Gwangju City Promotes Replacement Project for Aging Air Pollution Control Facilities in Small and Medium Enterprises

Gwangju City Hall

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 28th that it will promote a project to replace outdated air pollution control facilities of small and medium-sized enterprises to fundamentally reduce dust, sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, and other causes of fine dust.

The project budget is a total of 7.5 billion KRW (4.2 billion KRW from the central government, 3.3 billion KRW from the city), and up to 270 million KRW will be supported per workplace.

When applying regenerative thermal oxidizer (RTO) or regenerative catalytic oxidizer (RCO) methods that use heat to oxidize and combust pollutants, support of up to 450 million KRW is available, and for joint prevention facilities, support of up to 720 million KRW is provided.

The support targets are small and medium-sized enterprises located in Gwangju as of the announcement date that operate air emission facilities, and it is expected that the environment of small-scale workplaces that find it economically difficult to install prevention facilities will improve.

However, businesses that have installed air pollution control facilities less than three years ago or have received government (central or local) support for installation costs of such facilities within the last five years are excluded.

Supported workplaces must mandatorily attach Internet of Things (IoT) devices that can remotely and in real-time monitor the operation status of emission and prevention facilities.

Applications must be submitted to the city’s Environmental Policy Division with related documents by the 14th of next month. Selected businesses will be individually notified in March.

For detailed information such as related forms, please refer to the Gwangju city website (notice announcement section) or the Gwangju Environmental Portal website’s environmental administration information under administrative information notifications, or contact the city’s Environmental Policy Division.

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