SUEZ: Long-term Commitment to Sustainable Development in Asia

In Asia, and especially in China, SUEZ has become the partner of choice for municipal and industrial clients. We help companies, governments and communities develop innovative and resilient solutions across water management, waste recycling and recovery, soil remediation and air quality management, making a positive impact on the environment, on community health, and on the climate. We’re recognized as one of the most influential players in the field and as a benchmark of excellence in the environmental services industry.

Existing challenges in Asia

Today, Asia, has become the engine of world economic growth. At the same time, trends like climate change, digital transformation, demographic shifts, and growing public expectations for better quality of life have given rise to a multitude of challenges and significant changes:

• Asia is by far the largest and most populous continent, accounting for 60% of the world’s population;
• Increasingly frequent floods, droughts, and extreme weather events threaten local environments and regional climates;
• Climate change is set to drastically worsen water scarcity in areas where water is already in short supply.

China, together with other Southeast Asian countries, is stepping up efforts to address climate change, by constantly seeking innovative solutions to promote sustainable development. To meet the many climate challenges, we must start by preserving and restoring the essential elements of our environment: water, soil, and air. We must also optimize resource management in municipalities and industries through resilient and innovative solutions and smart city initiatives that improve environmental and economic performance and contribute to carbon neutrality goals.

We repurpose the Park’s industrial wastewater by plugging each factory into our treatment network and reusing the treated water in our demineralized water production plant. This can treat 300,000 m³ of industrial water, 7,512 m³ of demineralized water and 44,500 m³ of industrial wastewater per day. We also collect hazardous waste and process it through our incinerator, which has a capacity of 120,000 tonnes/year, one of the largest in Asia. The steam produced is fed back into industry, reducing consumption of fossil fuels and saving 55,000 tonnes of standard coal each year, equivalent to avoidance of 143,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions from coal combustion.

Today, the Park has become a global model of excellence in ecological conservation and the circular economy. SUEZ’s integrated solutions in the Park have also become a model case study of third-party environmental solutions in China.