LONGi follows the 14th Five-Year Plan for Green Industrial Development, the 14th Five Year Plan for Circular Economy Development and the EU’s A New Circular Economy Action Plan and other relevant policies and initiatives at home and abroad, adheres to the product design concept of minimizing environmental impact, and prioritizes energy saving and environmental protection in the whole lifecycle of products. Under the premise of ensuring product quality, LONGi has reduced the impact of packaging on the environment through the use of renewable, recyclable, and other environmentally friendly materials and optimized the logistics and product recycling system to promote the sustainable development of the PV industry chain.
| Link | Concepts | Achievements in 2023 |
|---|---|---|
Product design  | -Implementing the “Four New” initiative, which aims to achieve process upgrading and technological advancement through new materials, new processes, new technologies, and new pattern; -Advocating the principle of waste-free design; -Designing more recyclable products to improve the recyclability and material efficiency of our own products; -Reducing the carbon footprint during the entire product lifecycle; -Extending the quality guarantee time and the service life of modules; -Increasing recyclable materials and reducing the non-recyclable materials in modules; -Reducing the use of harmful chemicals and the environmental impact of PV modules at the manufacturing and end-of-life stages. | -Developing fluoride-free solar backplanes to reduce the use of fluorine as a non-recyclable material; -Obtaining the LEED certification of PV CYCLE, which proves that all of LONGi’s PV products meet the 100% recyclable standard; -PV cells: achieving a product recovery rate of 100%; for silicon-based PV cells, 93.5% were recovered directly and 6.5% were recovered by incineration; for non-silicon based PV cells, 98% were recovered directly and 2% were recovered by incineration; -Module products: achieving a utilization rate of recyclable materials of over 5%, and using 10%-30% recycled glass in the backplanes; compared with 2018, the unit consumption of aluminum frame and film was reduced by 33% and 20% respectively. |
Green packaging  | -Paying close attention to policies such as the 14th Five-Year Plan for Green Industrial Development, implementing green production, building green factories and reducing carbon footprints of products -Source reduction: improving the efficiency of material usage within the standard range, manufacturing recyclable and repairable products, and adopting module designs that feature cost reduction, efficiency improvement, and quality assurance at the commercial level, to enhance the market competitiveness of products; -Giving priority to recyclable and renewable materials in the production and manufacturing of PV products; -Abiding by the internal documents on packaging recycling in the warehouses and keeping the standing books of the information and amount of packaging materials expected to be recycled and actually recycled everyday. | -Promoting the recycling of waste paper pulp for carton packaging; -Cooperating with suppliers to actively explore new ways to recycle packaging materials such as replacing the original packaging with pallet boxes for silicon materials to achieve silicon packaging recycling; -LONGi’s silicon wafers and cells sold domestically now boast 100% recyclable packaging, with a coverage rate of 97% across all domestic bases -Moving away from the constraints of traditional cardboard packaging—its limited reusability, inability to be stacked, poor suitability for automated packing, and restricted transport efficiency—LONGi has been advocating for and adopting recyclable PP packaging solutions. |
Transportation  | -Promoting circular packaging in product transportation and realizing packaging reuse from the transportation end to the delivery end; -Improving the efficiency of resource utilization in multiple links, such as packaging, storage, and transportation, and building a sustainable, intelligent, and information based logistics system; -Implementing a highly efficient logistics model and planning eco-friendly economic routes that reduce unnecessary intermediary steps. | -Establishing and improving a green logistics and transportation system to achieve carbon reduction in the whole process from consolidation to delivery of goods; -Establishing a visualized full-process transport status online platform: The platform offers real-time risk alerts and contingency plans, ensuring 100% visibility of external customer order statuses, with a 64% ratio for both domestic and international electronic proof of delivery (ePOD) signing. Additionally, it integrates an NPS customer satisfaction survey system to amplify coordination efficiency internally and externally; -Building an integrated logistics and warehouse network: By syncing real-time with delivery schedules and customer orders, LONGi planned transport routes and methods in advance. Utilizing various intermodal transport options, such as railroad (rail trains and cars) and rail-sea (rail trains and ships) and establishing advanced/central warehouses with a container storage strategy, the Company effectively minimized unnecessary warehousing and short-haul transit, thereby reducing logistics waste; -Selected as a case study company for a global sustainable supply chain student competition, LONGi supported the Tsinghua University student team who achieved the global bronze award. |
Product recycling  | -Conducting scientific treatment of waste modules in strict accordance with EU’s Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) 2010/75/EU and Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE Directive). | -Proactively carrying out research on the recycling process of scrap electronic and electrical equipment; -Assisting customers in the collection, grouping, treatment, and preparation of waste PV solar panels; -LONGi’s silicon-based PV panels achieve a recovery rate of 100%, of which 93.5% can be directly recycled and the remaining 6.5% can be recovered by incineration. For non silicon-based PV panels, we also achieved a 100% recovery rate, with up to 98% being recycled directly and the remaining 2% being recovered by incineration. |
Case｜ LONGi built a green logistics system
In 2023, LONGi improved the efficiency of resource utilization in multiple links such as packaging, storage, and transportation, and built a sustainable, intelligent, and information- based logistics system;
