Project Background:

Jinchuan Group, located in the northwest of China Gansu, known as the “Nickel Capital of China”, is the third largest nickel metal producer globally and the first in Asia. In the process of nickel and nickel salt production, there are numerous stages of solid-liquid separation and powder washing.

Customer Pain Points:

In traditional processes, using multiple equipment for precise filtration, static washing, gas pressure drying and quick slag discharge resulted in complex operations, significant manpower consumption and low production efficiency etc. defects.

Solution:

After six months of on-site testing and improvement by our technical team, a single machine was developed to integrate precise filtration, static washing, gas pressure drying and quick slag discharge. This integration increased product yield by over 20% and greatly saved on washing water and labor costs, effectively achieving increased production and energy savings.

Subsequent Impact:

At that time, we decided to provide a fully automatic concentrator for free to be used on the production line, resulting in a over 20% increase in production, narrower particle distribution, and better particle shape — a groundbreaking achievement. Over the next year, they replaced over 30 pieces of equipment on the original production line. In 2015, GEM, a leading enterprise in ternary precursor production, learned about this and added concentrators to their existing production lines and applied them to expansion projects, even using concentrators in ultrafine cobalt salt production. As the government strongly supported the electric vehicle industry during these five years, major enterprises have launched ternary precursor production lines, making our concentrator an industry standard product with a market share exceeding 98%, contributing significantly to industry efficiency and productivity improvement. Quality has also been further enhanced, with production increasing by over 20%. Manufacturers in Korea, Germany, Japan and other countries have also started using concentrators and have given consistent positive feedback. We have obtained five invention patents and four utility model patents and are currently drafting industry standards.