Environmental Policy & Environmental Management System |
- Guided by the Group’s Environmental Policy (Click HERE for the Top Glove Environmental Policy) we are committed to diminish adverse impact to the environment and the community by reducing the environmental footprint in our operations including distribution and logistics, business facilities and supply chain.
- We strive to manufacture our products with energy and water efficiency and minimal carbon footprint.
- We strive to assure our business partners, including suppliers in environmental stewardship commitment in their operations.
- We carry out due diligence on our business partners as well as mergers and acquisitions’ activities to ensure ethical sourcing and responsible business ethics
- As at April 2021, we have 11 factories certified with Environmental Management System (EMS), which accounts to 30% of our factories globally.
- The EMS is audited, certified, verified through international standards ISO14001 by SIRIM QAS and IQNe (an independent third party auditor).
- To ensure continuous improvement, Top Glove invests in environmental education to ensure the competency of internal auditors and the effectiveness of internal audits at all factories.
- The public or stakeholders may raise any environmental related concerns, feedback or enquiries through this link.
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Water Management |
Water is essential to the glove production process and we are particularly concerned about conserving this important resource. To ensure an uninterrupted supply of water, we:
- Adopt 3R (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) System
- Installed On-Site Detention (OSD) tanks and rain harvesting tanks with a combined capacity of 2,500M3 at factories
- Invested in the Reverse Osmosis Treatment Plant (ROTP) to treat wastewater discharge from surrounding factories to produce clean water and channel back into factories for reuse in production
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Fuel & Energy Management |
- 6 factories are powered by biomass, a renewable source of energy
- Heat exchangers are employed to recover heat from hot waste water and hot air emission, thereby reducing heat energy consumption
- More advanced energy efficient systems are implemented at new factories
- We are gradually replacing all old air conditioners and refrigerators with 5-Star Energy Rated machines to enhance energy efficiency
- Retrofit fluorescent lamps are being substituted with LED lamps, while inverters for energy saving and newer energy-efficient pumps are also being installed
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Raw Materials |
- We are mindful of our material consumption in view of increasing scarcity of resources and to ensure cost efficiency. Some of our key commitment are producing lighter weight gloves which consume lesser material as well as upcycling our scrap.
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Transportation |
- As transportation is a major contributor to climate change, all 17 Klang factories are strategically located within 500 meters of each other, substantially minimising fuel consumption and enabling more efficient inter-factory transportation
- Video-conferencing facilities are also available for all multi-location meetings thereby reducing the need to commute for staff located outstation
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Waste Management |
- All solid waste is segregated into scrap metal, paper, plastic, wood pallets, containers and other recyclables for recycling and reuse with minimum solid wastes disposed to landfills
- Schedule waste management is in compliance with the authorities’ regulations.
Distribution of solid waste generated and disposed over the past 4 years.
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FY 2017
(metric tonnes) |
FY 2018
(metric tonnes) |
FY 2019
(metric tonnes) |
FY 2020
(metric tonnes) |
| Total waste generated |
13,060 |
18,268 |
19,033 |
25,625 |
| Total waste used/ recycled/ sold |
7,640 |
9,092 |
7,856 |
13,003 |
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Facilities Investment & Improvement |
- We continuously invest in our facilities and operation to improve product quality, efficiency and operational-eco-efficiency. Some of the key facilities investment and improvement initiatives include Solar Power System, Reverse Osmosis Water Treatment Plant, automation initiatives and Flood Mitigation Project.
- Our corporate office, Top Glove Tower is a Grade A and Green Building Index (GBI) certified Gold office building, featuring high performance glazing, an efficient chiller plant system design and LED lights for optimum energy and water efficiency
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Product Innovation |
- We are committed to innovate and develop products which are environmentally friendly. Our first green product was the Biogreen biodegradable nitrile gloves which able to biodegrades at least 10 times faster compared to conventional nitrile examination gloves.
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Rubber waste recycling |
- We convert torn nitrile gloves into other rubber products such as in house former gaskets
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Data Monitoring |
- Our GHG emission data: We track and monitor our GHG emission data on all glove factories as it’s our core operations
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Communications |
- We communicate with our employees on environmental issues via internal newsletter. Besides, we also communicate with our active suppliers on our environmental commitment via email.
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