“Ichitan Group” granted 2 environmental awards: Green Industry Level 4 “Ichitan Group” granted 2 environmental awards: Green Industry Level 4 Following Green production policy to reduce, replace, retreat and recycle energy, ICHITAN implements Solar Roof and deploying clean energy in manufacturing, and later granted 2 environmental awards, namely Green Industry Level 4 and Thailand Voluntary Emission Reduction: T-VER.

Ichitan Green Factory covers an area of 76 Rai with 30,000 m2 of manufacturing space. It is comprised of 8 production lines (6 bottling lines with 2 UHT lines). The factory’s maximum capacity reaches 12 billion bottles and 200 million cartons per year. The 2,544-kWp solar panel installed on the factory roof of 25,000 m2 can generate up to 3,354 MW of clean energy and could reduce Greenhouse gas emission by 747 tons per annum.

Tan Passakornnatee, President and CEO of Ichitan Group PLC., revealed that “Ichitan deliberately produces eco-friendly products. Each bottle or carton is ensured to be harmless to the environment. Green investment is considering a vital for private sectors to join responsibility to our society. The world is now changing rapidly and it has a greater impact on us. A few years ago, we heard about North pole ice melting issue and we thought it had nothing to do with us. But now we can see that this year many areas in Thailand suffered from flooding and it is getting more severe. Therefore, it is time to really think about the environmental issues and take action to protect the nature.

We have installed the Solar Roof at our factory to generate clean energy and exploit less the nature. It allows us not only to reduce Greenhouse gas emissions by 747 ton per year but to decrease annual energy expense by 14.4 million Baht as well.”

As a result of the effort in developing green factory, Ichitan Group has been awarded with Green Industry Level 4 2017 by Department of Industrial Works, Ministry of Industry. The prize guarantees that the company has succeeded in running an environmentally friendly business for sustainable growth and that it does hold genuine social responsibility to preserve the nature. Recently, Ichitan also won another award from the Thailand Voluntary Emission Reduction : T-VER program organized by Thailand Greenhouse Gas Management Organization (Public Organization) or TGO.