en.Wedoany.com Reported - On the occasion of Engineers' Day on June 6, the Chinese Institute of Engineers awarded the 115th "Outstanding Engineer Award," with Chen Zhixian, plant manager of Asia Cement's Hualien plant, becoming the first and only engineer in the cement industry to receive this honor. President Lai Ching-te recently met with all award recipients, encouraging the engineering community to jointly promote the dual transformation of digitalization and net-zero emissions. The award covers engineering fields including semiconductors, ICT, biotechnology, public construction, and traditional manufacturing. Chen Zhixian's recognition alongside elites from the high-tech industry marks a high level of national engineering endorsement for Asia Cement's long-promoted low-carbon green engineering technologies.
Chen Zhixian has worked in Asia Cement's manufacturing system for 36 years, consistently integrating circular economy principles into production processes. Through his and his team's joint efforts, Asia Cement became the fourth cement company in Asia to receive validation for its 1.5°C carbon reduction target from the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), and has exceeded reduction targets for six consecutive years. In recent years, the company has been included in S&P Global's Sustainability Yearbook and achieved the highest A-grade rating in the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) climate change assessment. Asia Cement's Hualien plant has been recognized 11 times by Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs as an "Outstanding Industrial Greenhouse Gas Reduction Enterprise," maintaining the record for the most awards received by a single factory nationwide.
In terms of green manufacturing processes, the Hualien plant has cross-industry assisted in handling 13 types of industrial waste across 23 categories, including water purification sludge, incineration bottom ash, steelmaking slag, and waste plastics, with a cumulative resource recycling volume reaching 2.87 million tons over the years. The plant also pioneered the use of confiscated smuggled refrigerants and decommissioned wind turbine blades from renewable energy sources as alternative raw materials and fuels in cement kilns, setting a new benchmark for circular economy in Taiwan's heavy industry. Asia Cement has also become the first cement company in Taiwan to obtain carbon footprint labels for all its products, with its masonry cement achieving the lowest carbon footprint record domestically. The company has also contributed to revising cement product category rules (PCR) and multiple CNS national standards, promoting the institutionalization of low-carbon cement products.
In recent years, Chen Zhixian has also received the "Outstanding Engineer Award" from the Taiwan Concrete Institute, the Second-Class and Third-Class Environmental Protection Professional Medals from the Ministry of Environment, and the "SDGs Academic Paper Award" from the Taiwan Institute for Sustainable Energy and the CTCI Education Foundation. Asia Cement stated that the plant manager's award represents high recognition from the engineering community for the Hualien plant team's long-term efforts in promoting low-carbon transformation and green manufacturing processes. The company will continue to integrate engineering expertise, innovative technology, and sustainability concepts to deepen low-carbon manufacturing and circular economy development.
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