On September 16, the Zigong Ecological Environment Bureau accepted the Environmental Impact Report Form for Sichuan Rongna New Energy Technology's '10,000-tonne-per-year sodium-ion battery hard-carbon anode material and supporting facilities construction project' in accordance with EIA approval procedures, publishing an acceptance notice with a 5-working-day public notice period. Per the notice, the project is located at No. 71 Fucang Road, Gaoxin Industrial Park, Yantan District, Zigong, Sichuan; the construction unit is Sichuan Rongna New Energy Technology Co., Ltd.; and the EIA agency is Sichuan Qinghuan Mingfeng Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd.
Company background per consistent reports from industry media (Battery.com.cn, Start sodium channels): Sichuan Rongna is affiliated with Guangdong Rongna New Energy Technology Co., Ltd., founded in August 2022 in Guangzhou's Nansha district, specializing in high-performance sodium-ion battery hard-carbon anode materials with wood/bamboo-based full-chain routes, operating a Dongguan R&D base plus Fujian Rongna and Sichuan Rongna production bases. In August 2024, Guangdong Rongna signed a 100,000-tonne-per-year sodium hard-carbon anode material and supporting production base project with Zigong; Sichuan Rongna was registered on December 30, 2025 with RMB 30 million registered capital. In March 2026, the chairman visited the Zigong high-tech zone and signed an equity cooperation agreement with the local state-owned investment group; in June 2026, a hard-carbon precursor project was signed in Fushun county, leveraging local bamboo resources. SMM reported the EIA acceptance on September 17.
EIA acceptance is neither approval nor construction start nor commissioning; '10,000 tonnes/year' is planned capacity, not actual; background shipment and progress figures are media/company statements; the accepted document is a Report Form (not a full Report), and the project still requires approval and construction phases with no disclosed commissioning timetable.