With the formal signing of a joint venture agreement in July 2018, the German specialist in water and exhaust air treatment, Enexio Water Technologies Herne, Germany; www.enexio.com) and China’s largest aluminium processor, Xinfa (Shandong, China; www.xinfagroup.com.cn) laid the foundations for the first packing material production plant of Enexio in China. The new company Xinfa-Enexio Water Technology Co. Ltd. will produce plastic packing materials for power plant cooling towers. These materials, developed by Enexio Water Technologies, increase the effective surface area and therefore increase the cooling effect. A production facility is being built on Xinfa’s grounds. This new factory is positioned for excellent infrastructure and logistics, especially when it comes to raw material PVC delivery and shipping the finished products to customers across Asia. The aluminium specialist Xinfa will act both as manufacturer and consumer, as the company will also be using the packing materials in the cooling towers of its own power plants.
The XINFA Group, founded in 1972, owns and operates power plants, aluminium oxide refineries and an aluminium smelting plant in the province of Shandong.
The XINFA Group was designated the first “resource-sparing and environmentally friendly” pilot company by the Chinese Ministry for Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry for Science and Technology and the Ministry of Finance in 2011. The Group has also won further awards and titles of honor, including the award of “National Energy Saving and Consumption Reduction Advanced Unit”.