Green manufacturing for quality, environmental protection for high-end expansion - Zerun Hardware Products Factory's environmental upgrade
Driven by the global green consumption trend and the environmental protection access standards of the high-end market, Zerun Hardware Products Factory has upgraded its production system with the core of "reducing carbon emissions and energy consumption, and promoting recycling". Through technological innovation and management optimization, it has built an environmental protection competitive advantage. Data shows that since the implementation of the environmental protection upgrade plan, the conversion rate of high-end market inquiries has increased by 32% compared with the same period last year, and environmentally certified products have become the "key" to reaching high-end customers in Europe, America, Japan and South Korea. Please provide the text you would like translated.
Zerun Hardware has carried out a full-process technological innovation to lay a solid foundation for environmental protection. Starting from the production source, it has established a three-dimensional environmental protection system of "process optimization + equipment upgrading + material innovation". In terms of green production processes, it has comprehensively promoted dry cutting and laser processing technologies to replace traditional wet cutting processes. By using ceramic-coated tools and intelligent cooling systems, it has achieved zero discharge of cutting fluids. Each furniture leg production line saves 1.2 tons of water per day on average and reduces energy consumption by 28%. For the surface treatment, a key pollution link, the company has abandoned the chromium passivation process and introduced lead-free and nickel-free environmentally friendly spraying technology. It has also built a fully automatic waste gas purification system. The concentration of particulate matter emissions is far below the national limit standards, and the treated waste gas can be directly recycled for heating in the workshop. Please provide the text you would like translated.
Equipment upgrade and material innovation are advancing in tandem: 36 high-efficiency and energy-saving motors have been installed throughout the workshop, and an IoT energy consumption monitoring system has been adopted to achieve precise power control, saving over 8,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per month on average. Recyclable aluminum alloy and high-strength recycled carbon steel are prioritized, and a closed-loop system of "used products - classified disassembly - purification and remelting" has been established, raising the raw material utilization rate from 75% to 91% and reducing the annual solid waste generation by approximately 20 tons. These measures not only lower environmental compliance costs but also make the products more in line with the demands of the high-end market due to their "low-carbon genes". Please provide the text you would like translated.
With the support of a certification system, Zerun Hardware has broken through the high-end market. To overcome the environmental barriers in the international market, Zerun Hardware spent eight months completing multiple authoritative certification layouts and successively obtained the EU RoHS Directive compliance certification, China Environmental Label Product Certification, and ECOVADIS Silver-level assessment qualification. These certifications have become the core competitiveness for the company to connect with high-end customers: In the recent cooperation negotiations with a certain high-end furniture brand in Germany, its environmental certification report and carbon footprint calculation data successfully impressed the other party, enabling the company to stand out among five bidders and sign an order for 1.2 million sets of furniture feet for the year. The environmentally friendly series of products launched for the North American market, which comply with California Proposition 65 standards, received 23 inquiries in the first month after going online, with a conversion rate of 47%, far exceeding the industry average. Please provide the text you would like translated.
"Nowadays, high-end customers first ask about environmental protection standards. Our certification qualifications and detailed emission reduction data have at least doubled the communication efficiency," said Manager Li, the sales director. The enterprise has specially produced a "Green Production Traceability Manual", visually presenting data such as the source of raw materials, production energy consumption, and recycling plans, which has become an important reference material for customer inspections. Please provide the text you would like translated.
Zerun Hardware has established a long-term mechanism of "environmental protection target assessment + full participation": each month, energy consumption and emission data of each workshop are publicly displayed, and environmental protection indicators are linked to employee performance; a "green process mini-classroom" is set up to train employees in energy-saving operation skills and waste classification norms. Currently, the adoption rate of employee environmental protection suggestions has reached 68%, among which the "precise cutting plan for scraps" has achieved an annual material cost savings of 150,000 yuan. Please provide the text you would like translated.
The person in charge of the enterprise pointed out that environmental protection investment is by no means a burden, but a "value investment" in the high-end market. Next, Zerun Hardware will introduce a photovoltaic power supply system and an intelligent carbon management platform, and plans to reduce the carbon footprint of its products by another 15% within the year. It will also join hands with upstream and downstream enterprises to build a green supply chain alliance. "By converting environmental protection advantages into product competitiveness, we can not only continuously improve the conversion rate of high-end inquiries, but also provide a replicable practical sample for the green transformation of the hardware industry."