Environment

Basic Environmental Philosophy

The Stanley Group is committed to creating significant value in harmony with the environment by minimizing the burden on the environment thrucorporate activities, ensuring the irreplaceable rich ecosystem is passed on to future generations.

Environmental and Energy Conservation Policy

The company adheres to the Basic Environmental Philosophy & and recognizes the role and responsibility toward environmental conservation in our organizational activities, which are primarily in the automotive equipment, component parts, and electronics product businesses.

Environmental Operations

Environment Committee and Environment Representative- ER

This is composed of executives and employes from all departments, currently numbering 72 person, who are responsible for driving and recommending the environmental management system, considering the relevance of environmental laws and other requirements, and ensuring compliance with the company’s environmental management policy and the Stanley Group Environmental Policies. The Safety & Environment department is responsible for driving various operational activities across all areas.

Key Activities Reduce The Use of Key Resources

Water

The company uses a large amount of water annually for production and internal consumption. The water sources are: 80% municipal water from government agencies and 20% raw and recycled water. The company regularly monitors water quality every month. The company uses recycled water in the water curtain system for coating workpieces in the lamp manufacturing plant, for lawn watering systems, and in toilets at the PQC welfare building.

The company requires that the design of new buildings and utilities prioritize water-saving fixtures and that sensors be used throughout the company. Currently, recycled water accounts for 71.07% of the total wastewater volume’s activities to reduce the use of key resources.

Paper

The company aims to reduce paper consumption in both production and office work by finding alternative tools such as various computer programs and implementing paper reduction campaigns in every department, with at least one project per department.

Waste Disposal

The company campaigns and publicizes to raise employe awareness about using resources efficiently, reducing plastic bag usage, sorting waste, etc., and decreasing the amount of waste sent to landfills.

Environmental and Energy Conservation Learning Center

Since 2021, the company has established an Environmental and Energy Conservation Learning Center under the 3Rs principles (Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle) as part of the Good Labor Project. This project aims to apply the Sufficiency Economy Philosophy to utilize the space for the benefit of employes and create green spaces within the company, covering an area of 196 square meters. The project is divided into two phases: Phase 1 (December 2021) focuses on the prototype of reusing waste materials to reduce CO2 emissions using alternative energy, creating a Sufficiency Economy vegetable garden, sustainable ecosystems, and participating in waste reduction thru sorting and exchanging money, etc. Phase 2 (May 2023) involves creating off-site learning spaces, emphasizing hands-on teaching and learning to equip employes with knowledge they can use in their daily lives to increase income, reduce expenses, and build a knowledge transfer network.

Energy and Greenhouse Gas Management

The company installed solar rooftops on the roof areas of Lamp Production Plant 7 and the PQC Multi-Purpose Building, and plans to expand solar cell production capacity in the future at the Lamp Production Plant 7 extension building and the Lamp Production Plant 8 building.

Environmental Activities

Environmental Training

The company regularly conducts environmental training, including training for new employes to raise awareness of environmental issues, courses on ISO14001:2015 requirements, and courses on waste management within the company.

Environmental awareness campaign

To encourage employee participation in environmental conservation, such as organizing an exhibition for World Environment Day, reducing plastic bag usage within the company, and the Green Factory Project where executives and employees plant trees together to increase green space in the company on the last working day of the year.

Monitoring by the Top Management and external agencies

To ensure continuous improvement and maintain a good environment, the company requires the top management to monitor all areas monthly. Annually, the company arranges for an external standards agency to measure various pollutants within the company, including noise, wastewater, heat and air quality. The measurement results are within the standard range.