Environment

Bringing Sustainability to Our Chinese Facilities

Since 2018 and strenuously during 2020, we manage an ambitious project to improve our environmental impact of our Chinese facilities by relocating them from the old commercial quarters of their respective cities to new industrial parks while upgrading its environmental design.

The relocation of Sanonda was completed at the end of 2020. The new plant is already at commissioning stage, including two state-of-the-art regenerative thermal oxidizers, upgraded biological wastewater treatment plant, odor and noise control. Special attention was given to infrastructure eliminating the risk of soil and groundwater contamination. Minimizing hazardous waste disposal is planned by the operation of designated solid and liquid incinerators.

Similar systems are going to be installed during the relocation of Anpon, which plan to be finalized during 2023. Meanwhile, in order to ensure continuity in production, waste gas systems were installed at the old site.

A list of the environmental systems being implemented

Waste type	Environmental systems being implemented	Sanonda	Anpon
Wastewater	Biological treatment	+	+
	Membrane filtration	+	+
	Waste gas treatment	+	+
Air and Odor	Organized source treatment by thermal oxidizers	+	+
	Non-organized sources treatment by adsorption system	+	+
	Comprehensive organized and nonorganized source capture system	+	+
Hazardous Waste	Solid and liquid incinerators	+	_
Soil and Groundwater	Isolated floor and drainage ditches surrounding workshop and facilities	+	+

Absolute performance indicators for ADAMA’s Chinese entities, pre-relocation (2020)

Parameter	2019	2020
Investment in HSE facilities, million USD	21	9.5
Total Energy consumption, Tj	8,992	7,506
Used energy sources (%):
• Electricity	24	42.4
• Steam	0	7
• Internal production (Fossil Fuels)	76	50.6
Water consumption, m3	6,707,923	8,037,799
NOx, tonne	201	34
SOx, tonne	130	4
CO2**, tonne	620,207	1,059,181
TOC in effluents, tonne	95	188
Hazardous waste, tonne	13,798	14,061