Energy saving is a concern of the Southern Food Corporation (VINAFOOD2) for many years because electricity accounts for 20-35% of production costs. This is a very big expense, and if only a few percent of the electricity consumption can be reduced, the corporation could also save a significant cost.

Over the past four years, the project "Reducing industrial waste for a low carbon production" has conducted an assessment of resource efficiency and cleaner production for 16 rice mills and 10 coffee processing mills. According to Pham Van To, Deputy Head of Division of Technical and Building Department of VINAFOOD2, a total of 8 members of the corporation participated in the pilot implementation of energy saving.

Representative of the Southern Food Corporation, being an enterprise operating in the field of food production and trading with a capacity of 600,000 tons / year of rice, rice is 800,000 tons / year, milled white rice Rice balls are 3 million tons per year, in the process of milling, processing finished rice, electricity costs account for 20-35% of total production costs. Just reducing a few percent of the power consumption, the corporation saves hundreds of millions of dong a year.

Mr. Miroslav Delporte, the Swiss Federal Agency for Economic Cooperation (SECO), the funding agency for the project, said that in the field of agriculture, the rice processing industry in Vietnam is one of the most demanding links need to improve  efficiency production, especially the issue of reducing emissions by applying advanced technology. SECO's project with VINAFOOD2 implemented in Song Hau Food Company and An Giang Food Company after 4 years of implementation has saved nearly 485 million electricity bill.

With the goal of saving energy, while minimizing industrial waste for a low carbon production, VINAFOOD2 has applied high-tech equipment in the direction of saving electricity, and utilize the source of fuel such as rice husk, coffee husk, coconut shell for reuse.

Thanks to these changes, the pilot units of VINAFOOD2 have saved a total of 983,764 kWh of electricity (912,254 kWh of electricity in production and 71/510 kWh of electricity in daily use), the total saving value is more than VND 1.4 billion. In the past four years, 16 rice processing plants and 10 coffee processing companies, when testing cleaner production solutions, have saved 1.08 million kWh of electricity per year, equivalent to 80,000 USD, cutting reduction of 621 tons CO₂ per year.

In addition to the environmental impact of cleaner production and energy conservation, VINAFOOD2 has also contributed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by reducing CO₂ emissions, addressing climate change and towards sustainable development. With this result, VINAFOOD2 will organize mass dissemination and distribution to all remaining units in the coming time.

CPSI Office