Climate Change Data

Appotronics Corporation Limited

Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2021)

Reporting Period: 2021

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

  • Carbon peaking and carbon neutrality
  • Social responsibility
  • Corporate governance
  • Safety management

Environmental Achievements

  • ALPD® laser projection solutions ran 188 million hours in total, saving a total of 338 million kWh power consumption, and reducing about 148 million cubic meters of carbon dioxide emissions arising from power generation
  • No environmental violations in 2021, with the total emissions of waste gas and wastewater not exceeding the standards
  • Average water consumption and the average electricity consumption per product decreased by 33.33% and 28.61% on a year-on-year basis respectively at Shenzhen Bao’an Plant
  • 11% reduction in overall energy saving and emission reduction for the internal data center

Social Achievements

  • 50% year-on-year growth for own-brand household business
  • Supported Shenzhen government for the urban strategic construction of a “child-friendly city”, receiving 5 batches of 97 visitors from the Children’s Public Welfare Visit Project
  • Made contributions to the establishment of adolescent creative space in Qianxi City, Guizhou Province
  • Launched two restricted share incentive plans
  • Total number of employees reached 1,565, up nearly 34% over that of the previous year

Governance Achievements

  • Established and improved an integrated ESG management, communication, and coordination mechanism
  • Established four special committees under the Board of Directors
  • Disclosed 209 announcement documents in 2021
  • Obtained the “Safety Production Standardization Certificate”

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

  • Repeated outbreak of the epidemic in China
  • Risks that core suppliers cannot supply parts promptly
  • Risks of impairment of accounts receivable, inventories, and fixed assets
  • Risk of increasingly fierce market competition
  • Risks in intellectual property rights
  • Risks in implementing investment projects
  • Risks in the management of cinema light source
  • Risks in the arbitration with GDC
Mitigation Strategies
  • Constantly enhance our resilience to move forward
  • Developed alternative sourcing strategies
  • Implemented risk prevention and control into the whole process of enterprise operation
  • Minimize costs to promote popularization of laser mini projectors
  • Implement two strategies to improve the competitive of own-brand products
  • Work with leading customers to promote the early large-scale implementation of the vehicle-mounted display business
  • Explore new application scenarios

Supply Chain Management

Responsible Procurement
  • choose to purchase environmentally friendly raw materials

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Sustainable Products & Innovation

  • ALPD® phosphor laser display technology

Awards & Recognition

  • 2020 Shenzhen Mayor Award of Science and Technology
  • 2021 Leader in Quality Development
  • Gold Award of Guangdong Patent Award for four consecutive years
  • Advanced Grass-root Party Organization of Shenzhen