Samsung SDI
To Create Eco-value
In 2003 when Samsung SDI began sustainability management, it established the goal of environmental sustainability as eco-value creation.
It indicates that externally a company contributes to the society by creating eco-values and internally environment as one of three aspects in business management creates critical values.
To this end, Samsung SDI set out five strategies across all processes of corporate activities. The five strate-gies are composed of integrated environmental management system for continuous improvement of organizations and system, environmental supply chain management to build green partnership with suppliers, cleaner production for least resource use and minimization of pollution, eco-design to create environmental values for customers, and interactive communication. Accordingly, Samsung SDI worked out action plans for each strategy and has been continuing their execution.
Eco-network
To create true eco-values, the whole life cycle related to management of a company has to be managed, and green partnership has to be forged between the environment, partners and suppliers, customers, and the society which exist around Samsung SDI. For the environment, in particular, you have to take less and emit less from and to the environment. But with suppliers and partners, customers and the society, you have to cooperate and exchange more. This is the direction that Samsung SDI is heading for environmental sustainability.
The below picture on the right, showing the environmental impacts of Samsung SDI, conveys significant meanings. While the picture shows our environmental impacts on the outside of the company, it also indicates the areas out of Samsung SDI’s reach or proper management and the possible answers to tackle these tasks. It also implies the magnitude of a company’s challenge to control the environmental impacts of its products thinking far beyond its manufacturing bases and factories. Meanwhile, it is true that the environmental impact of a product’s lifecycle is far greater than the impact created by a factory. That’s why it is an impending challenge that we should and will continue to think about.
SDI 2.0, new environmental sustainability goal
Samsung SDI has sought to achieve the goal of Eco-value 2010 in the ways of developing greener products, strengthening eco-friendly cooperation with suppliers, and developing manufacturing processes that cause minimal impact to the environment. However, our extensive structural overhaul in 2008 required new targets and bigger efforts for our target products and businesses, leaving us no option but to set a new environmental goal. SDI 2.0, our new environmental goal, takes previous performances and future business environments into account. This three-year goal to be achieved by 2011 represents our commitment to transform into a leading environment friendly and clean energy company. It encompasses five environmental strategies and targets in the strategies of manufacture, products, partners, management, and relations and it is our first step towards our aim of increasing eco-efficiency by more than double. With SDI 2.0, Samsung SDI will make our direction for environmental sustainability more solid, and accelerate the corporate transformation into a leading environment friendly and clean energy company.
| Ecofriendly | Strategy | Indicator | Criteria(2005) | Goal(2011) |
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| Manufacture | Building manufacturing processes with higher eco-efficiency |
GHG emissions | 1,172,2454) tCO2e 0.0451) |
Reduce by 300,000 tCO2e GHG emissions efficiency1) up by 1.5 times |
| Water usage | 3.061) | Water usage efficiency up by 1.5 times |
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| Waste generation | 0.421) | Waste generation efficiency up by 1.3 times |
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| Recycling rate2) | 89.8% | 95% or more | ||
| Landfill rate | 10.2% | 5% or less | ||
| Use of hazardous chemicals |
1.111) | Hazardous chemical use efficiency up by 1.2 times |
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| Products | Innovative green products | Removing hazardous substances from products | Continued expansion(Responding to new environmental regulations in advance) | |
| Expanding eco-friendlier business3) | 50 %sales ↑ | |||
| Partners | Green supply chain improvement | S-Partner system | Assessing & supporting improvement in environmental & social areas | |
| Supporting eco-efficiency improvement | Supporting development & improvement of eco-efficiency indicators | |||
| Management | Environmental concern across entire corporate activities | Improving eco-education system | Improving eco-education system by work level and type of jobs | |
| Raising eco-awareness | 3R(Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) activities | |||
| Relations | Contributing to society and the global environment | Environmental conservation programs | Developing & Implementing corporate environmental conservation programs | |
Note
1. Efficiency represents eco-efficiency meaning ‘sales (KRW 100 million)/environmental load
(environmental load Unit)’
2. Heat recovery incineration was took into account for calculating recycling rate.
3. Eco-friendlier businesses are selected by corporate criteria, and include businesses relating to rechargeable batteries, next generation batteries such as fuel cells, new & renewable energy, and new environment and health care businesses.
4. Due to changes in GHG emission factors in the electric power sector, GHG emissions and emissions efficiency from 2005 to 2009 were recalculated.
