08/07/2020

On 19 June 2020, the China Electronic Standardization Association (CESA) published 18 green factory association standards to support the energy saving and comprehensive utilisation standard system, and the green factory standard system. The newly-published standards set evaluation requirements for the green manufacturing of various products, including microcomputers, televisions, printers and multifunctional printers, LCD panels, lithium-ion power batteries, glass substrates, uninterrupted power supply (UPS), flash memory, light emitting diodes (LED) and projectors.

Evaluation requirements are a consistent part of the green factory standard system, which was proposed in September 2016 by MIIT, in the Guidelines on the Construction of the Green Manufacturing Standard System. The Guidelines position the green factory standard system as the subsystem of the green manufacturing standard system; it is composed by three levels of standards:

  • Top-level design, which refers to the national standard GB/T 36132-2018 General Principles for Green Factory Evaluation;
  • Industrial guidelines, for which various sectoral standards have been developed, including SJ/T 11744-2019 Specification for Assessment of Green Factory in Electronic Information products manufacturing; and
  • Product manufacturing evaluation rules and requirements, for which many association standards have been developed mainly to support the implementation of the industrial guidelines. The 18 newly-published association standards belong to this level.

Under the framework of GB/T 36132-2018 General Principles for Green Factory Evaluation and SJ/T 11744-2019 Specification for Assessment of Green Factory in Electronic Information products manufacturing, the new standards stipulate the property indices for the evaluation of green factories in the electronic industry; specify the requirements for infrastructure, management systems, energy and resource inputs, products, environmental emissions and green performance; and clarify evaluation methods. The new standards constitute the foundation of standards for building green factories in the electronic industry.