Protecting the Earth For More Than One Hour

Every year, Earth Hour attempts to focus global attention on the importance of reducing humanity’s collective impact on the natural environment. It is a yearly reminder about the importance of transitioning to a low-carbon future and the need to implement new energy-saving behaviours and technologies. It reminds living generations about their critical responsibility as stewards of the Earth to ensure future generations are born into a sustainable natural environment. While Earth Hour is an important focal point to reaffirm the commitment and efforts to protect the Earth must be focused and ongoing.  

 As a leading participant in the new energy industry, Ganfeng is devoted to improving the sustainability of the world by enabling the transition to a low-carbon economy. We support the development of new energy with a strict energy-saving operation system.

Supporting New Energy Industry

Helping the global transition to a low-carbon economy

Ganfeng has provided about 260,000 tons of lithium salt products for the new energy industry chain over the past 20 years and helped reduce more than 12.5 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions from 2015 to 2020.

Energy Storage System

Our energy storage systems include large-scale storage systems (above MW grade), smaller systems (below MW grade), uninterrupted power supply and online platforms for online business, etc. We use Lithium Iron Phosphate which is a safer, more environmentally friendly chemical since it does not contain any heavy metals. Our comprehensive industry chains can effectively recycle used batteries, in order to achieve sustainability.

Battery recycling project

The creation of a complete battery recycling system allows resources and energy in waste materials to be fully and effectively recycled. Battery recycling systems are conducive to both environmental protection as well as the sustainable development of society.

Products with low carbon feature

Last year, Lithium hydroxide monohydrate, one of Ganfeng's major products gained the 'Carbon Label' certification issued by China Electronic Energy Saving Association, and Ganfeng is the first lithium producer to obtain this certificate in China.

Conducting Energy-Saving Operation

Set emission control and energy consumption target

Ganfeng Lithium encourages plants to formulate emission reduction and efficiency enhancement goals after statistical analysis of exhaust gas, water use, energy consumption and carbon emissions during the production process based on historical operating data and production capacity forecasts.

Sustainable development goals for our Mahong plant:

Argentina's Mariana Project plans for 100% sustainable electricity

To reduce the carbon footprint and provide sustainable carbon-free energy, Ganfeng Lithium plans to build a 120 MW photovoltaic power generation + energy storage project as an energy supply solution. This is one of the few corporate projects in the plateau region of Salta Province that can provide a 100% continuous energy supply. By using solar power, we can avoid the release of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. In this case, 157,000 tons of carbon dioxide can be mitigated each year, thereby realizing the circular mode of lithium mining, product manufacturing and product use, conducive to environmental protection. Most excitingly, it will be the first lithium project using 100% green energy in the world.

Waste management in the Cauchari-Olaroz project in Argentina

The Cauchari-Olaroz project was designed with a waste management solution, which mainly includes:

The project uses all useful organic waste for composting. On the one hand, it can reduce the final disposal of waste. On the other hand, it can increase the amount of natural fertilizer and increase employees' awareness of the importance of waste management practices. Some recyclable waste is sent to recycling companies, which after being recycled will benefit schools, municipalities, and communities.

The project has classified all wastes and used different treatment methods to effectively treat or reuse all wastes.

Efficient treatment of wastewater in the Cauchari-Olaroz project in Argentina

The Cauchari-Olaroz project team has realized that the water used by the project is crucial in the process of project implementation. Therefore, Minera Exar is committed to responsible and transparent water management. From a long-term perspective, our water resources management plan includes:

Adopting photovoltaic power in the Cauchari-Olaroz project, Argentina

The Cauchari-Olaroz project site is rich in sunshine and is adjacent to the CAUCHARI 300MW smart photovoltaic power station, the largest such in South America. Compared with thermal power generation, annual carbon emissions have been reduced by about 598,000 tons. After the project is completed, it will use the electricity generated by solar energy and evaporation by sunlight to mine the salt lake.

Water recycling in Mahong plant

Starting in 2020, Ganfeng Lithium began to recycle the condensed water and sewage in Mahong plant. Heat exchange was performed between the high-level secondary condensate water (75-85°C) produced in the workshop and the LiOH solution (-5-10°C) produced by cooling to supplement the tap water supply to the cooling tower, and the sewage recovered from the cooling tower through pipelines was used for sprinkling and workshop floor washing to effectively improve the utilization rate of water resources. After the transformation, the annual water consumption was reduced by 186,600 cubic meters.

Ganfeng Mahong plant switches to new energy forklifts

Beginning in 2020, the Mahong plant started to replace diesel-fueled forklifts with electric ones for all forklifts to be purchased for added production and ordinary tires of some forklifts with environmentally friendly ones.

Energy-saving transformation of dehumidifiers in Xinyu Ganfeng Electronics

After the transformation, it is estimated that the annual electricity consumption can be reduced by about 920,000 kWh based on the actual operation effect.

Earth Protection is a permanent topic of each enterprise and individual, it also requires massive, detailed work, we are glad to be a part of it. Ganfeng will continually focus on innovative and sustainable development to help build a green future.