PepsiCo-Tingyi alliance leads protection of natural resources
PepsiCo-Tingyi, the strategic alliance between PepsiCo and Tingyi, won multiple awards on Monday, for its outstanding water-conservation and energysaving initiatives at the China Beverage Industry Association (CBIA) annual conference held in Shanghai under the theme of “The Environment and Sustainable Development.”
The PepsiCo-Tingyi alliance scooped up 48 percent of the CBIA awards, with 30 of its plants receiving water-conservation excellence awards and 34 facilities receiving energysaving excellence awards. In 2019 12 more PepsiCo-Tingyi plants were honored awards than the previous year. The alliance has continued its winning streak for many years in the CBIA water-and-energy-conservation award ceremony.
Since its formation as China’s leading beverage production system in 2012, the PepsiCo-Tingyi alliance has not only driven the vigorous development of its beverage business, but also achieved outstanding success in water conservation and energy efficiency by leveraging each partner’s resources and advantages, making their plants benchmark green facilities in China’s beverage industry.
James Wei, CEO of Tingyi Holding Corp said: “Advocating energy conservation and environmental protections, and pursuing green development to benefit the current generation and the generations to come is one of our sustainability objectives. Tingyi has been steadfastly committed to sustainable operations, giving back to society and creating a sustainable future by working together to build a better life.”
Tingyi built wastewater treatment stations at its plants and upgraded oxygen-consuming wastewater treatment process, reducing the environmental footprint and ensuring that sewage discharge meets standards on its hardware facilities.
In 2018, Tingyi invested some 32 million yuan ($4.5 million) on new sewage treatment projects and existing systems upgrade, making all of Tingyi’s plants compliant with the third-level sewage discharge standards, among which at least 10 are compliant with both the firstlevel and second-level sewage discharge standards.
Weiwei Yao, SVP & GM, Asia Pacific & China Beverages, said: “PepsiCo has been in China for nearly 40 years, and our commitment to continuous innovation and the integration of green production and operation methods into every aspect of PepsiCo’s business has been widely recognized by the beverage industry. Adhering to the concept of ‘Winning with Purpose,’ we will continue to be consumer-centric and contribute to the healthy and sustainable development of China’s beverage industry while winning market share.”
For many years, PepsiCo
China beverage system has been introducing the firm’s global ReCon (Resource Conservation) system, which uses management tools to help bottling plants improve their water utilization rate and energy consumption. Through the integrated application of improved management and technology systems, including big data analysis of water and energy usage, Pepsi plants saw an overall improvement in terms of consumption in 2018.
PepsiCo’s industry-leading energy-saving best practices include air compressor thermal energy recovery, energy consumption management of critical equipment and steam valve thermal insulation. Looking at water conservation, concentrated water recovery, water usage management and reclaimed water usage in the wastewater treatment processes are some examples of the firm’s efforts.
Another example of sustainable practice is Zhengzhou Pepsi plant, which has seen the continued improvement in its water utilization rate through the implementation of concentrated water recovery system and expanded investment of upgraded wastewater treatment systems. By expanding the reclaimed water storage tanks, reclaimed water usage at the plant has, on average, exceeded 60 percent this year, with some months surpassing 90 percent. That’s compared with an average rate of under 15 percent in 2018. The reclaimed water is not only used to irrigate plants and clean roads at the production facility, but also provide the municipal government with water.