Recently, Akzo Nobel invested 26 million yuan to rebuild and expand its Guangzhou decorative paint factory. After the project is completed, the factory will fully produce water-based paint. The upgraded factory will adopt fully automated production to maximize productivity and reduce energy consumption, helping the company to better meet the growing demand for environmentally friendly water-based decorative paint from customers and consumers in the Chinese market. This transformation and upgrading will be an important milestone for Akzo Nobel to realize the full production of water-based decorative paint in China, and it will mark another important step forward for the company towards the set sustainable development goals.
Thanks to the support of industrial policies, the environmentally friendly water-based coatings market has a good development prospect in China. The increasing demand for environmentally friendly coatings from customers and consumers has prompted paint and coating solutions to gradually move towards a greener, healthy and environmentally friendly development direction. This coincides with Akzo Nobel's sustainable development philosophy. Akzo Nobel has been leading the sustainable development of the paint and coatings industry. This transformation and upgrading also reflects Akzo Nobel's long-term commitment to the industry and society.
The transformation and upgrading of the Guangzhou decorative paint factory to fully produce water-based paint is another example of Akzo Nobel's further realization of the new concept of sustainable development around ‘human beings, earth, and paint’. The Guangzhou factory is one of Akzo Nobel's four major decorative paint factories in China, and is also the company's top ten decorative paint production base in the world. The upgraded factory will adopt the most advanced intelligent production technology to greatly improve production efficiency and production safety.
Akzo Nobel's Director of Sustainability The upgraded factory upholds Akzo Nobel's highest sustainability standards, greatly reducing production energy consumption and waste generation, improving water reuse, and helping to achieve Akzo Nobel's 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. In terms of reducing energy consumption, its electricity consumption is reduced by 50% compared with traditional production processes, and the amount of material used is also significantly reduced. In terms of reducing waste discharge, wastewater production has been reduced by more than 50% compared with the past, wastewater reuse rate has also increased by about 70% compared with the past, and the discharge of volatile organic compounds (VOC) has also been significantly reduced by 80%.
After the completion of the project, the output of solvent-based decorative paint in the Guangzhou factory will be reduced from 2 million liters/year to zero, and the output of water-based decorative paint will be increased from 88 million liters/year to 140 million liters/year. The newly expanded factory adopts more intelligent and advanced automated production technology, which can continuously produce without restriction, greatly improve production efficiency and further improve production efficiency. In addition, fully automated production also greatly optimizes labor, and closed pipeline production also greatly reduces the generation of odors, further improves the production environment, and makes production safer.
We have been committed to increasing the production of environmentally friendly water-based decorative paints. The transformation and upgrading of our Guangzhou factory marks an important milestone in our development in China, enabling us to provide customers with greener and environmentally friendly paint and coating solutions.
Akzo Nobel Chief Supply Chain Officer Akzo Nobel is steadily moving towards achieving zero waste to landfill by 2020 and achieving the sustainable development goals of carbon balance and zero waste emissions by 2030, and its long-term commitment to sustainable development is also Significant progress has been made, including the use of renewable electricity in 33 production bases in eight countries, the installation of solar panels in 14 production bases to generate electricity, a 40% reduction in waste emissions in the past eight years, and a reduction in 2019 This is 24% of total VOC emissions.
Akzo Nobel continues to invest in intelligent and advanced production facilities and processes in China and around the world to achieve sustainable development goals. In addition to the Guangzhou decorative paint factory, the company's decorative paint factories in Shanghai, Langfang, and Chengdu have also achieved full water-based production.
Source: Chemical Network
