"It's our policy that performing business activities should not adversely affect the safety or health of our employees, the community, or our business partners’ employees, and should fit with the concept of sustainable development."
Following the requirements of ISO 14001, ISO 45001, and applicable national laws and standards, we established our EHS system and granted ISO 14001, and ISO 45001 certificates. Besides the good track record of specific EHS inspection initiated by the top multinational pharmaceutical companies, we are proud of passing the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Initiative (PSCI) inspection and the Silver score of EcoVadis.
Beyond the comprehensive EHS management system, we are the advocate of EHS by design. The eco-friendly synthesis route, solvents, and workup process are always in our consideration when the project is initiated. We continuously improve the process to reduce the solvent, wastewater, and solid, or develop the green chemistry process including flow chemistry, biocatalysis, photochemistry reaction, etc., to minimize the impact on the environment and our employees.
Energy saving and emission reduction commitments - Zhejiang Langhua Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. has always attached importance to safety, environmental protection, occupational health, and sustainable development of enterprises, and has paid attention to work in these areas.
According to product structure adjustment and company production plan, the company promises to reduce carbon emissions by 20% by 2030(based on 2020), reduce water consumption per 10,000 yuan output by 25% by 2025(based on 2020), and reduce solid waste generation per 10,000 yuan output by 50% by 2025(based on 2020). In 2024, the company will make the following commitments in terms of water consumption control and energy saving:
1. Water consumption (per 10,000 yuan output): 2024 will be 5.6% lower than in 2023
2. Energy consumption (per 10,000 yuan output): 2024 will be 2.5% lower than 2023
We have invested 2 Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer (RTO) with the capacity of 30,000 M3/h+20,000M3/h(back up) already, and we plan to replace the 20,000 M3/h RTO with one new 30,000 M3/h RTO in Q4 2024. And the waste water treatment station with capacity of 2,000M3/day.
Provides regular check-ups to all employees and all kinds of protection facilities for occupational diseases and the labor protection articles, and the occupational-disease-inductive factors tested periodically.
The company has established a comprehensive fire safety accident prevention system construction leading group "grid management", to improve the company's fire safety accident prevention level.
We set up the safety management committee, to manage safety in the system, including regular systematic assessment of potential risks taking effective control measures, and implementing strict controls for chemicals. We conduct the process safety evaluation and risk assessment for all the newly introduced processes prior to manufacture.