Lego opens a factory in Vietnam it says will make toys without adding emissions to the atmosphere
Binh Duong, Vietnam (AP)-LEGO has opened a billion dollar factory in Vietnam on Wednesday says it will make games without adding fats that cause fat to the air by relying on clean energy.
The factory in the industrial area of the Binh Duong, near the city of Ho Chi Minh, is the first in Vietnam that aims to operate completely clean energy. Lego says he will do so by early 2026.
It is the sixth throughout the Danish world and the second in Asia. High -tech equipment will be used to produce colored LEGO bricks for Southeast Asian markets.
“We just want to make sure that the planet inherits children when they grow up should be a planet still exists. This is my job,” Lego CEO, CEO, Ligitide, CEO, told Associated Press.
The factory is an important factor in LEGO’s pursuit to stop adding greenhouse gases by 2050. It has a shorter -time goal of reducing emissions by 37 % by 2032. The ownership collection is a special ownership that makes its plastic -based plastic bricks and says it has invested more than $ 1.2 billion in searching for more sustainable alternatives. But these The efforts were not always successful.
Vietnam is also rapidly aimed at achieving net zero emissions by 2050, so it needs more of its factories to use clean energy. The country hopes that the factory plates and the 12,400 energy storage system will help in a previous manufacture of more sustainable manufacture.
Made of blocks of different colors plastic grains that are melted at high temperatures and then feed them in metal molds. The highly available plant uses robots to make the tenth bricks of the resolution of the hair width and then wrapping it. In the end, thousands of skilled workers will be employed mostly to operate these machines, and some have already started working after training in the LEGO factory in eastern China.
Manufacturing is five of the GDP in Vietnam and consumes half of the energy it uses. There are plans to gradually get rid of coal power plants by 2040.
Mimi Fu, founder of the Consulting Company in Ho Chi Minh, said that the Lego factory, which extends 62 Fields, puts a “scheme” to make large factories with sustainable strength while remaining profitable. She said, “Sometimes a large company, like LEGO, requires to bear these risks. To show that we can do this … and we can be profitable,” she said.
The factory will benefit from a new 2024 base known as a Convention on the purchase of direct energy or DPPAWhich allows major foreign companies to buy clean energy directly from solar energy producers and wind energy and meet clean energy requirements.
The factory will be connected to a adjacent energy center where electricity can be stored in large batteries.
“Even if the sun is only bright during the day, we store energy and we can use it everywhere. This will largely cover the majority of the factory consumption,” added Christiansen.
The remaining 10 % -20 % of the plant’s energy needs will be met with agreements with other clean energy producers.
“Lego and Vietnam, we have the same ambitions. We both want to be green, to play our climate role. I think this is with solar energy, battery and DPPA, it offers it can be done.”
The company will also open a distribution center in the South Dong Nay province in Vietnam to help serve the markets in Australia and other Asian countries where it sees an opportunity to grow. The location of the LEGO factories in the areas they provide helps to isolate them from The definitions requested by US President Donald TrumpChristiansen said.
“At the present time, I may be more noticeable why this growth means in the world? Do we see consumer morale that changes in parts of the world or not, and what does that mean?” He said.
The five buildings in the factory meet high energy efficiency standards. LEGO also planted 50,000 trees – twice the number of trees that you cut to remove the ground for the factory. It is the first Lego factory to replace one -use plastic bags with paper bags.
The Lego founder, Ole Kirk Kristiansen, started the company as a wooden playmaker before the patent of the iconic plastic bricks in 1958. He is still looking for a way to make its plastic bricks more environmentally suitable.
Christiansen said that Ligo bricks past contracts and can be reused, although ambitious in the end is making them more renewable materials. He said that a third of the materials used in the Lego Brick, which were made last year, were from renewable and recycled sources. But this is more expensive than plastic made of fossil fuel.
He said: “This is not inexpensive at this time stage, but we believe that if we are … we tend to do so, we are helping to create a supply chain for the type of plastic materials that are not based on fossil fuels.”
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