Green Innovation

With the support of the Board of Directors, a green proposal reward system has launched by the Sustainable Development Commission. The rewarding system encourages green initiatives such as energy-saving and material saving in product design and packaging, change in production process and raw materials to improve output with lower energy consumption, replace toxic substances with non-regulated chemicals, recycle and reuse of wastewater and solid waste, change in transportation method to reduce staff travelling and commuting, and other activities related to product deliveries.

The green proposal required brain storming discussions across all the colleagues, and is backed by attractive rewards and required rigorous review process, encourage colleagues to improve and enhance existing practices, to think out of the box and to drive the Company to come out with more green initiatives, in order to create more sustainability value for the Company. The system is carried out by the Taiwan Factory Environmental Safety Unit acting as the general executive team, which collects and selects the proposal cases to ensure that the case meets the scope of application of the green proposal, and announces the number of proposal cases each month; the review group meetings are held every quarter; the Green Review Committee is held every six months, and a total of 8 review meetings have been held to date, and a bonus of nearly NT$60,000 has been distributed.The total number of green proposals in 2022 was 85, with cost savings exceeding NT$3 million, of which energy resources reduction accounted for about 36%, followed by production changes at 21%.