At this moment, it is not just the workers waiting for work that the fog and haze quickly dissipate, but also Li Yunde, general manager of Beijing Red Lion Paint Co., Ltd.

On the 20th, the haze shrouded the entire city of Beijing. In the afternoon, Xu Chao, head of the engineering environmental protection and safety department of Beijing Red Lion Paint Co., Ltd., was still visiting the factory area on a daily basis. Although, last year, the company was listed on the list of airborne heavy pollution orange warnings that had to be discontinued, there was no orange warning in the previous hazy days, and the company had never stopped production due to smog.

At 16 o'clock on the 20th, Xu Chao's cell phone rang. He picked up his mobile phone to view the text message, probably the content: the city's air pollution will gradually increase in the next few days, according to the unified requirements of the city's air pollution and heavy emergency headquarters, the implementation of orange emergency warning response.

Xu Chao quickly reported to his superiors. The company held a meeting to initiate an emergency plan during heavy air pollution. It stopped all production activities that night and called the workers to inform them not to come to work the next day. This means that his company is going to stop production.

30 years of state-owned enterprises

For the first time due to production cuts and more measures to reduce pollution

The site of Beijing Red Lion Paint Co., Ltd. is located at No. 17, Xingguang 5th Street, Tongzhou District. It was originally located in Songjiazhuang area and was later relocated here. It covers an area of ​​90 mu and has a building area of ​​more than 20,000 square meters. There are about 100 employees in the production line. The company once provided paint for some parts of Shenzhou Spacecraft and also provided a camouflage suit for the National Day military parade for 60 years. It is a state-owned enterprise in Beijing.

Yesterday, the workshop in the factory was silent and there was no lively scene of past production. Only Shen Jianli, a worker, was on duty in the huge workshop.

Shen Jianli was responsible for the paint mixing process and had worked in the factory for more than 30 years. In his impression, this was the first time the factory had stopped production due to hazy days. The previous suspension of production was a normal shutdown during holidays.

Xu Chao, head of the project's environmental protection and safety department, introduced that VOCs (VOC substances refer to organic substances that are easily volatilized at room temperature, commonly known as formaldehyde, toluene, and xylene, etc.) Emissions under the environmental protection requirements.

Zhang Jing, head of the production department, said that immediately after receiving the orange warning, the company immediately stopped all production activities. Because it is still in the winter heating period, the company will keep the coal-fired boilers to the minimum operating state, only to keep a single operation, at the same time, the boiler precipitator, desulfurization device for regular inspections to ensure the efficiency of dust removal and desulfurization. In addition, the site of the coal-fired boiler slag was covered to prevent secondary dust pollution.

Zhang Jing also asked the workshop directors to inform the workers not to come to work the next day. “It was originally said that the production was resumed on the 26th, and later it was changed to the 27th. However, the final production was resumed, and the release of Tongzhou District Economic and Information Committee’s Xu Chao said.

Discontinued loss

Economic loss + loss of customers

Looking forward to the haze quickly dispersed, there is the general manager of Beijing Red Lion Paint Co., Ltd. Li Yunde, he introduced that the factory's annual production capacity of 18,000 tons, a day's output value of 500,000 to 600,000 yuan.

"It's very difficult, really difficult." Li Yunde said, when receiving the notice of stop production, the first time to think of the arrangements in addition to stop production, there is the customer's orders quickly sent away. Communicate with important customers and ease some orders.

Li Yunde admitted that direct economic losses are obvious, but indirect losses are the loss of important customers. If the order cannot meet the subscriber's needs, they will instead choose the second supplier. This has also caused competitive pressure on companies in Beijing in the same industry. The production line has stopped, but the sales department also maintains customers. The next day, he also went to the field to develop customers and strive to minimize losses.

Over the past few days, Xu Chao and his colleagues have also been inspected by government workers in addition to checking the suspension of production. Yesterday they received a total of three government inspectors, namely the Municipal Economic and Information Commission, the Tongzhou District Economic and Information Commission and the Taihu Township Government. The staff of the Commission did not only conduct inspections, but also needed to take photos to obtain a permit, as well as sign the confirmation form for the on-site inspections of the air heavy pollution emergency response to the local government and the company.

"I'm looking at the sky early every day to see the sky, to see if the wind blows." Xu Chao said that he looked forward to the wind blowing haze, the company resumed production as soon as possible.

â–  Background

36 companies stopped production on initiative

Yesterday, the Beijing Economic and Information Technology Commission stated that as of the 23rd, 147 industrial enterprises in the city had taken measures to stop production cuts.

On the 21st, the Beijing Office of Air and Heavy Pollution Emergency Command started the early warning of heavy air pollution. As of the 23rd, 147 industrial enterprises have adopted measures such as stopping production, reducing production, and improving the efficiency of pollution control facilities to reduce pollutant emissions.

According to the “Hydraulic Heavy Industry Pollution Emergency Industrial Division Plan,” 111 enterprises listed on the list of emergency stoppages and production restrictions must implement measures to stop production or limit production and reduce emissions by 30% during the period when the emergency orange and red warning instructions are issued. After the issuance of the emergency start-up notice, 111 companies immediately initiated orange emergency measures, 36 enterprises suspended production, and 75 companies adopted production reduction measures to reduce pollutant emissions by more than 30%. On this basis, the intensity of emergency measures was further increased. 36 companies outside the emergency list took the initiative to stop production and reduce production and other measures to reduce the discharge of pollutants.

Yesterday, the City Commission sent 25 inspecting teams to the relevant districts and counties to conduct on-site inspections once again during the emergency stop production and restricted production enterprises. Relevant person in charge said that no recovery was found. All relevant companies have strictly implemented measures to stop production, reduce production, and reduce emissions, all of which are in place.

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