Sustainability
As one of the leading zipper solutions provider with 38+ years,SBS is dedicated to sustainable socioeconomic devel-opment and strives to build a better connected world in which everyone can share everything.
Brief Introduction
Since its establishment, SBS has undertaken social responsibility actively. The senior management attaches great importance to the implementation and performance of environmental protection work. SBS has always been adhering to the principle of being an eco-friendly enterprise. Over the years, SBS has taken “up-to-standard discharge”as its basic goal. SBS continues to build and optimize environmental protection equipment, introduce professional environmental protection personnel and improve production process.SBS calls on every employee to take the initiatives to participate in environmental protection.
In order to ensure the implementation of environmental protection, SBS has been implementing ISO14001 and Bluesign certification for a long time, formulating a well-established internal environ-mental management system. Besides, SBS actively cooperates with international brand customers in environmental protection. We dock with international standards to promote our capabilities. In terms of products, the company has established an environmental protection system from raw materials to product delivery. In terms of processing, SBS annually identifies environmental impact factors in the whole company area and keeps them under control. SBS keeps improving itself by establishing an assessment system. Over the years, the improvement in environmental performance is remarkable.
In recent years, the environmental policy of China is strict continuedly. As an enterprise, it means higher environmental protection requirements, stricter environmental protection standards, more investment in environmental protection, and a more positive attitude toward social responsibility. At the same time, we also consider this as an opportunity. SBS has set up a new department for environmental protection, strengthened its responsibilities, improved the management system, increased the investment in environmental protection, and implemented stricter environmental management.SBS firmly believes that by taking multiple measures, environmental protection will become another name card of SBS, and lay a more solid foundation for company development. We are committed to building a beautiful China.
Sustainability Guideline
Limiting the impacts on the environment is a fundamental part of SBS business and it’s also a thing that all SBS employees need to take it seriously. The senior management of SBS has set company goals and indicators to lead the company to achieve the highest feasible standards of environmental performance. We will try our best to protect the environment in all aspects of our company operations:
- Comply with relevant laws and regulations. Keep exploring to improve the sustainable development of our company and society.
- Provide appropriate information, training and resources to all employees to ensure the consistent improvement of environmental performance.
- Systematically identify the important environmental factors that affect our work/business at the company level.
- Ensure each business unit has measures or procedures which respond to environmental accidents and emergencies, preventing and mitigating the impacts on the environment.
- Regularly review and take measures to reduce the environmental impacts due to all aspects of our activities.
- Discharge wastewater and waste gas up to standard. Store and transport solid waste in compliance.
- Wherever feasible, use materials under the principles of reduction, reuse, recycling and repair.
- Encourage suppliers and contractors to reduce their impacts on the environment.
- Cooperate with suppliers and help them to comply with the restricted substances list developed by our company.
- Provide our latest environmental performance information to interested parties regularly.
Sustainability History
Management Systems
SBS has set up Sustainable Development Department with full-time and part-time environmental protection specialists. In 2006, SBS introduced ISO14001 environmental management sys-tem.SBS has operated it effectively for a long time, formulating 30 environmental protection regulations. SBS organizes annual company-wide environmental factor identification and evaluation for each business unit. According to the result, SBS makes management plans and implements them throughout the whole year. According to the rated major environmental factors, SBS sets environmental goals and indicators one by one and makes an assessment every month. Key environmental emission indicators are monitored at regular intervals. External certification audit has no written nonconformance in 10 consecutive years.
Besides, SBS has introduced HIGG FEM assessment to improve environmental management work and environmental performance gradually. Higg Index Score is 59.8,the highest score in China zipper industry.
Environmental Committee
In order to advocate environmental protection and public welfare culture, and cultivate employees’ awareness of social responsibility and environmental protection, SBS focuses on the parts which can be reduced, reused, repaired and recycled in production and operation process. We are committed to the research of new environmental protection technology and reducing pollutants emissions, so as to save energy, reduce consumption and pollution and improve efficiency. SBS always delivers green products of high quality to society and customers, undertaking the compa-ny’s social environmental responsibility.
SBS has set up an environmental protection and public welfare committee, organizing related activities regularly.
