2017 is the year of environmental protection policy. The newly revised "Water Pollution Prevention and Control Law of the People's Republic of China" was voted and passed at the 28th meeting of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. The huge market cake has brought development opportunities to water treatment enterprises. On September 21, Huang Chu, general manager of Foshan Mountain Environmental Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Sedum Environment), and the editor of Polaris Environmental Protection Network discussed issues such as the current situation of the water treatment market at the Guangzhou Expo.
Favorable policies, environmental protection enterprises themselves need to be regulated
In recent years, the environmental protection industry has developed very rapidly by stepping on the hot wheel driven by both policy and market. The water treatment industry in the subdivision of the environmental protection industry has received good news. With the change of policy environment and development trend, comprehensive water environment management has become the general trend.
From the perspective of the development focus of the water pollution control industry, urban sewage treatment has been the main focus before, but the urban sewage treatment rate in my country has reached 90%. It can be said that the market development space is limited. However, the development of rural sewage treatment in China is lagging behind, and the discharge of rural water pollutants remains high, accounting for more than 50% of the national water pollutant discharge, and the treatment rate is generally low, which is in sharp contrast with the urban sewage treatment rate of nearly 90%. Only 22% of domestic sewage in the designated villages has been treated. There is a big gap between rural sewage treatment and urban areas. Sewage in rural areas carries problems such as imperfect treatment facilities and low sewage treatment rate.
Policy guarantee, rural sewage treatment has entered a period of rapid implementation. The "13th Five-Year Plan" requires that by 2020, the number of villages with comprehensive environmental improvement system will increase from 78,000 to 208,000, with a compound growth rate of 22%. By 2020, there will be 130,000 new organic villages that have completed comprehensive environmental remediation, accounting for 22.2% of the current total number of organic villages, that is, the rural sewage treatment rate will increase from 10% in 2014 to 33.6% in 2020, corresponding to the 13th Five-Year Plan. 23% compound growth during the period. According to existing data, in 2014, the investment in rural sewage treatment was 6.38 billion yuan. It is expected that the rural sewage treatment market will reach 20.5 billion yuan by 2020, with a compound annual growth rate of 20%. The prospect of rural sewage treatment market is promising.
Policy dividends and market conditions have provided sufficient development space for the water treatment industry, but there are still some other factors that restrict the development of the water treatment industry or enterprises, whether in terms of technology or enterprise development. According to Huang Chu, General Manager of Sedum Environment, at present the entire water treatment market is dominated by traditional processes, and most of the water treatment results can reach the Class A standard for municipal sewage treatment, while industrial wastewater and rural sewage are relatively small, and rural sewage treatment is particularly backward. In terms of rectification, continuous supervision and promotion of government policies are also required. In addition, due to the uneven development of water treatment enterprises, a series of problems may occur in the bidding process, such as low-price bidding, low-quality competition, and internal bidding. Furthermore, the differences in domestic and foreign systems and norms make it difficult for some companies that started out in foreign water treatment to move to China. This requires the joint efforts of enterprises and the state to improve.
Technology Promotion: "One Film" Covers Subdivisions
"One film" refers to the film technology of Sedum Environment. Membrane technology is the abbreviation of membrane separation technology. It is a biomimetic membrane that realizes the separation of different media through artificial materials (membrane materials). Membrane separation uses a membrane with a selective permeation function for components as a separation carrier. By applying one or more driving forces on both sides of the membrane, the components in the raw material selectively preferentially permeate the membrane, so as to achieve a mixture. A new type of separation process for product extraction, concentration, purification, etc.
Different types of membrane technologies are used in different segments, mainly including municipal sewage treatment and regeneration, tap water treatment, industrial water reuse, seawater desalination, household water purifiers, etc.
In recent years, the state has introduced corresponding policies to support membrane technology water treatment. The membrane technology water treatment market has broad prospects, wide application and rapid development.
Sedum Environment is also keeping up with the trend of the times, and its membrane technology has a good momentum of development. Its corporate water treatment product process principle is dominated by membrane separation technology, sewage treatment uses immersed MBR (membrane bioreactor technology) membrane modules for advanced treatment, water purification uses column ultrafiltration membrane elements for treatment, and seawater desalination uses columns The type membrane ultrafiltration membrane element is used for pretreatment, and the reverse osmosis membrane element is used for seawater desalination. Sedum Environment cooperated with Singapore Mineng Material Technology Co., Ltd. in 2005, and has a solid practical experience in the market for more than ten years.
Own advantages: "one episode" and "one wisdom" are indispensable
The so-called "one set" refers to the extensive application of integrated sets and integrated equipment, and "one wisdom" refers to intelligent and remote monitoring.
Due to the rapid development of modern industry and the increase of urban population, domestic and industrial water use has increased sharply. In order to effectively improve the water environment, my country has built a large number of urban sewage treatment plants in the past ten years. Domestic sewage treatment equipment will also play an important role in escorting urban development. The rapid development of the construction and operation of the automatic monitoring system for urban sewage treatment plants in my country has laid the foundation for the remote supervision of sewage treatment plants.
The integrated water treatment equipment adopts membrane bioreactor technology, which is a new process combining biological treatment technology and membrane separation technology, replacing the secondary sedimentation tank in the traditional process. of stable water. It can also maintain a high concentration of microorganisms in the biological pool, with less residual sludge in the process, extremely effective removal of ammonia nitrogen, effluent suspended solids and turbidity close to zero, bacteria and viruses in effluent water are largely removed, low energy consumption, land occupation Small area.
When talking about the advantages of Sedum Environment in the water treatment industry, Mr. Huang introduced that, on the one hand, the company's products are concentrated. Sedum Environment entered the water treatment industry in 2005. From beginning to end, the products are mainly concentrated in membrane treatment. The equipment is doing the best. Integrated equipment is the strength of the enterprise. Externally design and manufacture an integrated set of integrated sewage treatment equipment. The integrated equipment can reduce the occupation area very well, and the integrated central control system is convenient and fast, and there is no need for a lot of electrical wiring and debugging on site.
On the other hand, Sedum Environment has been exporting its integrated equipment to foreign countries since 2010. Currently, it has cooperative relations with Singapore Mineng Materials Technology Co., Ltd., CITIC Environmental Technology Co., Ltd., and Motian Film Technology Co., Ltd. The company is also starting to develop the rural sewage treatment market. Under the constraints of various conditions, the company keeps up with the trend of the times and adopts the Internet remote monitoring technology, so that the equipment in foreign countries and the equipment in remote rural areas can be accepted by professionals. Real-time monitoring solves the problems of heavy workload and complicated procedures in daily supervision and maintenance of equipment, and also contributes to cost savings.
Future layout: rural sewage and equipment leasing are the development directions
At present, my country's water treatment market has bright prospects and a broad market, which is a huge opportunity and a challenge for all water treatment companies. If you dare to innovate and discover the market, then you will stand out in the water treatment industry.
Obviously, rural sewage treatment is an attractive development direction, and Sedum Environment is no exception to actively participate in the division of the big cake of rural sewage treatment. At the same time, Sedum Environment will continue to develop its own advantages in the Internet, and apply remote control to every set of water treatment equipment. In addition, Sedum Environment will expand into a new field in the next step - the rental market. In the face of the current high cost of water treatment equipment, for remote rural areas and some small and medium-sized enterprises, enterprises are reluctant to invest too much capital and take greater risks, and many small and medium-sized enterprises themselves are not professional in the water treatment industry. The leasing method can reduce the capital investment of small and medium-sized enterprises and make up for the risk-taking of small and medium-sized enterprises; Professional technical team to monitor in real time.
In the future, Sedum Environment will focus on the local area, so that water treatment equipment will go from South China to the whole country!