The environmental protection storm in the pharmaceutical industry continues, and it has become an inevitable trend to accelerate the transition to "green"

Recently, the Shenyang Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment released the "Shenyang Municipality’s Second Round of Provincial-level Ecological Environmental Protection Inspectors' Rectification Plan", and the pollution problem of a pharmaceutical company was once again exposed
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According to the "Plan", the company has privately changed or added discharge outlets, and abnormal operation of pollution prevention facilities
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Since May, the company and its subsidiaries have been "named" by the eco-environmental supervision department every month.
So far, they have received 8 environmental fines, 7 of which were directly punished by the company
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Pharmaceutical equipment (picture source: Pharmaceutical Network) In fact, the pharmaceutical industry has always been a field of high pollution.
At the moment when the environmental protection pressure continues, pharmaceutical companies are facing the dual pressure of high costs and profitability due to environmental technology upgrades
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In addition to the above-mentioned companies, companies that have been fined huge sums of money and suspend production for rectification due to the "three wastes" problem have always existed in the industry
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For example, in May, an Anhui Pharmaceutical Excipients Co.
, Ltd.
issued an announcement on the receipt of the administrative penalty decision of Jining City Ecological Environment Bureau by its holding subsidiary
.
Because the staff of the company used pumps to discharge the untreated sewage from the inclined plate sedimentation tank into the urban sewage pipe network, they were also fined 437,500 yuan while being ordered to make immediate corrections
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As one of the more heavily polluting industries, the pharmaceutical industry's environmental pollution problems such as wastewater and waste gas are inseparable from the production of drugs
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Therefore, many companies have begun to find ways to solve these problems from the source
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For example, in the treatment of process waste gas, Huabei Pharmaceutical collects unorganized waste gas into an organized and qualitative treatment to make it meet the emission standards
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Through enzymatic process research, it has achieved good results in emission reduction at the source
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In addition, Yangtze River Pharmaceutical has also made a lot of efforts in environmental protection
.
According to the relevant person in charge of Jiangsu Haici Pharmaceutical Co.
, Ltd.
, a subsidiary of Yangzijiang Pharmaceutical Co.
, Ltd.
, their sewage treatment station took 3 years and invested 50 million yuan to build it
.
At present, Yangzijiang Pharmaceutical Group has reduced the annual waste water discharge by 41,000 tons, and realized 100% waste water can be recycled and used for irrigating lawns.

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It is also worth mentioning that its sewage discharge data is connected to the Jiangsu Provincial Environmental Protection Bureau for real-time monitoring
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From the above point of view, in the context of China's promotion of green development and sustainable development, pharmaceutical companies are paying more and more attention to the serious practical problems of pharmaceutical environmental protection and have already taken action
.
However, it should be noted that the construction of China's ecological civilization has entered a period of acceleration.
In the future, under the continuous implementation of a series of environmental protection laws and regulations, China's pharmaceutical industry will also begin to face increasingly severe environmental pressures
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In this context, how should pharmaceutical companies further their environmental protection work? The industry believes that because not all companies have the ability to directly build environmental protection treatment systems, for most pharmaceutical companies, they can respond to the industry’s increasing environmental protection through accelerated upgrades, replacements, more energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly pharmaceutical equipment Storm
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It is worth noting that with the continued deepening of environmental protection in the pharmaceutical industry, the industry predicts that the market for environmentally friendly pharmaceutical equipment may also usher in a major explosion
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In fact, as a key part of the pharmaceutical field, pharmaceutical equipment has long become an important choice for more and more pharmaceutical companies to deal with environmental protection
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And as those pharmaceutical companies that want to achieve a more environmentally friendly pharmaceutical process, the importance and requirements of whether the equipment in the pharmaceutical process is energy-saving and environmentally friendly have become higher and higher.
Many domestic pharmaceutical equipment companies have also begun to actively improve their equipment and improve research and development.

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It is understood that many companies have achieved dazzling results
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For example, some companies, through continuous research, have developed a new combined multi-effect distilled water machine that can provide sterile pharmaceuticals, injections, large infusions, and biopharmaceuticals for the pharmaceutical industry
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It is reported that this equipment can operate continuously for 240 days, saving 65% comprehensive energy in terms of water saving, industrial steam saving, and reduction of enterprise sewage pressure
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In addition, the technology used by the machine can save 21 million tons of standard coal and 340 million tons of drinking water every year
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In general, the ability to control pollution will become a very important competitive factor for pharmaceutical companies in the future.
Faced with increasingly stringent environmental protection requirements, companies that are backward, low-level repeated construction, and over-standard polluting companies at the expense of the environment will find it difficult to survive.

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In this context, pharmaceutical companies need more and more environmentally friendly pharmaceutical equipment to achieve "green" production in the pharmaceutical sector; this may be a great development opportunity for pharmaceutical equipment companies
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