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28 CPC Corporation, Taiwan 2018
implemented electricity conservation in its office premises. Going further, among other measures the company has mandated the replacement of all conventional lighting systems by LED units before end-2019.
CPC HAS RAISED THE QUALITY OF ITS PRODUCTS TO HELP ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
In January 2000 CPC proactively ceased supplying the local market with leaded gasoline, in line with the greener fuel standards of other advanced countries and as a contribution to improving Taiwan's air quality. In June 2004 the sulfur content of its diesel fuel was reduced from 375ppmw to 50ppmw and in July 2011 reduced further to 10ppmw; and on January 1, 2007 high-quality gasoline with a sulfur content of 50ppmw - reduced to 10ppmw in 2012 - was launched. With the same motive, all CPC gas station fuel pumps have been retrofitted with vapor recovery nozzles and the company's distribution depot fuel-filling areas with similar equipment. The consequent gasoline recovery now amounts to more than 3,200 kiloliters per year, helping to improve air quality by avoiding emission of the same amount of volatile organic compounds (VOCs).
The quality of Taiwan-made petroleum products continues to steadily improve after the many years of effort to that end, such that it has achieved comparability with, even rivals, its equivalent in Europe, Japan and the United States. However, CPC has in no way taken this as cause for resting on its laurels; it continues to embrace the new paradigm for ecologically- friendly petroleum products set by the standards of the world’s most advanced countries in their pursuit of ever higher product quality. Similarly in the wider energy field, the company will promote energy resource integration, upgrade its natural gas storage and transport capacity to facilitate greater use of low- carbon energy and lend stronger support to the application of R&D-based green energy technologies – incidentally creating a green corporate image for itself in the process of helping build a low-carbon homeland for Taiwan's people.
Since the enactment of the Environmental Education Act in 2011, CPC has energetically promoted and practised ecology- and environment-related education and similar activities. Its own eco-experiences and teaching are used to popularize the concepts of environmental protection, of cherishing Taiwan's natural resources and of committing to leave a clean environment for the generations that will follow. The company takes the lead in calling on communities to come together on local ecological issues and in showing concern for local commercial development to be environmentally- friendly; and also in practical measures like park and forest adoption, supporting garbage clean-ups and marine pollution
remediation. In further educational developments, CPC's Taiwan Oil Production Exhibition Hall at Chuhuangkeng in Miaoli County was certified as an environmental education site in August 2017. It is the only oil production educational site in Taiwan and it functions as a high-level environmental education venue for the general public, special interest groups, schools and government agencies. The Exhibition Hall has reinvigorated Chuhuangkeng, the site of a former producing oilwell, and it is also considered part of the Company's contribution towards a sustainable environment. Another company-developed environmental education site is the CPC Kaohsiung Refinery Environmental Education Classroom, which was approved on January 22, 2018 and began to be used after its inauguration on June 8.
CPC cares about its home country and is passionate about protecting its environment. In that cause it will strive to raise its game by deploying the latest in pollution-control technology, systematizing its processes for higher efficiency and greater added-value, investing in the circular economy and promoting waste recycling – all in the pursuit of sustainability in its operations and the sharing of good health and prosperity with the national community.