Sichuan Contemporary Amperex Technology Limited (CATL-SC), a wholly-owned 
subsidiary of CATL, received the PAS 2060 certification on carbon neutrality 
from the world's leading testing, inspection and certification company SGS in 
March, making the plant the world's first zero-carbon factory in the new energy 
industry. 

Zhu Yunfeng, general manager of CATL-SC, said the plant has begun to craft the 
zero-carbon roadmap at the early stage of its establishment. Through continuous 
innovation in energy utilization, transportation, logistics, and manufacturing, 
the factory is able to produce more products of higher quality with less raw 
materials and carbon emissions. "Zero carbon" has become one of the core 
competencies of CATL-SC.

CATL-SC has taken multiple measures to reduce carbon emissions. It has 
developed a trailblazing smart plant management system, which enables the 
interconnection of data through automatic capture of the plant system data and 
equipment operation data. Meanwhile, the systematic facility management 
platform helps to realize the safe, reliable, high-efficiency and low-carbon 
operation of the factory. For equipment groups with high-energy consumption, by 
using a global optimization algorithm, it has calculated each sub-equipment's 
operating parameters with the lowest total energy consumption of the system. 

In terms of green manufacturing, CATL-SC has built a central control and 
management system for digital production. Equipped with global visual 
management, it has significantly reduced process losses, and with the support 
of the AI visual inspection system, which features automatic learning and 
extraction of defect characteristics, it has improved the detection rate in 
processes such as slitting and calendaring. All the waste produced during 
manufacturing will be recycled, and the recovery rate of precious metals such 
as nickel, cobalt and manganese can reach 99.3%.

CATL-SC has comprehensively upgraded the logistics chain and factory 
transportation by widely applying driverless logistics vehicles, electric 
forklifts, etc., which enables zero-carbon operation among supplier factories, 
raw material warehouses, processing factories, finished product warehouses, and 
customers' factories. At the same time, employees are encouraged to use 
electric vehicles and shared mobility, thus reducing their carbon footprint in 
all aspects of production and life.

CATL-SC is located in Yibin, southwest China's Sichuan Province. Three rivers, 
namely the Jinsha River, Minjiang River and Yangtze River traverse the city's 
northern part, providing a superior natural environment, unique geographical 
location and abundant water resources, which enables the plant to reduce 
400,000 tons of carbon emissions every year as over 80% of its energy 
consumption comes from hydropower.

The certification marks a significant milestone for CATL towards its carbon 
neutrality goals. As the world's first zero-carbon battery plant, CATL's 
Sichuan plant sets an example of how battery production can be carbon neutral, 
and also offers a brand new solution featuring electrification + zero carbon to 
the market. In the future, CATL will replicate its experiences in the 
"lighthouse factory" in other facilities in an effort to achieve carbon 
neutrality for all its 10 production bases worldwide, thus building a more 
sustainable industry ecosystem and contributing to the global carbon neutrality 
goal.

Source: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd.