Green Products and Innovation
Green Products (Clean Technology) Design
USI has been devoted to green promotions, and to the pursuit for a harmonious conversation between and co-existence of our environment and humanities. To ensure our operations comply with international environmental protection regulations and customers' standards, we have established good communication channels with our suppliers and customers; and implemented a series of preventive green management measures from the procurement of raw materials to the customer-end afterward services. The objective thereof is to minimize negative impacts of our product and production to the environment.
USI has five product categories: Wireless Communication, Cloud & Storage, Industrial & Medical, Consumer, and Car Electronics. Electronic products have developed towards light, thin, short, low power consumption, interconnected, and intelligent learning. In addition, due to the significant increase in the bandwidth of 5G networks, the development of networks and smart devices has been promoted. Digitize the information of things and things, and form a large-scale connection network through reading, transmission, and processing, which is used in logistics and transportation, industrial manufacturing, health care, smart environment, and urban facilities.
We use 5G laboratory measurement verification, provides the best miniaturized antenna design for smart mobile devices, and promotes electronic products for computers, communication electronics, wearable electronics, industrial electronics, electric vehicles, and links to cloud server data Storage and computing, integrate all product technologies to form an Internet of Things network, and develop market opportunities with low consumption and low pollution with clean technology to meet customer product needs.
In accordance with international regulations, customer requirements and environmental protection trends, USI conducts comprehensive, systematic, and transparent management and control of product design, material procurement, product manufacturing, transportation, packaging, sales and recycling every year to achieve the reduction and exemption of hazardous substances free (HSF) goal. And formulated our green product policy and four main aspects of green product eco-design.
Green Product Policy
- Product development and raw materials 100% meet the requirements of customers and USI green product environmental protection regulations
- Products must comply with international regulations and directives on hazardous substances
- Product introduction of ecological design concept
Four Main Aspects of Green Product Eco-design
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| Hazardous Substances Management |
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| Ecological Energy Design |
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Our R&D personnel have ecological design capabilities and continues to implement green concepts and clean technology into their projects, which allows us to sell environmentally friendly products around the world. According to the Design for Environment (DfE) operating procedures, USI not only considers potential environmental impacts in the design phase, but also confirms product specifications with Project Managers and customers to meet the requirements of Energy Star and ErP, as to meet a range of environmental factors, such as material use, energy saving and CO2 reduction, efficient use of water resource, pollutant emission, resource wasting and recyclability, in order to minimize negative impacts to our environment during the product life cycle. And please refer to "Sustainable Raw Materials" for the requirements on controlled substances for green products.
Product Compliance
We stringently control the use of raw materials for our products and use low-pollution and non-toxic raw materials to ensure that our products comply with the relevant regulations and directives. Furthermore, we conduct product lifecycle inventory and eco-design evaluations, and publish product eco-characteristics manual to comply with the EU ErP Directives.
Products Compliance with Directives in 2023
| Percentage of USI Products within the Directive | Green Products Directive | ||
| EU RoHS | Halogen Free (HF) | China RoHS | |
| Automotive & Industrial Power Electronics Products | 100% | 0% | 100% |
| Intelligent Connectivity Solutions Products | 100% | 12% | 100% |
| Advanced Low-Cost Module Manufacturing Products | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Advanced Mobile & Miniaturization Solution Products | 100% | 87% | 100% |
| Specific Application Green Energy Products | 100% | 34% | 100% |
| Visual Products | 100% | 93% | 100% |
To protect users, all facilities apply the Factory Inspection Mechanism to ensure product safety and compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and ordinances internationally and where they are sold. In 2023, we received zero complaints about products endangering human health and safety, and no product safety-related violations were found.
System Products Compliance with Safety Regulations in 2023
| Percentage of USI Products within the Regulations | Safety Regulations | |||
| UL 62368-1 | IEC 62368-1 | CNS 14336.1 | GB 4943.1 | |
| Intelligent Connectivity Solutions Products | 84% | 78% | 50% | 50% |
Promoting Green Design
A green product with clean technology needs to comply with two or more green products ecological design standards to improve energy efficiency and reduce environmental pollution. In 2023, revenue from cleaning-related technologies accounted for 41.43% of the overall revenue of the Company. And the overall revenue of green products was driven to increase by 16.86% from last year. In the future, we will continue to invest in green product research and development and increase the proportion of green products.
| Green Product Category | Percentage of Revenue in 2023 |
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| Communication Products | 25.55% |
| Industrial & Automobile Electronic Products | 7.82% |
| Consumer Electronics & Cloud and Storage Products | 8.06% |
| Total | 41.43% |
The following is the individual performance of ecological design products over the years:
| Product Revenue Ratio | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
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| Energy Efficiency | 38.6% | 45.9% | 11.2% | 2.5% |
| Electronic Waste Recycling | 6.3% | 5.2% | 13.2% | 11.9% |
| Light and Compact | 41.6% | 41.0% | 58.0% | 67.0% |
| The Proportion of Total Revenue | 86.5% | 92.1% | 82.4% | 81.4% |
In our product energy saving evaluation, USI's eco-design products saved 7.1 TWh, equivalent to reducing 0.16 million metric tonnes of CO2 and accounting for 2.22% of USI's total revenue.
We encourage a green and innovative corporate culture and facilitate green design proposals. USI's green products were designed based on the four main aspects of green product eco-design and four directions of green promise, the results of green-related design are as follows:
Investigate the carbon emissions of products from raw material acquisition, manufacturing, use and disposal in a life cycle manner, and converted into the sum of carbon dioxide equivalents.
Since 2017, USI has continued to review the carbon footprint data of a major product every year and verified it through a third-party or self-inventory to disclose the performance of greenhouse gas reduction, and further identify the key factors of carbon emissions through the report results to achieve the reduction purpose.
| Product Category | Product Name | Emissions (Kg CO2e/pcs) |
Certificate / Inventory Report |
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| Consumer | Clickshare Button | 1.81 | |
| Industrial, Automobile Electronic | Industrial Tablet | 49.20 | |
| Cloud and Storage | Add-on Card (AOC) | 16.56 | |
| Consumer | LCD Drive X Board | 4.00 | |
| Consumer | LCD Drive XC Board | 9.20 | |
| Industrial, Automobile Electronic | Digital Inkjet Printhead | 31.07 | |
| Cloud and Storage | USB-C Dock | 290.36 | |
| Cloud and Storage | XnBay Smart Server | 163.60 | |
| Communication | 4G LTE Module | 6.56 | |
