Shah Alam, Friday, 25 April 2022 Top Glove Corporation Bhd (“Top Glove”), the world’s largest  manufacturer of gloves, today entered into a 20 year Power Purchase Agreement (“PPA”) with  Shizen Malaysia Sdn Bhd (“Shizen Malaysia”), the group company of Japan based, Shizen Energy  Inc., for the healthcare manufacturer’s solar power system. It is especially meaningful that the signing ceremony marking the partnership took place today, Earth Day, when the world comes  together to act boldly, innovate broadly and implement equitably to effect positive change for the  planet. 

 

Through this partnership, Shizen Malaysia will install, own, and operate a 10 megawatt ("MW") peaking grid, and Top Glove will purchase the electricity generated by Shizen Malaysia for 20 years. This newly inked partnership builds on previous collaborations between Top Glove and the renewable energy developer that started in November 2021. The initial collaboration on the rooftop solar power plant enabled Top Glove to generate clean and cost-competitive renewable energy to its factories, reducing the Company's average electricity cost while lowering its carbon footprint.

 

Top Glove’s Executive Director, Mr. Lim Cheong Guan, said: “Climate change is a global phenomenon that affects our lives. Malaysia has set a goal towards becoming a carbon neutral nation by Year 2050; contributing its part to the global agenda to combat climate change. 

 

“As a homegrown Malaysian company with a global reach, Top Glove has a responsibility in supporting this national agenda of minimising the impact that our operations have on the environment. Towards this, the Company has implemented a comprehensive environmental management system, and in part, we are working closely with Shizen Malaysia on a solar energy component to achieve our goal of reducing the Company’s carbon emissions intensity by 25 per cent by FY 2025 as Top Glove aims towards becoming carbon free in the future.”  

 

Shizen Malaysia’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Alvin Koh, said: “We are delighted to expand on a long term partnership with Top Glove, a Company that shares our vision of a greener world for all. 

 

“Given the growing awareness on the benefits of renewable energy (“RE”) and its importance in lessening global warming, we are confident that more industry players will turn to RE as part of their environmentalist agenda.” 

 

To date, eight of Top Glove’s factories in Malaysia have been equipped with solar energy systems while plans are underway for sixteen more factories by 2023. With this PPA, Top Glove’s total solar capacity will increase from 5.34 MWp to 15.47 MWp,saving about 13,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions annually. This is the equivalent of planting around 400,000 trees in order to absorb this amount of CO2.

 

 

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