Sustainability Management
Environment
Environmental management policy
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Sungshin Cement's principle of management is to fulfill our social responsibilities to prevent environmental pollution and continuously maintain the vitality of nature that enables humans to live. -
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Sungshin Cement focuses our capabilities on the recycling of resources and the management of circulating resources so that we can protect, restore, and maintain the clean nature inherited from our ancestors, thereby handing nature that enables sustainable development down to our descendants. -
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Sungshin Cement actively participates in improving and protecting the local environment through cooperation with local communities and stakeholders based on transparent and reliable environmental management. -
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Sungshin Cement identifies and evaluates the impact on the environment throughout all processes of manufacturing, distribution, and consumption of products and complies with and manages all environment-related laws and regulations and our declarations, agreements, and discussions more than necessary. -
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Sungshin Cement establishes and implements environmental goals and the detailed plans for effective implementation of environmental management policies and continuously conducts environmental improvement activities through self-evaluation of the environment. -
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Sungshin Cement establishes an autonomous environmental management system by enabling the active implementation of environmental conservation activities through assigning responsibilities and obligations for the environmental conservation activities to all employees and providing them with opportunities to improve their environmental management capabilities and cultivate awareness of environmental conservation through necessary education and training.
Environmental management system
Sungshin Cement is operating a management system that seeks to promote both environmental
preservation and economic growth while minimizing environmental damages inevitably derived
from production activities of companies.
Opreational goals and directions of environmental management
- Environmental management governance
- Sungshin Cement is practicing environmental management under the supervision of our Environment Team that not only deliberates on goals, performances, and main issues for environment, but also leads consultations on major environmental issues by business site. Thus, we are promoting the continuous improvement of environmental performances, and the meeting results are reported even to the top management.
- Environmental management performance evaluation system
- We have established and systematically managed key performance indicators regarding environment. We have set the greenhouse emission per unit and NOx emission concentration as those indicators and have been practicing environmental management with goals beyond legal standards.
Environmental goals
| Category | 2022 Goal |
2022 Performance |
2023 Goal |
2024 Goal |
2023~2024 Goal Achievement Plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Greenhouse Gas Emission Unit (tonCO2-eq/t-cement) |
0.721 | 0.766 | 0.721 | 0.721 |
Expansion of circulating resource use and establishment of input infrastructure |
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Nitrogen Oxide Concentration (ppm) |
120 or less | 154 | 120 or less | 120 or less |
Process improvement and SNCR objects (Increasing efficiency) |
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Dust Emission Unit (g/ton-clinker) |
4.89 | 5.84 | 4.89 | 4.89 |
Improved efficiency of filter dust collector and electric precipitator |
Response to environmental laws
Sungshin Cement strives to minimize emissions by establishing goals to reduce pollutant
emissions beyond the legal standards stipulated in environmental laws and regulations in all
business activities. All environmental activities are based on environmental procedures and
guidelines that clearly define the scope, responsibilities, authorities, and procedures for the
environmental activities. Environmental procedures and guidelines are regularly enacted and
revised in accordance with the revision of ISO 14001:2015.
Investment in the environment
Sungshin Cement is implementing energy saving activities while reducing environmental impact
through investment in the environment in various ways, such as improvement and maintenance
of air pollutant emission prevention facilities, operation of measurement facilities for the
concentration of air pollutant emissions, installation of ESS, securing of storage
facilities for circulating resources, capacity enhancement of facilities to input
circulating resources, installation of high-efficiency inverters, installation of scattering
dust prevention facilities, improvement of wind power facilities to replace fossil fuels,
installation of LED lights, etc.
Environmental risk management
- Background and purpose
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- Strengthening the environmental risk management system
- Sungshin Cement is making the following efforts to minimize the risks of environmental pollution and effectively reduce the impact of possible environmental accidents.
Beyond the
Social Responsibility
