Arcadyan CSR
Arcadyan CSR

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Environmental Sustainability

Environmentally Friendly Design

 

Green Products

The green design thinking of Arcadyan products is based on "Product Life Cycle (PLC)", which considers the environmental impact of various life cycle stages such as raw material procurement, manufacturing, packaging and transportation, consumer use to disposal and recycling. Therefore, at the beginning of product design, in addition to focusing on customer needs, functionality, energy-saving and low-carbon design that complies with the regulations of the sales regions of various countries, such as the EU Eco-Design Requirements for Energy-relative Products . The core directions of product design that Arcadyan strengthens the green concept are "material selection with low toxicity", "power saving and low energy consumption", "easy disassembly and easy recycling and refurbishment", and "extending product service life". Arcadyan also cooperates with international trends and the needs of stakeholders and customers to carry out environmentally friendly design to achieve the best Eco-effectiveness.
Arcadyan requires all activities, products and services provided to comply with environmental and energy-related regulations, reduce the impact of operations on the environment, and achieve the goal of corporate sustainable development. Implementation of green product related plans from 2018 to 2022:

 

 

Arcadyan Green Product Development

 

 

 

HistoryBS 8001 Circular Economy Introduction

Arcadyan has introduced the circular economy design plan since 2020, followed the six principles to carry out eight circular promotion stages, and applied the 10R strategy of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (Planbureauvoor de Leefomgeving, PBL) to the design concept. In the material selection stage, RD evaluates whether recycled metals can be applied to existing materials, and considers how to process them into recycled materials through the recycling system when their components are unusable. As for the product development process, RD considers maximizing the value of products and resources, with extending product life cycle as the primary consideration; RD also applies Post-Consumer Recycled (PCR) materials to product casings and packaging design. RD also takes design optimization to reduce the use of parts, improve product performance, reduce energy consumption during use, and save energy and resource consumption in the product life cycle.  Arcadyan also provides product repair and refurbishment services by signing contracts with customers, updating products or replacing parts, so that products can be restored to a good condition, so as to extend the life cycle of products.
 

 

 

Environmentally Friendly Design Concept

In the initial stage of product design, Arcadyan discussed the possibility of various environmentally friendly designs with customers. In addition to complying with international environmental protection regulations and customer requirements, in the research and development stage, concepts such as energy saving, material reduction, easy disassembly and recycling of products, waste reduction, and extend of product life are included in the design considerations. It is estimated that the introduction of environmentally friendly design products can reduce carbon emissions by about 1 kgCO2 per product.

 

 

Environmentally Friendly (PCR Recycling Plastic Introduction)

Eco-design policy is the core of Arcadyan's initiative, and the selection of plastics with high recycling potential is the direction of Arcadyan's continuous improvement and optimization. To promote the use of waste plastics and effectively implement post-consumer recycling (PCR), Arcadyan recycles scrapped plastic casings into new raw materials and puts them into products again. Since 2015, 65% to 99% of PCR recycled plastics have been introduced into plastic parts. In order to ensure that the recycled plastics made of ABS or ABS + PC do not affect the structural strength, the clip-on design replaces the general locking design, the fewer screws reduce difficulties in final product and material recycling.

In 2022, the percentage of renewable plastics used was 50%, achieving the goal set in 2021 that the proportion of recycled plastics used be greater than 30%. Arcadyan will continue to promote the recycling of waste, and it is estimated that the proportion of recycled plastics in 2023 will reach more than 60%.
 

 

 

Environmentally Friendly  (Packaging Design)

Arcadyan continues to aim at reducing the use of packaging materials, optimizes the packaging design of each product during the research and development process, and increases the volume space through stacking methods to increase the volume ratio of product transportation. On the inner packaging of fixed products, Arcadyan uses recycled paper or packaging made of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) cardboard, and prints with plant-based inks to reduce the burden on the environment; on the inner structure packaging, Arcadyan uses biodegradable materials, the composition are industrial starch, plant fiber and paper foam. Low-carbon production can be directly recycled or used as composting materials, low pollution and no harmful residues. The proportion of recycled paper used in the products shipped by Arcadyan in 2022 has reached more than 80%.

 

 

Light-load and Efficient Carbon Reduction Design

Arcadyan uses high-efficiency power converters. The light-load and high-efficiency design can automatically enter the pulse skipping mode under light-load conditions to reduce the switching frequency and achieve the effect of improving conversion efficiency, which can increase energy efficiency by about 1~2%. Arcadyan's product design supports or has built-in Bluetooth function to replace the physical connector, and is designed with lower power consumption, higher transmission speed and longer transmission distance as the design goals, so that products with short-distance wireless transmission can be realized through WiFi and Bluetooth technology.