Many energy saving and environmental protection solutions have been applied at Hoa Phat Group

With the characteristics of multidisciplinary and multi-field industrial production, including iron and steel production activities use large amounts of electricity, water, coal ... Hoa Phat promotes economical use of energy and natural resources. Besides, the Company constantly researches and applies environmental protection methods implemented in all production areas of Hoa Phat nationwide.

Many solutions to control and handle the environment are friendly and effective

In the field of iron and steel production, the investment in technological equipment aims to control the environmental issues and thoroughly handle the arising wastes and emissions. The most important of which is the closed-loop technology solution, friendly with the environment. This solution is applied to both Hoa Phat Steel and Steel Complex in Hai Duong and Quang Ngai. The investment capital for environmental items of Hoa Phat Steel accounts for about 20-30% of the total investment capital for the projects.

The efficiency of the application of closed circulating technology has been proved very specifically at the Complex of Manufacturing Steel in Hai Duong. With 100% closed blast furnace technology, no discharge into the environment, all waste, exhaust gas and wastewater are thoroughly treated, meeting the current standards in heavy and cyclical industrial production, reuse, do not discharge production water into the environment.

The complex selects the most advanced ultra-clean heat recovery coking technology in the world today, friendly to the environment. This is a technology to produce clean coke coal that recovers heat to meet environmental standards under the CDM clean development mechanism to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. This technology eliminates all toxic gas, smoke and toxic chemicals generated from the process of coking coal, only recovers the heat to run the generator, helping Hoa Phat proactively nearly 50% of electricity export demand. With the Complex in Dung Quat and Quang Ngai, it is expected that the autonomy power output will be up to 60-70%, bringing significant economic value to Hoa Phat steel.

In addition, Hoa Phat Hai Duong Steel Joint Stock Company also invests about VND 700 billion to change wet coke stamping technology to nitrogen dry coke stamping, which is expected to be completed in mid-2019. This is an effort of The company in improving technology is more environmentally friendly, saving production costs, improving generation of electricity for production, from the current 52MW to 64MW from the third quarter of 2019.

Regarding energy saving solutions, the Complex also applies the trial running of electricity-saving power pumps. As a result, after testing the power-saving pump at the same flow rate and pressure, the result is 15-18% savings compared to the type of pump used. It is expected that in 2019, Hai Duong Complex will apply this pump massively, it is estimated to save more than 3 million kWh of electricity per year.

Hoa Phat also applies many measures to treat dust generated in production such as electrostatic precipitator, cloth bag filter, wet dust filter, building wall systems, planting trees to prevent dust. The campus of the factories and surrounding roads are green with a system of trees, flower gardens, small landscapes, contributing to the green - clean - beautiful environment of the Complex. Every year, many initiatives are applied by specialized departments to completely eliminate lime dust. The amount of iron-containing dust recovered during the process of iron and steel refining and rolling are reused at the production stages, both saving costs and improving the working environment.

In early 2018, implementing the policy of deep processing of blast furnace slag particles in the process of iron and steel smelting by renovating the system of granulating slag with high pressure cold water and investing another 01 blast furnace slag crushing line in Hai Duong Iron and Steel Complex. This is a vertical, synchronous technology line with the most modern type currently, with a capacity of 750,000 tons / year. In the third quarter of 2018, Hoa Phat's S95 fine-grained blast furnace slag has been officially launched to the market, showing its determination to optimize technology and turn solid waste generated from the process of pig iron into construction materials. constructing and protecting the environment, bringing significant added value to the steel production chain.

Remarkably in 2018, Hai Duong Iron and Steel Production Complex has completed the investment and installation of automatic monitoring system, constantly connecting 24/7 data to Hai Duong Department of Natural Resources and Environment.

Hoa Phat Steel applies the latest ISO system for production environment

On February 26, 2018, the Compliance Certification Center (Quacert) - General Department of Standards, Metrology and Quality officially issued ISO ISO 9001: 2015 Environmental Management System Certification for factories producing Hoa Phat construction steel. This is the latest standard of Environmental Protection System which is applied instead of ISO 14001: 2004.

Accordingly, Hoa Phat Steel is recognized to operate in compliance with the environmental management system standards in the field of hot-rolled steel products and steel billet production. Quacert's certification is also recognized globally, by Quacert is a member of JAS-ANZ, one of the most prestigious International Accreditation Organizations.

Hoa Phat always determines that the assessment and application of an environmental management system according to TCVN ISO14001: 2015 is an important requirement for industrial production in general and in the steel industry in particular. Therefore, the Company has invested, improved advanced technology equipment, ensured environmentally friendly operation, and built and operated an effective environmental management system to maximize its effective benefits of ISO 14001 and sustainable development.

Hoa Phat Steel Pipe applies good initiatives to the environment

Along with measures to reduce consumption and improve labor productivity, Hoa Phat Steel Pipe Co., Ltd has invested in improving the wastewater treatment system, signing contracts with licensed waste treatment units. periodically report to the local Department of Natural Resources and Environment as prescribed.

During the year, the Company has applied very good initiatives for the environment. It is the use of steel corrosion inhibitors, anti-volatile acid Bonderite S-AD 3305C for pipe coating lines, rust removal lines to reduce acid consumption by about 4 kg / ton of product per line. In addition to reducing acid consumption costs, the quality of wastewater after treatment is better, improving the environment at the sewage treatment plant, while reducing labor, electricity, lime and treatment costs due to the amount of waste generated more than 30% lower than before.

Hoa Phat Furniture - Saving energy, protecting water resources

Always identifying the responsibility of businesses with the protection of environmental resources, Hoa Phat Furniture constantly offers innovative solutions, energy saving systems, water protection in Hung Yen and Binh factories. In particular, the wastewater treatment system valued at about VND 650 million at Industrial Wood Factory helped Hoa Phat Furniture reduce 30% of the amount of clean water used in 2018 compared to 2017.

In 2018, Hoa Phat Furniture conducted a certification assessment of ISO 9001: 2015 Quality Management System and 14001: 2015 Environmental Management System. This is the upgraded version of the Quality Management System certification, replacing versions of 9001: 2008 and 14001: 2008. This upgrade helped Hoa Phat Furniture redefine the context and risks in the entire organizational system, standardize operational processes, eliminate unnecessary procedures to shorten time, reduce spending charges incurred due to errors in production and business activities. This is a comprehensive approach for Hoa Phat Furniture to quickly meet the growing export demand to Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East markets where strict quality standards and commitments are committed on the environment from imported products.

Agriculture Hoa Phat pays attention to environmental protection

The Group's high-tech breeding farm system always ensures strict compliance with the provisions of the law in environmental protection, towards sustainable development, and actively responds to the Government's policy in collecting attract and encourage enterprises to invest in developing high-tech and large-scale agriculture, contributing to gradually changing the structure of agricultural development.

Hoa Phat's high-tech breeding farm system has now been certified with VIETGAP standards. In addition to investing in animal husbandry, the Company has seriously invested in environmental items as committed in the environmental impact statement. The process of treating waste and wastewater outside the biogas tank system is also the process of treating aerobic, anoxic, culturing microorganisms, ensuring that the wastewater before discharging into the environment reaches the standard, applying the reducing biological products. smell during rearing. Poultry farms are also investing in building an automatic and closed manure treatment station to thoroughly handle the generated waste.

The environmental monitoring rounds from the beginning of 2018 so far show that the environmental indicators meet very well compared to the current standards for the livestock industry such as QCVN 24: 2016 / BYT, QD 3733 / QD- MOH of the Ministry of Health on 21 standards of occupational safety and sanitation, QCVN 30: 2012 / BTNMT of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment on waste incinerators, QCVN 40: 2011 / BTNMT, QCVN 62-MT: 2016 / BTNMT on quality standards of animal waste water, ...

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