We're aiming to be carbon neutral by 2025.

For the sake of our collective future, we need to do as much as possible to limit our footprint on our environment. We must engineer our way into better solutions for product design, development and manufacture that reduces overall waste and emissions while still providing value in our services and products.

This challenge is not optional.

It will be hard. Not everyone will be on board and not enough organisations are demanding this change. There will be plenty of short term deterrents. As a SME, we do not have the global reach or power to force change, but we can still do our part.

Energy Source

Using renewable energy. We’re committed to transitioning our manufacturing to 100% renewable electricity generated from solar, wind, and other renewable projects.

Currently, our energy provider to both facilities is the China Southern Power Grid (CSG). The electricity comes from renewable and non-renewable sources.

CSG prioritise the use of renewable energies, nuclear power and high-efficiency thermal power so as to reduce primary energy consumption and disturbance on the environment.

Our XJX facility utilises rooftop solar that generates 30,000 - 35,000 kWh (month), that is sold back to CSG.

Change by Design

Designing for low carbon. We’re introducing partners to consider products with more recycled materials and working to reduce the amount of energy these devices use.

During the DFM stage of a project, we will look at packaging solutions that can meet the rigour of trans-ocean, air transport and also find recycling options at the destination for those products. We don't believe that transporting used materials back to far away locations is helping reduce the overall carbon footprint, nor is it sustainable from a cost perspective.

From the same perspective, it is not advisable to produce with structurally poorer recycled materials or alternative materials for products that will be used for years in demanding environments. This tends to cause pre-mature failure and replacements that would exacerbate any positives from using such materials in the first place. Think of the good components in the assembly that would go to waste, the re-manufacturing process, human effort, shipping, handling that would get stacked up.

For single use and less demanding applications all efforts should be directed at looking for alternative materials such as bio-plastics, sustainable additives, locally recycled resins and the like. Once we reach a point where the costs to do so are equivalent to using virgin materials and the utility is the same, that is when we are truly acting in a sustainable manner.

Efficiency

Increasing operational and energy efficiency. We’re using energy more efficiently across offices, and manufacturing sites. Just being as lean as possible and reducing wasted actions can help immensely. Scrap and waste in manufacturing are huge contributors to energy consumption.

ISO 14064-1:2018

As a first step to avoiding direct emissions - we are applying for ISO14064 to quantify where we are at. We’ll be innovating the processes in our facilities and supply chain to avoid greenhouse gas emissions.

Carbon Offset Initiatives

We will be investing in nature-based solutions to offset what we can not achieve locally. We’re searching projects that invest in working forests and ecosystem restoration in ways that respect communities and remove carbon from the atmosphere.

Battery Electric Fleet

We have transitioned our fleet to Electric Vehicles and Hybrids, from passenger cars to forklifts and trucks. In fact, we were the first company to purchase an electric truck to transport parts between our facilities in Shenzhen. Thanks to innovative companies like Tesla, Nio, BYD and XPeng, there are absolutely no reasons to purchase a gas powered or I.C.E vehicle ever again. Not only are they reducing carbon emissions, pollutants associated with diesel and other petroleum - there are less moving parts, less maintenance and lower running costs. The rides are smoother, quieter and more powerful. This transition is low hanging fruit, a no-brainer and something everyone, every organisation can do now.