Luquan pollution control: all talcum powder enterprises shut down or switch production

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 July 5, 2024

With the dismantling of the last two talc companies, the talc companies finally came to a close in Luquan. As one of the 1+4 cities in the provincial capital, Luquan City has carried out large-scale demolition and management of talcum powder companies in the city since this year. So far, all 48 talcum powder companies in the city have been demolished.

Luquan City is an important building materials production base in Hebei Province. There are more than 200 building materials companies represented by cement, talcum powder, marble rice, clay bricks, and quarrying industries. Due to its location The "upwind outlet" of the provincial capital has become a major source of air pollution. Since the launch of the "Three Years of Major Change" work, the city's Tongye Town, Shangzhuang Town, and Shangzhai Township will be developed as key developments in the piedmont ecological new zone in the western part of the provincial capital. It is imperative that the 48 talcum powder companies located in the area be closed down for rectification . Since the beginning of this year, the city has shut down or converted existing talcum powder enterprises, and has also stepped up efforts to control other dust-polluting enterprises. A total of 64 cement machine vertical kilns, 43 boilers under one ton, and 123 abandoned chimneys have been dismantled. Roots, 80 small iron dressing plants, small plastic particle processing plants, small lime plants, talc powder and other enterprises that have no environmental protection procedures and no pollution prevention and control facilities have been shut down, reducing a total of 10,661.1 tons of sulfur dioxide, 2,488.2 tons of sulfur dioxide, and reducing dust emissions. 4372.85 tons.