Taizhou People extract "gold" from discarded lobster shells and sell it for 2000 yuan per kilogram

It's hard to earn money for lobster owners; it's hard to earn money for lobster owners; it's hard to earn money for lobster owners; it's hard to earn money for lobster owners; it's hard to earn money for lobster owners; it's hard to earn money for lobster owners; it's hard to earn money for lobster owners; it's hard to earn money for lobster owners It's not hard to see that this is an industry that swims down and makes more money As the largest chitin production and processing base in China, the annual output of chitin and derivatives in Taizhou accounts for more than half of the country, 95% of which are exported to Europe and America According to the data of Taizhou Yuhuan resources comprehensive utilization industry association, the output value of three leading enterprises of chitin and derivative products in Yuhuan alone exceeded 300 million yuan last year At present, chitin industry in Taizhou city is realizing the leap from traditional extensive processing to deep processing of products, until the high-tech industry of biomedicine Chitin and related derivatives, the shrimp shells and crab shells made in Taizhou that occupy half of the country, stink Many people throw these things away after eating seafood But in fact, such behavior not only pollutes the environment, but also wastes valuable resources In the eyes of many people in the chitin industry in Yuhuan, what they throw away may be gold Chitin is a kind of animal macromolecule cellulose extracted from crab and shrimp shell by genetic engineering It is known as "the sixth life factor" in the scientific community In the 12th Five Year Plan for aquatic products processing and circulation in Zhejiang Province, it is proposed to embody the regional advantages of chitin processing in Taizhou, establish five aquatic products processing R & D centers and establish chitin processing R & D centers, which are located in Yuhuan "At present, Yuhuan has become one of the largest chitin and its derivatives production bases in the world Judging from the current situation and development trend, chitin and its derivatives are becoming a new industry with a very wide range of application fields, which has attracted the attention of the international scientific and technological circles and the industrial circles The market prospect is very good." Said Ms Xu, a staff member of Yuhuan County Science and Technology Bureau In recent years, Yuhuan, led by Zhejiang Jinke Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., has made comprehensive use of marine fishery resources to process shrimp, post crab waste shrimp and crab shell as raw materials to produce chitin products and related derivatives The products have considerable influence in Europe, the United States, Japan, South Korea, Australia and other countries and regions Lin Rongye, chairman of Zhejiang Golden shell Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., told reporters that their family alone had sales of 130 million yuan in 2012, 95% of which accounted for about 10% of China's chitin exports At present, their products are used in medicine, cosmetics, food health care, industry and agriculture, environmental protection and other fields, involving 40 varieties in six series Relying on the high-tech R & D level and chitin's special product attributes, the high-value-added chitin derivative products produced by "golden shell" company have gradually become the "Darling" of the international high-end market The chitin enterprises in Taizhou gave up extensive production and turned to deep processing, but the reporter also learned that in Taizhou, the recovery rate of lobster shell is not high, and most chitin enterprises are mainly recycling shrimp shell Reporters asked the owners of several lobster restaurants, they all said that few people would come to collect lobster shells At the same time, chitin producers do not want to recycle lobster shells from restaurants "It's very difficult to recycle shrimp shells In the case of dragon shrimp shells, most of the lobster shells in restaurants are mixed with other garbage Even if they are recycled, the difficulty and cost of treatment are relatively large Now we still focus on the shrimp and crab shells in the refrigeration plant, but the amount of recovery is not large enough to meet the production needs of enterprises." The person in charge of a chitin production enterprise in Wenling told reporters The environmental pollution caused by the production of chitin has also been a headache for many people The reporter learned from Yuhuan science and Technology Bureau that at present, chemical method is often used in industrial production After acid-base treatment, calcium salt and protein are removed, and then acetyl group is removed by strong alkali under heating conditions, soluble chitin (chitosan) can be widely used In this process, the discharge of sewage and waste gas is very serious "The chitin industry in China as a whole also has problems such as low product processing, lack of terminal products and high value-added products Now many enterprises have given up the production of chitin and transformed to produce derivatives with chitin as raw material The pollution is small, but the profit is higher." Said Ms Xu After the successful transformation, the profits of Zhejiang Jinke Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd can be doubled several times Originally known as "Zhejiang Jinke biochemistry Co., Ltd." now its name was changed in January this year It is also the first pharmaceutical enterprise in Yuhuan that takes marine organisms as the main raw material The change of name means that the company has accelerated the pace of industrial restructuring "In the future, the company will officially shift from a fine chemical enterprise to a pharmaceutical production enterprise management track, and the profits of the enterprise will be doubled." In this regard, chairman Lin Rongye is full of confidence Like "golden shell", Zhejiang Aoxing Biotechnology Co., Ltd has also been seeking transformation in recent years The company also changed from extracting chitin to producing chitin derivatives Manager Zhan told the reporter that the recovered shrimp shell only sold 2 yuan / kg after preliminary treatment, and the basic chitin produced was 30 yuan / kg If after deep processing, the drug excipients produced can buy 2000-3000 yuan / kg, and the final price of processed health products is calculated by the number of pieces Now "So the later the industry chain is, the greater the profit." He said.