INDUSTRIAL FRENCH CHINESE PROJECT SEEK INVESTORS, HUGE MARKETFor two years, we have been working about the best way to process the mud especially those located in the harbor. Because the raw materials become rare and high level priced, we do think that the mud will be in a near future an alternative, specifically as a material to build housing and roads.
Actually technological knowledge is experimented by several European universities and Center of research but there is no really an industrial process on the way. The euro company’s today position is mainly: “wait and see”. Because the euro harbor didn’t have extended quantity of mud to extract, they do wait until 2012 when by this time the Euro Legislation will oblige them to extract the mud.
For that reason, we are actually working with the city of Tianjin (Northern china). Tianjin is involved in a very huge project concerning 20 square kilometers. But they don’t have the knowledge and technology required (added comment: we have the representation of the Tianjin harbor, 10th in the world, for all Europe).
With all the institutions quoted above and the grateful help of the french government, we do organize a specific task force in a way to treat and consolidate mud for industrial purpose as well as construction, road, brick and others.
We do think that China will be in a near future an extremely important market because the country needs constant flood of newly raw materials. By the way, from our Tianjin based plant, we will target to spread it in all over china and south East Asia.
For this project, we need a strong partner.
You could contact me directly : 33 682 069 769 (François).
In addition to that, a comment about the “SEA MUD INDUSTRIAL PROJECT“
SEA MUDS INDUSTRIAL PROJECT
Crude oil increasing costs have sharpened Chinese interest for new sources of energy. In the construction field, the situation is tense with a 12 % annual growth rate, which is not ready to fade out. In this context, sea muds is subject of stronger attention. Until now, the method has consisted in extracting sea muds located in ports and then rejecting them 5 to 10 miles away, in deep waters. Added to ecological risks, this practice has been costly and mostly inefficient, Chinese ports are presently suffering from difficulties of navigation detrimental to their development. An alternative solution has to be recommended.
Available in the sandy grounds of front ports, sea muds could bring an alternative solution. Its development should allow the production of construction materials (road embankments, borders pavements, pedestrian alleys, bricks and so on). Already exploited for road embankments in Jilin, Shandong and the Tianjin urban area, experiments undertaken in China have not really been based in an industrial process. Local companies, most sea muds dredging licensees, carry out developments, according to approximate technical conditions. After having extracted sea muds from harbor-basins, sea muds are frequently stabilized or solidified with cements and other additives. However sediments analysis are rudimentary, many dangerous components could remain into the consolidated mud (metals, micro-organisms, hydrocarbons, phosphorus…).
Up to now, chemical or bacteriological pollution is somewhat tolerated in China. However if a certain toxicity level has been admitted for road underlayers, it seems impossible in building products like bricks. Chinese authorities have been seeking to obtain technological means suitable to take out impurities from sea muds and to give it a perennial solidity. In addition to that, China would like to decrease the sea muds’ polluting pouring process into deep waters in order to get rid of its bad boy’s image. Today Chinese are setting up a laboratory to better appraise sea muds toxicity. But sea muds development does not boil down to a single recipe. Each sandy ground is different. The coastal Genius science deal with this complexity. The question is: which is the best formula to completely remove all impurities from sea mud ? By inoculating a chemical solution? Or by using other solutions?
Paneurochina (Zhong Or Lu), an Euro-Chinese company, has been working on a project mixing environmental technology and ecology constraints. By gathering qualified institutions or researchers in Europe, Paneurochina plans to carry out a sea muds industrial process in China, where demand for building materials is massive. The project should begin in 2006 (Tianjin).
According to a survey from the Chinese Industry Ministry, sea mud materials could generate a 50% economy, in particular in road embankments. This market could represent up to 5 Billion dollars in 2010. These estimates could be re-examined if the price of raw materials continues to increase. According to studies undertaken in Beijing, Chengdu, Dalian and Shenyang, Chinese people will welcome bricks resulting from sea’s mud for housing construction if the product should be competitive.
(has been published in batiweb, chine-information.org, cyberbtp)
