ISSUE 71August

■ EVENTS

■ TECHNOLOGY

ChemChina Stays on Fortune 500 ListChemChina CIO training seminar begins

Qenos named Australian manufacturer of the year

ChemChina’s first equipment management training seminar opens

Changsha Design and Research Institute earns a national awardBluestar Yima gains high-tech enterprise recognitionQingping Phosphate Mine employees aid villagers caught in landslide

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■ EMPLOYEE WORLD

■ PRODUCTION

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ChemChina Beijing meeting for correspondent

I’m happy because I’m sporty

4 CCBI plays a general contractor role in large carbon black projectHaohua Honghe receives academic workstation awardZhonghao Chenguang Research Institute gets PTFE dispersion resin project approvalBCMC’s new contract in BangladeshChina Bluestar Construction Engineering Bureau signs ethylene glycol contract

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BCMC’s ion membrane-based caustic soda production technology gains acceptanceHaohua Honghe develops thermal combined-soda processTianhua Institute develops China’s first devolatilization unit for acrylic resinAeolus Tyre gets new semi-steel car tire

Zhenghe Petrochemical’s three approaches to motivating young employeesBRDIRI meeting for young employees to share experiencesOccupational safety is an ongoing concern

Bluestar International Summer Camp kicks off

ChemChina Oil & Gas Corp completes ERP application trainingSRDICI in-house train-the-trainer session

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ISSUE 71 EVENTS

August 2013 1

ChemChina Stays on Fortune 500 List

ChemChina CIO training seminar beginsQenos named Australian

manufacturer of the year

ChemChina held an opening ceremony, on July 1, for its deputy CIO training seminar,

with ChemChina Vice President, Ya n g X i n g q i a n g , t h e h e a d o f Peking Univers ity’s Information Management Dep’t, Wang Yuguang, and ChemChina’s deputy CIO, Zhou Guanyu, on hand for the meeting, where 49 outstanding managers from the business management and IT departments were announced for the 2-month training session.

The training will cover business strategy, information technology, business management, leadership, and communicat ion sk i l l s . The deputy-GM Yang noted that IT will be instrumental in business restructuring and upgrades and that the lack of IT specialists poses a real challenge to ChemChina and that he expects all the trainees to increase their competence and abilities and bring the company’s IT infrastructure to the next level with their training. ■

The Melbourne government recently named Bluestar Qenos manufacturer of the year,

in recognition of its contribution to local manufacturing. Qenos has made a great effort in safety management, product and project development, and sustainability over the years, with remarkable results, which improved the business and generated considerable social benefits. For example, its expansion project in Altona increases its HDPE capacity by 20 percent, which in turn increases the scale and eff ic iency of production and improves its international competitiveness. Qenos’ 100,000-t/a carbon dioxide emission reduction project, in Altona, is equivalent to cutting the emissions of 25,000 cars. And its 21-MW waste heat-based power generation project helps the Altona operation to achieve power self-sufficiency and meet the power needs of 30,000 households. The circulating water treatment equipment at Altona’s water treatment plant can save 2 billion liters of drinking water a year. These water and energy savings were recognized by the jury, who believed that Qenos had made an outstanding c o n t r i b u t i o n t o A u s t r a l i a ’s manufacturing. Senior management said that the recognition is for the combined efforts of all employees and shareholders. ■

When the 2013 l i st of the g loba l Fo r tune 500 was a n n o u n c e d r e c e n t l y,

ChemChina came in at 355th place, with its annual sales worth around $32 billion, in comparison to its last year place at 402nd. This year

has seen 95 Chinese companies (both mainland and Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan) making the list, 45 of them major SOEs. These 95 companies represent growth for the 10th consecutive year, and an increase of 16 over last year’s

f igure, just behind the 132 US companies that made the list. It is published every year by the US Fortune Magazine and is the most famous, most trusted list of its kind, with rankings based on the income of the previous year. ■

Kang Jian

Sun Jibo

August 2013 2

ChemChina’s first equipment

management training seminar opens

Ch e m C h i n a h e l d i t s f i r s t equipment management training

seminar recently with equipment managers from 20 of its companies acquiring greater TPM knowledge through classroom lectures and fi eldwork.

The picture shows equipment managers practicing at the Huaxing Petrochemical Co.

Photo by Liu Yan. ■

Qingping Phosphate Mine employees aid villagers

caught in landslide

When a landslide during a rainstorm hit the Qingping

Phosphate Mine, on July 8, causing tremendous losses, mine personnel made every effort to deal with the disaster, wherever they could, and helped local people in danger, as part of their responsibility as a State-owned enterprise. At 5:00 pm, July 10, the mine’s fl ood control center got a call from a villager saying that a local person, Fu Yuanzhang, was trapped in the middle of the landslide. Company leadership immediately swung into action and soon reached the site with a well-equipped rescue team and got a villager out of danger after an hour and a half of work. The disaster relief response shows that mine personnel are always ready to extend a helping hand in the shortest possible time whenever local villagers are in need. ■

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Changsha Design and Research Institute earns a national award

Zheng Xiaoman

Fu Songli

Liu Wenwen

The Changsha Design and Research Institute took a national fi rst place

for 2012 in engineering consulting excellence, for a feasibility study prepared for a Vientiane 120,000-t/a potassium salt plant project, of the Sinohydro Mining (Laos) Potassium Salt Co. This Vientiane project uses a drilling solution method which is safe, environmentally friendly and resource-effi cient and can signifi cantly improve product quality and cut mining costs, and is an advanced, internationally recognized technology and the first of its kind in China. This is a good

example of a large potassium chloride mining project and is important in deal ing with the shortage of potassium salt resources and lack of potassium fertilizer in China, and for restructuring the chemical fertilizer mix and stabilizing domestic supplies of potassium salt, as well as a meaningful part of China’s potassium outsourcing strategy. The project has successfully produced the fi rst batch of conforming potassium chloride product with a grade of as much as 98 percent, which meets premium-grade criteria for industrial potassium chloride. ■

Bluestar Yima gains high-tech enterprise recognition

The BluestarYima Chrome Chemical Materials Co recently joined the fi rst

group of enterprises to be recognized in Henan province in 2013 for a qualification test. The company has worked hard in recent years to develop and commercialize new technologies and get the intellectual property rights. Its liquid-phase oxidation-based chromate salt cleaning process and integrated technology is a world leader, with internally generated chromate

salt clean production characterized by high resource utilization, low per-unit energy consumption, and less chrome-containing waste. Nearly 20 technology developments using this technology have been commercialized. The company will complete a 30,000-t/a chromate salt clean production demonstration project under the 12th Five-year Plan and adopt clean production technology in chromate salt industry. ■

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Bluestar International Summer Camp kicks off

Th i s y e a r ’ s 2 4 t h B l u e s t a r International Summer Camp got

off to a good start just as promised, on July 20, with 22 divisions across the country, and 980 campers in all, 26 of them the children of Bluestar’s foreign employees from France, Norway, Australia, Spain, and Brazil, as well as some from Gansu province’s Gulang county, for which Bluestar has an obligation to provide financial assistance. The opening ceremony of the first and second divisions in Beijing was

held at Bluestar heagquarters, with the ChemChina Vice President, Ren Jianming, Bluestar CEO, Robert Lu, and Bluestar Vice President, Zhang Lijun, on hand to help. Ren and Zhang presented the camp flags to the two divisions, after which campers and foreign facilitators spoke about this year’s camp theme and expressed their gratitude to Bluestar, and hopes for this year’s camp and said they will be good messengers of Bluestar corporate culture. These summer camps are a very important part of Bluestar culture

and have become a program where foreign employees and their children can learn more about Chinese companies and identify with Chinese culture, as well as a communication bridge and international culture exchange. The summer camps went international in 2009, with a permanent theme of “Bluestar, We are Family”, but with different themed activities and events carefully planned for each year. This year’s camp will have a theme of “Beautiful Planet, Beautiful Cities, Beautiful Bluestar”. ■

The Chemical Industry Southwest Research & Design Institute (SRDICI)

has done a lot this year in employee training, with the focus on a “train-the-trainer” approach for improved technical exchanges and business talks. And, it held its fi rst two-day in-house train-the-

trainer session recently in accordance with the annual training program, with good results. This approach allows trainees to familiarize themselves with presentation skills and language, which are needed for public speaking and lectures and can even help overcome

poor communication skills and help people learn more while developing team spirit. This year’s trainees said they will practice what they learned in future in-house employee training sessions and technical exchanges and business talks with people elsewhere. ■

SRDICI in-house train-the-trainer session

A two-month EL platform ERP online training session of ChemChina Oil

& Gas Corp came to a successful end recently, with 817 out of a total of 863 trainees passing, for a commendable pass rate of 95 percent. For his year’s session, the company used various ways to train its IT personnel, including ERP online training on the EL platform, which is an information-laden, easy-to-use tool

that ChemChina has made available for the professional development of Tier-3 company employees, giving them access to a large pool of resources by simply logging on. The company asks all end-users and key users of each ERP-enabled company to attend a two-month online training session. Subsidiaries set up multimedia classrooms to facilitate the application of this program,

which allows each trainee to acquire knowledge beyond the limits of their job area and become more professional and competent. The carefully designed process and curriculum of this EL online platform can help each trainee grow professionally in an efficient manner. And the training helps provide a large pool of talented people for the company and its business strategy. ■

ChemChina Oil & Gas Corp completes ERP application training

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Liu Bing, Ma Bangda

Huang Jingxi

August 2013 4

CCBI plays a general contractor role in large

carbon black projectWang Lan

Lin Yang

After a year of talks, a 174 million-yuan EPC contract on a

Nitielong carbon black project has been signed, together with process package and basic design contracts, for total cost of nearly 200 million yuan. This is the largest EPC agreement the China Rubber Group Carbon Black Research & Design Institute(CCBI)has ever snapped. It began talking with Nippon Steel, in March 2012, and spent 14 months working on the EPC contract, with the project team holding numerous negotiations with the Japanese. In the face of some serious demands by the Japanese, the project team made a solid case and, after patiently explaining and meticulously analyzing the s ituation, f inal ly reached an agreement with the Japanese. ■

The Bluestar (Beijing) Chemical Machinery Co (BCMC) signed a

contract with the Chittagong Chemical Industry Co, recently in Bangladesh, on a 20-t/d ion membrane caustic soda polar pitch project, marking another step into international markets. In the several years, the number of new projects in China’s alkali chorine market has fallen dramatically, so BCMC has been active in looking at various solutions, quickening the

pace of technical innovation and building brand image, while examining the gap between it and its foreign competitors. A greater effort has been made in marketing and after-sales service, improved cost control, process management, and product quality, and the company has increased its market share. This new contract will help the company increase its brand awareness in Bangladesh and tap into the South Asian market. ■

BCMC’s new contract in BangladeshWang Danhao

Luo Yongfu, Shi Lei

The Zhonghao Chenguang Research Institute’s specialty, high-quality

PTFE dispersion resin project recently got acceptance from the Sichuan provincial Environmental Protection Dept. The project, developed and built entirely by the institute, brings together the latest technology, equ ipment , and env i ronmenta l concepts and represents a substantial improvement over previous approaches.

Since the beginning of the project’s commercial operations, its products have been best sellers in the domestic market and are in huge demand. The specialty PTFE dispersion concentrate, specialty PTFE dispersion resin with medium and high compression ratio, and PTFE dispersion resin for use in dual-way stretch film use China’s leading technology and have replaced similar imported products. ■

There was a ceremony in the city of Zigong, on June 19, to inaugurate

academic (expert) workstations, with Haohua Honghe being one of the eight, and one of the fi rst three organizations to be licensed to set up academic workstation in Zigong with municipal government approval, after a rigorous, lengthy examination. The fi rst of the company’s academician to be added to the workstation include a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Zhou Guangyao and his R&D team. This past May, the company received a gold plaque of the “Sichuan Provincial Academician (Expert) Workstation”, marking a new starting point for bringing in top-caliber personnel, to help the company develop top, innovation-m inded peop l e and imp rove competitiveness. ■

Haohua Honghe receives academic workstation award

Zhonghao Chenguang Research Institute gets PTFE dispersion resin project approval

ISSUE 71 TECHNOLOGY

The China Bluestar Construction Eng ineer ing Bureau s i gned a

consulting contract, on June 28, for a proposed 300,000-t/a ethylene glycol plant, with the Guizhou Taijiahe Energy Investment Co. As general contractor for the project, the Bureau

is responsible for all consulting and construction activities and will use the technical expertise of ChemChina c o m p a n i e s t h a t s p e c i a l i z e i n consulting, design, manufacture and construction.

Photo by Zhang Xuezhi . ■

China Bluestar Construction Engineering Bureau signs ethylene glycol contract

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BCMC’s ion membrane-based caustic soda production technology gains acceptance

Zhang Li, Tan Shiyong

Some caustic soda production t e c h n o l o g y u s i n g o x y g e n

cathode low-tank vo l tage ion m e m b r a n e e l e c t r o l y s i s t h a t the Bluestar (Beijing) Chemical Machinery Co (BCMC) developed

in conjunct ion with the Bei j ing University of Chemical Technology, recent ly got approva l f rom the Ch ina Pe t ro l eum and Chemica l Industry Federation, after a careful, meticulous examination. A panel

of experts said the technology is the first of its kind to be used in alkal i chlorine industry and has a performance that reaches or exceeds specifications for the project. ■

Aeolus Tyre gets new semi-steel car tireChen Liping

Aeolus Tyre has deve loped a patterned, semi-steel car tire

that is low-carbon, fuel-efficient, and environmentally friendly -- the P215/60R16 Ag03 – adding a new tire type to its semi-steel series, bringing the number of patterns to 12. The

AG03 series of tires are all-weather and designed to meet North American market demands. They are used on the Crown, Corolla, Reiz, Camry and Lexus. This model underwent trial production, appearance, evenness, and balance tests, all of which met standards.

Performance indicators such as the test of outer rim dimension, bead unseating resistance, tire strength, high speed, and durability all met or exceeded GB or American standards. The AG03 comes in 26 varieties, with other varieties soon to follow. ■

Tianhua Institute develops China’s first devolatilization unit for acrylic resin

Wu Zhenyun

A devolatilization unit for use with water-soluble acrylic resin that

Chemical Machinery & Automation’s Tianhua Institute developed has been working at full load for more than a year now, in the city of Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, with all indicators meeting user specifications. This is the first application of a unit of this

kind in China, and is a big contribution to the environmentally friendly restructuring of the paint and coatings industry. There are few examples of the industrial application of water-soluble acrylic resin now in China so, the Tianhua Institute developed a 1000-t/d devolatilizing dual screw extruder unit for use with water soluble

acrylic resin, which takes advantage of the dual-screw extruder in polymer processing and multi-year special dual-screw extruding process and equipment development, through a technical plan, technical feasibility demonstrations and meet ings, opt imal process configuration, and careful equipment and process parameter calculations. ■

Haohua Honghe develops thermal combined-soda process

Ha o h u a H o n g h e d e v e l o p e d the world’s first 600,000-t/a

thermal combined-soda production process recently with the Chengda Co, through a year and a ha l f of joint effort and at a cost of 2.12 billion yuan. This project is

expected to generate an income o f 1 . 2 b i l l i o n y u a n a n n u a l l y and profits of 190 mil l ion. The c o o p e r a t i o n s t a r t e d i n 2 0 1 1 . T h i s t h e r m a l c o m b i n e d - s o d a production plant is better than the cold combined-soda process

in production costs and pure soda quality with products that meet production requirements of the high-quality glass industry, so the perhalogeno thermal combined soda p roduct s have p romi s ing market prospects. ■

Luo Yongfu, Wang Dianjiu, Shi Lei

ISSUE 71 PRODUCTION

August 2013 6

Zhenghe Petrochemical’s three approaches to motivating young employees

Yang Huijuan

Duan Na

Zhenghe Petrochemical has been building three systems this year

-- a talent workstation, pacesetter team, and employee volunteerism -- to motivate young employees and inspire them to get the job done with dedication and care. The talent

workstat ion provides technical specialists with certain off-site training and learning opportunities to improve their professionalism and competence. The volunteerism system the company is developing encourages young employees to serve

the company and contribute to the local community at the same time, with desirable results. Cultural and sports activities and safety drills are also carried out to encourage young employees to act responsibly and assess their own strengths. ■

BRDIRI meeting for young employees to share experiences

Occupational safety is an ongoing concern

The Rubber Industry Beijing Research & Design Institute’s

(BRDIRI) CYL held an experience-sharing meeting for its young employees, on July 5, with a theme of “Moral Role Model”, where the head of the technology department opened the meeting by explaining the government’s policy on technical innovation by young people. This was followed by the young employees talking freely about the topic, after reciting a poem titled “A Spring Initiative” to show their desire to work for the success of the institute and realize the Chinese dream. After that, the institute’s Party Secretary, Zhang Yading, addressed the gathering, followed by the Scientific Research Institute’s CYL secretary, Chen Li. Zhang said he expects the young employees to achieve self-realization by working for the institute’s goals in an innovative way The institute’s Vice-President, Li Gaoping, who took part in the meeting, emphasized its importance for career success and the growth of young employees and said he expects them to work for professional excellence. The meeting closed with a CYL song sung by all the participants. ■

One of the 10 priorities of the Siping Haohua Co this year has

been occupational safety training and it started the year with a safety training and hazard identification drive, then held a warm-up session for its occupational safety quiz, on

June 20 in conjunction with the city of Siping’s trade union federation, the municipal work safety administration, China Chemical Industry News, the Tiedong fire brigade’s special services squadron, and Siping TV.

Photo by Liu Yang. ■

ISSUE 71 EMPLOYEE WORLD

Bluestar Dongda held a chlorine-gas leakage drill, on June 28, at

its epoxy propane plant to make its employees aware of the need for safety and better able to deal with any chemical spillage and organize

emergency rescue and response teams. More than 80 people took part in the drill, including Zibo municipal work safety administration offi cials, as observers.

Photo by Zhao Minghua. ■

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ChemChina Beijing meeting for correspondentChemChina’s Information Morning

Post chemical edition held a meeting at Beij ing’s X iangtang Convention Center, May 28-30, for correspondents, and not just an ordinary get-together, but one with more than 100 correspondents from ChemChina, SBUs, and subsidiaries from across the country. ChemChina’s

leaders addressed the gathering and there were presentations by the PR department and by outstanding correspondents on their writing assignments and shared experience. The three-day meeting gave the participants an opportunity to learn more about each other. One thing that impressed the participants the

most was the team-building session, which developed friendship among the correspondents while giving them a team spirit. After returning to their jobs, the attendees sent in some good articles describing how they felt about this team building event overall.

Photos by Zhou Jun, Shi Shaojun and Mao Xueqiang. ■

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ChemChina’s Vice President, Ren Jianming, addressing a gathering

PR department Director speaking to correspondents

Conveying information and instructions Young people’s passion Solidarity is power

Correspondents’ discussion during the meeting

The rhythm of youth

August 2013 8

I’m happy because I’m sporty

There’s an old saying that goes, “Rest breeds rust”. But, after the

stress of work, we need a bit of sport to make our spare time richer. So, there are always figures seen running wildly on the football pitch, serious contests on the basketball court, tough competitions on the badminton

court, and a show of skills in the table tennis area. Sports not only build us up physically but also help us relax and feel a sense of pleasure. Winning or losing doesn’t matter; what really matters is that we unleash our pent up feelings and find happiness, a happiness that can extend to our job and make

us more efficient and lighthearted in our work. This issue captures some wonderful moments on playing fields so we can share their happiness and joy they get from sports.

Photo by Yi Wei, Liu Yang, Li Li, Chu Yuhui, Shi Shaojun, Lin Yang,

Yi We. ■

ISSUE 71 EMPLOYEE WORLD

Iron feet, steel head

Turning the tide

Big slam dunk

Neck and neck

Hercules’s feet Bright and brave

A different type of exchange