Challenges against global sustainability emerge rapidly. As a member of this global village, FENC responds to these challenges with actions to create a sustainable future
In 2015, United Nations adopted 17 Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) with end goals for 2030. FENC responds with various projects to accomplish UN SDGs.
FENC's Contribution to UN SDGs
UN SDGs
Sustainability Projects
FENC makes regular cash donations to not-for-profit organizations and participates in outreach programs for the disadvantaged, devoting NT$110 million in social engagement.
APG Polytech donated approximately NT$360,000 to over 20 schools and athletic teams.
FERD hosted Christmas Charity Market, inviting 10 local not-for-profit organizations and 5 food vendors to participate, and generating an additional 48% in not-for-profit revenues compared to 2020.
APG Polytech held a Thanksgiving food drive to help 70 local families in need with food donations.
FERD and Far Eastern A-mart Co., Ltd. held the pop-up shop campaign.
FEPV established a pandemic control team, establishing the pandemic-fighting network with strategic foresights.
Hsinpu Chemical Fiber Plant was accredited with the Taiwan iSport Corporation.
Far Eastern Memorial Hospital accepted 11% of severe COVID-19 patients nationwide between May and June 2021, the highest in the nation.
Far Eastern Memorial Foundation joined hands with Far Eastern Memorial Hospital and Asia Eastern University of Science and Technology on Family and Foreign Caregiver Competence Enhancement Program.
FENC builds a borderless learning organization and cultivates internationalization talents to align with global trends and overseas deployment.
OPSC and School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology provide the cognitive apprenticeship.
The 13th Taiwan Young Student Physicists’ Tournament helps improve English debate and physics skills among youths in Taiwan.
Y. Z. Hsu Innovation Forum generated approximately 5,000 views from the online livestream and 580,000 impressions from online coverages.
Fulfill pay equity, the average annual regular salary of the company offered by FENC is 29% higher than the local average. Average regular earnings for female employees, especially, averaged 36% higher than the local numbers.
FENC values gender equality with a 64% increase in female managers in the past decade.
OPTC Plant 2 established ISO 46001 water efficiency management system.
FIGP implemented water conservation at the separator, conserving approximately 2,000 kL in monthly water consumption.
FENC implemented 86 energy conservation projects and avoided 114,048 tCO2e in GHG emissions.
FENC added 12.4 MW in the installed capacity of solar power.
OPTC Plant 2 established the biogas power system.
The Company has been listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange for 54 years, with annual profits and dividends.
The talent development program in Taiwan recruited 11 interns.
Eaglet Program at FEIS prepares 16 top-performing college students to become management trainees.
Mid-level managers and above may participate in the employee stock ownership plan with a 30% contribution from the Company.
FENC devoted NT$730 million in forward-looking R&D.
FENC received 879 patent approvals to date.
FENC pioneered the world’s first bio-based raw material for face masks.
FENC received Accelerated Eco Best Product Award from ISPO TEXTRENDS.
FEAV contributed 0.5% to 2% of proceeds, approximately NT$940,452 in 2021, towards financial and health assistance as pandemic relief for employees.
FENC enhances comprehensive human rights education and training.
OPTC sponsored a charity event to send love and care to disadvantaged families in Guanyin District, Taoyuan City.
200 employees at FEIS volunteered during the vaccination campaign in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in Fengxian District, Shanghai.
FEIW joined Taiwanese businesses in Wuxi, making donations to help flood victims in Henan Province.
FEAV sponsored Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/dioxin, showing care with concrete actions.
FEIS established SBTi carbon reduction targets with brand customers.
OTIZ established a smart machine shop and received NT$27.6 million in reward.
FENC partners with suppliers to confront COVID-19 with resilience in 2021.
FENC established short, mid and long-term GHG reduction targets.
Polyester Business established the electricity management platform to promote the sustainable development of renewable energy.
OPTC added the slurry preheater to recuperate heat from the condensate and reduced 4,730 tCO2e of GHG emission per year.
FENC is the world’s largest supplier of recycled ocean plastic, which is remanufactured from recycled waste PET bottles from the ocean.
FENC joined the Ocean Coalition.
OGM signed the Letter of Intent with the Taoyuan City Government to recycle waste PET bottles from the ocean for remanufacturing.
Hsinpu Chemical Fiber Plant installed the smart wastewater treatment system.
FENC®TOPGREEN®rTEX Filament introduces the textile to textile recycling solution and commercialization.
FENC®TopGreen®ChemCycle leads the world with patent approvals from multiple nations.
OGM becomes the first PET recycling plant in Taiwan to turn waste into energy.
FENC was awarded Best Companies to Work for in Asia by HR Asia.
FENC’s comprehensive risk control was recognized with Taiwan Sustainability Action Awards.
FENC maintains a 13-year default-free streak.
FENC established Speak Up Policy.
FENC breaks through supply chain bottlenecks and becomes the only supplier with recurring attendance in the monthly meeting of the International Maritime Transport Stability Working Group.
FENC attends multiple investor conferences to showcase its green development strategies.
FEAZ ranks no. 2 among Nike’s global apparel suppliers in its Lean Maturity Assessment.
FENC is the only vertically integrated supplier of N66 solution dye in the world.
