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YIBIN, China, March 25, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

Sichuan Contemporary Amperex Technology Limited (CATL-SC), a wholly-owned

subsidiary of CATL, received the PAS 2060 certification on carbon neutrality

from the world's leading testing, inspection and certification company SGS in

March, making the plant the world's first zero-carbon factory in the new energy

industry.

Zhu Yunfeng, general manager of CATL-SC, said the plant has begun to craft the

zero-carbon roadmap at the early stage of its establishment. Through continuous

innovation in energy utilization, transportation, logistics, and manufacturing,

the factory is able to produce more products of higher quality with less raw

materials and carbon emissions. "Zero carbon" has become one of the core

competencies of CATL-SC.

CATL-SC has taken multiple measures to reduce carbon emissions. It has

developed a trailblazing smart plant management system, which enables the

interconnection of data through automatic capture of the plant system data and

equipment operation data. Meanwhile, the systematic facility management

platform helps to realize the safe, reliable, high-efficiency and low-carbon

operation of the factory. For equipment groups with high-energy consumption, by

using a global optimization algorithm, it has calculated each sub-equipment's

operating parameters with the lowest total energy consumption of the system.

In terms of green manufacturing, CATL-SC has built a central control and

management system for digital production. Equipped with global visual

management, it has significantly reduced process losses, and with the support

of the AI visual inspection system, which features automatic learning and

extraction of defect characteristics, it has improved the detection rate in

processes such as slitting and calendaring. All the waste produced during

manufacturing will be recycled, and the recovery rate of precious metals such

as nickel, cobalt and manganese can reach 99.3%.

CATL-SC has comprehensively upgraded the logistics chain and factory

transportation by widely applying driverless logistics vehicles, electric

forklifts, etc., which enables zero-carbon operation among supplier factories,

raw material warehouses, processing factories, finished product warehouses, and

customers' factories. At the same time, employees are encouraged to use

electric vehicles and shared mobility, thus reducing their carbon footprint in

all aspects of production and life.

CATL-SC is located in Yibin, southwest China's Sichuan Province. Three rivers,

namely the Jinsha River, Minjiang River and Yangtze River traverse the city's

northern part, providing a superior natural environment, unique geographical

location and abundant water resources, which enables the plant to reduce

400,000 tons of carbon emissions every year as over 80% of its energy

consumption comes from hydropower.

The certification marks a significant milestone for CATL towards its carbon

neutrality goals. As the world's first zero-carbon battery plant, CATL's

Sichuan plant sets an example of how battery production can be carbon neutral,

and also offers a brand new solution featuring electrification + zero carbon to

the market. In the future, CATL will replicate its experiences in the

"lighthouse factory" in other facilities in an effort to achieve carbon

neutrality for all its 10 production bases worldwide, thus building a more

sustainable industry ecosystem and contributing to the global carbon neutrality

goal.

Source: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd.