Earlier this month on April 10, CATL and steel group Jianlong signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Ningde, Fujian. The two sides will focus on in-depth cooperation in the fields of new energy in the steel industry, green smart mines, logistics electrification, zero-carbon parks, and supply chain coordination, and jointly create a benchmark for green and low-carbon transformation in the steel industry. Wu Jiang, Vice President of Jianlong Group, General Manager of Fushun New Steel and General Manager of Jianlong Xigang, and Meng Xiangfeng, First Secretary of the Party Committee and Vice President of CATL, signed the agreement on behalf of both parties.
Based on the high energy consumption demand of Jianlong Group’s industrial parks, steel mills, mines and other production scenarios, CATL will provide Jianlong Group with power batteries and charging and swapping integrated solutions covering all kinds of equipment such as electric mining trucks, heavy trucks, ships, and construction machinery. The two sides will strive to land more than 3,000 electric heavy trucks during the ’15th Five-Year Plan’ period, complete the battery swap layout of no less than 16 logistics hub lines, and build and operate 100 battery swap stations. In addition, the two sides will also promote centralised and distributed wind and solar projects, and use the Jianlong Group Industrial Park as a pilot to explore the two-way empowerment path of new energy and new energy industrialisation of high-energy-consuming industries.
In the future, CATL says it will continue to drive the green transformation of energy-consuming industries with technological innovation, and work with Jianlong Group to create zero-carbon samples of the whole chain from mining to transportation, from energy to materials, and provide replicable innovative cases for global industrial carbon reduction.
Jianlong Group’s mining production takes place through Beijing Huaxia Jianlong Mining Technology which is a group enterprise integrating mining technology research, mineral exploration, mine investment and development, and mineral processing and sales. Its annual production capacity is 5.5 Mt of processed iron ore, 15,000 t of molybdenum concentrate, 3,000 t of copper, 800,000 t of phosphate, 170,000 t of sulphur, 85,000 t of sulphuric acid, 40,000 t of potassium sulphate, 20,000 t of calcium hydrogen phosphate and 20 Mt of sand and gravel. It has over 10 subsidiaries across seven provinces including Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Hebei and Xinjiang.
Major mining operations include Chengde Baotong Mining in Luanping County, Chengde, Hebei. This is an iron and phosphorus mining and beneficiation complex, extracting 10 Mt/y of ore with an annual output capacity of 1.1 Mt of iron ore concentrates, 360,000 t of phosphorus concentrates and 10 Mt of aggregates.
