The path to sustainable high-quality development for Chinese daily glass enterprises lies in the establishment of green factories. Considering the historical development context, China's overall industrial strength has significantly increased over the years, making it an influential industrial power. However, compared to advanced global standards, China's manufacturing sector still lags behind in terms of efficiency and resource utilization. Environmental concerns remain a critical factor hindering China's progress toward becoming an industrial powerhouse. In the context of the international trend of green development, the manufacturing industry must align with the technological revolution and industrial transformation of the present era. This involves implementing green factories, advancing structural reforms on the supply side, accelerating the transformation and development of green manufacturing, fostering stable industrial growth, and cultivating new competitive advantages in the international market. The creation of green factories, as a pivotal component of the green factory system, is a key task in the implementation of the Green Factory Project. It also serves as a crucial approach to optimizing the structure and enhancing the quality and efficiency of enterprises in the daily glass industry.

What is a green factory? A green factory is one that minimizes negative environmental impacts throughout its lifecycle, maximizes resource utilization efficiency, and optimizes both economic and social benefits. It serves as a production unit within the manufacturing industry and is a core support unit of the green factory system, focusing on the greening of production processes. Accelerating the construction of green factories characterized by intensive land use, clean production, waste resource utilization, and low-carbon energy usage is of great significance. Such efforts can address environmental pollution in manufacturing, guide industry and regional green transformation, and further establish a high-quality green factory system. The concept of green products refers to products that meet environmental protection requirements, have minimal or negligible impacts on the ecosystem and human health throughout their lifecycle, consume fewer resources and energy, and possess high quality. With these considerations in mind, here are several suggestions tailored to the current status and characteristics of enterprises in the daily glass industry:

1. **Goals and Requirements for Green Factory Establishment**

The "14th Five-Year Plan" for Industrial Green Development states that during this period, the country will continue to refine the evaluation standards for green products, green factories, green industrial parks, and green supply chains. It encourages the development of local, group, and enterprise standards that surpass existing standards. It also emphasizes the acceleration of green and low-carbon development, continual improvement of environmental quality, enhancement of ecosystem quality and stability, and the promotion of green manufacturing through energy conservation, circular economy, fine production, and green design. By 2025, significant progress should be made in the transformation of industrial industrial structure and production methods towards green and low-carbon, extensive application of green and low-carbon technology and equipment, substantial improvement in energy and resource utilization efficiency, and comprehensive enhancement of green factory standards. These efforts will lay a solid foundation for achieving the goal of peaking carbon emissions in the industrial sector by 2030.

2. **Strategies for Green and Low-Carbon Development in the Daily Glass Enterprises**

- **Enhancing Environmental Awareness**: Energy conservation and emission reduction are key aspects of implementing green factories and achieving green transformations. Enterprises need to foster environmental awareness, participate in environmental activities, fulfill environmental responsibilities, establish environmental management systems, and implement eco-friendly practices. High-efficiency, energy-saving emission treatment equipment, automated intelligent crushed glass sorting equipment, closed-loop water recycling technologies, the application of high-quality zirconium refractories in furnaces, and the creation of oxygen-rich green environments in factories are examples of measures to promote green and low-carbon operations. Increasing environmental investments, adopting eco-friendly technologies, implementing clean production, and reducing pollution emissions will lead to green and low-carbon production.

- **Optimizing Product Structure and Quality**: Enterprises should prioritize green factory standards at every stage of on-site management, from products and equipment to processes, packaging, testing, and supply chains. By optimizing product structure and promoting green products, enterprises can improve product quality, enhance environmental performance, and widely adopt technologies that consume fewer resources and energy. Advanced technologies such as refined production, closed-loop automatic feeding systems for furnaces, the introduction and integration of intelligent equipment technology, the application of magnetic levitation bearing technology in air compressors, the widespread use of stainless steel mold technology, glass mold overlaying technology, intelligent operators for bottle forming and coating machines, and efficient cooling technologies for high-pressure large air volume glass molds can be employed to achieve cost reduction and efficiency improvement goals. This approach meets market and consumer demands while ensuring green and low-carbon consumption.

- **Prioritizing Core Technology Research and Development**: Research and development (R&D) is the driving force behind the survival and growth of daily glass enterprises. Successful transformation and innovation also depend on R&D support. While focusing on R&D work, enterprises need to allocate significant funds and human resources to relevant projects. For example, the research and development of digital intelligent unmanned inspection equipment, zirconium-enhanced oxygen-enriched furnace technology, advanced and applicable clean production process technology, and high-efficiency end-of-pipe treatment equipment, as well as the promotion and application of practical technologies such as intelligent robotic equipment and digital technologies, require substantial attention and investment.

- **Promoting Self-Emission Reduction for Harmony**: Energy conservation and emission reduction are key points for enterprises to achieve green initiatives, particularly in addressing challenges related to energy conservation and emission reduction. While continually enhancing green factory technology, enterprises can allocate funds for the approval, refinement, trial, error, summary, and application of research outcomes. By focusing on advanced and mature technologies and effectively promoting their application, enterprises can refine their green factory technologies in practical scenarios, achieving comprehensive energy conservation and emission reduction effects.

- **Establishing a Comprehensive Green Transformation System**: At every stage of an enterprise's green transformation, it must deeply integrate green factory requirements and standards. Enterprises should reinforce environmental regulations and policy support, standardize enterprise management systems comprehensively, and obtain certifications such as ISO 9001:2015 quality management system, ISO 14001:2015 environmental management system, OHSAS 18001:2007 occupational health and safety management system, and ISO 50001:2011 energy management system. This helps in building a complete system for the Internet of Things-based intensive office management of green factories. It is essential to strengthen environmental system and technology cooperation and exchange among similar supporting industries or enterprises. Collaborative development of environmental technologies and green products can enhance enterprise environmental standards and competitiveness, achieving cooperative green and low-carbon development.

3. **Benefits of Applying for Green Factory Certification**

Enterprises can avail themselves of policy support in the form of funding for industrial transformation and upgrading, special construction funds, green financing, and preferential government procurement. These benefits, along with convenient and favorable guarantee services and credit support, can elevate the brand awareness of daily glass enterprises, enhance market competitiveness, and drive sustainable industry-wide development. Enterprises should actively respond to the government's call, participate in green and low-carbon actions, apply for environmental subsidies and preferential policies, and play an active role in green and low-carbon development. Policies supporting green factories vary significantly among provinces and cities, and dedicated personnel should track their implementation.

The "Made in China 2025" initiative states that by adopting green construction technologies for plant construction and renovation, allocating space for renewable energy applications, and designing load capacities, factory layouts can facilitate the flow of energy and materials while promoting green design and procurement.

 The development of green products, the adoption of advanced and applicable clean production process technologies, the elimination of outdated equipment, and the establishment of resource recycling and reuse mechanisms can help optimize energy use and achieve comprehensive upgrades in green development.

As global environmental awareness increases, green and low-carbon development has become a shared global goal. Environmentally responsible daily glass enterprises are not only guardians of clean water and blue skies but also pioneers of innovative environmental protection. To achieve continuous green and low-carbon development in China's daily glass industry, active participation and support from enterprises are crucial.