Under the consensus of the global response to climate change, “carbon neutrality” has become the core strategic goal of all countries. China has clearly proposed a “dual-carbon” target and adopted policies such as the “14th Five-Year Plan for the Green Development of Industry”, which require energy-consuming industries to accelerate low-carbon transformation.
Guangdong Province, as a national home appliance manufacturing base, has introduced policies such as the Action Plan for the Development of Intelligent Home Appliance Strategic Pillar Industry Cluster in Guangdong Province (2023-2025), which focuses on supporting home appliance enterprises to carry out digitalization, networking, intelligence and green transformation. Implement intelligent manufacturing and build intelligent factories and digital workshops. Promote the construction of green manufacturing system for home appliances, and create a number of green products, green factories, green supply chains and green parks in the field of home appliances.
TCL Delonghi Household Appliances (Zhongshan) Co., Ltd. is a joint venture company invested by TCL Group and Italy Delonghi Group.TCL Delonghi is committed to the cause of air quality improvement, and endeavors to provide a more comfortable environment for human beings, and is one of the important research and development institutes of portable air-conditioners and dehumidifiers, and is also a professional production base of portable A/C and dehumidifiers.
As a global leading portable air conditioner and dehumidifier company, the factory production process involves multiple high energy consumption processes. Under the double pressure of the new carbon footprint disclosure regulation of the European Union's Eco-design for Sustainable Products (ESPR) regulation and the carbon neutrality requirement of the supply chain of international customers, the construction of zero-carbon factories is not only a technological breakthrough in carbon tariff barriers, but also a strategic pivot for reshaping global green competitiveness. Meanwhile, as a high-energy-consumption industry, the core processes of white goods manufacturing, such as metal processing, injection molding and refrigerant charging, have long been facing the problems of low energy-efficiency utilization and fluoride emission control.
Although TCL Delonghi Home Appliances has increased its production capacity through renovation and expansion projects in the past, issues such as refrigerant usage and recovery rate not meeting the target, and low utilization of green energy are still restricting its sustainable development. At the same time, global headline corporate clients have begun to demand carbon footprint data from suppliers and to incorporate low-carbon capabilities into their cooperation thresholds.
In response to the policy call of the state and Zhongshan City, the factory actively promotes the construction of green energy system. In recent years TCL Delonghi has achieved remarkable results in green and low carbon by gradually carrying out a series of technical transformation work such as natural gas switching and using compressed air energy-saving technology.
Meanwhile, jointly with Zhongshan Energy Company, the company successfully deployed a package of clean energy systems such as distributed photovoltaic and energy storage, with a cumulative deployment of 1.23 MW of photovoltaic and an annual power generation of 1.26 million kWh; the designed capacity of the energy storage is 0.5MW/1MWH, and the annual power supply reaches 470,000 kWh; the enterprise can reduce the cost of electricity by more than 10%, significantly enhance the efficiency and reduce the dependence on fossil energy. The certification of zero-carbon factory makes the enterprise's products more competitive and further deepens the cooperative relationship with customers. Secondly, in the process of preparing for the Zero Carbon Factory certification, the company has carried out green renovation and upgrading to reduce corporate costs and improve resource recycling rate, so as to satisfy customers' demand for green products. The “Zero Carbon Factory” is also a practice of corporate social responsibility, adding vitality to the further development of Zhongshan's “Double Carbon” policy.
At the same time, the successful experience of the factory can provide a replicable transformation template for small and medium-sized enterprises in the same industry: through the mode of “low-cost technological reform + accurate carbon offset”, the emission reduction target can be realized within a limited budget. This practice not only responds to the national “dual-carbon” strategy, but also reshapes the rules of competition in the industry, promoting the white goods industry to shift from “passive compliance” to “active innovation”, and providing a vivid sample for the green upgrading of China's manufacturing industry. The practice will not only respond to the national “dual-carbon” strategy, but also reshape the competitive rules of the industry, pushing the white goods industry from “passive compliance” to “active innovation” and providing a vivid sample for China's manufacturing industry to upgrade.
