Climate Change Data

Mutto Optronics Corporation

Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2020, 2021)

Reporting Period: 2020

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

  • Environmental Protection
  • Employee Well-being
  • Corporate Governance

Environmental Achievements

  • Updates information system to reduce paper usage, encourages using recycled paper, and implements garbage sorting and recycling.
  • Promotes various energy-saving and carbon reduction measures, such as using low power consumption and high brightness bulbs for lighting equipment, using electronic forms to reduce paper consumption, etc.

Social Achievements

  • Provides employees with labor insurance (including occupational disaster insurance) and national health insurance in accordance with the laws and regulations.
  • Has a health examination system for employees, employees are eligible for health examination expense compensation every 1~2 years according to their age.
  • Arranges on-the-job training for employees to strengthen their professional skills and knowledge.

Governance Achievements

  • Established an audit committee to replace supervisors.
  • Appointed a chief corporate governance officer.
  • Established the Ethical Corporate Management Best Practice Principles.

Climate Goals & Targets

Long-term Goals:
  • Actively program other operating projects based on the technical business capabilities of the entire management.
Short-term Goals:
  • Fully cooperate with major customer to expand sales in China.
  • Develop new cutlery to satisfy current client demands.
  • Actively develop new customers to reduce the risk of sales concentration.
  • Gradually increase share in the touch panel market.

Environmental Challenges

  • Customers depleting previous inventory, sluggish market growth affected by COVID-19, low capacity utilization resulting in operational losses.
  • High concentration of sales to a single customer (over 90%).
  • Significant losses due to investments in overseas corporate bonds.
Mitigation Strategies
  • Actively developing new customers to reduce sales concentration risk.
  • Focusing on new product development, improving yield and production efficiency.
  • Implementing automation production and reviewing product development trends to meet market demands.

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: IFRS, IAS, IFRIC Interpretations, SIC Interpretations

Certifications: ISO9001, ISO 14000, IECQ HSPM(QC080000)

Third-party Assurance: Deloitte & Touche

Reporting Period: 2021

Environmental Metrics

Environmental Achievements

  • Updates its information system and use electronic work to reduce paper usage, encourages using recycled paper, and implements garbage sorting and recycling.
  • Promotes various energy-saving and carbon reduction measures, such as using low power consumption and high brightness bulbs for lighting equipment, using electronic forms to reduce paper consumption, etc.

Social Achievements

  • Established various employee salary and welfare measures in accordance with the relevant labors law and regulations, and stated in the Articles of Incorporation that if there is profit in the year, it shall set aside 1% to 10% of the profits as employee compensation
  • Has a health examination system for employees, employees are eligible for health examination expense compensation every 1~2 years according to their age. In addition, the subsidiary in China arrange employees to conduct health checks every year, and organize new employee training courses to strengthen the awareness of hazard recognition and hazard prevention.
  • Provides employees with labor insurance (including occupational disaster insurance) and national health insurance in accordance with the laws and regulations.

Governance Achievements

  • Established the Ethical Corporate Management Best Practice Principles approved by the Board, which is disclosed on MOPS and it’s website
  • Established the Rules for the Prevention of Insider Trading and Employee Manuals clearly state that employees shall not engage in dishonesty, and shall be prevented through regularly audit by the Internal Audit Office and the implementation of the whistle-blowing system.
  • Established the Codes of Ethical Conduct and relevant measures that clearly defines consequences of violation and complaint procedure, and implement the Codes.

Climate Goals & Targets

Long-term Goals:
  • Considering going concern, actively program other operating projects based on the technical business capabilities of the entire management.
Short-term Goals:
  • Fully cooperate with the major customer.
  • Develop new cutlery to satisfy current client demands.
  • Actively develop new customers to reduce the risk of sales concentration.
  • Gradually increase share in the touch panel market.

Environmental Challenges

  • Relationship between the United States and China are still deteriorating, the Russian-Ukrainian war has occurred, which will affect the cost of raw materials and freight transportation.
  • There is still great uncertainty, depending on the follow-up development of various countries
Mitigation Strategies
  • The Company will continue to pay attention to relevant environmental changes and adjust development plans in response.
  • Focus on the development of automation production and rationally distributing the products to be self-made or outsourcing as the principle to maximize the profits.
  • Actively program other operating projects based on the technical business capabilities of the entire management to ensure the interests of all shareholders.

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: IFRSs

Third-party Assurance: PricewaterhouseCoopers Taiwan