Chemical Enterprises Should Strengthen Their Consciousness of Social Responsibility——An Interview with Ding Yuhua, Chairman of the National People's Congress and Chairman of Shandong Triangle Co., Ltd.

In this year's government work report, people are most impressed by Premier Wen Jiabao's repeated emphasis on sticking to the path of sustainable development. In particular, as companies continue to grow in efficiency, they must also place social, environmental, and ecological benefits in an important position. The reporter interviewed Ding Yuhua, chairman of Shandong Delta Co., Ltd., who was the deputy of the National People's Congress and first established the ISO14001 environmental management system in the domestic tire industry.

When asked by the reporter about what new projects the Triangle Group is currently working on, Ding Yuhua said that the project that is currently under construction cannot be called new. It is a refurbishment—one million tire renovation projects. He explained that this is a "key project" for the development of circular economy in the Triangle Group.

It is understood that Delta Group is the first among domestic tire companies to implement circular economy. The company has invested more than 80 million yuan, for the introduction and transformation of new storage, processing equipment, to achieve a fully closed black carbon weighing, transportation, feeding. They also adopted economic measures to force suppliers to use space packages and tanker transport instead of sachet packaging to achieve effective control of carbon black pollution.

“Now, when we are building a new production base, the first consideration is the environmental issues in the rubber compounding workshop. To this end, the company invested RMB 1 million to build a carbon black water treatment station and grease trap with a daily processing capacity of 300 tons. After the waste water was reused, the amount of waste water discharged was greatly reduced.The company invested more than RMB 5 million to replan the greening area and reconstructed more than 22,000 square meters of green space. The green rate of the plant area reached 99%, and the green coverage rate reached 30%. Ding Yuhua said.

The reporter asked: What is the most critical thing for a chemical company to practice in recycling economy, besides ensuring the environment?

Ding Yuhua did not hesitate to answer that energy saving and consumption reduction. Because enterprises are the organizations with the largest resources and energy consumption, energy conservation and consumption reduction are not only measures for enterprises to pursue efficiency, but also are the most effective methods for alleviating energy and resource constraints. While coordinating the sustainable development of production, we have invested a large amount of funds every year to transform energy-saving and consumption-reducing technologies. From 1999 to 2005, the company invested more than RMB 8 million in energy-saving technological transformation. The company mainly carried out the cooling water recovery project in the vulcanization workshop, the water utilization project, the frequency conversion reform of the pump motor, and the modification of the vulcanizer trap. Engineering, variable temperature vulcanization process and other projects.

"For example, we are carrying out the 'key project'," said Ding Yuhua: "The Triangle Group has determined the development strategy for the intervention of the environmental protection industry, taking advantage of the possibility that the radial tire can be refurbished to enable it to be industrialized and scaled up early in the country. The project to refurbish 500,000 tires and 1 million tires in order to better promote the rapid development of energy conservation and comprehensive utilization of resources and to protect the current ecological environment. Considering the source of retreaded tires and maximizing the use of existing sales networks will not only open the market quickly, but also provide better services to users.”

The reporter asked, what do you think is the biggest contribution of Triangle Group in fulfilling its social responsibilities as a tire company?

Ding Yuhua said: "At present, we have completely solved the problem of leakage of storage, unpacking, transportation, weighing, and recycling of the largest pollutant of carbon black, a tire company, eliminating the leakage of carbon black from production workshops, and the emission of plastic smoke. Factors that have an impact on the environment have realized the protection of the environment while the company is developing, and have achieved coordinated development of the economy, society, resources and environmental protection.From 1999 to 2004, the company’s comprehensive energy consumption index was 1815 kg/t. Sanjiao fell to 1480 kg of standard coal/ton of triple rubber, a drop of 18.5%, and accumulated energy savings worth 21.03 million yuan.On the basis of building sustainable development-oriented enterprises, the company maintained a healthy and steady economic growth trend. During the "Five" period, the company's sales revenue increased by 130%, profits and taxes increased by 112%, and the scale of its export business expanded by 4 times. The total amount of taxes paid was 1.42 billion yuan."

Ding Yuhua said that in the eyes of people, chemical companies are hard to fulfill or perform their social responsibilities while fulfilling their economic responsibilities. Some even say that chemical companies cannot fail to disrupt the environment. Of course, this statement is understandable, but it is incorrect. Chemical companies are prone to pollution during the production process, but it is not that such pollution must cause environmental damage. The key is to see if companies can control and transform this pollution. This depends on whether the chemical company has a sense of social responsibility. He believes that the more chemical companies should strengthen their sense of social responsibility.

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