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We highly value sustainable environment conservation and CSR
Hone-Strong Industrial Company, founded in 1977, provides functional fabrics. It not only offers high quality fabrics to brands like GAP and PVH, but also supplementary services. Chin-Fu Su, Chairman; Komi Su, General Manager; James Liu, Vice-President; and Miranda Huang, Project Administrator talk to Fibre2Fashion about their CSR activities and their supply chain network.
Chin-Fu Su
Chairman
How does your supply chain network work? Which regions are part of your supply chain? Once we receive an order from a brand, we immediately process it through our supply chain. Some of them inform us about the estimates, and others about the probability of taking around 40 days to complete the order. As soon as the products are ready, the suppliers ship them, and then those are passed on to the buyers. Our environmental supply chain network is leading in Taiwan. Around 95 per cent of our vendors are from Taiwan, and 5 per cent from China.
Which brands and retailers are you currently associated with? About 70 per cent of our products are procured by GAP and PVH; the rest 30 per cent are other brands.
Is your company taking initiatives towards sustainable textile production? How is your factory model supporting this? We have planted over 4,000 small trees in our unit to ensure green cover. This keeps the temperature low around our factory and the air clean. It also makes for a favourable working atmosphere for our employees. Two years back, when one of the owners of Under Armour visited our company, he was surprised that the temperature was much lower compared to the weather outside, especially in the yarn-dyeing factory. Our units are dry and are not smelly because we use chemicals that do not cause air pollution and are not harsh on the environment. We have a recycling system at our plant that recycles water from showers and the residues from the factory. Our factory is self-monitored and this restricts the system well, and the emissions comply with international ISO standards. Our suppliers too cooperate in reducing water consumption, and we also follow the AATCC, ASTM, ISO and GB standards while operating sewage. Our affiliated company, Beauty-Strong, is the biggest yarn-dyeing factory in Taiwan. It meets EIA standards and operates a 24-hour-monitored system that allows supervision of the sewage. We also use recycled paper at our offices to reduce wastage. Being located in the northern part of Taiwan, where sunlight is scarce, harvesting energy using natural light is not possible.