Clean Production Management of Breweries: the realities of implementing clean production management in Tsingtao Brewery

Abstract

In recent years，China's beer industry has rapid growth，but because of high energy consumption and high emissions in the production process, its environmental pollution became more serious and aroused concern. Beer companies must promote management of clean production in the pursuit of economic benefits while addressing the pollution problems. Comparing to leading markets, China’s beer industry practiced clean production at later stage, the level of clean production management is still lower than developed countries. Based on cleaner production management theory, this dissertation took Qingdao Second Branch of Tsingtao Brewery as example, used the method of life cycle assessment(LCA) to evaluate environmental impacts of clean production of beer; combining Tsingtao Brewery’s management principles of clean production, this paper also built a clean production management system framework to deal with existing management problems, and it proposed specific measures of clean production management and protection mechanism in the end.