Advancement of ESG: CORUM Publishes Its First Sustainability Report

Corum Inc. published its first annual Sustainability Report, detailing the company’s strategy, risk management and initiatives in the field of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting and implementation for the year 2021. Corum views the report as a significant milestone in the advancement of ESG commitments, for this is a practice of disclosing, measuring, and striving for accountability in the company’s performance with aligning SDGs and materiality to both internal and external stakeholders transparently. Corum also further signed to support the TCFD recommendations to increase transparency on climate-related risks and opportunities, making Corum Inc. the first specialty chemicals manufacturer in Taiwan to have become an official TCFD supporter since August 29, 2022.

Commenting on the announcement, Peimin Lee, CEO of Corum Inc., said: “Today we are proud to publish Corum’s first ESG report and share with the public our performance, vision and actions. The report is set in two languages, Chinese and English, to improve the accessibility of information for the benefits of our global partners, customers, governmental authorities and media. The important values fulfilled by this publication are accompanied by a real contribution to economic growth, environmental sustainability commitments and a fair society. As we move forward, each year we will strive to make progress in the areas outlined in the report and ensure our practices are meaningful, helpful and sustainable over time. “

Corum’s Sustainability Report is written in accordance with the GRI Standards. Besides, the report also incorporates the SASB Standards, and disclosures the company’s practices in climate related management under the TCFD framework. In the report, Corum specifies its goals, management approach, commitments and the latest results to various corporate governance, environmental and social aspects, and maps the 12 most material topics within and outside the company. For more information, please browse and download the full report at https://reurl.cc/xQMNyz

Beach Cleanup: CORUM Adopts a National Coastline to Expand Its Beach Cleanup Events

In order to expand the impact and raise the awareness about marine pollution, this year Corum officially adopts a national coastline, Zhongjiao Bay Beach in jinshan district of new Taipei city in Taiwan’s northern coast, to encourage more staffs, their families and friends to help remove garbage and plastic in the ocean. Becoming an adopter is a practice to declare the company’s determination in ocean protection and waste reduction, for the frequency of coastal cleanup events will be required twice a year at least and reviewed annually.

Not only thousands of marine animals have been affected by plastic pollution in ocean that we learned from media, but beach sand areas have been destroyed and covered by lots of waste, such as plastic/glass bottle waste, polyfoam fragments, fishing nets, ropes, and even infectious waste needles we found in cleanup this time. During the cleanup activity, one of our colleagues said, “My original cognition to beach cleanup event was merely to pick up waste on beach, but this time when I saw a lot of things that do not belong to the ocean appearing on the beach, it makes me deeply realize the garbage we made day by day unintentionally has seriously caused damage to the marine environments. I cannot image how bad injures would happen if kids took off shoes and played barefoot along the beach.”

Indeed, except encouraging more beach cleanup events, the most crucial thing is to think about how to reduce our daily garbage. By adopting a coastline, Corum would like to appeal more people to join the cleanups and learn from it, as we see beach cleanups are important mitigation tools that can help create an understanding of the marine pollution problem and encourage people to engage in solutions.

Exchange of Focus: CORUM Will Exhibit in ICI Indonesia and In-Cos Asia

After more than two years of Covid-19 impact on border restriction, Taiwan government finally agrees to gradually ease border controls and shorten quarantine period. In this October and November, Corum will attend the physical exhibitions of ICI Indonesia and in-cosmetics Asia! We will be on stand #H33 of ICI Indonesia (Oct. 25-27) and will exhibit at stand #C38 of in-cosmetics Asia (Nov. 1-3).

At ICI Indonesia, Corum will further present the latest research on Epi-On^TM in a technical seminar. Remember to stop by during these two exhibitions and discuss how our ingredients are tailored to your needs. We can’t wait to meet you at place!