APOGEE OPTOCOM Co.,Ltd

Environmental Protection

Saving Energy

Adhering to the principles of energy conservation and carbon reduction, we comprehensively promote energy-saving measures, replacing factory and office equipment with energy-efficient equipment to improve energy efficiency.
We conduct employee training courses to promote the company's concepts of energy conservation, carbon reduction, and environmental protection, and to promote and strengthen employees' awareness and understanding of environmental protection and energy conservation.

Management of Energy and Greenhouse Gas

Usage of fossil fuel in Apogee is limited. There is only gasoline consumption for official vehicles and no other gas, coal or diesel in use.
The main energy-saving management principles are as follows:
1. Evaluation and procurement of new equipment: When making decisions and evaluations, in addition to considering the equipment's functions, the energy consumption of the equipment is also assessed simultaneously.
2. Power management: Turn off the power to electrical equipment when it is not in use; add infrared control and timers to lighting equipment to reduce unnecessary lighting.
3. Lighting equipment: Re-plan lighting areas and use energy-saving LED bulbs throughout the plant.
4. Coating machine equipment: The production department and plant management plan to replace some of the oil-type diffusion vacuum pumps on coating machines with turbine vacuum pumps (cooling and chilled water functions), and replace old cooling towers and chillers. This will save average process current and reduce the basic cooling power consumption due to aging process equipment.
5. Air conditioning system: Use the air supply function when the temperature is below 27°C, and only turn on the air conditioning when the temperature reaches 28°C or above.
6. Exhaust and Ventilation Equipment: Regularly inspect exhaust and ventilation pipelines, and install fans according to airflow direction to enhance ventilation capacity.
7. Chiller Cooling System: Install insulation materials on pipelines to maintain a constant temperature of approximately 20 degrees Celsius; regularly inspect and repair pipelines; increase the frequency of cooling tower cleaning to remove scale and improve heat dissipation to lower the temperature; replace the refrigerant in the chiller in the first plant area with R-134a refrigerant to improve energy efficiency.
8. Equipment Heating and Insulation Measures: Control production scheduling to reduce standby and hot-running waste; install insulation materials on equipment to reduce heat loss.
9. Motor System: Use variable frequency drives to adjust motor speed and provide the optimal energy supply as needed.

Energy Management Project

1. Chiller Cooling System Pipeline Maintenance and Additive Usage Plan: Prevent scale buildup on the chiller heat exchanger, reduce algae growth in the cooling tower, and reduce evaporation and drainage; expected to reduce chiller operating energy consumption and lower load.
2. Chiller Replacement: Replace one 60-ton and two 80-ton old chiller units, saving electricity and cooling energy; compared to 2025, monthly electricity consumption can be reduced by approximately 24,000 kWh (equivalent to 86.4 GJ), with electricity costs estimated at NT$101,000 * 12 months = NT$1,210,000 per year.
3. Power Monitoring: Smart meters collect voltage and current information from each unit, analyze and interpret the data; store the results as a basis for each unit to improve power usage.

Management of Greenhouse Gas

Based on our concern for the increasingly warming global climate, the need to protect and utilize the Earth's finite resources, and our commitment to corporate social responsibility, Apogee continues to promote greenhouse gas emission reduction, providing a reference for future implementation of effective reduction and improvement plans. We conduct greenhouse gas emission assessments and effective monitoring in response to greenhouse gas regulation trends and future reduction requirements, while establishing internal record-keeping and verification procedures. Our goal is to achieve sustainable energy development that balances cost and resource efficiency, energy conservation, and environmental protection, working together towards a low-carbon economy and society.

*Our company's electricity energy management, carbon inventory data, and projected countermeasures for the past two years
 

Management of Water Resources

Apogee puts a lot of effort in saving water. In addition to improve facility, we also disseminate concept to employee about changing habit of using water.
Besides, what we do in the industry doesn't consume a lot of water, water we use is tap water, and doesn't have effect to water resources.
The water consumed is for domestic use and cooling purpose, and drains to sewage treatment system managed by Southern Taiwan Science Park Administration. The bureau will pick water sample to do inspection regularly, the drained sewage is compliant with standards required by authority concerned, to make sure it's not harmful to ecology.

Green Products

Green Procurement

Started from beginning of product development, to procurement and management of material, all concerning departments need to choose green products as possible as they can if there's possibility evaluating new materials. For those items with high risk need to be listed in GP controlled materials, and ask suppliers provide qualified test report tested by third party, MSDS and sign declaration of Non-use for Hazardous Substances.
If there's any change happens on material criteria, all suppliers need to be notified to ensure all supplied materials are compliant with customer's request and international standard.

Pollution Prevention

Hazardous Substance Process Management

Apogee strictly prohibits any use of hazardous substances. The definition of hazardous substances includes, but not limited to, materials that have significant hazard to human body or environment contained in components, ingrediant, packing that used during production.
Any use of hazardous substances that regulated by law is forbidden, and every department needs to be informed in order to ensure our products can meet customer's requirement.
In term of pollution prevention, we have a person in charge of monitoring to prevent pollution from making influence to environment and our staff. Drained water is also compliant with related regulations and no any out-of-standard or violation occurs. The sewage treatment plant also samples water quality to make sure safety of water usage.

Waste Treatment and Recycle

Apogee takes criteria regulated by law as basic requirement to ask factory set up management system and responsible department to keep approaching goal of reducing waste.

1. Management for source of waste

   There are two parts of wastes in our company, which are domestic waste and business waste used in production process. We reduce domestic waste by edcuating our employee preparing their own tableware instead of using disposable chopsticks, and not use items that is over-packaging to achieve goal of waste reduction.
   On the other hand, we choose the most appropriate packing for our product, and take decreasing percentage of harmful wastes as our main goal to press ahead reduction of business waste.

2. Management of concentrating wastes

   After wastes are concentrated, there will be a department in charge of sorting and recycling. We are able to control waste production and where it comes from by sorting and managing those wastes. Furthermore, we cooperate with recycling company to make those recyclable wastes re-used, to achieve final goal of zero waste.

3. Treatment and Trace

   For those that are unable to recycle or re-used wastes, we contract with Tainan Science Park Resource Recycling Center to outsource the affairs to other firms that are capable of dealing with those unrecyclable wastes.

4. Effectiveness of waste management

   Apogee's waste management principles aim to reduce waste generation, increase waste recycling and reuse, and continuously promote waste reduction and improvement. Waste (including wastewater) emissions will decrease from 22,314.44 metric tons in 2024 to 23,807.55 metric tons in 2025; waste intensity will also decrease from 0.047 metric tons/million NT in revenue to 0.036 metric tons/million NT in revenue.

Ecological Protection

Apogee locates at Tainan Science Park, our plants passes standard of environmental impact assessment. Administration of Tainan Science Park considers it's important to conserve an ecological area in the park, therefore, it puts a lot of effort on no matter construction or system lay-out and aquatic plant planning in accordance with different districts and environment to complete the ecological system.
We encourage our colleague to take public transportation and ride bicycle insteading of driving car or scooter. Besides, we are in charge of taking care of one of the fountains in Science Park, raising carp and lotus, providing a beautiful scene and a good place for our neighbors to get together. Because of our effort, the fountain has changed from a messy corner to a flourishing, vibrant pond, it even attracts various birds and butterfly, forming a diverse biological system.