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DuPont focuses on reducing footprint
Viet Nam News talked with Tan Lam Chuan, general director of the US-based DuPont Viet Nam, about its global footprint goals and sustainable growth.
Could you tell us how the "footprint goals" will be brought to life?
Since 1990, our company has reduced global greenhouse gas emissions by 72 per cent and air carcinogen emissions by 92 per cent. By 2015, we will further reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by at least 15 per cent and air carcinogen emissions by 50 per cent from the base year of 2004, which will bring our total reductions since 1990 to 96 per cent.
As for water resources, we are committed to reducing water consumption by at least 30 per cent over the next 10 years at our global sites. For all other sites, we will keep water consumption flat on an absolute basis through 2015, offsetting any increased demand from production volume growth through conservation, and reuse and recycling practices.
Also by 2015, we will ensure that 100 per cent of our off-site fleet of cars and light trucks meet these criteria. We will continue to ensure these vehicles are safe as well as fuel-efficient, and we will track and report on our fuel-efficiency improvements.
These are ways we can show our social responsibility to the community.
How can you help your customers to do the same?
By 2015, DuPont worldwide aims to double its investment in R&D programmes with direct, quantifiable environmental benefits for our customers and consumers along our value chains. In addition, it projects annual two-fold revenue by 2015 by at least US$2 billion from products that create energy efficiency and significant greenhouse gas emissions reductions for customers.
It estimates these products will contribute at least 40 million tonnes of additional carbon dioxide-equivalent reductions by our customers and consumers.
What is Viet Nam’s role in your worldwide strategy?
The emerging markets are our important growth platform. Last year ASEAN was the strongest growth region in the Asia-Pacific, and Viet Nam had the highest growth rate in ASEAN. Viet Nam, together with other Southeast Asian nations, will be our main emerging market. In Viet Nam, we have products for crop protection, packaging, industrial polymers, coating and colours technologies.
Right now, we continue to improve our infrastructure, increase training and improve our financial system so that we will be in the strong position to capture growth when the global economy recovers.
What are your corporate social responsibility activities in Viet Nam?
We have supported the community in online training, donated water tanks to a local school, implemented a tree-planting activity to raise environmental awareness, and provided scholarships to students through cooperation with the American Chamber of Commerce in Viet Nam (AmCham) here.
One of our core values is safety. In the coming months we plan to conduct a safety awareness activity in a primary school. Children are one of the most vulnerable groups of people on the roads and we plan to focus our safety programmes on the schoolchildren. The focus is creating awareness of the need to wear a good quality helmet, which is important for traffic safety.
We will focus on our core values and commitment to the community, not only in Viet Nam but all over the world.
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