The mandatory local standards of DB44/932-2011 "Energy Consumption Limits for Unit Products of Daily-use Ceramics, Roller Kiln Kilns and Kilns for Daily Use", led by Chaozhou Xingye Ceramics Co., Ltd., etc., have recently been approved by the Provincial Bureau of Quality Supervision and will be released in 2012. March 1 formally implemented.

Guangdong ceramics production area is one of the most important production areas for China's daily-use ceramics. Its gas-fired roller kilns for daily-use ceramics are mainly distributed in Chaozhou and Meizhou, and the proportion of Chaozhou ceramics is over 90%. The current rapid development of the ceramic industry is faced with problems such as large consumption of resources and high energy consumption, which has become a “stumbling block” that hinders the development of the ceramic industry in Chaozhou. The energy consumption in the production of ceramics for daily use is relatively large, and the energy consumption in the production of kilns is the main aspect. Therefore, controlling and reducing the energy consumption in kilns has become a key link in the decline in the energy consumption of ceramics for daily use.

In recent years, Chaozhou ceramics enterprises have begun to increase the intensity of furnace reforms, promote the use of a number of roller-kiln kilns, smart shuttle kilns and other energy-saving, environmentally friendly kilns production lines, and the ceramic industry has achieved a natural gas rate of over 30%. At present, the energy-saving kiln independently developed by Xingye Ceramics Co., Ltd. uses a rapid high-temperature reduction technology to burn porcelain, which can save more than 40% energy compared with traditional kiln. According to the person in charge of the company’s technical transformation project, using conventional kilns to burn daily-use porcelain consumes 0.32 kilograms per kilogram; with new technologies, the kilogram per kilo can drop to about 0.2 kilograms.

The new standard “Energy Consumption Limits for Everyday Ceramics Roller Kiln Unit Product Energy Consumption” was issued and implemented, which will provide guidelines and technical guarantees for regulating the production of ceramics enterprises in the city and even the entire province, saving resources, improving production efficiency, and developing circular economy. It is of great significance for companies to strengthen energy conservation management and technological transformation, eliminate outdated production processes and high energy-consuming equipment, promote energy conservation and consumption reduction in the ceramic industry, develop a recycling economy, and conduct environmental protection and sustainable development.