Kinwong Electronics Earns ISO14067 Carbon Footprint Certification

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The carbon footprint certification project of four rigid printed circuit boards of Kinwong Electronics has been reviewed and approved by a third-party certification body and obtained the ISO14067 carbon footprint certification.

Carbon footprints are a way for organizations and individuals to evaluate the contribution of greenhouse gas emissions to climate change. A product's carbon footprint describes the level of greenhouse gas emissions from an individual product. ISO14067 is a standard developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to solve the specific calculation method of "carbon footprint". 

The system boundary of the carbon footprint of the PCB products is the whole life cycle product carbon footprint accounting, and the carbon footprint system boundary includes five stages: product raw material production and acquisition stage, product production, product transportation and distribution, consumer use, and waste disposal stage.

The on-site accounting data is collected by the environmental management department of the Jiangxi production base, and the production\process\ equipment\ planning \ procurement departments, and other relevant departments jointly assist in providing it. The third-party certification body determines all the raw materials used in the product through the data provided by the company, and uses the world's leading LCA analysis software Sima Pro database to find the carbon emission factors of the corresponding raw materials; Through the production process of the product and the use of energy in each process in the production process, the carbon emission factor in the energy quantity is calculated; Then, through the upstream and downstream transportation means and transportation distance of the product, the transportation emission factor is calculated; Finally, the waste disposal emission factor is calculated through the solid waste generated in the production process of the product.

Through this carbon footprint certification project, Kinwong has met the management requirements of key customers for our company's carbon emissions, and at the same time, it has a basic understanding of the carbon emissions of the company's rigid printed circuit boards in the relevant life cycle stages, including raw material procurement, production, use, and scrap disposal. It can better help enterprises to formulate "carbon emission reduction" goals, so that products can play an important reference role in energy conservation and emission reduction in the production process, optimization of raw materials, etc. It can help enterprises cross the green threshold of the market, establish a green brand, better meet customers, and improve market competitiveness.

Kinwong Electronics has embraced the SDGs

Sustainable Development Goals which were introduced by the United Nations, and has made them the cornerstone of the Group's sustainable management. The group is taking action to protect the environment and reduce waste, Each PCB factory will replace approximately 2.08 million cubic meters of tap water with reused water, increasing the proportion of reused water to a maximum of 45%. By 2025, the proportion of reused water will increase to 60% across the Group. Kinwong will collaborate with hydropower, wind power, and other green power supply enterprises to ensure a stable source of green power for its factories. By 2050, the Group aims to use 200 million KWH of hydropower, wind power, and other green power, resulting in a reduction of 189,780 tons of carbon dioxide. Purchase or lease undeveloped land to plant trees for carbon sequestration. By 2025, the Group aims to plant 10,000 mu of trees, resulting in the sequestration of 244,550 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year. Kinwong implemented the ISO 14064 greenhouse gas emissions system and improved greenhouse gas emissions accounting based on the system; (all baselines completed by 2023).