SUSTAINABILITY
Hanwha TotalEnergies Petrochemical continues to promote management innovation activities in
order to become the world's No. 1 petrochemical company in terms of safety, cost and quality.
VISON
In order to become No. 1 petrochemical company with global competitiveness in terms of safety, cost and quality,
Hanwha TotalEnergies Petrochemical is engaged in constant management innovation activities: Triple Zero,
a working party-centered field innovation activity; TOP activities, an engineer-centered cost reduction activity; a suggestion activity,
a communication activity where all employees participate; and a self-directed learning activity for strengthening technological capabilities.
Triple Zero Activity
Hanwha TotalEnergies Petrochemical has promoted the working party-centered field innovation activity since 1997, aiming at
'Zero accident and stable · safe Plant'. Hanwha TotalEnergies Petrochemical carried out Part 1 focused on the ‘Self-reliance Preservation activity’,
Part 2 focused on the entire process and equipment examination and PE(Production engineering) training, and
Part 3 with the goal of achieving Accident Zero, Cost down 10 billion, and Plant Trouble Zero, and has proceeded with
Part 4 with the slogan of Triple Zero since 2012. Triple Zero, which started in 2012, is the ideal dream of all Plant which means Zero of shutdown,
trouble and accident. Hanwha TotalEnergies Petrochemical will try to achieve the Dream plant by 2020.
TOP Activity
An abbreviation of Total Operational Performance, TOP activity, developed by McKinsey in 1975 and applied to 2,500 companies around
the world, is management innovation program that maximizes profits through corporate-wide / overall operational efficiency activities.
Hanwha TotalEnergies Petrochemical proceeds with TOP activities annually as operational innovation activities to achieve Global Chemical
& Energy Leader, thus improving corporate performance in the short term and building a High Performing Culture.
What if? Why not!
Hanwha TotalEnergies Petrochemical is operating a suggestion system called ‘What if? Why not!’.
‘What if?’ means the progress of coming up with the creative idea based on the logical and liberal mind;
‘Why not!’ means developing the idea from ‘What if ?’ to the applicable specific one.
Hanwha TotalEnergies Petrochemical's suggestion activities are a means of communication where all employees participate,
contributing to innovating on the company, with approximately 120,000 cases submitted every year,
which the highest level of participation compared to other companies in the same field.
- Task Activities
- TOP task
- Improvement task
- Individual improvement of working party
- Triple Zero Activities
- Visual management
- Improving site irrationality
- Safe Environment
- Potential near-miss
- STOP activity
HTC Master
Hanwha TotalEnergies Petrochemical operates the HTC Master System, which is an in-house functional certification system, in order to treat technical
personnel considerately, and enhance the work performance of individual employees through employee self-development, thus leading to safe
operation of the plant. Since acquisition of the first master craftsman in 1999, Hanwha TotalEnergies Petrochemical has had 503 master craftsmen,
115 HTC masters, and 41 HTC junior masters, who are playing roles of top professionals in the company to improve the competence of junior
employees and ensure the safe operation of our plants. On the master street of the Daesan plant, you can see the faces and
names of proud masters engraved on the copper plate along with the beautiful nettle trees.
* Master Craftsman: Candidates should have 9 years of experience in the related field, industrial engineer license for 5 years, and technician's license for 7 years.
* HTC Master: Professionals of the related job who hold 2 mandatory master craftsmen and another master craftsman selected by taking into characteristics of the job or industrial engineer license
* HTC junior Master: Next generation professionals with more than three licenses higher than the Industrial Engineer license level which help the work, among employees engaged in the company for 10 years or less
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1. Completed Aromatics plant No. 1 in 1997
2. Over 120 heat exchangers repeated heating / cooling
3. Promoted BTX Project for heat exchange network optimization in 2002
4. Optimized heat network in the entire Aromatics No. 1 plant
5. Modified Configuration by adding one unit of Column (New Column H.C distillation tower)
6. Promoted with its own technology for the first time in the same industry
7. Renamed the new Column as H.C. distillation tower after the initials of Kim Hyun-cheol, Executive Director (the then deputy director)
8. Reduced energy consumption by 11%, and improved energy efficiency by 20% (energy consumption, energy efficiency)
9. Became the industry's best energy saving plant -
1. Completed the LLDPE plant in 1994 (owned catalyst production process)
2. Used N-heaxane, but stopped the process due to improvement of the process
3. Promoted Project to produce N-heaxane on its own: inverse concept of converting use of existing facilities without technical lines was rejected
4. Realized the Project after the technical planning team and the employees of the LLDPE plant worked hard to maximize the profitability of the plant
5. Built new plants with 30% of the normal investment using idle facilities and ethylene refineries
6. Transformed Production facilities with 3,000 tons per year into manufacturing plant with 50,000 tons per year product with its own technology (3,000 tons / year, 50,000 tons / year) -
1. At the time when the construction of OCU plant with 100,000 tons was promoted, Lotte Chemical had a similar idea (100,000 tons of OCU plant)
2. Advised Lotte Chemical to establish the OCU plant
3. Forecasted cost savings of 25 billion won for plant construction and efficient operation (25 billion won)
4. LG Chem joins the two companies' co-prosperity to build the largest OCU plant in Korea (annual production of 200,000 tons of Propylene) (200,000 tons per year)
5. Allotted to Hanwha TotalEnergies Petrochemical, 100,000 tons; Lotte Chemical, 80,000 tons; LG Chem, 20,000 tons (100,000 tons, 80,000 tons, 20,000 tons)
6. An example that maximized investment efficiency by avoiding overlapping investment among competitors, and facilitating procurement of raw materials and supply and demand of products (co-prosperity, cooperation) -
1. EO / EG plant that has been operated for 20 years without expansion after completion in 1991: limits to cost reduction and safety stable operation maintenance (since 1991)
2. Planned to expand the plant, but refused from existing technical line and other large technical lines
3. Promoted expansion project in its own way without technical lines
4. Maximization of high value added EO production: changed the ratio of EO: EG = 6: 4 to 95: 5 in a way of adding water and retrieve water in the process
5. Based on the ideas and perseverance of engineers and professionals, succeeded in expansion project with its technology
6. The name, License, which is the symbol of the technology of the petrochemical plant, changed to Hanwha TotalEnergies Petrochemical
