Policies and commitments

Apacer aims to create a wonderful working environment and fulfill its social responsibilities. “Legal compliance, participation in consultation, pollution prevention, environmentally friendly, Low-carbon sustainability and continuous improvement” are core values when it comes to Apacer's policies on environmental protection, health & safety and energy conservation and carbon reduction management. Apacer provides all necessary resources and conducts regular reviews to ensure the achievement of ESH and energy saving and carbon reduction goals.

 

We are committed to the compliance of international conventions, domestic regulations on environmental protection, health & safety, energy and other related requirements. Furthermore, we also fulfill the requirements of our customers’ production processes and products in terms of pollution prevention and reduction in use of environmentally hazardous substances. Effective control of various hazardous factors allows Apacer to provide a comfortable and healthy work environment. Through proper use of new technologies and resources, Apacer gains a better understanding of the usage and wear of energy and resources. This facilitates energy conservation, carbon reduction, and reuse of resources, therefore enhancing energy efficiency and promoting an environmentally friendly, healthy, energy-saving lifestyle; as a result, Apacer is able to fulfill its corporate social responsibilities and achieve sustainable development for its employees, business and the environment.

 

 

  • Legal compliance: Alignment with laws and regulations and execution of relevant requirements.
  • Participate in consultation: Encourage consultation and communication to increase awareness of personal responsibilities.
  • Pollution prevention: Promote resource recycling and environmentally friendly designs.
  • Environmentally friendly: Focus on safety & health and control occupational risks.
  • Low-carbon sustainability: Intelligently manage energy consumption and realization of energy conservation and carbon reduction.
  • Continuous improvement: Fulfillment of social responsibilities and continuous improvement of performance.
   

 

 

Greenhouse gas management

To grasp the impact and influence of its operations on the environment, Apacer has carried out self-inspection of greenhouse gas emissions since 2013 to grasp the Company's status in greenhouse gas emissions accurately. Meanwhile, Apacer is committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, aligning with the government's carbon reduction policies and international environmental protection trends. For relevant emission data, please refer to the annual performance. 

 

 

Waste management

To effectively clean up waste and prevent waste from polluting the environment, Apacer actively promotes the reduction of waste in production while properly sorting the waste by category, recycling the waste and outsourcing waste disposal. Both general and hazardous industrial waste are entrusted to externally qualified companies for waste processing. At the same time, relevant management procedures are formulated to ensure the appropriateness and legality of waste disposal, and the responsible department conducts on-site audits at least once a year, depending on the needs. Where the audit results fail to meet the standards, the related vendors will be required to stop operations and make improvements within a time limit. Where the improvements fail to meet the requirements, the Contract with the vendor is to be terminated, and another qualified vendor is selected to fulfill the corporate responsibility in waste management. For the waste solution generated in production, liquid-proof tanks are installed in the eyewash equipment rooms and explosion-proof rooms to prevent chemicals from leaking into the drainage pipes.

Waste disposal: All the wastes produced by Apacer are entrusted to qualified companies for handling who lawfully handle waste disposal off-site according to the disposal methods of various industrial wastes. No waste disposal is handled on-site.

 
Water resources management

Through the certification of ISO 14001 environmental management system, Apacer has established a pollution prevention and improvement mechanism, saved energy consumption, and reduced the environmental impact of enterprise operations. The use of internal resources of the company is mainly the service water of the operational headquarters, while water is unnecessary in the manufacturing process, leading to no generation of business wastewater.

Environment management system

    To progress toward the goal of transforming into a green enterprise, Apacer introduced Quality Management (ISO 9001) and Environmental Management System (ISO 14001), and following the P-D-C-A (Plan-Do-Check-Act Cycle) management cycle, it was ensured that all stages of operation and production comply with policies and achieve established goals; also, ensuring product quality and environmental assurance with systematic management methods reduced the negative impact of products and their manufacturing processes on the environment.

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Hazardous substance management

    In response to the trend of global environmental protection and to be devoted to the brand's core value, "Becoming better partners," Apacer is always striving to bring more positive influence to the global environment from the core of our enterprise operation. We extended the concept of environmental sustainability to the whole value chain of the enterprise, and implement the concept of green manufacturing and products through aspects such as introducing environmental management system, supply chain management, green products design, environmental education, etc. to comply with the latest international environmental protection specifications and ensure the green international competitiveness of Apacer products.

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Energy management

    Apacer has established a pollution prevention and improvement mechanism that saves energy and reduces the environmental impact of business operations under the accreditation of ISO 14001 Environmental Management System. The energy used in the company is mainly the power consumption of the operation headquarters, and the purchased power (indirect energy) of the plant and office accounts for more than 99% of the total energy consumption. In 2021, the water-cooled air conditioning was fully installed, allowing the power consumption to reduce significantly, and the energy intensity also decreased slightly.

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Climate Change Risk Management

In response to the potential risks and impacts climate change may cause, in 2020, referencing the framework of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) provided by the Financial Stability Board (FSB), Apacer carried out the identification and management of the risks and opportunities of climate change.

 

   

 

 

 

Risks and Opportunities

Apacer conducted climate-related risks/opportunities identification every year, identifying 2 material climate risks under major focus and 3 material climate opportunities, and put forward responding strategies according to the nature of risks and opportunities. We manage risks in advance as much as possible to reduce the possible negative influence
in the future; For opportunities, we invest resources and plan in advance to master the business opportunities that climate change may bring.

 

For more information, please refer to ESG Report