United Zhiyie Certification Company Issues First "Carbon Neutral" Certificate to Support Green Transformation of Leading Paper Manufacturing Enterprise

From October 17 to 21, 2022, Mr. Xizhi Jie, a professional auditor from United Intelligence, successfully completed the audit of the carbon neutrality project of Shandong Bohui Paper Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Bohui Paper"). Beijing United Intelligence Certification Co., Ltd. successfully issued the first carbon neutrality certificate, making the company's carbon neutrality certification services more professional and mature.

Bohui Paper was established in 1994, headquartered in Zibo, Shandong, with two major production bases in Shandong and Jiangsu. It is a listed company focused on integrated pulp and paper research, production, and sales, and holds significant influence in the domestic papermaking market.

The "Dual Carbon Goals" refer to "striving to reach carbon peak before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060," a major national strategic decision made by China based on the global situation. The leadership of Bohui Paper actively responds to the national call, promoting a green, low-carbon circular economy. The company aims to use its own practices to encourage peers in the papermaking industry and consumers to jointly participate in the path of implementing the "Dual Carbon Goals." It hopes that by introducing carbon neutrality management system certification, the public can see the company's sincere implementation of the national strategy, demonstrating its efforts and determination to achieve the "Dual Carbon Goals" as soon as possible. Bohui Paper believes that the papermaking industry has entered a deep adjustment period, and green manufacturing and development have become a consensus in the industry. This application for carbon neutrality management system certification fully reflects Bohui Paper's corporate social responsibility and commitment as a leader in the papermaking market to help the country achieve the "Dual Carbon Goals." Therefore, in August 2022, Bohui Paper signed a carbon neutrality system certification service project with Beijing United Intelligence (Jinan) Certification Co., Ltd.

General Secretary Xi Jinping first proposed the "Dual Carbon Goals" at the 75th United Nations General Assembly. Carbon neutrality and carbon peaking were included in the 2021 government work report. Achieving the "Dual Carbon Goals" is a necessary measure for China to address climate change. The global market space is huge. To seize this rare opportunity of great significance for localities and enterprises in a new round of development, Beijing United Intelligence Certification Co., Ltd. actively responds to the national call. Under the background of the national "Dual Carbon" goals and the launch of the national carbon market, combined with process methods, PDCA cycle, life cycle analysis theory (LCA), risk management theory (RMS), and ISO management system standards (MSS), and drawing on mature environmental management systems, energy management systems, asset management systems, greenhouse gas emission verification, and other related standards, it has developed a carbon neutrality management system. This system aims to help enterprises carry out carbon neutrality work throughout the product life cycle, assist enterprises in accelerating industrial transformation and upgrading, firmly grasp the "Dual Carbon" opportunities, strive to expand exports and domestic markets, obtain the "Dual Carbon" green passport in global trade, and greatly enhance enterprises' competitiveness in the international market.

This audit mainly focused on neutralizing the carbon emissions in the life cycle of batches of three products under Bohui Paper: white cardboard, packaging paper, and cultural paper. Bohui Paper attached great importance to this audit, and all relevant internal departments actively cooperated to ensure the smooth completion of the audit.

Bohui Paper department heads fully communicated with the audit team.

The audit team from United Intelligence Certification Company fully understood the processes, equipment operation status, overall staff quality, operational documents, and process execution of the three products of Bohui Paper on site. They reviewed the conformity of energy and resource data collection during production; checked the product BOM and transportation routes to ensure data completeness and accuracy. The audit team's professional and meticulous work was highly recognized by Bohui Paper.

Bohui Paper production line.

Audit team on-site communication.

During the audit, the United Intelligence Certification Company's audit team combined the nature of the enterprise's production and the requirements of the carbon neutrality system to guide the company in making a carbon neutrality path plan. Besides guiding Bohui Paper to purchase carbon credits to meet carbon neutrality requirements, the audit team designed more and better paths for the company to achieve carbon neutrality: guiding the company to identify its own advantages and turn its resources into carbon neutrality paths. On-site communication revealed that the company has a 1MW photovoltaic power generation project underway, a 690t/h steam biomass heating project partially implemented; the audit team also learned that Bohui Paper's headquarters owns 270,000 hectares of self-owned forest land; in 2021, Bohui Paper saved over 100 tons of standard coal through technological improvements. By analyzing and organizing this information, the audit team helped Bohui Paper determine that in the coming year's audit, the company will have more paths to achieve carbon neutrality. Through this audit and guidance by the United Intelligence expert team, Bohui Paper has gained a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of the carbon neutrality management system. Bohui Paper will respond more actively to the challenges of the Dual Carbon Goals, firmly continue on the path of green transformation and high-quality development, and is full of confidence in cooperating smoothly with the audit team to complete the carbon neutrality management system audit next year.

Discussion on carbon neutrality paths.

After the successful completion of this audit, Beijing United Intelligence Certification Co., Ltd. will continue to use its own publicity platforms, organize online and offline training for customers, widely spread knowledge and paths of carbon neutrality, comprehensively introduce the significance and value of "carbon neutrality" for enterprises and organizations to achieve green transformation and high-quality development, let more enterprises and organizations understand and implement carbon neutrality, and take practical actions to fulfill the mission and responsibility of helping the country complete the national strategy of "carbon neutrality and carbon peaking."

In this new era of opportunity, United Intelligence Certification Company will adhere to customer value as the core, rely on the "New Productivity Development" integrated platform — the strong background of Beijing United Intelligence Group, fully absorb the group's nutrients, effectively utilize the group's various resources, further strengthen its professional service level, strive to leverage its unique brand influence and comprehensive development capabilities, precisely meet various customer needs, fulfill corporate social responsibility, play a leading role, and continuously serve customers with its professional technical strength and strong background resources, creating value for customers through its own advantages and the group's advantages.