Nantong Development Area plans to improve steel wire rope industry

Nantong Economic and Technological Development Area held a meeting on environmental protection and issued a plan to comprehensively improve, upgrade and transform the steel wire rope industry.

The meeting aims to take serious measures to protect the environment of the development area. The plan aims to transform and upgrade the steel wire rope industry in three years, from 2012 to 2015.

The development zone focuses on enterprises with technologies such as heat treatment of lead containing products and pickling phosphatizing. The zone seeks to reach a control rate of 100 percent for lead gas emission, sewage water concentrated treatment and emission, waste acid, sludge and phosphorous slag. The utilization rate of clean energy is also required to reach 100 percent.

In addition, the development area will give policy support to key demonstrative enterprises with large investment scale, high technology level, clean production and who promote product quality.

Qu Baoxian, secretary of the Party Working Committee of Nantong Economic and Technological Development Area, addressed the meeting. He said the development area must take serious measures to prevent and eliminate pollution accidents while speeding up improvement of the chemical industry. He said that it is most important for the development area to launch industry transformation and upgrades. The proportion of enterprises in the advanced manufacturing industry, high- and new-technological industry, and strategic emerging industries should be increased. New projects should be strictly supervised because they cannot sacrifice environment for economic development.