COFCO Tests Trench Oil Recycling Appeals Edible Oil Moda Price War

Driven by the huge profits, “oil in the trenches” continued to ban on the market, seriously threatening the health of the people. Chen Gang, general manager of China National Grain Marketing Corporation, stated at the 2nd (2010) China Food Safety High-level Forum that COFCO is currently testing water for waste and garbage, and is looking forward to significant development.

Chen Gang said that COFCO is currently trying to make a difference in oil recycling. The edible oil itself produces some by-products in the process of production and processing. At present, Zhongtian Tianke (Tianjin) Biological Engineering Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of COFCO, uses the saponins produced in the oil refining process as raw materials to further extract trace elements. Medicinal, or as a raw material for health products.

In addition, Chen Gang explained that COFCO has a special biochemical energy sector to produce some renewable energy based on some bio-energy sources. “Simply speaking, we recycle waste cooking oil and meal waste, which can generate biogas to generate electricity. This was previously used as a feed but it was not safe. Waste oil can be recycled and refined to make industrial oils. Inks, paints, etc."

Chen Gang said that at present, the business of COFCO is still a new topic, and the actual application in various regions is not balanced and faces some institutional obstacles. “We are in the process of selling oils and fats with catering companies and we are also negotiating with him on the recovery of waste cooking oil and food waste. However, this is a systematic project, and there are special rules and regulations for municipal administration in all regions, not all of them. All companies have relevant qualifications, so the situation in various places is uneven."

It is understood that at present, COFCO has started to cooperate with related companies in Wuhan to jointly recover waste oil and meal wastes. The other places are still actively expanding. The first is to establish a garbage disposal device. Chen Gang said that the recycling of "ditch oil" has good social and economic benefits. In terms of COFCO, it also makes it possible to combine oil production and processing, marketing, and back-end bio-energy processing to form a complete industrial chain. Branches.

In the past two years, the price of food edible oil has fluctuate greatly. According to industry analysis, edible oil is already a Red Sea in China, and the profit rate has dropped very low. Chen Gang said that in the past few years, the prices of the edible oil industry have indeed been ups and downs, but the edible oil industry still has a lot of room for development. “In April this year, we organized experts from domestic and internationally renowned oil and fat processing industries and managers of industry associations to jointly study. Everyone’s understanding is very consistent. We still believe that natural, high-quality, nutritious and healthy foods are edible oils. Direction of development."

He also pointed out that China is a big producer of oil, but it has a large population and consumes a lot of oil. Today, China's oil is not yet self-sufficient, but also depends on a large amount of imports. However, China’s own oil products such as camellia oil and walnut oil, Both rapeseed oil and peanut oil have their own development space, so diversified oil supply methods and continuous introduction of new products to meet consumer demand will be the dominant industry in the future. As long as we insist on this, we will find our own blue ocean.

"Everyone may compete together, but on the basis of ensuring basic food safety, the industry should develop better, more nutritious, healthier, and more satisfying to the needs of consumers rather than just putting the weight of competition on the market. On the price, even a malicious price war, I believe that is not the long-term survival of the road." Chen Gang said.

Interview Record:

Moderator: Dear users, Hello everyone, now sitting next to me is the general manager of China Food Products Marketing Co., Ltd. Mr. Chen Gang, Mr. Chen Hello, welcome.

Gang Chen: The host is good, good friends and friends.

Moderator: Speaking of this cooking oil, Fook Lam Moon is a very famous oil product in our country. So how does COFCO, as a manufacturer with such a large market share, control the safety of this oil?

Chen Gang: Edible oil as an indispensable food for people's lives, or food raw materials, is a matter of safety. It is actually a matter of most concern to consumers. The products of COFCO's Fulinmen series should be said to be raw materials from edible oils because oils From the oil press, from the raw materials, from production and processing, from the follow-up packaging, distribution, logistics, seven or eight links throughout the process of a quality control, to ensure the safety of this product, and the nutritional health of our products. For example, Fortune's corn oil is selected from the raw materials of corn at 39 degrees, 40 degrees, and 43 degrees north latitude, and is most suitable for the growth of corn in the golden corn belt. The elected corn germ is then pressed to become non-transgenic. The corn oil, then in the later refining, packing and transportation process, is also a closed operation system, so the entire product from the optimization of the quality of the raw materials to the retention of these elements of their own nutritional health, to us The process of distribution promotion is to uphold a quality, food safety, nutrition and health, such a product's business direction, or the product's this direction of assurance to provide consumers with nutritious and healthy food.

Moderator: The process of our cooking oil from production to the final consumer terminal, you just mentioned that the genetic material inside this raw material, in fact, for some of the genetically modified agricultural products, we all have not yet a conclusion yet, then in the end transgene These soybeans, corn, and security are not safe?

Chen Gang: It should be said that China's domestically produced soybean oil and domestic corn, sunflower seeds, peanut oil, and rapeseed oil are non-genetically modified products. Of course, when non-GM products are sold on the market, some consumers are more willing to choose it, but from a global supply perspective, the global, especially the United States, Brazil, these places in the world soybean and corn production, Including rapeseed, Canadian rapeseed, the main origin of the oil, in terms of genetically modified crops. From now on, it is the research results of human sciences. Looking at more research results, we do not say that genetically modified products have any obvious, or a definitive, or bad point on the human body, so we feel that this transgene is This product, agricultural products, has certain advantages in guaranteeing some aspects of agricultural products, such as resistance to pests and diseases. Therefore, within the scope of the whole world, it still has a certain amount of space, and there is room for development. Therefore, it is also a solution at home. Ascension, because China's arable land is limited, the area of ​​arable land. How can we improve the yield, or guarantee more output per unit area? Then I think it is also a solution to the problem.

Moderator: In addition to this guarantee of biotechnology in these areas, there is also quality assurance. It also involves us, for example, the collection and storage of raw materials, as well as processing, and how we ensure food safety in this process.

Chen Gang: Well, COFCO now implements such a strategy as a grain and oil food company with an international standard in the entire industry chain. Then our concept is to say that the industry is training products, that is, through the entire industry chain, from seed development to planting to storage, to processing, to brand distribution. These include disassembly, logistics, and the entire system. In this link, each link has its own standard for each link, and each link has its own monitoring. At the time, COFCO told the entire industry chain that good products were mainly focused on COFCO's 88 major products including oils and fats. The concept of the whole industry chain does not mean that every link must be done by yourself. It means that each link must have standards and influence, and it can ensure that it meets these standards. This is the case from the entire tea industry chain. On this basis, then, COFCO also created a quality and safety management system and guarantee system. Then this management system is from the whole responsibility, from the organizational structure from the emergency handling, from the traceability of this certification system, from the protection of funds, from the inspection and quarantine, including culture these are because of the guarantee of quality, not just a production The companies in the link are more of these, including the production and processing workers and the quality management personnel who perform them. They are a system of a concept of sleep safety and quality management, so we are in the production and management system. Invest in both ways to achieve a systemic product safety and quality assurance system.

Well, we can give you an example because COFCO is the only designated product at the Shanghai World Expo. The oil at Fulinmen is also a product of VIK at the Shanghai World Expo. Because the Expo is now a grand event that attracts worldwide attention, then in order to do this well, In the grand meeting, COFCO must give full play to its own identity. One of the most important items is that we hope that the grain and oil products we provide for the Shanghai World Expo will be based on the protection of food safety, can be the most nutritious, and, of course, can also be provided to consumers. Delicious experience. Therefore, the quality and safety of the Expo products are more stringent than ordinary quality and safety requirements. In order to guarantee the quality and safety of the products for the Expo, we have established on the basis of the production system and management system that I just mentioned, such as: Say which factory is for the World Expo's products, establish a supply base, and at the same time label each product, basically every product for the Expo, because the oil is also a box, a bottle, a bottle, Every product can be inspected in a timely manner to find out which plant, which workshop, which workshop, which time, and which time to produce, if it is a problem, it can be found very quickly, analyze the problem may produce Reasons and links, then at the same time, we also set up a warehouse for VIK products for the Shanghai World Expo. This warehouse, because of the addition of oil products, there are other related products, so in the storage conditions, temperature control, This strict procedure for entering and exiting the library is also met with some unexpected events. Strict separate provision.

Well, all of this from the production and transportation to delivery to delivery to the use of this part of the Expo is monitored 24 hours a day. As of today, we have provided more than a few hundred people because the number of visitors to the Expo has exceeded 10 million. The amount of money for the Expo's products, the stability of supply, and the safety of food products are all better protected. This also has a good interaction with the organizers of the Expo, so we are also confident that we will continue to work hard under this system. A good supply of the entire Expo will be used to test the effectiveness of this good-quality product, the industrial chain strategy of the seven links under the two systems, and the assurance of food safety.

Moderator: Oil this product, it must be more special, after it is used, there is a large amount of waste oil, so that our front-end time burst out of this waste oil is also let everyone worry, then the production of COFCO in this During the process, what is the treatment of waste oil for discarded products?

Chen Gang: Your question is very good, because it is indeed a product that we understand in the production process. One is that during the production process of edible oil itself, it produces some by-products. , or waste, such as sewage, clay, such as saponins, is produced in the process of refining oil, but in the downstream of COFCO, there is also a company called Zhongtian Tianke, which is based on our refining. The saponins in the process are used as raw materials, and VE is further extracted in the process to extract some useful traces of trace elements that are useful to the human body, and then supply medicinal or some raw materials for health care products. Then the reprocessed products, for example, only water at the end, there are some solid crops, water can be purified, we in the East China Sea, water purification equipment, water can not only be used for boilers, industrial water, can also be used to raise Fish, raising the swan. The treated fish can be eaten by the cafeteria. That is to say, there is no problem in the standard safety of the water. It is the treated sewage, so that recycling is used for a low-carbon economy and sustainable development of the environment All of them are very meaningful. This is also a concept that COFCO insists in its business operations.

Moderator: How much utilization can be achieved?

Chen Gang: Basically 100%, because of the last few solid debris, you can, for example, this dust, dust, and this kind of soil, you can use it to build roads. For example, filling can also be used, of course, It is used, the material utilization rate is 100%, but its value will be gradually concentrated in these high-value nutrients, then other materials may have a lower value, which is in the production process. Waste.

And what you mentioned just now is, for example, products such as cooking oil. This is actually the way we circulate the products. After the catering companies use them, they produce some waste, and COFCO is doing so because of COFCO's In the business, unit, because of the total output of the unit, including our oil refining, including oil sales, we also have a department called Biochemical Energy. His work is mainly based on some biochemical energy sources. Sublimation materials are used as bases to produce some renewable energy sources. Simply speaking, we recycle waste oil and food waste. Meal waste can be used as biogas fermentation to generate biogas, which can be used to generate electricity. You can access the Internet by generating electricity. Continue to use, and because the original food waste is used as feed, but in fact it may not be feed, not the safest method of use. The waste oil can be recovered, collected, refined and then used as industrial oil. The total used oil is, for example, our inks, paints, and oils used in these oils. These oils are completely different from edible oils. . If we use cooking oil to make industrial oil, it is a waste in itself, then this kind of meal can be properly recycled with waste and waste oil. Such a way out can not only pay off but also ensure the full use of resources. I think social and economic benefits and social benefits are quite large.

Moderator: You said this type of oil used for meals, recycling, now what level of COFCO does, and when did it start?

Chen Gang: It should be said that we are in our business as a catering business. In fact, while we are selling oil with catering companies, we are talking with them about the waste oil, or the recycling of meal waste, but we have to use garbage. The recycling, it is a systematic project, and in terms of management of each area, especially in the municipal management, it has special regulations and norms, and not all companies can do it. It does this. For this, catering companies need certain qualifications, so we should say that we should say that in this business, the situation in various places is uneven. Then in a place like Wuhan, we have already started to do joint activities with related companies, including Give it some catering oil to remove rubbish and come and go. Well, in a wider area, we now say more that we need to start from the processing facility where the garbage comes out, and then complete the entire closed loop. So now I think that for COFCO, this is also a new topic in the process of rapid business development, but it can better integrate COFCO’s past production and processing of oils and fats, marketing, and back-end bioenergy processing. Together, the formation of a closed loop that truly forms an industrial chain can have better social and economic value.

Moderator: In fact, this is also the elimination of the catering business and the people's worries, it can be said is a great good thing, then now in this regard has not put forward some specific goals?

Chen Gang: This is our goal. We are actually talking to the National Development and Reform Commission, the Urban Construction Department, and the Business Administration Department, including the State Food and Drug Administration. These management departments have made too many angles to communicate because you know China. The scale of the catering business is very fragmented. Therefore, in order to form these systems into a systematic management, besides the promotion of the enterprises, there must still be government regulations, or the government’s laws and regulations. The construction of an environment requires the government to supervise and punish certain behaviors. Then the enterprise will promote such technical protection. Of course, the vast majority of catering enterprises must also participate in this action as an active and self-disciplined behavior. , coupled with consumer supervision and media supervision, I feel that we can form a good social ecological environment and jointly promote this matter. I think it may be necessary for the government, enterprises, companies like us, and catering companies to do work. .

Moderator: Just now we said that for so long, it was a matter of security. Well, in fact, when people use oil, there is a very sensitive issue, that is, price. The price fluctuation of food and cooking oil in the past two years is also very large. According to the analysis in the industry, edible oil is already a red sea in China, which means that the profit rate has decreased a lot. How do you think about this phenomenon?

Chen Gang: In the past few years, the prices of oil-consuming industries have indeed been ups and downs, and because cooking oil is also an important component of the CPI, it is also a problem that the government manages and the people are concerned about. Because the sensitivity is relatively strong, I think you This includes the edible oil industry itself, and it is also a lot of homogenous competition. This kind of situation in the Red Sea, I think you are talking about some status quo in this industry, and some status quo in the industry. But precisely because of its people's livelihood, people’s livelihood of edible oil and it’s this, because the people have to consume, this kind of breadth, from this point of view, from the perspective of you, it’s more vitality, it’s not like some industries, we’re talking about To say that a technology, or a change in a product, makes this industry from Zhaoyang to Xiyang, the industry of edible oil will not, this people eat food for the day, the people can not do without it, but the consumption needs of the people It is a continuous improvement. You see that in April we organized domestic and internationally-renowned oil and oil processing industry experts and industry association management leaders. Then we organized some nutrition experts and some medical experts. The joint study is the future development trend of edible oil in China, which is what you are talking about. Is it right that we can only go to the Red Sea and continue to refute it so that it becomes more and more red to the Red Sea. In fact, everyone still has a very common understanding, because among these experts are very old comrades aged 70 or 80 years old, there are also very young, there are also experts in international business. But everyone's understanding is very consistent, that is to say, people still think of natural, high-quality, nutritious and healthy, this is a development direction of edible oil.

Well, China is a big producer of oil, but it is also a large country with a large population and a large consumer of oil. China’s own oil today is not yet self-sufficient, but also depends on a large number of imports, but China’s own, Like oil tea seeds, like this walnut oil, like rapeseed oil of real estate, in fact, peanut oil, all have their own room for development, so I feel that the diversification of this oil supply method, as well as the continuous introduction of new products to meet Consumers are more nutritious, healthier and have better quality. Then I believe that in this industry that will never be Zhaoyang forever, you will also have your own Blue Ocean, so I hope that I can also engage in this industry. His colleagues have come together. That is, everyone may compete together, and on the basis of ensuring the basic quality of food safety, it is still necessary to develop a higher quality, more nutritious, healthier, and more satisfying consumer demand, rather than just taking this competition into account. The code is placed on the price, or even if it is sometimes a malicious price war, I believe that is not the long-term survival.

Moderator: That is to say, they must also focus on their own, long-term.

Chen Gang: It must be like this.

Moderator: Yes, thank you very much, Mr. Chen, for participating in our program. I hope that I will have more opportunities to communicate with you in the future.

Chen Gang: Yes, thank you, the host.