Founder Ju Feng began research and development in waste resource utilization as early as 2000, establishing Ju Feng Company in 2007 to assemble a team dedicated to developing technologies for the resource recovery and harmless treatment of municipal solid waste. Since 2007, when the State Council established the waste management model of “incineration as the primary method, supplemented by landfill,” despite continuous improvements in waste incineration technology and increasingly stringent emission standards, the inherently high-emission nature of this model—coupled with the historical prevalence of malignant diseases among residents near incineration plants—continues to strike fear into the hearts of residents near proposed incinerator sites. This fear easily triggers large-scale mass incidents. Across the country, conflicts between governments and local communities over waste incineration have significantly tarnished the image of government authorities.

Anaerobic pyrolysis technology for organic matter from sorted municipal solid waste, commonly referred to as pyrolysis gasification technology, represents an advanced solid waste thermal treatment method. Its core principle involves heating sorted and concentrated organic waste (such as food waste, paper, plastics, rubber, straw, wood, textiles, etc.) is heated to specific temperatures (typically between 350°C and 800°C). Through thermochemical processes, complex chemical reactions such as cracking, dehydrogenation, and polycondensation occur within the organic macromolecules, ultimately converting them into three high-value products: combustible gas (syngas), condensed liquid oil (which can also be directly exported as high-temperature gas), and solid carbon residue (biocarbon or carbon black). This technology aims to achieve the “three transformations” in municipal solid waste treatment: harmlessness, reduction, and resource utilization. Consequently, it is regarded as a more environmentally friendly disposal method.

Henan Jufeng, as the core technical unit for the Ministry of Science and Technology's 13th Five-Year Plan Key R&D Program on “Sanitary Disposal of Municipal Solid Waste,” was invited to collaborate with Huazhong University of Science and Technology in completing this program. Additionally, after three years of iterative experimentation, the company successfully developed subcritical hydrolysis technology for waste in 2021. This technology converts various organic wastes (such as kitchen scraps, animal manure, sludge, rural straw, household waste, industrial organic waste, garden waste, market waste, and other organic materials) into organic fuel coal and combustible gas (“synthetic natural gas”), achieving the goals of “zero pollution, harmless treatment, and full utilization.” Furthermore, the company leverages its research achievements in subcritical hydrothermal low-molecularization and fulvic acid extraction to enhance the added value of hydrolysis products.