Xinda won the product carbon label evaluation certificate

Recently, the Low carbon Economy Professional Committee of China Electronic Energy Saving Technology Association, in accordance with the "Implementation Rules for Voluntary Evaluation of Product Carbon Label uniformly implemented by the Industry (Interim)" and "Carbon Label Identification" standards, on the "Hebei Xinda Iron and Steel Group Co., LTD. Carbon Footprint Report" submitted by China Securities (Hebei) Energy Saving Technology Co., LTD. The certification mode of self-declaration, third-party audit, Internet site information disclosure, social supervision and carbon label industry innovation alliance was adopted for carbon label evaluation. The carbon emission of H-beam steel produced by Hebei Xinda Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd. meets the one-star carbon disclosure standard of product carbon label. The evaluation Certificate of Product Carbon Label for H-beam steel was awarded to Hebei Xinda Iron and Steel Group Co., LTD., and the Certificate of Use of Carbon Label was awarded to Hebei Xinda Iron and Steel Group Co., LTD.

What is carbon labelling?
    
Carbon labeling is to mitigate climate change, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, promote low-carbon emission reduction technology, quantify carbon dioxide emissions in the whole process of product life cycle from raw material acquisition, processing and manufacturing, storage and transportation, use and utilization to waste recycling, that is, the product carbon footprint is marked with quantitative index on the product label. An effective way to inform consumers of the greenhouse gas emission information of products in the form of labels, thus encouraging and guiding green production and consumption, is an internationally accepted voluntary certification mark.

It is understood that in 2018, the association officially launched the product carbon label evaluation pilot of electronic and electrical industry, starting the construction of China's carbon label system, taking the lead in breaking the shackles of zero. Up to now, there have been more than 100 third-party institutions as authorized carbon label evaluation institutions, carrying out carbon label evaluation of products in 19 industries such as electronic and electrical appliances, machinery and equipment, agricultural products, chemical materials, transportation, building materials, electric power and other industries. The number of product carbon label evaluation has reached more than 50 categories, and more than 60 group standards involving carbon footprint and carbon label have been jointly developed. It involves electronic appliances, electric power, coking, iron and steel, chemical industry and other key industries. After the certification is completed, the specific carbon emission value of Xinda H-beam steel will appear on the label for consumers to intuitively understand, in order to guide users to choose lower carbon products. At the same time, it marks that Xinda has been recognized by the industry and society in terms of energy conservation and carbon reduction, and establishes a good corporate brand and image in the market, which has a very positive significance for the future development of a lower carbon and a greener future.

China Securities (Hebei) Energy Saving Technology Co., LTD. Refer to ISO/ TS14067:2018 "Greenhouse Gases - Carbon Emissions from Products - Requirements and Guidelines for quantification and Communication" and PAS2050: In 2011, Greenhouse Gas Emission Assessment Standards of Goods and Services in the Life Cycle and other standards, the product carbon footprint quantification and verification of the three links of the raw material production, raw material transportation and product production process of H-beam steel of Hebei Xinda Iron and Steel Group Co., LTD.

For products, it is very important to develop green energy-saving steel with high strength and toughness, corrosion resistance and wear resistance and long life, control carbon emissions in the whole life cycle and reduce the total consumption of steel. The main production process of Xinda section steel is to charge the inspected continuous casting billets, send them to the heating furnace through the roller table for heating, clear the oxidized iron sheet on the surface of the billets through the high-pressure water phosphorus removal device, roughing and cutting the head, and then send them to the finishing mill group for rolling into finished section steel. Finally, dimension measurement, segmental sawing, excessive preparation, fixed scale sawing, cold bed cooling, straightening, inspection, stacking, bundling, weighing, marking, storage, etc., unswervingly create green products, provide strong support for enterprise energy saving and emission reduction.

The green steel series products produced by Xinda have been applied in the construction of Malaysia East Coast Railway, Hohhot Metro Line 1, Shenzhen Metro, Zibo high-speed Railway Station, CofCO Reserve Office, BYD factory and other large projects. They have been exported to various domestic markets and exported to more than 10 countries and regions such as Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. High quality green products for Xinda brand won wide recognition, as "hot rolled section steel top ten quality brand enterprises".

Green and high-quality development

For A long time, Xinda adheres to the road of green and high-quality development, closely follows the "double carbon" policy, builds the consensus of low-carbon development, and actively carries out technology upgrading, energy conservation and emission reduction. Xinda has become an A-level enterprise with environmental protection performance, is the "Executive Vice Chairman unit" of China Energy Conservation Association, and is rated as "environmental social responsibility enterprise" and "Steel green development benchmark Enterprise" by China Environment News Agency. It will build the factory into a national AAA level industrial tourist attraction. The implementation of major environmental protection improvement projects, strictly in accordance with the national standards, all the material yard built mechanized fully closed shed, equipped with fog cannon, spray dust suppression, dry fog dust suppression facilities, shed mouth equipped with wheel and body cleaning devices, to eliminate unorganized dust emission; All production processes are equipped with a variety of dust removal, flue gas desulfurization and other environmental protection facilities, denitrification and denitrification projects have been put into operation, to achieve the whole process of ultra-low emissions; Replacement of electric heavy trucks, LNG new energy large commuter buses, transport machinery vehicles, etc. In North China, the largest transit rail project has been put into use, with 85 percent of bulk cargo transported by rail. A beautiful Xinda picture of bluer sky, greener factory and clearer water unfolds slowly.

In terms of resource recycling, the company has built 110MW ultra-high temperature sub-critical gas generating units, steam waste heat generating units, and 330KW photovoltaic power generation systems, with a self-generating rate of 75%. In addition, the first green electricity market transaction has been successfully completed, with 3.454 million KWH of green electricity traded, offsetting 3443.6 tons of carbon dioxide emissions. Become the first to enter the green electricity market of large iron and steel enterprises; The industrial solid waste resource treatment plant has been built, which can handle 3 million tons of industrial wastes such as slag, steel slag, desulfurized gypsum and tail ore every year, realizing "zero" solid waste discharge. It has built a sewage treatment plant, which can purify 20,000 tons of sewage every day. It is the first in local iron and steel enterprises to realize the recycling of all production and domestic sewage. Make full use of waste heat of water slag to provide heating for the company and surrounding areas.

Look up is a thousand mountains green, should take advantage of the east wind sail. Facing the question of green development in the new era, Xinda plans the implementation path scientifically. By paying close attention to the optimization of process flow, product structure and energy consumption structure, as well as the improvement of energy consumption efficiency, recycling and the proportion of green products, as well as the research and development of low-carbon technology, Xinda consolidated the achievements of environmental protection improvement and ultra-low emission, reached the standard of the whole process and ultra-low emission, and comprehensively optimized the energy structure. Truly realize the source of carbon reduction, the whole process of carbon reduction, build a low-carbon circular economy chain, in promoting the transformation and upgrading of enterprises and sustainable development of new achievements, unswervingly go deep and solid ecological priority, green and low-carbon industrialization road!