Part of Qilu pharmaceutical plant under pressure of environmental protection has been shut down

"More than half of the production lines in the workshop are empty now, only 20% - 30% are still in use, and the rest of the staff are trained in the factory." On November 29, a workshop worker of Qilu Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd (hereinafter referred to as "Qilu pharmaceutical") located in Linyi County, Dezhou City told China business news that although it was at sunset, the plant was still empty and very cold In response, a person in charge of Qilu Antai (Linyi) Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd (hereinafter referred to as "the person in charge of Linyi plant") who did not want to be named said in an interview that at present, except for a few aseptic workshops that are undergoing lactose verification, the rest of API workshops involving VOC emissions have been shut down
The production suspension came from the notice on peak shifting production in heating season 2017-2018 (hereinafter referred to as the notice) jointly issued by the Ministry of industry and information technology, the health and Family Planning Commission, the Ministry of environmental protection and the food and drug administration Except for Linyi County, all API enterprises in Beijing Tianjin Hebei "2 + 26" cities involving VOC emissions will be in heating season (November 15, 2017-2018 March 15, 2005) In addition to the pressure of Qilu Antai (Linyi) pharmaceutical to stop production due to its API, Qilu pharmaceutical has been criticized for its environmental protection problems in recent years In August this year, the Inner Mongolia plant area was required to rectify by Hohhot Environmental Protection Bureau because of the problem of disturbing residents by peculiar smell When visiting the Dongjia town plant area which exploded in November last year, the reporter found that the surrounding residents still suspected that Qilu pharmaceutical had air and water pollution problems In this regard, the head of Linyi plant told reporters that Qilu pharmaceutical has always attached great importance to the investment in environmental protection Taking Linyi plant area as an example, 15% of the total investment of 1.2 billion yuan is invested in the construction of environmental protection facilities, and Dongjia town plant area has already achieved ultra-low emissions Some factories shut down "if shut down for 4 months, the impact on profits and sales is basically one third, what do you think it means for the enterprise? Compared with the enterprises in the south, the gap will be very large " Linyi plant director told reporters On the evening of November 29, the reporter came to Linyi factory of Qilu pharmaceutical, which was empty Factory workers told reporters, "now more than half of the production lines in the factory are empty, only 20% - 30% are still in production, and the factory is organizing the rest of the staff for training." The relevant person in charge told reporters that at present, except for the two aseptic workshops in which no VOC emissions are involved and lactose is being verified, the other six workshops have all been shut down Linyi plant of Qilu Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd consists of two secondary subsidiaries, Qilu Antai (Linyi) Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd and Qilu Shenghua Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd It is one of the major investment projects in the pharmaceutical industry of Dezhou City The main products of both companies are APIs According to the person in charge of Linyi plant, Linyi plant achieved nearly 1.4 billion yuan of revenue last year, including 790 million yuan of revenue from APIs and 600 million yuan of revenue from veterinary drugs "During the shutdown period, we also need to bear the cost of equipment and personnel arrangement such as warehouse, quality control, R & D, maintenance, etc In addition, the activated sludge that helps sewage treatment also needs continuous maintenance " Person in charge of Linyi plant area However, he said that at present, the enterprise has reported to the provincial government for approval to resume production "The plant area in Jinan has been approved, but it needs a process I believe we will approve it soon." Qilu andI (Linyi) is located in the chemical industry park of Linyi County, Dezhou City Linyi County is also an important town of chemical enterprises in Dezhou City About 5 kilometers away from the county seat is Linyi County's chemical industry park, covering an area of 11 square kilometers, focusing on the development of petrochemical and biomedical industries In addition to Qilu pharmaceutical, the settled enterprises also include a number of Listed Companies in the chemical industry, such as sotong development, xinlitai pharmaceutical, etc Surrounded by chemical enterprises, the pollution problem has deeply troubled the residents "Last winter, the air pollution was so bad that we couldn't even see the road Later, the company had to stop us for fear of safety accidents." Local taxi drivers in Linyi told China business daily, "after the production restriction policy came out, I feel the air condition this year is significantly better than last year." With the measures of restricting production and stopping production of API in the notice, several securities companies also expect API prices to rise According to the Research Report of Guangfa Securities, environmental protection has promoted the supply side reform of the industry, and the competition pattern has been optimized in some areas With the stricter environmental protection, especially the stricter environmental supervision in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, the leading API companies in Hebei have been affected to varying degrees The contraction of the supply side has led to the recovery of some API prices The reporter inquired the price information and found that the prices of penicillin industrial salt, erythromycin thiocyanate, 6-APA and other APIs and intermediates rose by different ranges in November Although environmental protection pressure has not been listed, Qilu pharmaceutical, founded in 1992, has been among the top 50 pharmaceutical industry According to Qilu pharmaceutical, in 2015, the group's sales revenue reached 12.83 billion yuan In 2016, the group's main business ranked 12th among the pharmaceutical industry enterprises It is the first private enterprise in Jinan that has exceeded 10 billion yuan, and has become the "top 100 tax paying enterprises in Shandong Province" for three consecutive years However, as a large producer of APIs, Qilu pharmaceutical has been plagued by environmental problems recently In August this year, Qilu pharmaceutical Inner Mongolia plant was required to rectify by Hohhot Environmental Protection Bureau due to the problem of nuisance of peculiar smell In September, some people reported to the central environmental protection supervision group that Qilu pharmaceutical's factory in Dongjia Town, Jinan city had peculiar smell, and the production enterprises in Pingyin County and Linyi County, Jinan city had serious pollution According to the verification of the government, Qilu pharmaceutical's factory in Linyi had a vitamin a salt If the production workshop is not closed tightly, rectification shall be ordered Reporter in Linyi County near the plant did not hear the pungent smell, but walking in the plant, although in a state of production, the workshop still faintly floating around the smell of rotten eggs "Because of organic lysozyme and other substances, there must be smell in the workshop, but it can't be smelled basically when wearing the protective mask." Workshop workers told reporters "This report has reported almost all of our factories We don't think it's so simple for residents to report It may be premeditated." According to the relevant person in charge of Linyi plant area, the involved a & V salt workshop is located in the northwest of the plant area, and there is only one workshop The problems reported by the masses have been rectified since last year The head of Linyi plant told reporters that Qilu pharmaceutical has always attached great importance to investment in environmental protection Taking Linyi plant area as an example, 15% of the total investment of 1.2 billion yuan is invested in the construction of environmental protection facilities, of which the investment cost of sewage treatment phase I and phase II adds up to nearly 70 million yuan, and the annual operation and maintenance cost of environmental protection facilities also reaches about 5 million yuan In October last year, an explosion occurred in the factory area of Dongjia Town, Jinan, Qilu Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd and Licheng No.2 Middle School, a wall away from the factory, were once exposed by the media that students need to wear masks to attend classes The school complained about Qilu pharmaceutical hundreds of times a year In addition to the high school with a population of nearly 10000, there is also a small wenxingyuan, which accommodates nearly 3000 households, a wall away from the factory "Over the years, schools and factories have been expanding, and the distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer, resulting in the current situation of a wall gap." Linyi plant director explained to the reporter, and the dormitory building and the community nearby belong to illegal buildings built on industrial land, which will be ordered to be demolished soon "After the explosion at the end of last year, the workshops involved were closed for more than half a year The enterprises also asked teachers and parents to supervise them from time to time." A parent in No 2 middle school of Licheng told reporters that the smell was much smaller after the rectification, but there would still be peculiar smell in summer According to wenxingyuan residents to reporters, the taste of the factory area is particularly obvious in summer, sometimes even unable to open windows "Two years ago, the factory of Dongjia town of Qilu pharmaceutical reached the ultra-low emission standard, and changed the coal-fired boiler into the gas-fired boiler." The person in charge of Linyi plant thinks that the pharmaceutical factory has peculiar smell which cannot be avoided "In fact, chemical pharmacy is just like cooking, whether organized or unorganized emissions will have some flavor." In addition, Qilu pharmaceutical's groundwater pollution has also been questioned by local residents During a visit to dongjiazhuang, just one street away from Qilu pharmaceutical, local villagers told reporters that because of groundwater pollution, local villagers had to go to the water station funded by the village every year for nearly three consecutive years to "carry" purified water At dongjiazhuang's drinking water station, the reporter saw that most villagers use bicycles or electric vehicles to carry, and most of them carry 4-8 barrels (about 10 liters) of drinking water at a time The person in charge of the water station told the reporter that because the underground water is polluted, the village dare not drink it directly The village committee raised money to buy water purification facilities There is a free quota of 4 barrels of water per person per month for the villagers The villagers who exceed 4 barrels and the villagers who go to the water station to buy water are all two yuan a barrel Some villagers told reporters that the expenditure on purified drinking water in January may reach 100 yuan "Apart from Qilu pharmaceutical factory, there is no polluted water source near us, not even a small factory Since the pharmaceutical factory came, he gave up drinking shallow wells in his own hospital and began to drink deep wells In recent years, the deep wells also feel tasteful, so he began to drink purified well water " A villager surnamed Guo told reporters However, according to the complaint of the residents about the pollution of groundwater by the factory, in June 2017, Jinan environmental monitoring station monitored the water quality of two wells in Dongjia base and two wells in Licheng No For Qilu pharmaceutical pollution control and other issues, the reporter once contacted Wang Junxin, director of Qilu pharmaceutical enterprise publicity department, but the other side only said that the enterprise has been strictly abiding by the national laws and regulations to organize production, and declined the reporter's interview on the ground that environmental protection issues are more sensitive Original title: Qilu pharmaceutical's production in part of the plant decreased by 80% under the pressure of environmental protection Author: Zhang Chunnan