ISSUE 78March

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ChemChina signs partnership agreement with Guoxin International InvestmentChemChina marketing pep rallyChemChina plans second phase of continuous improvement initiative

ChemChina SHE meeting for 2014ChemChina signs 2014 SHE pledgeChemChina related-party master data project goes live

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■ TECHNOLOGY

■ CORPORATE CULTURE

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Safety needs good habits

Occupational safety cartoons

Information Morning Post Chemical Edition selects year’s best news photos

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Changsha Lehigh Institute’s Lop Nor project wins national prizeAeolus Tire receives national patent of intellectual propertyChina’s first coke oven gas-turned natural gas plant goes into operation

Hunan Haohua makes progress in development of cartap technologyGuilin Rubber Machinery’s State-level technical center receives excellent ratingQingdao Rubber Machinery No 6 Factory’s new-type flame-retardant polyester material successfully goes into trial use

ChemChina recognizes best DCS application examplesLiming Institute works with Korean companyZhonghao Chenguang builds e-commerce procurement platformJinxi Institute polysulfide rubber project gets go-ahead

Lehigh Institute sees notable increase in patentsDezhou Shihua receives three honorary titlesQingping Phosphorus Mine exhibits earthquake-repair achievementsOil & Gas (Jinan) receives government grant for energy-saving project

Sanming Chemical Machinery named national employee training modelZhuzhou Institute named a role model in corporate culture buildingYellow Sea Tire looks for college grads on campusHuaxing Petrochemical named most charitable business

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ISSUE 78 EVENTS

March 2014 1

ChemChina s igned a strategic partnership agreement with the

Guoxin International Investment Co, on Jan 13, with its President, Ren Jianxin, Vice–President Yang Xingqiang, Bluestar CEO Robert Lu, Executive Vice President Zhang Lijun, Guoxin CEO Liu Dongsheng, and its director, Wang Shaojun, on hand to witness the event. According to the agreement, Guoxin would inject no less than 2 billion dollars into ChemChina, by the end of 2015, for animal feed,

the silicon industry, agrochemicals and chemical distribution channels and overseas capital markets. The two parties also signed an initial investment agreement where Guoxin will put $400 million into Bluestar Adisseo and $100 million into Bluestar Elkem for business development overseas. The agreements were signed by Mr, Yang, on behalf of ChemChina, Robert Lu, on behalf of Bluestar, Adisseo’s CEO Jean-Marc Dublanc, and Elkem’s CEO Helge Aason. ■

Ea r l y t h i s n e w y e a r, ChemChina held a meeting

on continuous improvement (CI) initiatives, where all ChemChina c o m p a n i e s w e r e a s k e d t o form business management optimization methods through continuous improvement and world-class manufacturing. To p u s h t h e c o n t i n u o u s i m p r o v e m e n t i n i t i a t i v e , ChemChina mapped out i ts corporate priorities for 2014, on January 8, where it noted that the first phase of the CI initiative has been completed across most of its companies and that all of them are expected to join their CI commitment to every part of the business for improvement benchmarks. ChemChina’s CI management information system went alive this February to allow project managers and personnel managers to do project inquiries, resource sharing, and data analysis and combine the annual business goals with project selection, target fulfillment and personnel ass ignment. Each ChemChina company will have to use this system as a management and re source sharing platform for the second phase of the CI initiative and link business goals and KPIs closely to the selection and implementation of projects. ■

ChemChina held a marketing pep rally, on Feb 10, to motivate

m a r k e t i n g p e r s o n n e l i n f i n e -tuning their marketing approach, exploring innovative approaches, and developing e-commerce, distribution and direct selling methods, in addition to conventional marketing practice to meet their many customer needs, increase distribution channels and sales and improve profitabil ity. ChemChina’s president, Ren Jianxin, who took part in the meeting, spoke on clarifying marketing priorities and methodology In the following ways: first, getting all ChemChina companies to appoint chief commerce officers as soon as possible, build an innovation-minded marketing team, actively change the marketing mindset, and increase market shares by 10-15 percent; second, get business leaders

and sales personnel to increase Internet awareness and develop an Internet mindset, since the Internet has penetrated to every corner of the economy and accelerated e-commerce is the necessary path to marketing change across ChemChina; third, increase cooperation with distributors to expand marketing networks and develop a winning situation within the shortest possible timeframe, and; fourth, identify the convergence point for customer success and developing community interest. This year is crucial, Ren continued, in reaching ChemChina’s goals under the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-15), and is the 10th anniversary of ChemChina, so, all of its companies are expected to implement the desirable business performance goals, in 2014, to the best of their ability. ■

ChemChina signs partnership agreement with Guoxin International Investment

ChemChina plans second phase of continuous improvement

initiative

ChemChina marketing pep rally

March 2014 2

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ChemChina SHE meeting for 2014

ChemChina signs 2014 SHE pledge

ChemChina related-party master data project goes live

ChemChina held a videoconference

to discuss its upcoming SHE

work for 2014, on Jan 21,where the

corporate HSE Office described its SHE

performance in 2013, examined the

safety and environmental landscape,

identified SHE priorities for 2014

and se t ou t i t s e xpec ta t i on s .

ChemChina‘s Deputy Party Secretary,

Fu Xiangsheng, delivered a speech

from ChemChina’s president, Ren

Jianxin, and a wrap-up, where he

emphasized how the company’s

industrial accidents in 2013 were

the result of lack of awareness

of occupational safety needs and

failure to comply with rules and

regulations, as well as ineffective

m a n a g e m e n t a n d f a i l u r e t o

implement the safety accountability

policy, failure to learn a lesson

from previous accidents, ineffective

onsite supervision, and improper

m a n a g e m e n t o f v i s i t o r s a n d

contractors. The executives taking

part in the conference were told

that they need to be more aware

of safety, be responsible for safety,

establish a companywide, end-to-

end safety accountability system,

step up efforts to hit their energy

efficiency targets, improve energy

and resource utilization, and ensure

that energy-sav ing, emiss ions-

reduction targets and energy-saving

assignments across ChemChina are

met. Taking part in the conference

at HQ were ChemChina’s senior

executives and members of the SHE

committee, and the heads of SBUs

and ChemChina companies at their

respective sites. ■

ChemChina’s president, Ren

Jianxin, recently signed a 2014

ChemChina SHE pledge with seven

SBUs and one affiliated company,

to follow the instructions of

President Xi Jinping, SASAC, and

various government departments,

o n p e r f o r m a n c e r a t i n g ,

disincentives and shared Party-

government responsibility, as well

as ChemChina’s SHE Performance

R a t i n g P r o c e d u r e f o r S B U

Leadership in 2014. This revised

Procedure changed the scope and

objectives of performance rating

covered by the pledge so that the

GM and Party secretary have to

sign the ChemChina SHE pledge

jointly. ■

ChemChina’s data center came

up with a related-party master

data project to meet all detailed,

standardized management needs,

in response to a request from the

finance and management information

departments, in early October 2013

and went alive on Jan 16 after 12

weeks of trials. The first set of related-

party master data covers almost all

of ChemChina’s companies worldwide

and has been added to the financial

statement consolidation system (BPC).

This related-party master data is

important for identifying the baseline

of the various companies and can

assure the consistency, integrity and

real-time updating of all systems data

across ChemChina. Accurate baseline

information allows for the better

analysis of corporate information.

Currently, ChemChina’s master data

management platform has 870,000

bits of data at the corporate level,

including materials, customers,

suppliers, banks, accounting items

and product level. The master-

da ta management p l a t f o rm i s

interfaced with many information

systems to provide the master data

at the corporate level to all IT-based

applications. ■

Liu Bokai

Yu Yalin

March 2014 3

ChemChina recognizes best DCS application examples

Liming Institute works with Korean company

Zhonghao Chenguang builds e-commerce procurement platform

Jinxi Institute polysulfide rubber project gets go-ahead

ChemChina singled out nine teams, recently, including the Bluestar

Technology Application Center, along with eight individuals, including Su Yuelong, and 20 DCS application projects for their profess ional excel lence. ChemChina started the DCS application optimization initiative, in 2012, to respond to the low level of automation and gap between it and international practices. It came up with a 3-step plan: first, increase automatic control usage to more than 80 percent,

make full use of DCS to minimize energy and raw materials waste caused by manual operation, and improve product quality; second, hold automatic control usage above 80 percent, in 2013, make optimal use of DCS control plans through innovation, ensure reliable plant operations and improve plant cost-effectiveness; and third, raise automated controls at all main plants to the highest level, in 2014. The SBUs Bluestar, Oil & Gas Corp, Haohua Corp, and Agrochemicals Corp did a diagnosis,

set PID, made an optimal process and control scheme, and developed a real-time database in accordance with ChemChina’s plan. By the end of 2013, automated control use at main plants was above 90 percent and the level of stability at 80 percent, with 13 real-time databases in place to provide support for quantitative management of operations. A 9-person DCS expert panel was set up, 120 DCS engineers were trained, and 2,066 DCS main operators took part in automated control network training. ■

The Liming Institute s igned a JV ag reement w i th Ko rea ’s

Daesung Indust r ia l Gas Co, on Jan 21, in Luoyang, to set up the Luoyang Liming Daesung Fluorine Chemical Co, Ltd. The two parties will put 274 million yuan ($44.8 million) into a 1000-t/a NF3 plant, with a state-of-the-art electrolysis process developed by the Institute to produce NF3 through a one-step reaction. Work on this project

is expected to start in the first half of 2014 and take 12 months. It is expected to bring about 179 million yuan in sales and 33 million yuan in profits when it goes into full operation. This cooperation is significant for the Institute’s development of fluorine-containing electronic gas. The NF3 is mainly used in semiconductor chips, LCD flat displays and photovoltaic cells and is a much-needed product in

China’s electronic information, IC, and new chemicals industries for the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-15). It is also in huge demand globally, with market demand growing at an average annual rate of more than 20 percent over the past three years, resulting in an undersupply, especially in China. As LG, Samsung and other electronics giants set up plants in China, NF3 will have promising market prospects. ■

Zhonghao Chenguang recently has came up with plans for an e-commerce platform for its procurement dep’t, for

an online sales site. The company clarified its product and business mix, in advance, in view of the weak market demand for fluorine materials, overcapacity, oversupply of low-end products, and undersupply of top ones, this year, and instructed its R&D personnel and production unit to look for technical innovation based on market demand, and to change marketing with the Internet in mind, refine the distribution, terminal, and e-commerce systems, set up an e-commerce platform for reduced costs and waste. It will build an online marketing platform as part of an e-commence procurement pilot program. ■

Liaoning province’s Office of Defense Technology and ChemChina formed a committee, on Dec

27, 2013, to do an onsite final evaluation of a polysulfide rubber project the Jinxi Institute has undertaken. The committee spoke with the Institute on project execution, examined project deliverables on site, reviewed project documents, made inquiries, held discussions, and concluded that this project met project objectives. They also agreed that the project deserved approval in relation to the provisions of capital investment projects in the defense industry. ■

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Hou Zhi

Zhang Yunzhong

Yang Xuelian Du Shangfeng

March 2014 4

Lehigh Institute sees notable increase in

patents

Dezhou Shihua receives three honorary titles

Oil & Gas (Jinan) receives government

grant for energy-saving project

Qingping Phosphorus Mine exhibits earthquake-repair achievements

The Lehigh Institute filed 25 patent applications, in 2013,

23 of them for inventions, and had 18 approved. One of them, involving a method for treating nitrogen in nitrogen-containing wastewater, was part of the city of Lianyungang Jiangsu province Patent Implementation Program for 2013, with funding from the provincial Intellectual Property office. This invention provided solid technical support for a contract on an integrated wastewater treatment project, part of a larger magnesium metal project at Qinghai province’s salt lake. By now, the Institute has filed 149 patent applications, 142 of them for inventions, and has been granted 94, with 87 for inventions, and 60 percent of those commercialized, providing greater support for the Institute’s growth. ■

Dezhou Shihua got certified as high-tech enterprise, technical center,

and organic chlorine lab recently by the municipal government of Dezhou, Shandong province. The company has continued its improvements and innovation, developing new products in conjunction with research institutes and higher education institutes and, in 2013, had one of its own high-value technologies accredited, and filed 12 applications for utility patents and two for national inventions. That same year, it implemented 136 CI projects, bringing in more than 50 million yuan ($8.18 million) in revenues. Its vinyl chloride production project with a mercury-based catalytic reforming process was added to the nation’s Programs 973 and 863, while a 100-t/a pilot plant got

approval in April 2013. In mid-November, a 2000-5000-t/a pi lot plant for removing mercury pollution in the PVC industry got approval, and shows great promise for energy conservation and profitability. Another new process for low-cost, high-quality, environmentally friendly, mercury-free production of PVC res in wi l l be developed using shale gas. Another technology using a new process for producing vinylidene chloride, trichloroethene, and tetrachloroethylene, in parallel with vinyl chloride that the company developed in cooperation with partners has undergone successful trials, and two related applications for national invention patents have been filed. This product enjoys a wide range of application and looks promising. ■

The Oil & Gas (Jinan) Co received 4 0 0 , 0 0 0 y u a n ( $ 6 5 , 4 0 0 ) i n

government grants, recently, as recognition of its energy conservation projects of 2013. This was the largest government grant received by a Jinan industrial enterprise this year. Oil & Gas started many energy-saving projects, in 2013, one of which involved the recovery of vented steam for power generation at the Changcheng Factory, another for an acidic water stripping plant renovation

at the same factory, and a renovation project for a flashing column of an atmospheric and vacuum distillation unit. Its project designs and material procurement were completed by various departments by the end of July 2013 and all projects were started during an August overhaul and went into full operation, September to October, and were successful in the first trial. Resulting energy savings were estimated to be worth 3.5 million yuan annually. ■

Five years after the earthquake, on May 12, the Qingping Phosphorus Mine

prepared several dozen displays to show how they had deal with difficulties and even managed to achieve a lot in spite of

the damages from the quake, using photos and text to demonstrate to employees and their families just how much had been accomplished by the company after the catastrophic quake. ■

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Shi Rong, Zhang Yunzhong

Li Dongying

Duan Lianshan

Liu Wenwen

March 2014 5

Sanming Chemical Machinery named national employee training model

Zhuzhou Institute named a role model in corporate culture building Huaxing

Petrochemical named most charitable business

China’s chemical industry recently recognized the Zhuzhou Institute as a role model in corporate culture building, while its president, Sun Jianhua, was

recognized as a leader in Chinese corporate culture for 2013. The Institute has received corporate culture title for two years in a row. It has tried to integrate corporate culture development and operations, while using corporate culture as a way to boost morale, improve management, and help the business grow. It set up forums on safety and team culture during renovation work in the shops, held lectures on morality, told R&D personnel, office workers, and shop workers about fixed-location management, provided safety, health, and environment incentives, and built two sports sites for recreational activities, such as a calisthenics contest. These initiatives help expand corporate culture and contribute to the corporate culture building program. ■ Th e c i t y o f D o n g y i n g ,

recently recognized Huaxing Petrochemical for its great charity work for the third time in a row. Over the years, the company has taken part in disaster relief efforts whenever governments asked for help and has always looked out for current and retired employees who are in need. Its welfare workshop provides job opportunities for people with disabilities and provides donations to assist school dropouts and people in need, which has earned t h e c o m p a n y r e c o g n i t i o n f r o m v a r i o u s g o v e r n m e n t departments. ■

Yellow Sea Tire looks for college grads on campus

To gain greater access to the pool of job applicants and find the right people for the right job to support business growth, the Yellow Sea Tire Co, recently

joined a campus job fair, at Ocean University of China, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, and the China University of Petroleum, offering a wide range of job possibilities, such as management positions in technology, equipment, electrical engineering, and finance, as well as tire structure design, export operations, domestic marketing, and various office work. With the ever more challenging job situation, Yellow Sea paid more attention to candidates with the potential to fit in well both professionally and personally and who have sufficient knowledge about the company and can adapt themselves to the work environment as soon as possible. While looking for applicants, it also wanted to increase cooperation with colleges and look for new ways of cooperating to secure sufficient human resources for future growth. ■

The All China Federation of Trade Unions presented a plaque to the

Sanming Chemical Machinery Co’s trade union , recently, and gave it the title of national role model in employee education and training. The company has made good on its employee training commitments for personal and professional growth

and for business success and sees employee education and training as the springboard to development of an army of highly-skilled employees. To institutionalize the education effort, it established an employee education and training center, an Employee Education and Training Policy, an employee training system with on-the-

job training, and pre-reassignment training and management modules, and even explored the possibility of cooperating with colleges in the ef fort . I t a l so encouraged t eam l e ade r s t o t a ke pa r t i n a d i s tance tra in ing seminar of Tsinghua University for management accreditation. ■

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Hu Zhigang

Luo Xianglai

Lv Xiaomei

Liu Yan

March 2014 6

Changsha Lehigh Institute’s Lop Nor project wins national prize

Aeolus Tire receives national patent of intellectual property China’s first coke oven gas-turned

natural gas plant goes into operation

Th e N a t i o n a l S c i e n c e a n d Technology Award Conference was

held on Jan 10 at the Great Hall of the People. During the conference, the 1.2-million-ton potassium sulphate packaged technology at Lop Nor salt lake developed by the Changsha and Lehigh institutes won first place at the national scientific progress awards.

ChemChina’s Changsha and Lehigh institutes joined hands with SDIC Xinjiang Luobupo Potash Co to carry out research on potassium sulphate production using brine from Lop

Nor’s magnesium sulfate-containing salt lake. They successfully came up with a new process and technology to produce potassium sulphate. They developed technologies for brine exploitation, salt pan mineral collection, and key transportation and processing equipment. Special re search was a l so ca r r ied out to recover kainite and develop t ransportat ion technology and equipment to solve problems.

After running for more than four years, the single-plant production

scale is now the world’s largest, featuring top-notch production quality. The product contains 51.9 percent potassium oxide and a processing recovery rate of 57.54 percent, 67 percent being the ideal in theory. It accounts for 26 percent of the world’s total and takes up more than 78 percent of the domestic market. For the past three years, the project has yielded 3.55 million tons of potassium sulphate, with 4.65 billion yuan ($769.6 million) in after-tax profits and 2.09 billion yuan in taxes. ■

Recent ly, Aeolus Ti re rece ived a certificate of patent of utility model

from the State Intellectual Property Office for its internally-generated portable emergency stop switch engine device technology.

The portable emergency stop switch engine device is easy to use and has now been applied in production systems, with good results. It is a safety device comprised of a group of wireless transmitters and wireless receivers. The wireless transmitters are carried by operators and operated through multiple touch switches. The wireless receivers are mounted in the device’s control circuit, with a circuit alarm system included in the circuit. When an emergency occurs, the operator may press the portable safety switch with their hand or body without having to search for the switch, thus effectively avoiding and minimizing accidents. Meanwhile, after the operator triggers off the switch, the alarm circuit sounds an alarm, and the regional alarm from the central control room reminds other people to enter the site quickly for mutual aid. This patented wireless transmitter is easy to carry, either around the neck of the operator, in the upper pocket or around the wrist. ■

A 30,000 Nm3/h coke oven gas-turned natural gas plant developed jointly by Southwest Institute and Tianke Co was recently put into

operation successfully at the premises of Hebei Yutai Gas Co, producing in-spec compressed natural gas that meets the quality requirements for domestic gas and compressed natural gas for vehicular purposes. This is the first coke oven gas-turned CNG plant ever built in China. The successful implementation of the project opens a new path for the efficient utilization of coke oven gas. It will not only make sufficient and reasonable use of exhaust gas from heavily polluted industries to produce clean energy and drive technological advancement in the coking industry, but also help reduce GHG gas emissions, protect the environment and ecology, and contribute to sustainability.

Given the continued decline in coke prices and environmental pollution, finding a “way out” for coke oven gas has become key to the survival and development of coking companies. Use of coke oven gas to produce natural gas through methanation can recover 20 billion cubic meters of coke oven gas emitted in China each year and produce about 8.5 billion cubic meters of natural gas, thus effectively contributing to industrial waste gas utilization, energy conservation and emissions reduction. Given the energy mix in China and the relative shortage of natural gas resources, this technology enables clean and efficient utilization of resources and is an important part of the national energy substitution strategy. The coke oven gas-based natural gas is important to the restructuring of the coking industry and construction of a resource-efficient and environmentally friendly society. ■

ISSUE 78 TECHNOLOGY

Jiangbo Xi Yuxin

Chen Yongping, Zheng Yongliang

Yao Lu

March 2014 7

Hunan Haohua makes progress in development of cartap technology

Guilin Rubber Machinery’s State-level technical center receives excellent rating

Qingdao Rubber Machinery No 6

Factory’s new-type flame-retardant

polyester material successfully goes into

trial useRecently, Hunan Haohua made

remarkable progress in separation of sulfocyanide isomer of cartap intermediate after increasing the percentage of su l fonated f lu id insecticidal double positive isomer in development of clean cartap production technology.

Producing cartap using sulfonated fluid bisultap positive isomer is an essential part of the development of clean cartap production technology. The separat ion of sul focyanide isomer of cartap intermediate is key to the development of the new process. The researchers screened a series of commonly-used modern separation techniques by finding the slight difference in the chemical and physical properties of sulfocyanide isomer and focusing on the feasibility of separation of sulfocyanide isomer through the reaction process. As a result , se lect ively separated reaction agents were singled out, and the best separation conditions were identified, resulting in good separation results. The yield rate of sulfocyanide isomer exceeded 97 percent, and the percentage of

sulfocyanide positive isomer exceeded 99 percent. Therefore, the process of producing monosultap out of bisultap can be eliminated, and cartap can be produced by producing sulfocyanide out of sulfonated bisultap.

The successful separat ion of sulfocyanide positive isomer marks significant progress towards the development of the new process of producing cartap using sulfonated bisultap, implying the possibility o f increased product ion y ie ld, r educed p roduc t i on co s t s and reduced emissions at the source. The process lays a solid foundation for the development of clean cartap production technology.

H u n a n H a o h u a h a s b e e n implementing an innovation-driven business strategy. Currently, the clean cartap production technology development project has received 2.6 million yuan ($429,785) in government grants, and the company will forge ahead in the fields of wastewater p r e t r e a t m e n t a n d p i l o t - s c a l e production of cartap using sulfonated bisultap. ■

Recently, Guilin Rubber Machinery’s State-level technical center

passed a national assessment with a high score of 80.3 points, the third highest score in the industry and in Guangxi, as well as the highest score ever achieved by the factory.

Over the past decade, the factory saw an upward trend in performance

rating. In this rating, all performance i n d i c a t o r s imp ro ve d s t e a d i l y, especially with respect to three indicators: the number of patents of inventions increased by six over the past two years, R&D spending rose by 0.7 percent and the number of standards to which the factory contributed increased by five. ■

Recently, a new-type flame-retardant polyester framework

ma te r i a l d e ve l oped b y R & D department no 3 of Q ingdao Rubber Machinery No 6 Factory was successfully tested on a conveyor belt.

The research and development project includes the entire process from synthesis of flame-retardant industrial yarn to application of new-type flame-retardant polyester framework material. The factory developed four kinds of new-type flame-retardant polyester framework material and verified their flame-retardant behavior after testing the basic physical propert ies o f the mater ia l s . After that, the R&D department researched canvas impregnation and the matching between rubber and canvas. The department also replaced conventional ordinary framework materials with the four kinds of new-type flame-retardant polyester framework material in the general fire-resistant laminated conveyor belt, flame-retardant steel wire, anti-tear conveyor belt and flame-retardant PVG/PVC conveyor belt. It later concluded that all performance indicators met expectations through small-scale tests and pilot tests of conveyor belts made of new materials. The new-type flame-retardant polyester framework materials not only ensure basic physical properties but also effectively improve the flame-retardant nature of the products.

F lame-retardant polyester framework materials are a hot topic in the industry, and the successful development and trial use of these materials will bring new progress in the field of conveyor belts. ■

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March 2014 8

Occupational safety cartoons

Safety needs good habits

ChemChina’s companies have been helping employees develop good

safety habits, with some good results, since 2011, when they started with warning boards near any Haohua Yuhang repair operations, indicating the specific job, possible hazards, and sa fety measures . Pro ject directors and repair personnel would not proceed with repair work until they were absolutely clear about the specific job and signed off on it on the warning board.

Over at the Shenyang Paraffin Chemical Co, they not only helped production staff form good habits but also made tighter controls on every movement in operations. At

Focus on safety and cherish life. By Zhujie

Never use water to put out an electrical fire. By Liufei

Don’t forget your assistant. By Liufei

the handling area, there are escorts and truck drivers coming and going frequently, so personnel needed to develop a habit of activating the static electricity removers before loading to eliminate hazards caused by static electricity around products on site. Employees would check the weathercock before each patrol to check the escape route in case of a leak of toxic or hazardous chemicals, with the route decided by the weathercock for safety and possible injuries.

Over at Tianjin Petrochemical they created an environment on the shop floor of intense supervision, where personal safety depended on rules and regulations and each employee

complied with the safety policy of their own accord. ■

Photos by Fu Haiping, Li Ning, Hao Minghui, Liu Yan and Mao Xueqiang.

Huaxing Petrochemical employees check the weathercocks before each round of inspections.

Putting up a warning board for repair operations as an employee habit at Haohua Yuhang.

Tianjin Petrochemical quality inspection personnel do a spot check of gas inside the nitrogen tanks before any repair work.

Shenyang Paraff in Chemical employees develop a habit of activating the static electricity removers before loading operations to eliminate potential production hazards.

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ISSUE 78 CORPORATE CULTURE

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Information Morning Post Chemical Edition selects year’s best news photos

The Information Morning Post’s Chemical Edition has chosen

the 10 best news photos of 2013 get correspondents to contribute more news photos and improve the quality of their photos and coverage. The selected photos are structured and vivid and cover a wide range of topics while capturing the exact moment in the office, at safety drills, or on patrol and reflecting

t h e n e w l o o k o f C h e m C h i n a companies and how their people work for success. The 10 winning photographers, chosen by jury, were Du Yanqing, Pan Wuyi, Zhang Li, Li Li, Lin Yang, Mao Xueqiang, Li Zhonghong, Song Lianqin, Xing Jiwei, and Liu Bin. The winners vowed to do more and better work with photos that reflect the life at ChemChina in the coming year. ■

Oil & Gas (Daqing) construction crew insulating a water pipe, on Nov 13.

Changyi Petrochemical operators examining equipment, on Dec 16.

Firefighters at Jiangxi Xinghuo Plant inspecting fire hydrants at the production site in spite of a heavy snowfall, on Jan 2.

Oil & Gas (Tianjin) doctors treating the injured fingers of a worker, on Sept 18.

Zhonghao Chenguang Institute employees moving various supplies through a passageway, on Sept 9.

Guilin Rubber Machinery employees finishing tasks, on June 20.

Shenyang Paraffin Chemical quality control department’s special birthday party, on Sept 2.

Bluestar (Beijing) processing personnel tidy up a warehouse, on May 20.

Y i y a n g R u b b e r M a c h i n e r y employees working under a scorching sun, on Aug 8.

Guilin Tire Co quality inspectors examining giant tires just off the production line, on Jan 14.