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Visions for Sustainable Development

Based on the vision to “create and cohere sustainable value for a sustainable society," we hope to constantly create and cohere sustainable value to contribute to social sustainability. Based on the sustainable vision, we have developed three core strategies: “R&D and innovation," “steady operations," and “social inclusion," hoping to create value with stakeholders together. We extend the contents of the core strategies into seven key topics as the foundation for honest and reasonable partners to build visions.

As a member of the USI Group, we develop three sustainable principles: unity governance (U), sustainable development (S), and innovative technology (I) based on the group vision. Every year, we review the results of analysis of material topics and their consistency with the company’s sustainable principles, and evaluate and discuss the achievement of the annual performance to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

USI-ESG-Corporate Sustainability Development
USI-ESG-Corporate Sustainability Development

The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Enterprise sustainable development begins with the core value. To pursue sustainable development, we identify the relevance to SDGs in three phases and set related goals in the business plan to combine with SDGs.

USI-ESG-Corporate Sustainability Development
USI-ESG-Corporate Sustainability Development
USI-ESG-Corporate Sustainability Development
SDGs USI-ESG-Corporate Sustainability Development USI-ESG-Corporate Sustainability Development USI-ESG-Corporate Sustainability Development
Goals Maintain factory workplace environment safety and employee health Professional division of labor
Education for employment 		"Save water by 1%" annually Improved
effluent water quality (COD<60 mg/L)
Achievements in 2022
  • Substance abuse and alcoholism prevention: Plant access sobriety test and body temperature measurement tests for contractors and employees.
  • Healthcare: National Health Insurance for all employees and additional employee insurance.
  • Tobacco control: No smoking or tobacco sales on the plant site.
  • Health risk management: Arranged special checkups for 269 employees and implemented health management based on assessed risk level.
  • Technology and vocational skills
    1. Process safety training for 746 persons with a total of 2,725 hours.
    2. ESH education and training for 1,502 persons with a total of 4,545 hours
  • Sustainable development of employee knowledge and skills
    1. Maintained the validity of the professional licenses and certificates of employees through in-service education and training.
  • Enhancement of water efficiency: Recycled 32,153MT of water, saved 3,403MT of water.
  • Effluent quality in 2022H1 and 2022H2: COD 26.4 mg/L and COD 19.7 mg/L respectively.
SDGs USI-ESG-Corporate Sustainability Development USI-ESG-Corporate Sustainability Development USI-ESG-Corporate Sustainability Development
Goals Continue to increase utilization of high-efficiency products and invest in clean energy Expand the scope of operations to constant increase revenue
Ensure equal job opportunities
Safe work environment
Harmonious labor-management relations 		Annual R&D fund NT$100 million minimum
New product development and improvement: 4 pcs/year
Achievements in 2022
  • Renewables: Investment in green power generation capacity at 5.9MW.
  • Enhancement of energy efficiency:
    1. Green purchase expenditure: NT$9.62 million.
    2. Invested NT$4.5 million in energy-efficient equipment to save electricity by 1,972,419 kWh and reduced carbon by about 1,004 tCO2e.
  • Clean energy acquisition: Assessed geothermal and wind power generation projects.
  • Business innovation: Established the high-value R&D center.
  • Equal pay for equal work: Promoted various gender equality measures. The men-to-women pay ratio of general employees was 0.86:1 and supervisors was 1.06:1.
  • No child labor: No child labor was hired throughout the Group.
  • Protection of labor rights and workplace safety:
    1. Established the labor union and held periodic labor- manage-ment meetings.
    2. Provided well-designed group insurance plans and contributed pension by law to protect the later life of employees.
    3. Implementation of PSM.
  • Improvement of scientific research and increase in R&D expenditure for high success rate: Developed 4 new products with an R&D investment of NT$150 million.
  • Support for customer technology innovation: Provided worldwide customers with technical services and green products.
SDGs USI-ESG-Corporate Sustainability Development USI-ESG-Corporate Sustainability Development USI-ESG-Corporate Sustainability Development
Goals Underground Pipelines
Complete urban industrial pipeline management 		Complete the execution of the CSR Commitment by all suppliers in 5 years Constantly develop and promote eco-friendly products
Every year: Electricity less by 1%, Energy less by 1.2%, Carbon less by 1.5%, Water less by 1%
Achievements in 2022
  • Reduction of hazardous environmental impacts: VOCs reduction and waste management
  • Transportation safety: Implemented the Kaohsiung City Underground Pipeline Operation Safety and Management Project to protect the public safety of nearby underground industrial pipelines, citizens, and workers.
    1. Participated in the underground pipeline joint defense organization and implemented routine pipeline tour inspection.
  • Sustainable purchase of resources: Built the green procurement mechanisms and implemented green supply chain management.
  • Raw material recovery by 13.1% to reduce resource waste.
  • Methods to encourage sustainable development: Requested suppliers to sign the CSR Commitment.
  • Climate change countermeasures: Annual targets: electricity conservation by 1.31%, energy conservation by 5.84%, carbon reduction by 3.08%, water conservation by 5.65%; implemented ISO 14064-1, ISO 46001, and ISO 14067.
  • Enhancement of climate change adaptability: Environmental protection expenditure at NT$9.62 million, promotion of green heat-shielding coatings, organization of technology exchanges and observations with various affiliates.
    1. Built the cooling water energy-conservation system by advising the optimal operational model with AI.
    2. Promoted IDB's Factory Intelligent Energy Management.
    3. System Project and became a demonstration factory.
SDGs USI-ESG-Corporate Sustainability Development USI-ESG-Corporate Sustainability Development USI-ESG-Corporate Sustainability Development
Goals Increase forestation area Legal compliance Encourage sponsorship and participation in social welfare
Achievements in 2022
  • Forest sustainable management: Sponsored 5 hectares of forestation for 20 years.
  • No child labor
  • Legal compliance: No legal and regulatory non-compliance in the economic aspect.
  • No corruption or bribery: Employee Code of Conduct and Ethical Corporate Management Best Practice Principles.
  • Built a fair promotion and transfer system.
  • Implementation of non-discrimination policy: Promoted the human rights policy.
  • Encouragement of social cooperation:
    1. Supported "Earth Hour", a global energy conservation activity.
    2. Organized the 3rd USI Cup Charity Softball Competition 2022 to integrate sports with charity.
    3. Implemented community charitable activities and sponsored epidemic control equipment for hospitals and schools.

Sustainable Development Goals

With respect to the SDGs, we establish the 5-year business plan for each department to establish own management by objectives (MBOs) and then for the HR system to set key performance indicators (KPIs) of employees for the reference of performance evaluation, promotion, and raises.

Five-Year Business Plan:

Short-term (1 year) Medium-term (3 years) Long-term (5 years)
  • Mass production of the Gulei EVA Project.
  • Investment in solar power plants and assessment of geothermal generation.
  • HV R&D Center stared operations.
  • Construction of the Kaohsiung Intercontinental Container Terminal Project.
  • AI/Intelligent Management Program implementation.
  • Assessing energy conservation and carbon reduction performance of equipment and equipment replacement.
  • Planning of and investment in the downstream development projects of the Gulei Integrated Refinery Project.
  • Continuous promotion of green power development and carbon reduction paths.
  • AI/Intelligent Management Implementation.
  • Planning and implementing the circular economy.
  • Constant R&D of high value-added products.
  • Completion and operation of the Kaohsiung Intercontinental Container Terminal.
  • Planning of and investment in the downstream development projects of the Gulei Integrated Refinery Project.
  • Cultivate Taiwan, continue local investments, and implement the circular economy.
  • Constant R&D of green/high value-added products.
  • Enforcing the "Five Zeroes Goal": Implement projects including electricity conservation, carbon reduction, watery conservation, water recycling and reuse, and others.
  • Promoting the process safety management system.
  • Implementing the underground pipeline maintenance and operation program.
  • Promoting transportation safety audit.
  • Promoting the prevention and management of plastic resin pellet leakage.
  • Promoting the audit, control, and reduction three types of waste.
  • Continuously implementing various ISO systems.
  • Continuing short-term plans.
  • Furthering energy conservation, carbon reduction, and water conservation.
  • Completing GHG inventories for the consolidated statements.
  • Enhancing the audit, control, and reduction three types of waste.
  • Constantly monitoring underground pipeline safety and ensuring preventive maintenance.
  • Promoting the circular economy to plan resource recycling and reuse.
  • Continuing the medium-term plan.
  • Implementing intelligent management of operation safety.
  • Planning climate change address.
  • Promoting the circular economy for green energy development.
  • Promoting 2030 carbon reduction target at 27% (base year 2017).
  • Constant care for employee health and providing a safe workplace.
  • Maintaining harmonious labor-management relations and protecting labor rights and interests.
  • Being a good neighbor to local communities and maintaining sound interaction with them.
  • Encouraging and sponsoring employees to engage in charitable activities.
  • Constantly cultivating educational and environmental protection activities in remote areas.
  • Constantly sponsoring various charitable activities to optimize the corporate image.
  • Enhancing industry-academia-government collaboration to cultivate excellent workforces.
  • Strengthen the services and effectiveness of USI Education Foundation.
  • Encouraging and sponsoring employees to engage in public interest activities.
  • Implementing the supplier/contractor evaluation systems.
  • Optimizing the supplier/contractor assessment systems.
  • Increasing the sources and energy for social participation to expand the scale of social contributions.

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