Handa Enterprises adheres to the "dual carbon" goal to lead green development, integrating the "dual carbon" concept throughout the entire process of sustainable development, and balancing the relationship between corporate development and energy conservation and emission reduction. Based on its own operational conditions and business characteristics, the enterprise conducted carbon emission accounting for all factories and branches at home and abroad starting from the base year of 2021.

After calculation, in 2023, the total carbon emission of Handa Enterprise was 27,228.96 tCO2e (excluding scope three), among which domestic emissions were 22,209.83 tCO2e and overseas emissions were 5,019.13 tCO2e.

Note: The above data include all domestic and overseas factories

Action of Emission Reduction

Reduce energy consumption in office and production processes, enhance energy efficiency, and thereby reduce carbon emissions.

• Electrification renovation of equipment.

• Identify energy-saving and emission-reduction measures, including equipment insulation, steam usage efficiency, optimization of efficiency such as shaping machine air compressors, etc.

• Eliminate old and high-energy-consumption production equipment, and introduce low-energy-consumption, low-power equipment.

• Replace fuel vehicles with new energy vehicles (cars, trucks, etc.).

In 2023, the company actively took action to reduce emissions. All five fuel vehicles in Wuxi headquarters were replaced with new energy vehicles for daily business and work needs.

Applying insulation coatings to dyeing vats effectively reduces heat loss. This measure can save up to 10% of steam consumption, resulting in a monthly reduction of approximately 40 tons of carbon dioxide emissions.

To install a heat recovery system on the dryer, recover the heat energy of the exhaust air from the dryer and exchange it with fresh air at room temperature to solve the problem of heat energy waste in the dryer. This can effectively reduce the consumption of natural gas.

The dyeing and printing factory uses natural gas direct combustion, which improves energy utilization efficiency compared with heat transfer oil heating. It reduces thermal energy loss and carbon emissions.

In order to reduce energy consumption and emissions in the production process, Wuxi Garment Factory introduced an energy-saving steam generator. Since September 2023, it has completely stopped purchasing external steam; Yunnan factory will fully stop using boiler steam by the end of 2023 and switch to electric steam generators.

The newly introduced steam generator adopts advanced energy-saving and environmental protection technology. Its thermal energy conversion efficiency and steam output efficiency are very high, which can fully utilize energy, significantly reduce energy consumption, and thus reduce carbon emissions.

Energy Transition

We will increase the proportion of green energy in our energy structure and comprehensively supervise energy use. 

• Build distributed photovoltaic power generation to fully realize the use of renewable energy; 

• Build an intelligent visual system for energy management, and promote sustainable energy management of the company. 

In order to actively seek and explore green sustainable energy solutions, the company built a solar photovoltaic project on the roof of its Wuxi factory and dyeing factory. The project was successfully connected to the grid for power generation on October 19, 2023, taking an important step towards the era of green energy.

Handa Enterprise's subsidiary company, Wuxi Hengbo Textile Co., Ltd. has successfully passed the energy management system audit and obtained the certificate. Through the certification of the energy management system, it achieved accurate measurement and statistical analysis of energy consumption, effectively identified waste links in energy use and potential for energy saving, providing strong support for formulating targeted energy-saving measures.

Wastewater Management

As a critical aspect of wastewater management, the printing and dyeing factory receives high attention from the company headquarters. In accordance with the requirements of environmental protection authorities, the printing and dyeing factory has installed online monitoring systems for wastewater discharge and effective operation of wastewater flow meters. It has also entrusted third-party qualified operation agencies to carry out operation maintenance and regular calibration to ensure the accuracy and effectiveness of instruments, with an annual environmental facility operation rate of over 99%. The company has obtained national pollution discharge permits and timely submits pollution discharge permit compliance reports.

In order to strengthen environmental protection monitoring and governance, enterprises set up wastewater treatment monitoring rooms in dyeing factories to ensure that the wastewater treatment process is strictly controlled. At the same time, video surveillance was installed at key facilities such as sewage discharge outlets to achieve all-day round-the-clock monitoring without blind spots.

Waste Management

Strengthening waste gas management is also a key measure to promote the sustainable development of enterprises. The printing and dyeing factories of enterprises install automatic online monitoring instruments and video surveillance for waste gas treatment facilities, connect with environmental protection platforms, realize real-time data transmission and supervision. In addition, the factory has established equipment maintenance and management system to ensure normal operation of equipment.

In 2023, a total of 226,920 tons of condensate water, process cooling water, recycled water and reuse water were collected throughout the year, accounting for 25.1% of the total water consumption. Compared with 2022, energy consumption per unit value decreased by 1.56%.

In 2023, the total amount of enterprise discharge fees for the whole year was RMB 5,155,648.

During the reporting period, no environmental pollution accidents occurred in enterprises. No complaints about environmental pollution were received and there was no legal punishment for violating relevant environmental regulations.