The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced on 22nd of November the first batch of demonstrative enterprises for green design of industry products. TISCO was honorably selected as one of them.
The activity, named as industrial product ecological (green) design demonstrative enterprise, was launched by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in 2015, in response to the “thirteenth-five” national strategic emerging industry development plan initiated by the State Council, with a purpose of promoting enterprise to carry out green product design.
An increasing awareness of energy conservation and emission deduction and green development has been seen in iron and steel industry with the development of times. TISCO has always understood the connation of “the prosperity and depression of ecology will cause the same to cultivation”. Therefore, it starts early, acts promptly, invests vigorously and performs effectively in environment protection. Especially since the 18th CPC National Congress, the company, standing at the strategic height of ecological civilization construction, has actively created an upgraded version of green development, with green development achievements leading the industry and even the whole country, becoming a benchmark enterprise for green development in the steel industry and the pioneer of green factories in China. In recent years, TISCO has kept a clear head, further strengthened its sense of crisis, sense of responsibility and sense of urgency, made environmental protection an important part of TISCO’s high-quality development in the new era. It has pushed itself to act with higher standard, act ahead of time, and continuously promote the level of green development from excellent to outstanding.
In aspect of green awareness, a strong atmosphere of everyone attaches importance to environment protection, everyone practices environment protection, and everyone contributes to environment protection was formed by educating the green culture of “environment protection is everyone’s responsibility” and deepening the concept of “green development is the precondition for survival and foundation for development” among TISCO staff. In aspect of green products, the company has continuously increased the percentage of products with high technology content, high added value and high benefit effectiveness, with 18 special steel products being the first in China, 26 products being No. 1 in domestic market share, 40 products replacing imported counterparts, high-end products accounting for 85% of total profit, and stainless steel export being No.1 globally. In aspect of clean production, the company carried out a number of energy conservation and emission reduction technologies, including waste heat recovery from blast furnace slag flushing water, coke oven flue gas desulfurization and denitration technology, clean steel production system optimization technology, converter steelmaking automatic control technology, etc., so as to decrease the pollutant emission by 90% or more. In aspect of effective use of energy, the company utilized residual heat and energy to generate power of 1.7 billion kWh, which accounting for 25% of total electricity output of the company; it also expanded the centralized household heating supply scope to 21.5 million m2.
It is understood that the first 61 demonstration enterprises were selected by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology from 99 pilot enterprises. The industries involved include electrical and electronic, machinery, automobiles and accessories, textile, light industry, steel, nonferrous metals, building materials, petrochemical and other fields. TISCO is the only one selected enterprise in Shanxi Province, and one of the two selected enterprises in the steel industry.