Water Stewardship

Water is an essential resource for SCGP's business operations. Regarding the use of water resources with the most value and most significant benefit, SCGP has applied the 3R principle to improve the production process to reduce water withdrawal, reuse, and recycle water in the production process, including the restoration of the natural water resources. To discharge water to public sources, SCGP strictly complies with laws & regulations to prevent any impact on the environment or communities.

Moreover, with today's climate change conditions, which has a significant effect on water management, such as unseasonal and erratic rainfall patterns, no rains at the headwater area, depletion of water volume in the dams. Coupled with the increasing demand of water consumption in all geographical areas and sectors creates a risk of water shortage in the manufacturing process and nearby communities. SCGP is committed to leveraging the capability to manage the water through the Integrated Water Management Working Team comprising of representatives from every business to formulate a strategy to address water-related risks and water usage efficiency. SCGP also set up a function unit for water-related risks – monitoring, working with the government and industry sectors, with digital technology adoption, and creating innovation to increase water usage efficiency in the production process and recycle the treated water.

Strategy

1
Water-related risk mitigation through integrated water resources management.
2
Increase water usage efficiency in production processes and products.
3
Treat the effluent to
meet quality standards, monitor, measure the effluent and its quality, report on the effluent issues, incident investigation, corrective action, and reduce effluent.
4
Bring the recycled water after treatment to be used.
5
Capability building of the person who is involved in water management.
6
Rehabilitate the water sources' ecosystems and support water to communities and agriculture.

Target

Reduce water withdrawal
35%
within in 2025 compared
with business as usual (BAU)
at the base year of 2014

2022 Performance

28%
Reduce water withdrawal
compared with business as usual (BAU) at the base year of 2014
16.3%
The proportion of recycled water

Water Withdrawal per Ton of Production

m3 / Ton

Water Withdrawal per Sale Revenue

m3 / Sale Revenue (Billion Baht)

Water Withdrawal Reduction Compared with Business as Usual at Base Year of 2014

% Reduction

Water Withdrawal per Ton of Production by Business

m3 / Ton

Water Withdrawal by Business

Note :

  1. Include abroad in 2022
  2. Abroad include Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia
  3. SCGP Business: PP = Paper packaging, FB = Fiber-based packaging, CIP = Consumable Industrial Packaging, PPP = Performance Polymer Packaging
Highlight Activities:
Risk Assessment
Conduct water related risks assessment using internationally accepted tools such as WRI AQUEDUCT / Satellite imagery of GISTDA - Geo-Informatics and the Early Warning System (EWS) connecting Application Programming Interface (API) with the Power BI to monitor, assess and create water situation dashboard. Constructing the preparedness plan for response any water crisis and water-related risks.
SCGP continues the assessment process of water related risks in account with both country and local water stress since 2019 covering the scope of assessment for regional operations in ASEAN including Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam. Currently, the AQUEDUCT country ranking result shows that SCGP has no operation in water stress area.
Collaboration
In accordance to the Water Resources Act B.E. 2561, effective from January 27, 2019. SCGP representatives selected by the Federation of Thai Industries to join the Water User Organization to help achieve the set objectives of water resource management and people's livelihoods under the supervision of the National Water Resources Board. SCGP and business partners are involved in the five major river basins, namely the Mae Klong River Basin, East Coast Basin, Bang Pakong River Basin, Chi River Basin, and Tha Chin River Basin with the mission to comprises the water usage, development, management, maintenance, restoration, and conservation of water resources in the same direction, covering all dimensions to balance, sustain, and genuinely reflect all sectors' participation processes.
Evidence of Using Alternative Resources
For our production machines, SCGP has SaveAll to filter used water in process as clear, cloudy and clear water to re-use in process such as pulp slurry dilution to reduce fresh water consumption. Moreover, SCGP has a variety of improvement projects such as APM Water Ring (as below in integrated water withdrawal reduction). Therefore, SCGP can have the proportion of recycle water use as shown on performance above.
Water Management Strategy
SCGP has set water committee to direct and monitor water consumption through relevant policies, management, idea generation to improve overall water performance with leading managers (as shown on the figure below) that set water consumption as one of key performance indicators due to environmental impact focus.

Water User Organization
"Water User Organization" is a group of people using water in the vicinity of each other and are in the same watershed area registered as a working team to carry out mutually beneficial activities among members regarding the use, development, management, maintenance restoration and conservation of water resources.
Integrated Water Withdrawal Reduction
By providing knowledge and understanding to employees, always puts high importance on the water to business, and sets water KPI target so that employees are committed to creating innovation continually. The example of continuous and innovative improvement called “APM Water Ring” which was developed and used in couple with a packing seal to eliminate the sealing water leakage at the water pump due to the corrosion of its original packing seal system. This could reduce the water loss by 80% and improve water pump efficiency. The successful results have expanded to various factories in SCGP, which can save a total of 1.4 million cubic meters of water per year. Currently, this innovation is in the process of applying for a petty patent.

By providing knowledge and understanding to employees, always puts high importance on the water to business, and sets water KPI target so that employees are committed to creating innovation continually. The example of continuous and innovative improvement called “APM Water Ring” which was developed and used in couple with a packing seal to eliminate the sealing water leakage at the water pump due to the corrosion of its original packing seal system. This could reduce the water loss by 80% and improve water pump efficiency. The successful results have expanded to various factories in SCGP, which can save a total of 1.4 million cubic meters of water per year. Currently, this innovation is in the process of applying for a petty patent.