With the increasingly strict environmental policies, the silicone industry is facing unprecedented environmental pressure. Recently, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has released a new version of the "Organic Silicon Industry Pollutant Emission Standards", which significantly increases the industry's entry threshold and promotes the acceleration of the industry's green transformation.
The new standard has put forward stricter requirements for the discharge of waste gas, wastewater, and solid waste in the production process of organosilicon. Among them, the emission limits for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) have been tightened by 50% compared to the old standards, and the COD emission limits in wastewater have been reduced by 30%. The implementation of these new regulations is expected to eliminate 30% of the industry's outdated production capacity.

Faced with environmental pressure, leading enterprises are taking active actions. A listed company has invested 1 billion yuan to build a brand new environmental treatment facility, which adopts advanced RTO incineration technology and membrane separation process, achieving a VOCs removal rate of over 99% and a wastewater reuse rate of over 90%. The company leader said, "Although environmental investment increases short-term costs, in the long run, it is the only way for enterprises to achieve sustainable development
Technological innovation is the key to green transformation. Multiple companies are developing clean production processes to reduce pollutant emissions from the source by improving catalyst systems, optimizing reaction conditions, and other measures. The "one-step" production process developed by a certain research team has reduced wastewater generation by 70% and energy consumption by 30%. This technology has won the National Science and Technology Progress Award.
Environmental upgrades have also brought new market opportunities. According to statistics, the market size of environmental protection equipment in the organic silicon industry will reach 5 billion yuan in 2022, and it is expected to maintain an annual growth rate of over 20% in the next five years. Some emerging companies focused on environmental protection technology are rapidly rising and becoming new forces in the industry.