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    Lego breaks ground on first planned Carbon-Neutral factory in Vietnam

    Nov. 4, 2022
    The factory will span over a 44-hectare site and will be Lego’s first carbon-neutral run facility – and most sustainable to date, equipped with rooftop solar panels and a solar farm that will be built on a neighboring plot of land
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    The Danish-based toymaker Lego broke ground on its new $1 billion planned carbon-neutral factory in Vietnam’s Binh Duong province on Nov. 3, marking its largest investment in the country.

    The factory will span over a 44-hectare site and will be Lego’s first carbon-neutral run facility – and most sustainable to date, equipped with rooftop solar panels and a solar farm that will be built on a neighboring plot of land.

    Together, the solar panels and solar farm will generate enough energy to power the site’s annual energy requirement.

    The factory will feature state-of-the-art energy-efficient production equipment and technology to mould, process and pack Lego products.

    The factory will be constructed to meet the LEED Gold green building certification standards.

    This new production facility is expected to contribute towards Lego’s target of reducing its absolute carbon emissions by 37 percent by 2032 as compared to 2019 levels.

    The factory is expected to commission in 2024. 

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    Walton formerly was energy writer and business editor at the Tulsa World. Later, he spent six years covering the electricity power sector for Pennwell and Clarion Events. He joined Endeavor and EnergyTech in November 2021.

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    EnergyTech is focused on the mission critical and large-scale energy users and their sustainability and resiliency goals. These include the commercial and industrial sectors, as well as the military, universities, data centers and microgrids.

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