Climate Change Data

永日化學工業股份有限公司

Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2022-01-01 to 2022-06-30, 2024)

Reporting Period: 2022-01-01 to 2022-06-30

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

  • Sustainable Development Goals
  • Recycling process design to reduce carbon emissions
  • ESG management

Environmental Achievements

  • Focusing on recycling process design to reduce carbon emissions

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

  • Shortage of raw material and rising energy costs due to the global epidemic and the Russian-Ukrainian war.
  • Impact of the epidemic on US market reliance on China.
  • US-China technology war extending to the biotechnology industry.
  • Market emphasis on ESG.
  • Challenges on drug pricing and drug access.
  • China's high-level lockdown impacting factory operations and raw material supply chain.
  • India's efforts to reduce dependence on China for key raw materials.
Mitigation Strategies
  • Improve the manufacturing process of current products.
  • Manufacture intermediates to control key technology.
  • Explore products with high gross profit or less competition.
  • Establish collaboration with preparations companies to develop new drugs.
  • Increase CMO, CDMO business development.
  • Cooperate with customers to register new drugs and support with CMC and CTD.
  • Open up the speciality chemical market between Japan and Taiwan.
  • Cooperate with customers to integrate upstream and downstream markets.

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Period: 2024

Environmental Metrics

Total Carbon Emissions:13,462.2826 tCO2e/year (2023)
Scope 1 Emissions:4,004.0049 tCO2e/year (2023)
Scope 2 Emissions:4,858.5408 tCO2e/year (2023)
Scope 3 Emissions:4,599.7369 tCO2e/year (2023)
Water Consumption:22,417 tons/year (2023)
Waste Generated:480 tons/year (2023)
Carbon Intensity:28.3416 tCO2e/million TWD (2023)

ESG Focus Areas

  • Climate Change
  • Social Responsibility
  • Governance

Environmental Achievements

  • Completed greenhouse gas inventory and verification in 2024 (ISO 14064-1 certified)
  • Implemented energy saving and carbon reduction measures, waste reduction, and wastewater recycling to improve resource utilization rate.

Social Achievements

  • Obtained ISO 45001 occupational safety and health management system recertification in 2024
  • Implemented various employee welfare measures, including health checkups, group insurance, travel, and subsidies.

Governance Achievements

  • Established a Sustainability Development Committee in 2024
  • Implemented a board performance evaluation method.

Climate Goals & Targets

Medium-term Goals:
  • Install solar power generation at the plant.
Short-term Goals:
  • Annually reduce carbon emissions by 1-2%

Environmental Challenges

  • Fluctuations in exchange rates, international political and economic situations, and raw material supply and demand affecting import costs.
  • Supply chain disruptions due to the Red Sea incident, leading to increased freight costs and unstable shipping.
  • Rising energy prices due to the Russo-Ukrainian war, impacting agricultural product prices and supply.
Mitigation Strategies
  • Maintaining high inventory levels for frequently used raw materials.
  • Developing alternative sourcing strategies for major raw materials.
  • Implementing water resource recycling and considering increasing storage tanks and water resource recycling measures.

Supply Chain Management

Supplier Audits: 20 audits/year (2024)

Responsible Procurement
  • GMP and FDA compliant raw material sourcing
  • Developing alternative sourcing strategies for major raw materials.

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks
  • Drought affecting potato yields
  • Water scarcity impacting production
Transition Risks
  • Regulatory changes related to greenhouse gas emissions
Opportunities
  • Development of energy-efficient products and processes