The Xi ‘an plant of Honeywell Intelligent Building Technology Group has been successfully selected into the fourth batch of green manufacturing list in Shaanxi Province published by the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, and won the title of “Green Factory”. Honeywell is actively responding to the “dual carbon” goal, while promoting its own sustainable development, and working with Chinese partners to jointly promote sustainable solutions to help local customers achieve low-carbon transformation. This “Green Factory” designation is another recognition of Honeywell’s commitment and contribution to sustainability.

Pictured: Honeywell’s Xi ‘an plant

Established in 1994, Honeywell’s Xi ‘an plant (Xi ‘an Suncel Electronics Co., LTD.) is one of Honeywell’s first joint ventures in China. Its main products involve fire protection, security, building intelligence integration and other fields, and has now developed into a global production base integrating first-class research and development, manufacturing and service. From this factory to the country and even the world of high-quality products, especially fire security products are widely used in all kinds of buildings, including Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, Beijing Daxing International Airport, Lujiazui Group Zhangjiang Science City and other landmark projects, has made outstanding contributions to China’s fire security cause.

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“As a longtime practitioner and enabler of sustainability, Honeywell has more than 100 years of experience in sustainability and is committed to helping customers achieve their sustainability goals while advancing their own energy savings and emissions.” Chen Yan, vice president and general manager, Greater China, Honeywell Intelligent Building Technology Group, said, “We are honored to be awarded the ‘Green Factory’ title in Shaanxi Province. In the future, we will continue to promote sustainable development projects and use our business operations as a testing ground for technological innovation to provide customers with diversified, cost-effective and low-carbon sustainable products, technologies and solutions to help achieve China’s ‘carbon peak’ and ‘carbon neutral’ goals.”

Xi ‘an Factory continues to promote the creation of “green factory” by means of land intensification, harmless raw materials, clean production, waste resource utilization and low energy carbonization. Especially in the field of low energy carbonization, Xi ‘an factory makes full use of clean energy and renewable energy, and actively promotes more than 30 sustainable improvement projects in recent years, including solar photovoltaic, water reuse, air compressor waste heat recovery, reflux furnace fixed frequency upgrade frequency conversion. After the implementation of the energy-saving improvement project, a total of about 3 tons of hazardous waste emissions will be reduced in 2022, and a total of 980,000 KWH of electricity will be saved, equivalent to reducing 559 tons of carbon dioxide emissions.

In addition, the Xi ‘an plant also plans to implement nine projects in 2023, including renewable energy utilization projects, energy efficiency equipment replacement projects, clean raw material use projects, and aims to be put into use by the end of this year. In April 2021, Honeywell committed to achieving carbon neutrality for all of its business operations and facilities by 2035. Honeywell will continue its commitment to sustainability with a package of initiatives including increased investment in energy efficiency projects, adoption of renewable energy, completion of asset improvement projects for business facilities and company vehicles, and use of reliable carbon credits. Since 2004, Honeywell has reduced the greenhouse gas emissions intensity of its operations and facilities by more than 90 percent.

In China, Honeywell is also committed to the company’s sustainability commitments and to China’s sustainable development goals of peaking carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2060, and is currently in the process of “green factory” certification for several plants. Honeywell’s core business aligns with the needs of the Chinese market, and together with its Chinese partners, Honeywell is driving sustainable development across a wide range of industries to help achieve a more low-carbon, efficient, safe and healthy sustainable future.