The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has made it clear that 6 kinds of petrochemical and chemical process equipment will be phased out within a time limit

Announcement of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China

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In order to implement the "Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Wastes", speed up the elimination of outdated production processes and equipment of industrial solid wastes that seriously pollute the environment, and continue to improve the level of industrial green development, the "Removal of Industrial Solid Wastes that Produce Serious Environmental Pollution within a Time Limit" is hereby issued.

Ministry of Industry and Information Technology

September 23, 2021

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The year in brackets after the entry in the list of outdated production process equipment that produces serious environmental pollution to industrial solid waste is phased out within a time limit.

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Use muffle furnaces, manger furnaces, horizontal tanks, etc.
for roasting, simple condensation facilities for dust collection and other backward methods to smelt zinc or produce zinc oxide process equipment;

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Vertical tank zinc smelting process and equipment (December 31, 2025);

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Use backward methods such as iron pots and earth stoves, distillation pots, crucible furnaces and simple condensation and dust collection facilities to smelt mercury;

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Refining arsenic oxide or metal arsenic process equipment by using earth pit furnace or crucible furnace roasting, simple condensation facility dust collection and other backward methods;

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Aluminum self-baking electrolytic cells and pre-baking cells below 160kA;

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Blast furnace, electric furnace, reverberatory furnace copper smelting process and equipment;

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Direct coal-fired reverberatory furnaces are used in the production of recycled non-ferrous metals;

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Antimony smelting using backward methods such as pit furnace, crucible furnace and Hexcel furnace;

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Adopt sintering pot, sintering plate, simple blast furnace and other backward methods of lead smelting process and equipment;

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Process and equipment for smelting recycled aluminum alloys and recycled lead using crucible furnaces;

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Sintering-blast furnace lead smelting process;

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Heap leaching and pool leaching process of ionic rare earth ore;

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One-stage fixed gas generator for non-ferrous metal industry
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Gold

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Gold extraction process by amalgamation;

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Small cyanide pool leaching process and local smelting process;

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The process of extracting precious metals such as gold, silver and palladium from circuit boards without environmental protection measures
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Medicine

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The iron powder reduction process produces caffeine;

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Iron powder reduction process to produce acetaminophen
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Machinery

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Heat treatment barium chloride salt bath furnace with heating temperature ≤1000℃;

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Phosphating treatment process for joint threads of drilling and production tools (December 31, 2023);

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Processes for the production of switches and relays using mercury;

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Processes for the production of non-electronic measuring instruments such as barometers, hygrometers, pressure gauges, thermometers (other than thermometers) using mercury (non-electronic measurements for which suitable mercury-free substitutes cannot be obtained, installed in large equipment or used for high-precision measurements) except equipment)
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Dismantling technology for the beach of abandoned ships
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Light Industry

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Process for preparing tertiary amine by fatty acid method;

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Fuming sulfuric acid sulfonation process;

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Open lead melting pot and open lead powder machine for lead battery production;

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Dry powder filling process of tubular lead-acid battery;

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In the production of lead-acid batteries, manual operation processes such as casting plate, milling, transferring powder, filling powder, mixing paste, coating plate, brushing plate, adding acid and filling acid, external chemical forming, weighing plate, and wrapping plate (new construction, reconstruction and expansion) item prohibited)
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