International Journal of Supply Chain Management
Vol 8, No 1 (2019): International Journal of Supply Chain Management (IJSCM)

A Study of Green Factory Practices in Malaysia Manufacturing Industry

Md Fauzi Ahmad (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM))
Siti Norziah Ismail (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM))
Mohd Fahrul Hassan (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM))
Chan Shiau Wei (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM))
Norhadilah Abdul Hamid (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM))
Ahmad Nur Aizat Ahmad (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM))
Mohd Nasrun Mohd Nawi (Universiti Utara Malaysia)
Nor Aida Abdul Rahman (Universiti Kuala Lumpur)



Article Info

Publish Date
27 Feb 2019

Abstract

Green Factory is a management tool for eliminate environment burden such as waste, chemical and pollution. Economic development grew too fast has effected major impact to environment. Carbon dioxide, loss of biodiversity, degradation of natural resources, global warming, ozone layer depletion and deforestation have effected on the environment. Based on world statistics, Malaysia has produced 29 million tonnes carbon dioxide and ranked 26th (0.66%) of the 215 countries in the world. 110 world leaders including Malaysia has agreed to work for reducing carbon dioxide gas in the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit 2009. Five main criteria for Green Factory have been identified; (1) Solar power generation systems, (2) Fuel cells system, (3) Cogeneration systems, (4) Air conditioning units and (5) Recycling system. A study was conducted to manufacturing companies that adopted Green Factory practices to assess its their green practices for minimizing environmental problems. The samples were 300 companies in Malaysia. Finally, 20% response rate has been received, with 60 respondents. Based on descriptive result, recycling shows the highest level of practices, followed by solar power cogenerations system, air conditioning units and fuel cells system. This study result shows Green Factory has significant relationship with environment performance (r=0.684, P

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJSCM

Publisher

Subject

Decision Sciences, Operations Research & Management Engineering Environmental Science Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering Transportation

Description

International Journal of Supply Chain Management (IJSCM) is a peer-reviewed indexed journal, ISSN: 2050-7399 (Online), 2051-3771 (Print), that publishes original, high quality, supply chain management empirical research that will have a significant impact on SCM theory and practice. Manuscripts ...