VTech Holdings Limited
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VTECH SUSTAINABILITY ACTIVITIES
Total Water Consumption
3,000,000
2,500,000
2,000,000
1,500,000
1,000,000
500,000
0
M
3
FY2013
Container Loading Capacity
100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
0
%
FY2014
FY2015
FY2015
FY2014
Water
Clean water is a valuable resource
which VTech is committed to
conserving. We only use water supplied
from municipal sources and do not
have any on-site wells or boreholes.
During FY2015, we have managed to
decrease our total water consumption
by 3.5%.
Materials, Waste and
Recycling
To ensure that we operate our factories
with maximum resources efficiency, we
not only continue to keep track of the
amount of materials we purchased,
monitor the amount of waste we
produced, but also monitor the rates
of internal reuse and recycling of the
materials. At our major manufacturing
sites, we have recycling centres
where our staff collect and compact
cardboard, plastics and metals to
optimise the recycling rate. Our
recycling rate increased from 66% in
FY2014 to 70% in FY2015.
We realise that reducing and reusing
are the preferred options for enhancing
the circular economy. VTech has taken
initiatives to eliminate the usage of non-
reusable packaging materials during the
manufacturing stage. In recent years,
we have started to replace disposable
cardboard boxes and dividers with
reusable plastic boxes and plastic
dividers for internal materials packaging.
We also coordinate with suppliers to
increase the use of reusable packaging.
In the coming year, we will continue to
review our internal packages collecting
procedure to further improve the
internal reuse rate.
Sustainable Logistic Chain
As most of our products are shipped to
the major markets in North America and
Europe, it is crucial for us to manage
our shipping orders in an energy
efficient manner so as to reduce the
transportation costs and minimise the
associated environmental impacts. We
also work closely with our suppliers
and customers to consolidate and
combine the shipping orders for the
incoming materials and outgoing
products respectively in order to reduce
the frequency of shipments. For our
Continental European operations, our
logistic hub in Netherlands which is
managed by our major logistic service
provider also helps us to consolidate
shipping volume and increase the filling
rate of each truck for the delivery of
goods within Europe.
As for the transportation mode, sea
shipment is always our primary option
for long distance transportation
compared to the air freight. For the
inland goods delivery, we are also
increasing the use of rail freight as
it is the most cost efficient mode of
transport with less environmental
impacts compared with shipment
by truck.
Our logistics team has also introduced
the use of cargo measuring software
(CargoWiz) to optimise the loading
capacity of each container. In FY2015,
we managed to achieve an average of
87% of the loading capacity for each
container shipment.
Reusable Plastic box
Plastic bag recycling machine
