It is reported that recently, Baosteel took the lead in starting Green Procurement Action Plan on purchasing material spare parts in interior steel industry.

Henceforth, Baosteel will adopt products from the suppliers which not only have equivalent efficiency, but also passed ISO14001 environmental management system certification first. The establishment of this threshold will guarantee the environmental protection, energy conservation and recycling of the purchase materials effectively.

Material spare parts, which will influence energy conservation, environmental protection and expenses economization for the enterprise, are necessary materials support for Baosteel. Especially the chemical composition and performance of materials such as the plate coatings, packaging materials, cleaning agents etc contacting products intimately will impact the green effect of BaoSteel's final products directly.

At present, green procurement has been practiced widely in advanced foreign enterprises, GE, GM and other companies have formed a comprehensive green procurement system. However, a little number of the materials supplier of Baosteel has passed the ISO14001 international generic third-party certification of environmental management system. Therefore, on the basis of investigation and analysis for green procurement of advanced foreign enterprises, Baosteel materials spare parts procurement and supply system actively explore green procurement and supply mode, develop and implement a green procurement action plan to gradually strengthen the external resources management, propagandize green concepts , and realize green manufacturing.

After the introduction of this scheme, the suppliers have expressed the green procurement not only important for continuous development of Baosteel, but will also promote their own suppliers by enhancing the comprehensive ability. Some strategic suppliers also said that this approach will be extended to the upper reaches of enterprises, to form a large scale green supply chain.