Driving Towards the Economy to Sustainable Growth (Bio-Circular-Green Economy - BCG)
Circular Economy, Green Economy and Bio Economy
TPI Polene Power Group recognizes the importance of resource utilization amidst the accelerating growth rate of the world population. Meanwhile, supply of limited natural resources and an inefficient consumption lead to more waste and depletion of natural resources in economic cycles, which inevitably worsens the climate change problem, that in turn accelerates resource scarcity while greenhouse gas emissions result in global warming. This is primarily caused by waste from consumption, including the impact of marine waste.
"We are depleting the natural resources of the descendant’s generation” - this sentence reflects the absolute necessity to realize more on the efficient consumption of natural resources, including raw materials energy as well as the measures to be taken for environmental impact reduction and waste overflow, all of which result in global warming. TPI Polene Power Group is committed to playing a role in solving such problems for our planet with a commitment to embrace the policy of the “Circular Economy”, a global sustainability concept that will be completed at all stages of business operation, from research and development planning, production processes to the delivery of products to consumers. Waste from one process is a raw-material for another to maximize the benefits of resource utilization. In a bio-based economy, material cycles are efficient and sustainable in the supply chain in the business, social and community sectors.
TPI Polene Power Group has established the policy for the group of companies, aimed at sustainable development by implementing “Circular Economy” to be mainstreamed as global sustainability concepts to maximize the benefits of resource utilization and the continual use of resources, eliminating waste. Circular systems employ reuse, remanufacturing and recycling to reduce environmental pollution, minimizing the use of resource inputs and the creation of waste, pollution and carbon emissions, with the key objective to reduce carbon dioxide emission in the atmosphere, which cause global warming by using renewable energy into the production process. In addition, TPI Polene Group aims to improve the group's production efficiency and products under the concept of renewable biological resources and the conversion of these resources and waste streams into value added products to support the country's agricultural sector in the country.
The joining of the three initiatives, the Circular economy, the Green economy and the Bio economy represents the implementation of the economy towards sustainable development, and as mutually supportive concepts, which is called Bio-Circular-Green Economy (BCG), a business model innovation to drive TPI Polene Power Group to grow with globally competitive advantages and to diversify income to communities by protecting the surrounding environment to further enhance the sustainable growth.
TPI Polene Power Group has taken every step of its business operations, from research and development, procurement of resources, raw materials and energy, and put it under circular systems by recycling and employing reuse methods to reduce environmental pollution. The production process is now efficient in both resource consumption and environmental protection. The key objective is to manufacture green products that are environmentally friendly, under the circular economy concept, and this objective continues in all areas including sales, logistic systems, and after sales services. Consumers are also a part of creating a green world. The business continuity of TPI Polene Power Group can be summarized as follows:
- Green Research and Development
- Product development with the use of Alternative Raw materials
- Product development with the use of recycle raw materials
- High quality product development to reduce consumer consumption
- Product design to reduce to reduce energy consumption in production
- Production of products for decoration to replace the use of natural resources
- New product innovations to respond to the applications and as green products.
- Procurement of Raw materials and Energy Resource
- Use of raw material sources with minimal impact on resources and the environment such as:
- Selection of raw materials from suppliers who use material, such as recycled paper, which are used to produce cement bags or spare parts that can be used with steel from the original parts to be re-reduced., etc.;
- Construction of rainwater storage ponds instead of using water from natural sources.
- Cost-effective use of all parts of the raw material by reusing and recycling, such as:
- The rest or the low quality portion of the limestone from the cement production process will be used to produce construction stones, sand, construction soil, and mortar raw materials, etc. using all parts of limestone without creating waste;
- Recycle sewage water from cooling towers will be improved to be reused instead of disposing of the wastewater;
- Lubricants/oil for engines are reused as fuel.
- Use of renewable raw materials from waste recycling, such as:
- The use of bottom ash from power plants as substitute raw material in the cement production process;
- The use of fly ash from power plants as a substitute for cement;
- Recycling bottom ash in power plants to replace sand to fill bed levels.
- Renewable Alternative Raw Material
- The use of limestone left over from construction stone mills instead of using river sand
in power plants;
- The use of limestone dust as a substitute for the use of clinker in the cement production
process;
- Use of waste water in RDF plants in bio fertilizer production.
- Renewable Fuels
- Processing of municipal waste as a substitute for fuel in RDF power plants and cement
Plants;
- Lubricants, tires, or scrap material from processes in heating plants are used as fuel.
- Renewable Energy
- Electricity generation from renewable power plants or RDF power plants;
- Production of oil from tires in Pyrolysis plant.
- Heat Recovery
- The use of recovery heat from production processes to warm the raw materials in raw meal and coal grinding machines;
- The use of recovery heat from steam production process for electricity generation and light weight concrete production.
- High efficiency and low emission process
- High efficiency production process and production machinery:
- The use of machines with high energy efficiency such as invertor;
- Modification of clinker cooler machine to produce clinker to reduce energy consumption;
- Factory crater with Vertex design to reduce energy consumption;
- The use of a belt conveyor to transport limestones from the quarry and being able to
generate electricity back to the system instead of using trucks;.
- The use of mobile crushers to lessen rock/aggregate transportation;
- Implementation of various energy conservation projects.
- The use of process automation production control system for accuracy in the production process:
- The use of process automation systems to control production from the central control room;
- Combustion control program for fuel and power consumption reduction to obtain high
quality clinker;
- The use of IOT and data technology for data management to increase production efficiency.
- Controlling and reducing the environmental impact from the production process:
- Installation of air quality monitoring systems to measure air emitted from the factory
crater, by using Continuous Emission Monitoring (CEM);
- Installation of filtration devices and electrostatic precipitators (ESP);
- Installation of truck wheel washers in various transportation in the factory, including
contractors’ trucks;
- Roof covering to store raw materials and coal to control dispersion.
- The use of automation machinery or robots in production process:
- The use of automation machinery to store raw material samples, products for quality
analysis to control production process;
- Using robots to perform tasks such as products packaging;
- Using robots to perform welding and maintenance work.
- Green Products
- Products that have been certified under both domestic and international standards;
- High quality products that can reduce consumption to maintain job quality;
- Products that are convenient for transportation, storage, and use;
- Products that are environmentally friendly;
- Products that can save energy in real use;
- Products that can get rid of scrap with are no hazardous contamination in products and packaging.
- Sales, Transportation and Services
- Packaging design in cargo transportation;
- Process Automation system to unload goods;
- Promoting efficient transportation and reducing environmental and community impact;
- Using digital platforms to sell and transport;
- Servicing customers in the use of products for optimal performance.
- Use of waste products from consumption for renewable use