The ISO-14001 environmental management system has become a worldwide trend. Showing its determination to protect the environment, on November 15th 1996, our Hualien Plant was awarded the first ISO-14001 certification by the Bureau of Commodity Inspection & Quarantine. The Hualien Plant continues its efforts with environmental protection, and now enthusiastically carries out the agressively protection system based on the principals as follows:

• To preserve the natural landscapes
• To improve the technology of preventing pollutions
• To implement waste reduction and resource recovery
• To be a good neighbor to the surroundings

Thanks to its successes in environmental management, our Hualien Plant has received praise and recognition from the government, visitors, and the peers, both in Taiwan and abroad. In addition, the Hualien Plant has frequently been cited as a model of environmental protection by governmental and academic organizations.