical Industry Group Co., Ltd, said that in order to achieve carbon reduction at source and in the process, Xinlianxin has built 22 rooftop photovoltaic power stations in the past two years, and the photovoltaic project will generate a total of 8.49 million kilowatt hours of green electricity in 2022, helping to transform and upgrade the traditional chemical industry through the development of clean energy projects. The company has also built a set of electrolytic water hydrogen production plant by liquid reduction method, which produces green hydrogen and then synthetic ammonia by relying on the green electricity generated by photovoltaic, realizing the coupling of green new energy and traditional coal chemical industry.

Liu Jincheng, director of the technical committee of Hebei Yangcoal Zhengyuan Chemical Group, said that in order to make better integration of gray hydrogen (blue hydrogen) and green hydrogen in the process of energy saving and carbon reduction and green transformation in the future, the company has been following the green energy electrolytic hydrogen production technology in recent years and has done a lot of work in realizing the low-cost consumption of green hydrogen. At present, their solution idea for green hydrogen coupling is to cooperate with relevant scenic power generation and fast response electrolytic water flexible hydrogen production units, and try to use the load regulation space of the ammonia synthesis system of the company's large ammonia plant to directly and dynamically consume green hydrogen within 10% of the production capacity of the enterprise's plant in real time, so as to provide demonstration cases for the industry.

Insist on differentiated development

Insisting on differentiated development is the common choice of many nitrogen fertilizer and methanol enterprises for transformation and development, which includes both the differentiation of enterprises and the differentiation of industries.

Jinneng Holding Group Chemical Diversification Department Minister Hyper Shuxin said that the next development idea of the Group's coal chemical industry is to adhere to the differentiation strategy and adopt the strategy of encouraging a group, improving a group and launching a group according to the current situation of the enterprises. Provide support policies for excellent enterprises and encourage them to undertake industrial development tasks, adopt moderate support policies for enterprises with average quality, and strive to have a number of enterprises develop towards excellent enterprises; adopt exit and clearing strategies for enterprises with no development prospects and high risks.

"Create a shared supporting service platform to attract high-end product producers to settle in." This is the interpretation of general manager Li Xiaodong of China Coal Ordos Energy & Chemical Co. on the future direction of the company.

Li Xiaodong said that in order to enhance the development connotation, China Coal Tuk Green Low Carbon Industry Demonstration Park under the company is innovated in the development mode, and the core is to build a public platform and integrate all the resources on the platform to provide supporting services for the resident enterprises.

"The platform is open, and can provide low-cost steam, sewage treatment facilities, various chemical raw materials, as well as various supporting functional facilities such as logistics and railroad special lines, in order to introduce projects with technology and market to invest and set up business here, and take the development of the park as a key project of China Coal Group in the short and even medium and long term." Li Xiaodong stressed.

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