In the grain and oil industry, Yihai Kerry Arowana has been leading the development of the industry with its unique ESG brand strategy and continuous spirit of innovation. Recently, Arowana has won a number of awards again for its innovative rice circular economy industry model, which is not only a full affirmation of its circular economy in the field, but also a high recognition of its realization of the coordinated development of economic and social benefits.
Yihai Kerry Arowana's rice circular economy model is the result of years of intensive cultivation in the field of rice processing. This model realizes the integration from planting, processing, storage and transportation to the comprehensive utilization of by-products in the rice ecological base, which not only reduces the waste of resources and environmental pollution, but also embarks on a new "rice" road of sustainable development. Through this model, Yihai Kerry Arowana has successfully "eaten and squeezed" each rice grain, extracting high value-added products from by-products and rice bran, such as rice bran wax, oryzanol, rice meal and rice oil.
As a new category of edible oil, rice oil not only has high nutritional value, but also brings a new choice to the market, and also provides a new idea for reducing the pressure of mainland oil imports. According to authoritative estimates, if all the rice bran contained in the country's annual output of 200 million tons of rice is used to extract oil, its oil output will be equivalent to about 13 million tons of soybeans, which has increased the invisible "grain field" for the country and greatly improved China's self-sufficiency rate of edible oil.
In addition to the innovation of rice oil, Yihai Kerry Arowana has also made a breakthrough in the comprehensive utilization of rice husks. Through the pyrolysis gasification process, rice husk is converted into rice husk charcoal and combustible gas, which not only improves the added value of rice husk resources, but also greatly reduces the emission of greenhouse gas pollutants. This technology has already been rolled out in a number of Arowana factories under Yihai Kerry and plans to expand to more regional factories in the next two years.
The green development of Yihai Kerry Arowana is not limited to the circular economy model of rice. As early as many years ago, Arowana Company implemented the concept of green and low-carbon development into all aspects of production and operation. Under the guidance of the "Net Zero Emission Target", Yihai Kerry Arowana has continued to make efforts in energy conservation, emission reduction, clean energy, etc., and has reduced greenhouse gas emissions by more than one million tons of CO2e through investment in energy conservation and emission reduction projects, the use of biomass energy, biogas recycling, and the use of clean electricity.
At the same time, Yihai Kerry Arowana also attaches great importance to the sustainable transformation of packaging. Arowana has put forward the "Sustainable Packaging 2025 Plan", striving to reduce the use of packaging materials by 15,000 tons by the end of 2025, and strive to recycle packaging materials by more than 90% per year. By following the "3R" principle of reduce, reuse and recycling, Yihai Kerry Arowana strives to reduce the environmental impact of packaging materials in production, distribution and recycling.
Today, Yihai Kerry Arowana is committed to building an innovative central kitchen ecosystem, combining the advantages of the rice, flour and oil industry, and introducing a large number of upstream and downstream enterprises of the central kitchen to settle in. In Fengchu Central Kitchen Park, Arowana realizes resource sharing with cooperative enterprises in product warehousing, R&D and testing, logistics and transportation, sales channels, etc., forms a complementary and intensive integration of the supply chain, further connects the upstream and downstream industrial chains, improves the efficiency of production, supply and marketing, accelerates the circulation of the industrial chain, reduces the cost of logistics and warehousing, leads the overall development of the central kitchen industry, and jointly creates a new format of green central kitchen.
The brand story of Yihai Kerry Arowana is a story of innovation, greenness and sustainability. Arowana company has always adhered to leading the development of the industry with scientific and technological innovation, and has achieved a win-win situation of economic and environmental benefits through continuous technological innovation and model innovation. In the future, Yihai Kerry Arowana will continue to be based on a green and low-carbon full-chain system, work with upstream and downstream partners to achieve sustainable development, lead the healthy development of the grain, oil and food industry, and take practical actions to help reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.