Gale Pacific Limited
Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2018, 2024)
Reporting Period: 2018
Environmental Metrics
ESG Focus Areas
- Packaging Sustainability
Environmental Achievements
- Achieved Level 1 (Getting Started) for all six core criteria in the APCO Packaging Sustainability Framework.
- Answered three out of seven recommended criteria in the APCO Packaging Sustainability Framework.
Climate Goals & Targets
Short-term Goals:
- Review at least 20% of packaging with reference to the Sustainable Packaging Guidelines (SPG) or equivalent.
- Develop a documented plan to optimise material efficiency.
- Investigate opportunities to increase the use of recycled and/or renewable materials in packaging.
- Investigate opportunities to improve recoverability in packaging.
- Label up to 20% of products with disposal or recovery information.
- Evaluate and optimise up to 20% of product-packaging systems using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) or similar.
- Develop a plan or investigate opportunities to reduce the amount of single-use business-to-business (B2B) packaging used internally or sent to customers.
- Investigate opportunities to divert more than 20% of solid waste generated at facilities (factories, warehouses, offices, retail stores etc.) from landfill.
Supply Chain Management
Responsible Procurement
- Communicating goals and guidelines to suppliers
- Providing support to suppliers to improve their understanding of goals and strategies
- Collaborating with key suppliers to share knowledge
Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities
Reporting Standards
Frameworks Used: APCO Packaging Sustainability Framework
Reporting Period: 2024
Environmental Metrics
Total Carbon Emissions:10,663 tCO2e/year
Scope 1 Emissions:3,549.52 tCO2e/year
Scope 2 Emissions:7,113.62 tCO2e/year
ESG Focus Areas
- Environmental Sustainability
- Social Responsibility
- Governance
Environmental Achievements
- Installed 27,000 sq ft of solar panels at our Ningbo facility, expected to produce over 584,700 KWh over 30 years, equating to an annual saving of 167 tons of coal.
- Transitioned from LPG tanks to LNG pressure regulators at our GPST facility, resulting in lower fuel costs, reduced emissions, and enhanced safety.
Social Achievements
- Global Total Recordable Injury Frequency Rate (TRIFR) down 27% since FY21.
- Over 3,300 training hours globally and a hazard rectification rate above 95%.
Governance Achievements
- Established a global, internal GALE ESG team.
- Authored the Company’s first ESG policy.
- Established Greenhouse Gas (GHG) inventory baseline for Scope 1 & 2 emissions.
Climate Goals & Targets
Environmental Challenges
- Rising household cost inflation.
- High borrowing costs.
- Constrained housing markets.
- Rotation of discretionary spending on goods to services.
- Lower demand for agricultural technical fabrics due to lower grain harvest yields.
- Poor weather conditions.
- Sell-through results dampened despite gaining market share.
- Operating inefficiencies in the first half of FY24 due to reduced manufacturing volumes in Q4 FY23.
Mitigation Strategies
- Structural cost improvement initiatives.
- Commercial outcomes to improve business performance.
- Secured long-term debt financing & global treasury management services with HSBC.
- Improved global operations processes, capacity, and footprint.
- Labor efficiency projects and lean savings initiatives.
- Input cost reduction initiatives.
- Upstream procurement improvement projects.
- Reduced manufacturing lead times.
- Global inventory reduction.
- Outsourced custom roller shade production.
- Transitioned our ERP systems to cloud-based Microsoft Dynamics365.
Supply Chain Management
Responsible Procurement
- Ethical Sourcing Policy
- Modern Slavery Statement
- Code of Conduct
- Diversity and Inclusion Policy
Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities
Sustainable Products & Innovation
- Coolaroo® with HeatShield®
- Ecobanner®
- Landmark® recycled agricultural fabrics
Awards & Recognition
- Sustainability Award for Ecobanner® at the 2024 World Out of Home Association awards