Wuding--Make every effort to create a demonstration business card for the development of titanium industry clusters

In recent years, Wuding County, Chuxiong Prefecture, has actively undertaken the transfer of the titanium industry, focusing on the new industrial structure system of "titanium ore mining and beneficiation-high-titanium slag-titanium alloy deep processing", strengthening the intensive utilization of resources, promoting the extension of green titanium to deep processing and terminal manufacturing, and making the titanium-based new material industry bigger and stronger, and striving to create a demonstration business card for the development of titanium industry clusters.

Walking into the production dispatch command center of Wudingguo Titanium Metal Co., Ltd., you can see from more than 30 monitoring screens that the company's production line is increasing at full capacity, and the workshop workers are busy in an orderly manner. Pei Guanglin, general manager of the company, introduced that the company's high-titanium slag production line has an annual production capacity of 80,000 tons of high-titanium slag and 40,000 tons of high-quality pig iron. The high-titanium slag it produces has the characteristics of high grade and low impurity content. It is mainly used in the production of rotor-grade titanium sponge.

Since it settled in Wuding County in 2019, Wuding Guo Titanium Metal Co., Ltd. has introduced production line technology and main equipment from Germany, Switzerland and other countries. It mainly produces high-titanium slag, pig iron, titanium concentrate, magnetite and other products. The products are exported to European, American and Southeast Asian markets, and have achieved the goal of making profits in the first year of production. In the five years since its establishment in Wuding, the company has continuously improved production equipment, introduced advanced technology and talents, and applied for 6 invention patents and more than 40 utility model patents. It has now developed into the largest high-titanium slag producer in Yunnan.

"From the time we settled in to September this year, we produced a total of 235,800 tons of high-titanium slag, achieving an output value of 1.687 billion yuan, and realizing profits and taxes of 56.84 million yuan. In the future, we will also increase the guarantee of raw materials, build a new Changchong Kuangqu mining area with an annual output of 300,000 tons of titanium concentrate, carry out deep processing of titanium concentrate, and build two 30-megawatt DC closed titanium slag furnaces, which can increase the production capacity of high-titanium slag by 160,000 tons, increase sales revenue by 1.5 billion yuan every year, realize profits and taxes by 165 million yuan, and drive 124 people to find employment." Pei Guanglin said.

Wuding ranks first in Chuxiong's total ilmenite resources, and its reserves are medium and large. In recent years, in order to promote the high-quality development of the titanium industry, Wuding County has given full play to the role of Dapingzi Industrial Park as the main carrier and gathering area of titanium ore resources. With the park as a carrier, relying on leading enterprises, and supporting key projects, it has improved the supporting industrial chain. Through measures such as strengthening policy support, promoting enterprise transformation and upgrading, and cultivating high-quality enterprises, it has cultivated and introduced a number of titanium and new materials processing enterprises with strong innovative capabilities and distinctive characteristics such as Yunnan Nayu Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. Promote industrial clustering and large-scale development.

"Our current production equipment and technology can not only produce and catalyze anatase universal titanium dioxide, but also customize the production of professional titanium dioxide for food, medicine, chemical fiber, cosmetics, etc. for high-end customers, mainly sold to Zhejiang, Anhui and other places and South Korea and other countries. From January to September this year, the company produced and sold 4600 tons of titanium dioxide, with an output value of 61 million yuan, and paid nearly 3 million yuan in taxes." Liao Tianxiang, production director of Yunnan Nayu Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd., introduced.

By continuously strengthening the development of titanium industry clusters, the business card of "Hometown of Titanium Warehouse" in Wuding County continues to be polished. As of now, there are 35 titanium production enterprises in the county, with 7 enterprises with an output value of over 100 million yuan. From January to September, the county's 13 titanium production enterprises above designated size achieved a total output value of 1.875 billion yuan, accounting for 44.75% of the county's total industrial output value above designated size.