Furthermore,the groups commitment to technology and industrial symbiosis attracts. Industrial symbiosis is is the subset of ie that deals with cyclical flows of resources through networks of businesses as a means of cooperatively approaching ecologically sustainable industrial activity. Special issue diverse dynamics of industrial symbiosis. Lappeenranta university of technology department of. In 2001, guitang group s facilities were sold to huaqiang holdings limited in shenzhen, a private chinese company that works to maintain model of internal symbiosis and a leader in a regional and sustainable eco industrial network. The basis of industrial symbiosis is to move away from traditional takemakedispose production and consumption flows, building partnerships between industries to turn waste into new materials and resources.
Quantitative assessment of urban and industrial symbiosis in. Emergy analysis on industrial symbiosis of an industrial park. Based on the research gaps that we identify, we provide suggestions to guide the future development. The driving forces of the guitang groups industrial symbiosis evolution. Journal of cleaner production applications of industrial. Exploring the system dynamics of industrial symbiosis is.
Sustainable manufacturing through creation and governance of. Asian eips have implemented initiatives inspired by this industrial symbiosis concept. Sharing resources between industrial sites saves raw material and energy consumption, reducing pollution and diverting waste from landfill. Sustainable manufacturing through creation and governance. Industrial symbiosis is the name of the subsection of the broader field of industrial ecology that pays careful attention to networked resource exchanges. Industrial symbiosis, a subfield of industrial ecology, examines the flow of water, energy, materials, and byproducts across firms in geographic proximity. Lessons learnt and best practices for enhancing industrial symbiosis in the process industry, author view pdf. With this portal we aim to share some of our knowledge and inform a wider audience about industrial and urban symbiosis practices in sweden.
Gg guitang group uk united kingdom us united state. Feb 01, 2012 redefining industrial symbiosis redefining industrial symbiosis lombardi, d. Organizational perspectives of industrial symbiosis. Read title index for volume 11, journal of industrial ecology on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at. Marian chertow associate professor of industrial environmental management, director of the program on solid waste policy, and director of the industrial environmental management program. Redefining industrial symbiosis, journal of industrial. Strategies for better waste management 71 70 matani the guangxi guitang group in china in china the guangxi guitang group is a notable example of using sugar production byproducts, first within a single cityowned company, and then in a broader network including other sugar producers in the city of guitang and the farmers growing cane. Uncovering industrial symbiosis center for industrial ecology. The eip in the guangxi province, this industrial zone is led by the guitang group, runs one of the largest sugar refineries and accounts at some point in time to more than 50% of sugar production in china. Environmental technology and management department of management and engineering. The sugar complex, the guitang group, owns 14700ha of land, which is used for growing cane. Studying the industrial symbiosis of the guitang group offers a unique opportunity to view and analyze the dynamics of industrial symbiosis of a company that has gone through multiple complex social and organizational changes over six decades. The guitang group is a successful ecoindustrial park that reuses resources to. Study of the guitang group, journal of industrial ecology 11, special feature on industrial symbiosis, 2007.
Kalundborg symbiosis, also focuses on how the municipality is actively striving to be a facilitator for new symbiotic relations between the companies involved, and is using kalundborg symbiosis itself as an example of how sustainable change and green growth can flourish in a local community. Oct 31, 2019 one can envision the application field of industrial symbiosis is, so which potential role can ai play in the context of is systems and how can ai supportcontribute to the facilitation of is systems, which is explored in more detail in this paper. This study proposed an emergy analysis to conduct an assessment on hefei economic and technological development area to quantify the performance of industrial symbiosis. Its activities have led to the creation of an industrial complex, currently including food and beverage, chemical and cement companies and pulp and paper plants. Title index for volume 11, journal of industrial ecology. The guitang group gg, which operates one of chinas largest sugar refineries, has been developing and implementing an internal and. Zhu q lowe ea wei y a and barnes d 2007 industrial symbiosis in china a case from om 501 at nirma institute of management. The purpose of industrial symbiosis is to create loops of technical or biological materials while minimising the leakage and waste in the loops demonstrating some key parts of a circular economy, at a local scale.
This study revisits the guitang group, one of the best known industrial symbiosis cases in the sugar industry. Simplified model of industrial symbiosis at kalundborg figure 7. Publicly owned utility operations are also counted as. The chinese case studies have tested industrial symbiosis initiatives, such as the experience of guitang group gg, one of china s largest sugar refineries 9,10. Following these successes from internal symbiosis, a network of external symbiosis relationships was developed with government, customers, competitors and suppliers. The methodology was applied for the first time in sicily as a pilot project with the aim of promoting productive development in southern italy. Definition capture, recovery and reuse of previously discarded resources from one industrial operation by other, traditionally. Is was initiated by the guitang group to explore possibilities to extend its value chain and enable additional business lines, such as the. The difference result from industrial symbioses and new business ecosystems figure 10.
Industrial parks and eco industrial parks in china chang yu. Onsite waste management and industrial symbiosis of hayatabad industrial estate, peshawar, pakistan submitted by. Our goal is to offer an evolutionary understanding of industrial symbiosis at the. The experience of the guitang group in the guanxi province in china. Kalundborg symbiosis effective industrial symbiosis. The first korean eip was found in daedok technovalley dtv 8. The network of companies at kalundborg is not an eco industrial park. Emergy analysis on industrial symbiosis of an industrial. Although the china state environmental protection agency promoted the guitang group initiative for its strong economic and environmental performance, such projects have. Our goal is to offer an evolutionary understanding. Ecoindustrial parks development and integrated management. The theory, methodologies, and case studies in the field of industrial symbiosis have been developing for nearly 30 years. The industrial park is an improvement of industrial areas and residential buildings that is beneficial for the workers, who will be working in more environmentally friendly workplaces and live in a less polluted environment in the vicinity of industrial activities.
Zhu q lowe ea wei y a and barnes d 2007 industrial. The guitang group is located in guigang city of the guangxi zhuang autonomous region. The keys to industrial symbiosis are collaboration and the synergistic possibilities offered by geographic proximity. Read emergy analysis on industrial symbiosis of an industrial park a case study of hefei economic and technological development area, journal of cleaner production on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at. The guangxi guitang group mentioned above is a notable example of using sugar production byproducts, first within a single cityowned company, and then in a broader network including other sugar producers in the city of guitang and the farmers growing cane. Special feature on industrial symbiosis uncovering industrial symbiosis. Jun 16, 2014 the theory, methodologies, and case studies in the field of industrial symbiosis have been developing for nearly 30 years.
Emergy analysis on industrial symbiosis of an industrial park a case study of hefei economic and technological development area. Case studykalundborg 1 the industrial symbiosis in kalundborg, denmark. A method for controlling enterprises access to an ecoindustrial park. Sustainable manufacturing through creation and governance of eco industrial parks with the emergence of the concept of industrial ecology ie and the. Highly relevant to the case study in this article is an initiative by the guitang group, a.
Our support for industrial symbiosis dates back to 2003 when some early funding led to what is now known as the uks national industrial symbiosis programme nisp. Special feature on industrial symbiosis uncovering industrial symbiosis marian r. Pdf the guitang group gg, which operates one of chinas largest sugar refineries, has been developing and implementing an internal and. Industrial symbiosis is is a systematic and collective business approach to optimizing the. Industrial symbioses in the guitang group, guigang city. A systematic methodology for industrial symbiosis approach. Development of sustainable performance measurement. A systematic methodology for industrial symbiosis development at a regional scale is presented. Tracking sustainability targets with quantitative indicator. Examining industrial symbiosis in practice for this section involved three primary activities. Industrial symbiosis engages traditionally separate industries in a collective approach to competitive advantage involving physical exchange of materials, energy, water, andor byproducts.
Colocated firms can achieve environmental benefit and competitive advantage from exchanging physical resources known as industrial symbiosis with each other or with residential areas referenced here as urban symbiosis. Within ie, industrial symbiosis is is an approach that promotes the engagement of communities of companies in improving their. The guitang group is a stateowned conglomerate operating chinas largest sugar refinery with. The guitang group constructed an eco industrial park eip with two main value chains. Pdf organizational boundary change in industrial symbiosis. Industrial symbioses in the guitang group, guiang city figure 8. Organizational boundary change in industrial symbiosis. Industrial symbiosis is is the subset of ie that deals with.
The gg first invested in developing its own collection of downstream companies to utilize nearly all byproducts of sugar production. The guitang group gg, which operates one of chinas largest sugar refineries, has been developing and implementing an internal and external industrial symbiosis strategy for more than four decades. Development of sustainable performance measurement system for. Industrial symbiosis for the development of biofuel production. Feasibility study for the design of an industrial park with. Past research illustrated that economic and environmental benefits appear selfevident, although detailed quantification has only been attempted of symbioses for energy and. Google scholar zhu, li, jianren zhou, zhaojie cui, and lei liu. Special feature on industrial symbiosis industrial symbiosis in china a case study of the guitang group qinghua zhu, ernest a. Quantitative assessment of urban and industrial symbiosis in kawasaki, japan rene van berkel, tsuyoshi fujita, shizuka hashimoto, and minoru fujii asian environmental research group, national institute for. The site is a sugar complex formed in 1954 and is one of the largest sugar re.
Zhu q lowe ea wei y a and barnes d 2007 industrial symbiosis. Environmentally related colocation benefits often result that have not been a. Guitang groups industrial symbiosis evolution helped to create, disseminate and share information. An industrial symbiosis constitutes a local partnership where, partners provide, share and reuse resources to create shared value. Unep environmental management for industrial estates. The guitang group has gradually incorporated industrial symbiosis in its operations, following internal and external symbiosis strategies in order to respond to market fluctuations. However how to quantify the impact of industrial symbiosis on improving the sustainability of an industrial park is rarely studied.
Sustainable manufacturing through creation and governance of ecoindustrial parks with the emergence of the concept of industrial ecology ie and the. Furthermore,the group s commitment to technology and industrial symbiosis attracts young, welleducated workers to guangxi who would have otherwise migrated to more developed regions. The guitang group in china approached a disposal problem by using their. This article focuses on the organizational boundary change of the guitang group over time, and acknowledges this process as one of the seven industrial symbiosis dynamics proposed by boons et al. Our goal is to offer an evolutionary understanding of industrial symbiosis at the guitang group. Industrial symbiosis is is a collaborative environmental action whereby firms share or exchange byproducts, materials, energy, or waste as a way to economically reduce aggregate environmental im.
The present study was conducted in hayatabad industrial estate during 20142017 with an attempt to study the hayatabad industrial estate for industrial waste minimization through industrial symbiosis and find out ways and means for mitigating its environmental impacts. Chertow summary since 1989, efforts to understand the nature of inter. It is important to point out that the example of kalundborg in denmark strictly speaking is an example of anindustrial network, and not an industrial estate. This article focuses on the organizational boundary change of the guitang group over time, and acknowledges this process as one of the seven industrial symbiosis dynamics. The chinese case studies have tested industrial symbiosis initiatives, such as the experience of guitang group gg. More precisely, is engages traditionally separate businesses in a collective approach to competitive advantage involving physical exchange of materials, energy, water andor byproducts. Summary the guitang group gg, which operates one of chinas largest sugar refineries, has been developing and implementing an internal. Quantitative assessment of urban and industrial symbiosis. Networks of interfirm resource exchange industrial symbiosis multiscale waste and materials management.
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