Environmental Policy and Management
The Company realizes and places importance on environmental stewardship alongside business expansion and, therefore, has defined environmental policies Quality, Occupational Health & Safety, Environmental and Energy Conservation Policy and operating guidelines in line with its vision and social responsibility policies, including raising awareness among employees to create a green culture in caring for the environment both inside and outside the organization through activities, project and training.
The Company operates on the environment under the policy of Quality, Occupational Health & Safety, Environmental and Energy Conservation Policy in order to “Committed to being the leader in the green rubber industry”, with the environment guidelines that corresponds to the 4 Green strategy as follows:
- Undertakes to manage its Environmental and Energy activities in compliance with relevant laws.
- Pursues the objective and target of Environment and Energy management system through the implementation plan and resources management for continuous improvement.
- To develop the competency of employee and subcontractor who come to work with company as well as provide the solutions to promote the employee participation for enhance the business sustainability.
- Implementing measures for the prompt identification, risk and opportunities assessment and prevention of environmental and energy conservation to meet the objective and target.
- Promote energy conservation and highly efficient use of resources at all levels through the prevention of environmental aspects (wastewater, air, waste and odor pollution) to ensure that our process are align with environmentally friendly company.
- Pursues the reduction of environmental impact from waste by promote reduce reuse and recycle
- To communicate and provide information to partners through the supply chain to developing of environmental and energy conservation awareness that reflects the business practice with sustainability company.
- Committed to produce the rubber and other products from the natural rubber with no contamination with may harm to our downstream businesses through the life cycle of products with occupational health safety and environmentally friendly.
The Company has continuously adopted the ISO 14001 system standard for environmental management and is driven by the environmental working group of its factories with a central management representative to supervise and report the factory’s environmental performance to the Company’s directors in order to be in line with the strategic and direction of the Company.
Goal
100 percent of factories operating in Thailand receive ISO 14001 certification by 2032.
Performance
In 2024, there was a total of 17 factories certified with ISO 14001 (14 blocked rubber factories, 1 rubber sheet factories, and 2 latex factories), or 65% of the total number of factories.
| Natural Rubber Group Environmental Expenditure Account | 2024 (Million Baht) |
|---|---|
| Expenses for pollution control equipment Wastewater treatment cost (Electricity costs/Chemicals used in the system) Air pollution treatment cost (Electricity and water costs) Waste disposal |
206.64 152.69 49.74 4.21 |
| Environmental protection costs Expenses for implementing environmental management systems, including the cost of ISO 14001 environmental management system certification Environmental audit costs Cost of improvement of the odor treatment system Cost of improvement of the wastewater treatment system |
146.16 0.17 4.53 41.69 99.76 |