Introduction
The contents in this report refer to Global Reporting
I itiati e s
Sustainability Reporting Guidelines (Version 3.1) and Environmental
Reporting Guidelines (2007 Edition) and the topic includes
Co pa
Profile ,
Poli
and
Goal ,
Gree
Management
“ ste ,
Gree
Produ t ,
Gree
Fa tor ,
Gree
Life ,
etc.. We expected
that the stakeholders can understand
I e te s
devotion and
aspiration of green sustainability through this report. Inventec will
continue to fulfill social responsibility and promote green
sustainability for enhancing the industrial competitiveness and
reaching the win-win of economic and environmental.
Reporting Scope
1. Reporting Period
1
stJan. 2011 ~ 31
thDec. 2011
2. Boundary and Stakeholder
This report reveal the performances of environmental and
relevant green sustainability issues in Taiwan sites(IET, TAO, TRDC),
China sites(IPC, IPE, IPT, ICC), Czech site(ICZ) and Mexico site(IMX).
This report was made for engaging with primary stakeholders
(customers, employee, government and suppliers) and showing our
efforts.
Contact Information
We are appreciate your encourage and concern. For any
inquiries or comments about this report, please contact:
INVENTEC CORPORATION
Inventec Building, No. 66 Hou-Kang Street Shihlin District, Taipei
11170, Taiwan
Environment and Quality Center
Tel
+886-2-2881-0721
Fax
+886-22882-1258
[email protected]
Publication
Frequency
Annually
Previous publication Date
18
thApr. 2011 (CER)
Publication Date
30
thMay. 2012
Inventec Corp. all right reserved.
CONTENTS
Message from Chairman and President... 1
Green Factory
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Company Profile
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Clean Production
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Policy and Goal
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Energy and Climate
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Green Management System
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Pollution Control
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Occupational Health & Safety Management...
10
Green Life
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Environmental Management
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Biodiversity Conservation
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29
Hazardous “u sta e Pro ess Ma age e t…………....
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Health and Safety...
30
Greenhouse Gas Management
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Education
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Green Product
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Appendix
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Green Design and Process.
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15
Communication
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36
Green Product Certification
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Environmental Expenditure
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37
Green Supply Chain
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Reporting Guideline
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Message from Chairman and President
Dear my friends,
Inventec’s
Social Responsibility
Since Inventec founded, Ye Guoyi, founder, set a corporate philosophy: "Innovation, Quality, Open Mind, Execution", "Open Mind" and
E e utio are unique for Inventec. "Open Mind" means a modest heart, do anything for love as a starting point; "Execution" means well implementation. Inventec's corporate philosophy, not only led all employees to the great achievements, but also develop a business culture that care for community needs and continuously feedback to the society. Social responsibility is to commit corporate governance and being a well corporate citizen, Inventec promotes Corporate Beliefs", encouraging colleagues advance learning. Tale ts Assets is the first priority in I e te s CorporateBeliefs and “o ial‘espo si ilit is its ultimate commitment. "Corporate Governance" is internal and "Corporate Citizen" is external of "Social Responsibility". Corporate
Go er a e should thoroughly review the risks and problems under the iceberg principal. Corporate Citize is fulfilled by protecting the environment, promoting the culture, helping the disadvantaged and supporting the community.
New Business of Sustainable Energy Development
2011 was a difficult year for Inventec, but it s also an important year of accumulating momentum of green transformation for us. Facing the climate change, international society has continuously raised green economy initiative. Green energy industry obviously becomes a new driver of economic growth. Inventec has started a new business of green energy since 2010. We add "Sustainable Energy" into five missions (Year 2011~2013) and expect to take advantage of our green innovation and manufacturing to create higher value for society and the environment.
Advance Green Sustainability and Feedback to Society
In order to better respond to green sustainability issues, Inventec established environmental goal and policy, from the employee, enterprise, supply chain to environmental conservation-oriented, pursuing sustainable development and do our best to protect the environment. On the dimensions of employees, we focus the environmental education; form a habit to spontaneously protect the environment. On the dimensions of operations, we are seeking to reduce the environmental impacts of products from product design, manufacturing, supply chain management, product assembly to customer service and so on. On the dimensions of industry, we are actively promoting the green supply chain and providing assistances and resource integration to our suppliers. On the dimensions of climate change, we have built a management system, promoting energy saving and carbon reduction. In addition, we shared our experience to our partners in the annual conference.
In the future, we will maintain good interaction with our stakeholders, meet the expectations of our stakeholders, continue to promote green management, and encourage our employees actively feedback to the community. With these efforts mentioned above, we expect to bring the society more warm regards and pursue the sustainable development of the earth.
Fulfill Social Responsibility
Advance Green Sustainability
Paul Wang
Company Profile
•
Corporate Philosophy
•
Social Responsibility
•
Five Missions
•
Sustainable Energy Business
Uphold the beliefs
Fulfill the responsibilities
Achieve the missions
Innovation
Ownership
Sustainable
Energy
Cloud
Service
Mobile
Broadband
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Company Profile
Company Philosophy
Since Inventec founded, Kou-I Yeh, founder, set a corporate philosophy: "Innovation, Quality, Open Mind, Execution", "Open Mind" and E e utio are unique for Inventec. "Open Mind" means a modest heart, do anything for love as a starting point; "Execution" means well implementation. Inventec's corporate philosophy, not only led all employees to the great achievements, but also develop a business culture that care for community needs and continuously feedback to the society.
Inventec Profile
Company
Inventec Corporation
Foundation Year
1975
Headquarter
Taipei, Taiwan
Chairman
Richard Lee
President
Paul Wang
Product
Laptops, Server, Electronic Mobile Devices
Market Area: America, Europe and Asia
2011 Revenue
338,417,380 Thousand NT dollars
(Taiwan Stock Code.: 2356)
Social Responsibility
The Chairman of Inventec, Richard Lee promotes Corporate Beliefs" in order to encourage employee learning. The beliefs start with "Value Our Core Asset-People" and finally to the Uphold Corporate Social Responsibility", including "Believe in Equal Opportunity", "Demonstrate Personal and Corporate Integrity", "Emphasize Learning and Sharing", "Encourage for Innovation and improvement", "Lead Industry as First Mover", "Endeavor to Delight Customers", "Enhance Our Industry Reputation" and "Increase Shareholder Value". The Chairman emphasized that Uphold Corporate Social responsibility" is a common belief to Inventec and it divides into two aspects to fulfill, The one is "Corporate Governance" within the company, which holds in good faith engagement to stakeholders. Another is "Corporate Citizen" outside the company, which plays the role of a good corporate citizen and it divides into four parts to be fulfilled, Prote t the E iro e t , Pro ote the Culture ,
Help the Disad a taged and “upport the Co u it .
Company Profile
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Five Missions
It must be based on high value-added products and services innovation to maintain the value of the company's growth momentum and creating sustainable development opportunities under the environment in meager profit. Going forward, Inventec will actively promote five missions (Year 2011~2013), which are including " Innovation Ownership", " Sustainable Energy", " Cloud Service", " Mobile
Broadband" and " Emerging Market", for technology integration and innovation. The Long-term strategy is to pursue economies of scale and efficient use of resources. Hardware manufacturing is not I e te s only focus. More importantly, It connects with the software and the application of technology to create "difference advantage", to strengthen the company's core competitiveness, to enhance the growth momentum, and to create new opportunities for sustainable development.
Company Profile
Company Profile
Innovation
Ownership
Sustainable
Energy
Cloud
Computing
Wireless
Broadband
Emerging
Markets
1. IP & Knowledge
Assets
2. Business
Transformation
3. Management
Innovation
1. PolySilicon Solar
Energy
2. Green
Design/Operation
3. Environmental
Protection
1. Container
Datacenter
2. IaaS and
Applications
3. Green & Energy
Saving
1. Smart
Phones/Pads
2. Broadband Access
3. Digital Home
Devices
1. BRICS
Opportunities
2. China Local
Demand
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Company Profile
Sustainable Energy Business
Because of the global climate change, huge swings in energy prices, limited energy reserves, environmental awareness raising and so on, many governments have responded to Gree Economic I itiati e , which was promoted by United Nations, accelerating the development of energy saving and carbon reduction programs and promoting green technology research and development to create opportunities for economic growth.
Inventec is optimistic about the future of green technology development, promoting one of the five missions: "Sustainable Energy". We invested in solar energy industry and expected to become a green environmental company with advantage of manufacturing, management and innovation. I e te s solar related companies include the investment of the ISEC, IENC, E-TON, etc. It will contribute to the future development and application of solar energy and green product through the consolidation of solar industry chain and can provide more green solutions and services to achieve the green sustainable visions: Gree Inventec , Gree Tai a and Gree Earth .
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Policy and Goal
•
Environmental Goal
•
Environmental Policy
•
Environmental Program
Green Product
Green Factory
Green Life
Comply with
Environmental Laws & Regulations
Become Best
Environmental Practice in Industry
Promote Integrated Environmental Supply Chain
Environmental Training and Certification Contribution Reward to
Best Environmental Practices
Environmental Integration with Supply Chain
Partners
Aim to Environmental Goal
Fulfill Environmental Policy
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Goal, Policy and Program
Inventec attaches importance to environmental protection, derived from the "environmental protection" in the "social responsibility" of 10 beliefs. In order to fulfill corporate social responsibility and practice the 5 missions of "Sustainable Energy", we established Inventec's environmental goal, policy and program to guide the power of employee, moving forward to the sustainability of corporate and environment.
Environmental Goal
To promote green competitive advantages, enhance corporate image, and achieve sustainable development, Inventec s President developed a full range of environmental goals in implementation of environmental policies and environmental programs as follows:
Green Product: Showing the efforts and achievements of improving Earth's environment through green product.
Green Factory: Reducing the environmental impacts from the production by energy saving, consumption reducing and pollution prevention
Green Life: Cultivating respect and familiarity to the Earth by developing personal daily habit.
Environmental Policy
In order to meet international trends and customer requirements and pursue sustainable development, we made environmental policy from the employee, enterprise, and supply chain to environmental conservation-oriented as follows:
Comply with Environmental Laws & Regulations: Complying with environmental laws and regulations on a personal level.
Become Best Environmental Practice in Industry: Becoming an environmental benchmark on the enterprise level.
Promote Integrated Environmental Supply Chain: Promoting environmental protection activities and integrating supply chain system on the supply chain level.
Pursue Environment-sustaining Development: Contributing to enterprise and Earth for sustainability development on the environmental level.
Environmental Program
In order to fulfill environmental policy, developing environmental program, as guidelines for implementing all the environmental projects as follows:
Environmental Training and Certification: Establishing a certification standard and request employees to comply with environmental regulations.
Contribution Reward to Best Environmental Practices: Establishing a reward method and request employees to be a environmental benchmark.
Environmental Integration with Supply Chain Partners: Building collaborative mechanisms and promote integrated eco-industry.
Community Environment-sustaining Development: Supporting community to protect the environment and advance the sustainable development of community.
Goal and Policy
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Move Forward to Sustainability of Corporate and Environment
Promote the Culture
Goal, Policy and Program
Corporate Governance
Protect the
Environ-ment Help the
Disadvan -taged
Support the Community
Corporate Citizen
Sustainable
Energy
1. PolySilicon
Solar Energy
2. Green Design
/Operation
3. Environmental
Protection
S
o
cia
l R
e
spo
ns
ibi
lit
y
( Social Responsibility
is one of 10 beliefs)
( Sustainability Energy
is one of 5 Missions)
Inventec Environmental Goal, Policy and Program
ExternalInternal
• Occupational Health & Safety Management
• Environmental Management
• Hazardous Substance Process Management
• Greenhouse Gas Management
Green Management System
OHSAS 18001/TOSHMS
Occupational Health & Safety Management
IECQ QC 080000
Hazardous Substance Process Management
ISO 14001
Environmental Management
ISO 14064
Greenhouse Gas Management
Assure working Environment
and Safety
P
D
C
A
Green
Management
System
Maintain the Local Environment
Mitigate Global Climate Change
Protect the consumers and theirs
environment
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Occupational Health & Safety Management
Green Management System>OHS Management
Occupational Health & Safety Management System
Policy
Plan
• Hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control
• Legal and other requirements
• Objectives
• OH&S management programs
Check and Action
• Performance measurement and monitoring
• Accidents, incidents, non-conformance and corrective and
preventive action • Records and records
management • Audit
Do
•Structure and responsibilities •Training, awareness and
competence •Consultation and
communication •Documentation
•Document and data control •Operational control
•Emergency preparedness and response
Management
Review
P
D
C
A
Continuous
Improvement
Labor Safety and Health Committee
Inventec set up the Labor Safety and Health Committee in each site, which handle the operations of safety and health risks and management system. There are several members in the committee. There is a regular quarterly meeting to discuss about the relevant laws and regulations, internal and external requests, education plans, machinery prevention, hazards of equipment or materials, working environment measurement result of measures that should be taken, etc. The resolution, decided by the committee, should be implemented by function units to ensure the effectiveness and continuous operation of occupational safety and health management system.
Occupational Safety and Health Management
System
Inventec s Occupational Health and Safety Management System upholds the spirit of continuous improvement, and is based on PDCA cycle, bring the function of self protection and control into full play. It can reduce potential health and safety risks, thereby reduce operational risk and increase good image for company.
All sites, excluding IMX, passed the validation of occupational safety and health management system (OHSAS18001) since 1998. In order to upgrade the system operation and management, IET and TAO conducted the Tai a Occupational Safety and Health Management System
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Action
Plan
Check
Do
• Environmental Aspect
• Legal and Other Requirements
• Objectives, targets and Programs
• Resources, roles, Responsibility and Authority • Competence, training and awareness • Communication • Documentation
• Document Control
• Operational Control
• Monitoring and Measurement
• Evaluation of Compliance
• Nonconformity, Corrective action and Preventive Action
• Control of Records
• Internal Audit
•Management Review
•Continuous Improvement
• Emergency Preparedness and Response
Environmental Management
Green Management System>Environmental Management
Environmental Management System
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Policy
Environmental Management Committee
Inventec set up E iro e t Management Co ittee in each site. The regular meeting is held by management representative to review the environment policy, annual internal audit results, environmental laws and regulations assessment and the achievement of environmental performances, objectives and targets. We take actions and future improvement measures based on the review to ensure the effectiveness of environment management system.
Environmental Management System
To prevent the pollution and implement clean production, Inventec had conducted ISO 14001 environmental management system since 1996. Currently, IET, TAO, IPC, IPE, IPT, ICZ, etc. has obtained ISO 14001 international environmental management system certificate.
To enhance the o pa s competitiveness, Inventec takes environmental management seriously. For meeting international trends and customer requirements and pursuing sustainable development, we made corporate environmental policy from the employee, enterprise, and supply chain to environmental conservation-oriented.
Each site conducts policies, sets up targets, and takes actions based on its corporate level policy. In order to achieve the targets and reduce the potential environmental risks, Inventec plans and implements the improvement actions in the aspects of pollution control, energy and resource saving, waste reduction and other related hazards preventions. For the "continuous improvement", Inventec identifies all environmental aspects and significant environmental aspects through
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Hazardous Substance Process Management
Green Program Committee
To reach the green goal, Inventec formed a lead-free and RoHS team in 2004, leading all tasks which need to meet RoHS requirements and in response to the increasingly stringent environmental regulations. Since 2006, the task range of team has been expanded to Halogen Free and IECQ QC 080000 system management and the name was changed to Green Program Committee (GPC) in 2009, responsible for all green product issues.
Currently, "Green Program Committee" is responsible for integrated strategy planning of green product, the usto er s request response, new environmental project planning, etc. The important green issues will be reviewed in the regular meeting. The task team may be arranged as needed to complete the tasks for checking the implementing status under the standards and the compliance of environmental regulations and usto er s request.
Hazardous
Substance
Process
Management
System
Inventec integrated the Hazardous Substances Free (HSF) control requirements into quality management system according to the requirements of IECQ QC 080000 hazardous substance process management (HSPM) system. Not only to comply with RoHS and WEEE, but also take the specific local regulations and the agreements with customers into account.
Inventec conducted IECQ QC 080000 since 2006. The IET, TAO, IPC and IPE passed the validation in the same year. Inventec was the lead
company to obtain the first IECQ QC 080000 certificate in the NB industry in Taiwan. In addition, Inventec actively implemented IECQ QC 080000 global validation for seven worldwide sites (including IET, TAO, IPC, IPE, IPT, ICZ, and IMX) in 2009. It s also the first company to pass the global validation in the NB industry in Taiwan. Inventec continuously passed IECQ QC 080000 regular evaluation audit in 2011 and has a re-certificate plan in 2012 to ensure the effectiveness of IECQ QC 080000 management system.
Hazardous Substance Process Management System
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Carbon Disclosure and Communication
Global climate change does not only cause serious impacts on environment, but also put human in dangers, such as economy, health and safety, food crisis, etc. Encountering the high valued toward carbon issues in the international, Inventec is aware of the importance of carbon disclosure and communication. We continued to respond 2011 CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project) questionnaire and reveal our carbon management information through other ways, such as report, website, posters and annual supplier conference. Inventec in addition to actively respond to customer concerns issues, but also to promote the importance of carbon management to our employees and suppliers, and to review the company's internal management, strengthening the communication with stakeholders.
Greenhouse Gas Management System
Energy saving and carbon reduction are important methods of mitigating climate change and global warming, the first step of energy saving and carbon reduction is greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting. Implementation of greenhouse gas accounting in addition to be able to meet the requests from government, customers and international investors, and to understand sources of greenhouse gas emissions of Inventec for establishing reduction direction and target and tracking the reduction performance.
Inventec conducted greenhouse gas accounting since July 2008. We set up a GHG inventory team to implement it and extend to other worldwide sites (IPC, IPE, IPT, ICZ, IMX) based on the experience of the
pilot in Taiwan, establishing global GHG management system. Currently, we have completed five years (2007-2011) of the greenhouse gas inventories. To enhance the efficiency of the greenhouse gas accounting, we developed "Inventec GHG Portal" in 2010 and go-live in January 2011. It can reduce a lot of manual time and human error by using this portal, and also save paper, energy and reduce carbon emissions.
For getting the recognition by intended users, all the GHG accounting tasks complied with international standard: ISO 14064-1, and we implemented the internal and 3rd party verification after GHG inventory
finished. Now we passed GHG 3rd party verification for 2007-2009 and plan to implement GHG 3rd party verification for 2010-2011 in 2012.
GHG Reduction Target
In order to effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Inventec made a long-term reduction target in 2010 and expected to fulfill our corporate social responsibility.
Reduce 10% GHG Emissions by 2020 based on 2010 level
PS. Scope includes IET, TAO, TRDC, IPC, IPE, IPT, ICZ, IMX
2008
2009
2010
2011
GHG Inventory Conducted
GHG Management System Established
Passed 3rd Party GHG Verification (2007-2009)
Invetec GHG
Portal Co du ted
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Greenhouse Gas Management
•
Green Design and Process
•
Green Product Certification
•
Green Supply Chain
Green Product
Green Factory
Green Life
Green Product
Inventec Cloud Computing Module
Green Data Center
The Statistic of Green Mark
Certification in 2011
P15
P17
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Green Design and Process
Green Design Principle
Green design is environment design. It takes environmental and safety aspects into considerations throughout product life cycle. The concept of green design is conducted from product development to manufacturing process by raw materials selection and easy disassembles design. It can reduce the environmental impacts of products, while keeping product price, function and quality. Inventec green design principles are as follows:
Try to seek how to reduce environmental impacts
Minimum total energy consumption within product life cycle
Reduce land load
Design for clean production and use
Design for durability
Design for function optimization
Design for 3R (reuse, recovery and recycling)
Avoiding to use hazardous materials
Inventec Green Data Center
With the rapid development of cloud computing technology and services, the energy demand of data center has been taken seriously. Currently, How to develop a data center which can keep technology growth and save energy is an important consideration of design.
Inventec upholds the principles of green design and takes the advantage of hardware design and manufacturing. In 2011, we worked with Chu gh a Tele o to develop "Inventec Cloud Computing Module Green Data Center", providing a new generation of green solution.
The advantages of this green data center are as follows:
Multi-functional module design
Less voltage transformation
Less car container (2 containers)
Higher density of system (840 units server/container)
Reach green target: system efficiency>80%, PUE<1.12
To Assess whether the data center can save energy, it depends on
Po er Usage Effectiveness (PUE): . The calculation of PUE is "total facility power" divided by the "IT equipment power" in the data center. Lower PUE value is representing the energy saving, spending less energy in non-IT equipments. The non-IT equipments include air condition, power (UPS), lighting system, etc. Therefore, how to design a low PUE data center is the focus.
By the comparison between the efficiency of Inventec cloud computing module green data center and that of general data center, the power can save 1,308 MWh per year. It not only can reduce electricity cost, but also can effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions (800 tonnes CO2e per year), in efforts to mitigate global warming.
Power Usage Effectiveness
PUE = Total Facility Power/ IT Equipment Power
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Green Design and Process
RoHS Process
The maximum permitted concentrations of Lead (Pb), Mercury
(Hg), Cadmium (Cd), Hexavalent chromium (Cr6+), Polybrominated
biphenyls (PBB), Polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) in the
process should follow the request of
‘estri tio
of Hazardous
Substances (RoHS) Directive.
I e te s
suppliers in addition to
follow the RoHS directive should also meet the request of
Inventec HSF Management
“ta dard
. Besides, in order to achieve
environmental goal (Green Product, Green Factory and Green Life),
we use XRF devices to inspect incoming materials and internal
control in production to avoid nonconforming materials use.
Halogen-Free Process
More and more electronic companies have declared that halogen
compounds will be gradually phased out in their products since
Greenpeace released "Guide to Greener Electronics" in 2006. We
assess the technical feasibility and improve the technology of clean
production based on the request of Halogen-Free. Currently,
Inventec have conducted the Halogen-Free process in the
production by
usto er s
demands to minimum the damage of
environment and human which is caused by halogen compounds.
Inventec Cloud Computing Module Green Data Center
Items
General Data
Center
Inventec Green Data Center
Efficiency
74.72%
81.72% (raising 7%)
PUE
2.2
1.118
Power
Consumption
2,660
MWh/year
1,352 MWh/year
(Save 1,308MWh/year, equal to
800 tonnes CO
2e)
PS. Electricity Emission Factor was used from Taiwan Bureau of Energy (2010 version).
Inventec Green Data Center VS. General Data Center
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Green Product Certification
Green Mark
(NB) Certification Statistic
TGM
16
SEPA
19
CECP
23
EPEAT
Gold
25; Silver
14
Inventec Green Mark Certification in 2011
Green Supply Chain
suppliers under the well guidance and management, and achieved win-win goal through multiple evaluation and information sharing.
Multiple Evaluation
The requests for our suppliers on general demands of quality, cost, delivery and service extend to green product and corporate social responsibility through multiple evaluation to ensure that suppliers can meet our requests of green design, green process, hazardous substances limitation, child labor prohibition, human rights protection, safety of working environment.
To ensure that suppliers can comply with I e te s requests is hereby set up a "Vendor Management (VM) Tea to manage our suppliers in materials control, manufacturing, packaging, shipping and other management processes through survey and on-site audit. The members in VM team include RD, Procurement and CE, are responsible for planning and implementation of supplier evaluation.
Information Sharing
To ensure that suppliers understand the trends of green product and
I e te s requirements, Inventec sets up contact windows for different environmental issues, and effectively promotes green issues to suppliers for reaching the consensus of green product through multiple communication channels, such as I e te Supplier Portal and annual supplier conference.
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Green Product>Green Product Certification
、
Green Supply Chain
Green product for Inventec is oriented in addition to obey the basic regulatory requests, also meet usto er s requirements, such as the use of low toxicity and recyclable materials. The green product confirmed rate, green parts incoming rate and lead-free (RoHS) process implementation rate have reached 100%. In addition, all products of laptop on the design of energy efficiency, can meet Energy Star 5.0 standard.
In addition to the factors of the raw materials, process and market, Green Mark takes product lifecycle into consideration in order to avoid transference of pollutants in different stages of life cycle. Therefore, the rules of the standard were made depend on different products. The standard was set by selecting best environmental performance 20~30% in the similar products on the market.
In order to provide better environmental services to our customers, there were totally 16 models of notebook computers got the Tai a Green Mark , 19 models got Chi a“EPA , 23 models got China CECP, and 39 models got USA EPEAT.
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Green Supply Chain
(1) Inventec Supplier Portal (iSupplier)
The RoHS (Restriction of the use of certain hazardous substance in electrical and electronic equipment) directive was published in February 2003 by European Union. This directive took effect on 1 July 2006 and restricts the use of six hazardous materials in the manufacture of various types of electronic and electrical equipment. Therefore, Inventec established a platform, called Inventec Supplier Portal (iSupplier), for supplier use in July 2007. It is an important platform between Invetenc and suppliers to share and review the product quality and environmental information.
The iSupplier is covering four categories, the environmental, quality, safety and design changes. It can efficiently provide data as we needed through systematic management and automation E-Mail. In addition, the Safety and CE team in Inventec can review and feedback the data, which were imported by suppliers, through iSupplier.
(2) Annual Supplier Conference
Inventec holds supplier conference each year and invites our partners to participate in it, and to ensure our suppliers understand
I e te s requests and new trends in environmental issues. We also share the implementation experiences and arrange the keynote speeches in the conference. We investigate the implementation status of suppliers through the questionnaire and feedback response in the conference; it s an important communication between Inventec and suppliers. Regarding the holding date and agenda of conference in 2011, please refer as follows:
No.
Date
Location
No. of
Person
No. of
Supplier
1
2011/8/3
Chongqing
51
30
2
2011/8/10
Shanghai
283
177
3
2011/8/19
Taipei
212
139
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Green Product>Green Supply Chain
Conference Topics
•Supply Chain Sustainable Management：
Explain the trends and pressures in supply chain and expect suppliers can work with Inventec for sustainable development.
•Energy and Carbon Management：
-Share the I e te s experiences of carbon management, including environmental policy and goal.
-Promote energy management and focusing carbon management.
•Carbon Footprint and Water Footprint：
Introduce carbon footprint and water footprint and explain
I e te s future requirements.
•Biodiversity Conservation：
Promote the actions of Biodiversity Conservation to our suppliers.
•Conflict Mineral：
Explain the plan for Conflict Mineral survey.
•Non-financial Information Disclosure：
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Green Supply Chain
2011 Inventec Annual Supplier Conference in Chongqing
Around 40% of suppliers have the ability
of GHG accounting
Around 40% of suppliers were request
by their customers to disclosure carbon
footprint of product
At
least
50%
of
suppliers
have
established IECQ QC 080000 HSPM
system
At least 50% of suppliers have IT system
to control the hazardous substances in
their products
At least 50% of suppliers have inspection
devices to check the conformity of HSF
standards
Around 40% of suppliers have realized
the risks of hazardous substances in
their products
Suppliers Survey
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Green Product>Green Supply Chain
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•
Clean Production
•
Energy and Climate
•
Pollution Control
Green Factory
Green Factory
Green Life
Green Product
Performances of Clean
Production
GHG Emissions in 2011
P21
P24
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Clean Production
Clean production audit is not only an important basis for companies to implement clean production, but also an important means for energy saving, consumption reduction, pollution control and efficiency improvement.
Inventec Pudong factory (IPC, IPE, IPT) have worked with China government to promote clean production and have built the clean production audit process since August 2010. Within about a year, we tried to identify the defects on energy and resources consumption and pollutions control in the manufacturing process through clean production audit process, then we planned and implemented a series practical of clean production actions, and further specified related production activities, and built the clean production audit process.
We totally have completed 34 actions of clean production in Pudong factory since 2008. IPC reduced a total of 2936.46 tonnes CO2e per year through 11 actions of implementation, such as reducing the waste of ICT tools card and wiping paper, increasing utilization of equipment, saving energy of public facilities. IPE reduced a total of 2436.89 tonnes CO2e per year through 11 actions of implementation, such as reducing the amount of scrap components and cases, saving production line space, saving energy of public facilities. IPT reduced a total of 2032.13 tonnes CO2e per year through 12 actions of implementation, such as saving solders, reducing the amount of waste battery, saving energy of public facilities. Under the short term targets achieved, Inventec will consolidate clean production audit process and enhance employee awareness of clean production and environmental protection for the continuous operation of clean production system.
Preparation
Pre-audit
Audit
Evaluation
Implementation
Action Selected
Continuous
Improvement
Clean Production Audit Process
Site
Actions
completed
Performance
IPC
11
Reduce 2936.46 tonnes CO2e/yr
Save 3,000 tonnes water
IPE
11
Reduce 2436.89 tonnes CO2e/yr
Save 29,400 tonnes water
IPT
12
Reduce 2032.13 tonnes CO2e/yr
Save 18,000 tonnes water
Clean production Performance
PS: all actions had taken since 2008.
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Energy and Climate
Energy Management and Statistic
Energy consumption affects not only operating costs, but environmental pollution and impacts. How to make efficient use of energy is one of the important issues of sustainable development for companies. To well manage energy, Inventec keeps energy monitoring to seize the opportunity of improving energy efficiency.
The power consumption in 2011 was 192,062 MWh (Million Watt
Hours), slight raising 0.6% than previous year. The natural gas consumption in 2011 is 2,426 KM3, raising 14% from previous year. The
main reason is because the amount of IPE employee was increasing and that caused the increasing of natural gas consumption in the kitchen. The main energy consumption (Power, Natural Gas) within 2007-2011 were compared as follows:
2007-2011 Power Consumption for Each Site
Green Factory>Energy and Climate
2007-2011 Natural Gas Consumption for Each Site
0 50,000 100,000 150,000 200,000 250,000
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
(MWh) (Year)
IMX ICZ IPT IPE IPC TRDC TAO IET
14,996
184,574 186,318 190,916 192,062
0.0 50,000.0 100,000.0 150,000.0 200,000.0 250,000.0
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
(KM3) (Year)
IMX ICZ IPT IPE IPC IET
1,476
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Water Consumption Statistic
In recent years, water resource management issue is becoming more and more important due to rainfall patterns rapid changing and uneven rainfall distribution. The water demands for Inventec are cleaning water, cooling tower water, gardening water and drinking water (production process without water). The total water consumption in 2011 is 1,190 thousand cubic meters, approximately flat to the 2010. The water consumption per capita in 2011 is around 44.5 cubic meters per person and it s not big differences compared with previous two years.
Water-saving Actions
The sources of water consumption in Inventec are mainly from daily life use and air condition. Thus, our water-saving actions focus on the measures of flow control and water recycle to achieve the purpose of water-saving. The water-saving actions for each site are as follows:
Site
Investment
(TWD)
Water-saving Actions Summary
IET
480K
Water pipes replacement, flush
frequency of urinal adjustment
TAO
4K
Use water-saving and sensor on the
faucet
TRDC
2,530K
Bore groundwater wells
IPC
0
Change the concentrated multiple in
wastewater treatment system by
season
IPE
245K
Horizontal examination and smart
water meter setup
IPT
0
Water yield of faucet adjustment
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0 10 20 30 40 50 60 0 200 400 600 800 1,000 1,200 1,400 1,600 1,800
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 (M3/Capita)
(KM3)
(Year)
IMX ICZ IPT
IPE IPC TRDC
TAO IET Water Consumption per Capita
1,060 1,057
1,227
1,190 1,190
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Energy and Climate
GHG Emission Statistic
Inventec conducted greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting since July 2008 and so far completed five years (2007-2011) of the GHG inventories. Besides, in order to improve the efficiency of GHG accounting, we built a platform, called I e te GHG Portal in 2011 to ensure all accounting tasks can be completed by the portal. It is not only can improve the efficiency, but also can save a lot of manual time and paper and reduce human errors. This is also an action of energy saving and carbon reduction. For getting the recognition by intended users, all the GHG accounting tasks complied with international standard: ISO 14064-1, and we implemented the internal and 3rd party verification after GHG inventory
finished. The time period for this inventory was from 1st Jan. 2011 to 31th
Dec. 2011 and the scope included nine sites (IET, TAO, TRDC, IPC, IPE, IPT, ICC, ICZ and IMX), ICC was the first time to implement.
According to the inventory results (see the right figure), the total GHG emissions are 170,525 tonnes CO2e. The GHG emissions of Pudong factory (IPC, IPE, IPT) and Chongqing factory (ICC) are 147,647 tonnes CO2e, 87% of total emissions, as the major source. For the source distribution (see the figure in next page), power consumption is the major source, 94.3% of total emissions, natural gas is secondary, 3.6% of total emissions. Therefore, taking actions on energy conservation and equipment energy efficiency is a major direction for reaching the carbon reduction target, which can also lower long-term operating costs.
GHG Reduction Performance Tracking
To effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Inventec set a carbon reduction target in 2010 (Please refer to Page 12) to track the reduction performances. The 2011 emissions measured by the target boundary (not including ICC) are 160,564 tonnes CO2e, cutting 1.6% of total emissions compared to target base year. We will continue to promote energy saving and carbon reduction actions in the future and expect to reach the target successfully.
Green Factory>Energy and Climate
2007-2011 GHG Emissions for Each Site
050,000 100,000 150,000 200,000 250,000
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
(Ton CO2e) (Year)
IMX ICZ ICC IPT IPE
IPC TRDC TAO IET
144,855
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Energy Saving and Carbon Reduction Actions
To reduce the environmental impacts caused by climate change, Inventec continues to promote the actions of energy saving and carbon reduction. There were totally 37 actions taken in 2011 and cost 13,498 thousand NT dollars. The actions for each site are summarized as follows:
Site Amount of Action
Investment (TWD)
Actions Summary
IET 6 624 Use T5, LED lighting system, setup air curtain in cafeteria, setup temperature control in Fan Coil Unit…
TAO 2 56 Use T5 Tube, diesel oil reducing
TRDC 3 1,347 Use T5 Tube, Heat dissipation material of Cooling Tower Replacement, Cooling Tower maintenance
IPC 11 0 Pressure adjustment of air compressor, lighting system control、temperature control in chillers…
IPE 6 128 Lighting system control, use anti Radiation curtain, setup time control device on exhaust fan …
IPT 5 11,343 Phase out high power consumption of nitrogen generators, Lighting system control, Power system loading adjustment by season
IMX 4 0 Lighting system control, un-plug equipment or computers, which are not used
Heat dissipation material
of Cooling Tower
Replacement
Use LED Lamp
T5 Tube Replacement
High Power
Consumption
of Nitrogen
Generators
Phase out
Lighting
Control
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Actions of Energy Saving and CO
2Reduction
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Power: 94.3%
Halon: 0.2% Natural Gas: 3.6%
Gasoline: 0.2% Diesel: 0.3% Refrigerant: 0.9%
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Pollution Control
Air Pollution Control
The exhaust in production process contains particles, Tin and its compounds, oil smoke, etc. There are dust collectors, Process exhaust fan, range hood and electrostatic precipitator devices in sites. We have a regular examination by 3rd party every year and the result complied with
related regulations to avoid surrounding pollutions.
Wastewater Treatment
There is not any process wastewater in Inventec. Our wastewater sources are mainly from domestic wastewater. There only is a sewage treatment facility in TRDC; the wastewater of other sites was collected by sewage pipeline or sewer, and then was taken to the local sewage plant for treatment.
Chemical Management
With the development of science and technology in recent years, it not only enlarge chemical categories and complexity, but also increases the hazard risks of chemicals to human health and the environment. Therefore, how to establish an effective management system is one of the important issues of moving towards sustainable development for company. In order to accurately ensure the chemicals safety, Inventec made the management procedures for hazardous chemicals control and set up the hazardous chemical storage area for 24-hour monitoring. In addition, to enable the employee to correct use of chemicals, we regularly hold training courses to prevent chemical disasters occur. For common categories of chemicals and its purchasing volume in 2011, please refer to the right figure:
No. Chemical Title Purchasing Volume
1 Alcohol (99.8%(for electronic use), 98%(Analysis level), industrial alcohol, medical alcohol(75%)
10.5 KL
2 Methanol 11.6 Ton
3 Degreaser 12.4 KL
4 Anti-oxidant 0.39 Ton
5 SM816 soldering flux 102.9 KL
6 Sin-na thinner 20 gallon
7 Alpha soldering flux 0.88 KL
8 Chemical-YC-0205 35.6 KL
9 Thinner 8401 9.6 KL
10 Lien-ching 98 0.25 Ton
11 Cleaning agent(Wei-meng, C-36, C-55, C-68, X-201, circuit cleaning solvent, environmental cleaning solvent)
67.9 KL
12 PCB cleaning agent (C807) 0.22 Ton
13 Belly cleaning agent 0.19 Ton
PS. The list items are based on the chemicals, usually used in Pudong factory
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Pollution Control
Waste Treatment
The ways of waste treatment of Inventec all complied with local regulations. Inventec select qualified vendors and keep monitoring the flow of treatment by our specialist. There is a special area for waste storage in each site and person in charge of handling the recycling and disposition of Industrial waste. We set up the warehouse and waste organic solvent storage area for the harmful/hazardous waste, in which there are complete fire-fighting equipments and well control for avoiding accident occur. The ways of waste treatment in the factories are as follows:
Waste Statistic
In 2011, the total amount of waste in Inventec is about 16,326 tonnes. Notebooks and mobile devices account for 70.4% of total amount and server and cloud services is 29.6%. Compared by the ways of waste treatment, recycling (87%) is major, followed by incineration (5.7%) and landfill (5.3%). Please refer to the following statistics.
Category
Waste Treatment Way
Trash
Taiwan, Czech
Incineration
China, Mexico
Landfill
Solvent
Incineration
Paper
Recycle/Reuse
Plastic
Recycle/Reuse
Solder
Recycle/Reuse
Medical Waste
Incineration
Electronic Waste
Recycle/Reuse
Acid
Heat Treatment
Mix Hardware
Recycle/Reuse
Battery, Light Tube
Recycle/Reuse
Kitchen Waste
Compost/Animal Feed
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Waste Statistic in 2011
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0 2,000 4,000 6,000 8,000 10,000 12,000
NB, Mobile Devices Server, Cloud Services
Others 241 84
Incineration 214 721
Landfill 518 352
Recycle/Reuse 10518 3677
Weight(Tonnes)
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Biodiversity Conservation
•
Health and Safety
•
Education
Green Life
Green Factory
Green Life
Green Product
Activities of Biodiversity Conservation
Occupational Health & Safety
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Biodiversity Conservation
Tree Planting Activity Participation
Forest is not only an important habitat for many animals and plants but is one of important roles to stable global climate. Excessive exploitation and habitat destruction result in a great loss of forest resources and the serious impacts on biodiversity and climate change issues.
Inventec in response to "international year of the forests 2011", which proclaimed by United Nations, participated in the "1 man 1 tree, Yes, I can do the" tree planting activity, held by BCSD Taiwan, and expect to more people to pay attention to biodiversity problems and limited forest resources.
Factory Greening
In order to integrate the architecture and natural environment in the factory and reduce local ecological impacts caused by the operations,
Inventec set eco-pool in the Pudong factory and planted a variety of native plants, turf in the surroundings for the purpose of air cleaning and the environment beautifying.
Park Maintenance
Inventec not only concerns about the environmental protection in the factory but the improvement of local community and environment. We are aware of the importance of ecology conservation for the surroundings, as a result, we actively promote the biodiversity conservation and cherish natural resources. It s a kind of corporate social responsibilities for us.
Inventec works together with community residents to preserve the living environment. We long-term maintain the ShihLin QianGang Park and provide services such as seasonal flowers and tree planting, surroundings cleaning and maintenance to increase interaction with the residents and provide a clean public space in the community.
廠區綠化照片
Tree Planting Activity
Pudong Factory Greening
ShihLin QianGang Park Maintenance
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Health and Safety
Emergency Response and Training
Handling real time of in-site emergency situation, avoiding disaster expansion and losses, and controlling real-time information and communication, are the main works of accidents emergency response management. Inventec regularly holds the fire drills every year and enables colleagues to understand how to use fire equipment, evacuation routes and the related emergency responses within the plant. The emergency response team is also organized to plan the emergency response measures and recovery actions for accident risk
management.
The emergency responses and fire drill trainings for each site in 2011 are as follows:
Sites
Holding Date
IET
2011/4/29
2011/12/14~16
TAO
2011/6/1
2011/11/18
TRDC
2011/6/3
2011/11/10
Pudong Factory
(IPC/IPE/IPT)
2011/8/19
2011/11/25
ICZ
2011/2/18
IMX
2011/10/27
IMX Disaster Medicine Training
IET Evacuation Training
TRDC Fire Fighting Training
TAO Fire Fighting Training
Pudong Factory Emergency Rescue Training
Pudong Factory Fire Drill Mobilization
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Health and Safety
Workplace Safety
Inventec regards "staff safety" as its first priority, with the goal of zero disaster in the workplace. We have regular security and health check for ensuring the safety of employees, such as fire fighting equipment inventory and maintenance, motor room inspection, special area control, operations personnel qualification, smoke area control and building security inspection, etc. In addition, there are reward systems to encourage employees active improve the workplace through the proposal.
Award Recognition
The awards of occupational safety and health in 2011 are as follows:
Ministry of the Interior, Taiwan: Excellent Blood Donor Award
Department of Labor ,Taipei City Government: Excellent Labor Safety and Health Unit Award
Council of Labor Affairs: Zero Accident Record Award
Department of Health ,Taipei City Government : Well Breastfeeding Room Certification
Department of Labor ,Taipei City Government : Outstanding Self-Management Unit Award
Department of Labor ,Taipei City Government : Excellent S e l f -Management Unit Award
Inventec (IET) since May 2006 without any work accidents and occupational injuries, awarded " 2011 Zero Accident Record".
Inventec (IET) effectively promoted safety and health self management of workplace and awarded "2011 Excellent Self-Management Unit" and Outsta di g Self-Management U it . It s only company for the electronics industry (includes NB and Server) to get this honor.
Inventec (IET)
promoted occupational safety and health management and awarded by the selection "2011 Excellent Labor Safety and Health Unit".
Inventec (IET) promoted health and safety management of breastfeeding room and
a arded Well
Breastfeeding Room Certification" in getting full score of evaluation.
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Education
Environmental Education
To achieve the goal of Green Life, Inventec continued to organize training courses on environmental education in 2011. The employees can understand environmental trends and new knowledge in those courses and exercise it in the work. For the training hours for each site, please refer to the right figure:
Site
Course Topics
Hours
IET
Inventec HSF management standard introduction and the trends of hazardous substances control, Quality system and hazardous substances process management system validation Introduction, Environment and labor safety and health management system training course, Inventec GHG Portal Introduction, etc.1,969.5
TAO
Inventec environmental education, Labor safety and health, EU regulations introduction, Environmental protection introduction, Taiwan ecological environment, etc.981.14
IPC
IPE
RoHS/HF process restriction, ISO 14001 Introduction, Environment, health and safety management, Requests of environmental laws and regulations, Green product related regulations and systems, Quality system and hazardous substances process management system introduction, Biodiversity conservation, etc.
4,485.5
IPT
Occupational health and safety management for new employee, HSF management, EICC introduction, Environment, health and safety management, Labor and ethic introduction, Inventec GHG Portal 2nd training, etc.9,660
Environmental Training Hours Statistic in 2011
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Environmental Website
Inventec established a variety of types of environmental websites for employees use within the company. It provides a good interaction platform to enable employees to keep the latest news, information and the progress of the implementation of internal projects. Inventec internal environmental websites are as follows:
1. Green Inventec
In order to ensure employees to keep up with new environmental information, Inventec provides the update of EU laws and regulations of green products, environmental standards, education and training materials, IECQ QC 080000, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001 and so on.
2. Green Sustainability Information
To effectively collect the green sustainable information of sites, and make I e te Green Sustainability ‘eport , Inventec established "Green Sustainable information" website in 2011 to upload related data for function units.
Green E-paper
To enhance the staff's environmental conscious and strengthen the sustainable development concept, Inventec collected monthly information such as the latest environmental legislation and industrial sustainable benchmark, and its risks for the company and discuss the actions. We periodically issued Inventec green e-paper and Inventec HSF monthly journal to relevant employees for reference.
Green Inventec
Homepage
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Education
In addition, the employees are able to get sustainable disclosure reports through this website, such as Corporate Social Responsibility Report, Green Sustainability Report, Corporate Environmental Report, so that employees can understand the effort for green sustainable works each year.
Environmental Poster
Inventec realized that we must work together with all employees to reach the goal of Green Life. Therefore, making environmental posters and slogans displayed at every area of the company, reminding employees of the importance of environmental protection at any time.
