Kia: Recycling Rate Increased by 93.7 Percent

The vehicle manufacturer Kia has increased the recycling quote to 93.7 percent in his Korean factories in 2015.

The company forwarded production residuals of galvanized steel to Korean steel manufacturer and utilized uncoated steel parts themselves in the foundry of the factory called Gwangju. Moreover, Kia introduced programs for the recycling and re-utilization of car paints and diluters. Furthermore, other waste is used for the production of building cement. The landfill‘s rate of the entire company‘s volume of waste amounted to only one percent. The company was able to reduce the steel insert per vehicle by 22.1 percent and the consumption of lacquer by 11.7 percent compared with 2003.

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