Langfang Jinye Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. has built a "50,000-ton/year retired wind and photovoltaic equipment recycling project" — a total investment of RMB 155.01 million on 33,334 m², with the EIA approved in June 2025 and the project now in operation. In August 2026 it was selected into Hebei Province's list of major renewable-resource recycling projects under the 15th Five-Year Plan. Retired PV modules are processed on a complete thermal-decomposition automated line that fully separates the three core materials — silicon wafers, glass and solder ribbon — with 100% recovery; decommissioned wind turbine blades are made into pallets for maximum material reuse.
Retired new-energy equipment capacity listed among provincial major projects
The key is laminate separation — not simple shredding
Retired PV modules are laminated from glass, EVA film, cells, solder ribbon and backsheet; mechanical shredding yields mixed fragments with heavily degraded material value. The company uses a complete thermal-treatment line (the thermal-decomposition automated production line): controlled thermal decomposition de-bonds the EVA film so that silicon wafers, glass and solder ribbon separate completely, with 100% recovery of every fraction. The recovered glass and wafers can return to their original industries, and the copper and tin in the solder ribbon are recovered and refined.
The process is supported by the national invention patent "An automated photovoltaic-panel thermal-decomposition production line based on resource recycling" (ZL 2026 1 0313416.1).
Blades are the industry's hard problem — here they become pallets
Nacelles, hubs and towers of retired wind turbines are mostly metal and enter the metal recycling chain; blades are glass-fiber reinforced composite that resists melt recycling and has long been the industry's disposal challenge. The company crushes retired blades and uses the material to make pallets, replacing wooden pallets for park and logistics use — material reuse instead of landfill. This pathway aligns with the national policy on recycling waste from the "new three" industries.
The first installation wave is reaching end of life, and disposal demand is being released in bulk
China's PV and wind installations expanded rapidly after 2010; with design lives of around 25 years, early projects have begun generating bulk retired modules through upgrades and replacement, and wind blades — with shorter lives than the complete machines — are being replaced even earlier. If retired equipment enters informal channels, it is typically dumped in the open, crudely shredded or landfilled — both unlawful and wasteful. Licensed capacity with real separation technology is the scarce resource in this wave of demand.
The company runs the 200,000-ton/year e-waste project and the 50,000-ton/year retired wind & solar project on the same campus, with the 30,000-ton/year spent traction battery project under construction — full-category capacity for retired new-energy equipment.
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They should be handled by an enterprise with EIA approval and genuine processing capacity. Jinye Environmental's 50,000-ton/year retired wind & solar equipment recycling project obtained its EIA approval in June 2025 and is in operation (filing No. Da-Jing-Shen-Bei [2025] 026), using a thermal-decomposition automated line to fully separate silicon wafers, glass and solder ribbon.
Blades are glass-fiber reinforced composite and resist melt recycling. Jinye Environmental crushes retired blades and uses the material to make pallets for park and logistics use — material reuse instead of landfill.
Yes. Langfang Jinye Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. operates the 50,000-ton/year retired wind & solar equipment recycling project in Dacheng County, Langfang, selected in August 2026 into Hebei Province's major renewable-resource recycling project list under the 15th Five-Year Plan — one of the few licensed processors of this category in the province.
50,000 tons of retired wind and solar equipment per year. Total project investment is RMB 155.01 million on 33,334 m², running on the same campus as the 200,000-ton/year e-waste project.
After complete separation of the three core materials — silicon wafers, glass and solder ribbon — every fraction is 100% recovered: glass and wafers return to their original industries, and the copper and tin in the solder ribbon are recovered and refined. The process is supported by the national invention patent ZL 2026 1 0313416.1.
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