远东新世纪与远传电信永续绩效优异　再度荣获远见企业社会责任奖

　　2018第14届《远见杂志》CSR企业社会责任奖5月2日举行颁奖典礼，远东集团为CSR奖项常胜军，旗下远东新世纪永续绩效卓越，再度获得「CSR大调查──传产制造组首奖」；另一关系企业远传电信也蝉联「服务业组楷模奖」，分别由徐旭东董事长、李彬总经理代表公司接受行政院赖清德院长颁奖。徐旭东董事长另获邀担任论坛与谈人，分享企业如何以创新研发技术发展绿色商品，创造获利的同时积极回应联合国永续发展目标(SDGs)，达到社会及环境共荣共存。

　　《远见杂志》CSR企业社会责任奖，今年共有多达219件方案参赛，仅33件获奖，获奖率仅一成五，为台湾最具公信力的CSR奖项之一。远东新世纪连年获奖，显见关注CSR各项议题并挹注资源的成果优异。远东新世纪公司设立有CSR委员会，以董事会为最高层级，共有154位横跨各据点及单位的委员负责推动各项永续专案，并定期向董事会沟通执行绩效。为使CSR委员了解当前最新永续发展趋势，凝聚各单位永续意识以制定「永续策略蓝图」，2017年於台湾和大陆举办五场工作坊，总计165位同仁参与。会後产出CSR行动方案，并将公司永续策略与联合国永续发展目标(SDGs)接轨，以具体行动落实企业永续发展。

　　其中，远东新世纪绿色产品研发实力坚强，2017年绿色产品营收占比26%，最新代表作包括：2017年领先业界推出一系列无氟化(PFC-Free)解决方案，以及运用独步全球的聚酯合成与回收再制核心能力，将海洋废弃宝特瓶回收再制成为「海洋回收纱」，提供adidas制成运动鞋。另外，可即时启动紧急应变程序以预防天灾造成厂区损失的「企业气候风险调适应变系统」、全台第一档经外部查证的绿色债券，都是远东新世纪屡获国内外肯定的永续作为。

　　远传电信迈入第21年，持续发展创新商业模式，订定中长期永续发展目标，将CSR整合进公司的营运策略，善用核心专长，投入环境永续、数位包容、社会参与等领域，接轨联合国永续发展目标SDGs(Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs)，以具体行动回应全球关注议题，期望解决气候变迁，提升教育品质、健康福祉、就业与经济成长。

　　远传电信积极发展商业创新，结合永续型产品，透过云端技术、大数据分析、IoT应用、AI人工智慧等专业能力，运用在CSR领域，包含智慧城市、智慧健康管理、智慧停车、空气品质监控、大数据人潮解析、云端数位学习、防走失定位装置等应用。远传电信去年在CSR领域投入逾2亿元，总节电度数达3,222万度，相当於10.6万个家庭每月用电量；ICT创新应用协助解决交通、空气品质等社会问题，提升环境永续性；云端健康管理服务相关产品，更有效解降低47%因高血压导致紧急状况的发生率，预防慢性病发生。主办单位《远见杂志》表示，远传电信CSR与核心专长结合，主轴聚焦，对未来趋势多所着墨，深具远见，在公司治理、环境永续与社会共融等面向，均受到评审肯定。＃

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FENC received CSR Grand Prize from Global Views Magazine in Sustainability

Far Eastern New Century Corporation (Stock code: 1402, “FENC”) received the “CSR Annual Survey - Grand Prize in the Traditional Industrial Group” of the 14th Annual Corporate Social Responsibility Award by Global Views Magazine in 2018 and was awarded the “Excellence Award” in 2017, highlighting its recognized CSR achievements. Today (2nd May) Mr. Douglas Tong Hsu, Chairman of FENC received the Prize from Mr. Ching-Te Lai, Premier of Executive Yuan at the ceremony and as a panel speaker to share how to innovate and commercialize green products, whilst echoing to the United Nations’ (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to achieve a win-win for society and environment.

Annual Corporate Social Responsibility Award by Global Views Magazine has been one of the prestigious CSR awards in Taiwan, and Global Views Magazine is the first media to promote CSR evaluation. CSR Annual Survey’s criteria consist of corporate governance, social performance, environmental performance, CSR strategic planning, stakeholders’ communication, data transparency, which scrutinized thoroughly on enterprises’ CSR performance. For example, jury members pick the winner through CSR documentation reviews, final round interviews, and severe jury’s debates on the candidates. Therefore, it is a solid evidence for FENC’s outstanding CSR performance to receive awards for several years in a row.

FENC has formed a CSR committee supervised by the Board of Directors. There are 154 CSR committee members working from different locations and divisions and reporting execution performance regularly to the Board. In order to better understand the latest sustainable trend for CSR committee members, FENC internally conducted five workshops in Taiwan and China to have 165 participants on promoting the idea for articulating “Strategic Roadmap in Sustainability”. Afterwards, it is concluded with CSR action plans to align with the Company’s sustainable strategy and the UN’s SDGs.

FENC’s R&D team has been leading in green innovation, and in 2017, 26% of the production business revenues is derived from green-related products. The world’s first PFC-Free solutions were introduced by FENC in 2017, which eliminates further PFC pollution without compromising performance and reduces the damages to mankind. Moreover, with the cutting-edge know-how on polymerization and closed loop recycling, FENC turned ocean waste PET bottles into TopGreen? Ocean Filament, and as of 2017, Adidas sold out a million pairs of shoes manufactured by TopGreen? Ocean Filament.

For mitigating the impacts between climate change risk and the company’s operation, FENC partnered with National Cheng Kung University’s Industrial Sustainable Development Center to collaborate on “Adaption System of Climate Risk for Enterprises”. Through the systematic analysis on climate factors, FENC could take actions proactively to prevent property and casualty loss in plants. FENC launched Taiwan’s first green bond verified by a third party with total amount of NT$ 3 billion. The purpose for the capital raised is to invest in four green projects: recycled PET, new batch polymer, waterless dyeing and green building projects. With reserved budgets of NT$ 2 billion for the energy conservation and NT$ 1 billion for the environmental protection, FENC planned to elevate the resource efficiency and mitigate the impact of the environment by introducing green solutions with more green production lines, energy reserving equipment and closed loop recycling and less resource consumption.

FENC has been awarded accolades globally and domestically for its CSR achievements. Worldwide, FENC has been nominated by Forbes as one of the world’s top 500 best employers and is a constituent of the MSCI ESG Leaders Indexes and FTSE4Good Emerging Index. Locally, FENC was awarded not only the CSR Grand Prize by Global Views Magazine, but also the “Best Report of the Year” by Taiwan Corporate Sustainability Award and “One of the Top 50 Large Enterprises of Excellence in CSR” by CommonWealth Magazine. Also, FENC was ranked Top 5% in the Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporate Governance Evaluation. These honors speak volumes about the solid sustainable performance FENC has reached in society, economy and sustainability.#