Asia Pacific Circular Economy Roundtable

Enterprises may examine the usage of water, energy, and resources required in the processes systematically with various managerial methods and tools, such as Material Flow Cost Accounting and Circularity Facts Program, which are quantified and prioritized to improve the efficiency and circularity of raw material utilization, reducing wastes and environmental impacts while ultimately reducing operational costs and increasing profits for businesses.

9:00-10:25

Break 10:25-10:40

10:40-12:00

Speakers:

Evelyn Yeh

Hsiang Meng Su

Jennie Lin

Kano Lee

Simon Tu

Wun Hui Huang

With material sourcing and product design, products can transform into materials more easily upon the end of their life cycle before invested into the manufacturing processes of other products.

9:00-10:10

Break 10:10-10:25

10:25-12:00

Speakers:

Carlo Delantar

Chi-Yi Chang

Chia-Hsiang Wang

Julia C.C. Chiang

Yangshengjing (UB) Qiu

Yu-Chin Chang

In the midst of consumer culture shift, the new approaches for enterprise to create values are explored, while big data and technology are employed to facilitate the transition of business models.

9:00-10:10

Break 10:10-10:25

10:25-12:00

Speakers:

Diane Shen

Duncan Fong

John Demers

Pingyuan Liao

Vincent Tseng

Representative planning, promotion, and benefits from the industrial symbiosis in and beyond Taiwan will be showcased. China Steel Corporation will share its experience in the collaboration with other businesses at Linhai Industrial Park, presenting the fruit of regional energy and resource integration in Taiwan. The participating enterprises shall capture the business strategies to fuse industrial symbiosis with enterprise management as well as the opportunities of taking part in industrial symbiosis.

-Promotional strategies of industrial symbiosis in existing industrialparks-
【Yun-Sheng Ling, Director, Industrial Development Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs】

-The ways of Industrial symbiosis in Taiwan's circular park-
【Chien-Tang Chen, Senior Technical Specialist, Industrial Development Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs】

-Kalundborg Symbiosis – a unique public-private partnership facilitating sustainable smart business-
【Per Møller, Head of Department, Symbiosis Center Denmark】

-Industrial symbiosis driven by sustainable industrial parks-
【Jana Legtenborg, Project Manager, TUM International GmbH】
【Hans-Dieter Riede, CEO, Eniga】

-District Energy Integration-
【Sheng-Te Lin, General Manager, Utility Department of China Steel Corporation】

-Moderator-
【Shi-long Chang, Former Advisor, China Steel Corporation】

Speakers:

Chien-Tang Chen

Hans-Dieter Riede

Per Møller

Sheng-Te Lin

Shi Long Chang

Cross-sector application of materials is a vital strategy for enterprise to work with other corporations in promoting a circular economy. Representatives at home and abroad are to share the planning and practices that facilitate cross-sector applications, including transparency of material information, decision making aids, technology collaboration between the industry and academia, and material tracing management system.

-Industrial Symbiosis: The circular economy in action – ‘Connecting Industry – Creating Opportunity-
【Ian Humphreys, Director of Operations, International Synergies Limited】

-Watchman of Circular Materials – The Verification and Matchmaking Platform-
【Ray Reu, Marketing Manager, Sustainable Environment Technology Division Green Energy and Environment Research Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institute】

-The role of the material passport in a circular economy-
【Simone Sars-Huijser van Reenen, Asia Development Manager, Madaster】

-Power plant zero waste--coal ash utilization as an example-
【Lih-Wen Kuo, Group Leader of Sustainable Resources, Research Institute, Taipower Co.】

-Moderator-
【Hwong-wen Ma, Professor, National Taiwan University】

Speakers:

Hwong-wen Ma

Ian Humphreys

Lih-Wen Kuo

Ray Reu

Simone Sars – Huijser van Reenen

Associations and alliances that have been promoting the circular economy in their networks will share their motives, practices, and outcomes, such as industrial information and standard integration, resource investment and circularity inventory on the scale of whole industry, or the redefinition of the business model between a supplier and users. Enterprises will be guided to contemplate on how to connect horizontally and vertically, integrating the conventional concept of independent supply chains into rich collaborative networks in diversity.

-Show the Opportunity of Circular Economy-
【Terry Tsao, Global Chief Marketing Officer and President of Taiwan, SEMI】

-Circular Economy Roadmap of Taiwan PCB Industry-
【Tenfens Huang, Chairman, Taiwan Printed Circuit Association(TPCA) ESH Committee】

-Application of Information Flow to Construct a Circular Economy Model of Supply Chain-
【Chun-Ming Yen, Secretary General, Taiwan Alliance for Sustainable Supply (TASS)】

-Circular Economy– Electronic Grade Iso-Propylene-Alcohol (E-IPA)、FoamedPoly-Propylene (PP) as Example )-
【CJ Lee, CEO, LCY Chemical /representing Taiwan Chemical Industry Association (TCIA)】

-The Research of Advanced Carbon Materials at CPC-
【Chia Lin Chang, Project Manager, Refining & Manufacturing Research Institute Technical Service Department, CPC Taiwan】

-Moderator-
【Alex Y. M. Peng, Executive Vice President, Industrial Technology Research Institute】

Speakers:

Alex Y. M. Peng

Chia Lin Chang

Chun-Ming Yen

CJ Lee

Tenfens Huang

Terry Tsao

Based on the experiences of the strategic promotion of circular economy in pioneering states, we shall reflect on the present and possible measures proposed by the government in Taiwan to support the development of a circular economy in Taiwan.

-Policies toward an economic evolution with resource-efficient business in Japan-
【Kotaro Shimizu, Chief analyst, Environment and Energy Department, Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting Co., Ltd.】

-Moderator-
【Alex Y. M. Peng, Executive Vice President, Industrial Technology Research Institute】
-Panelist-
【Kotaro Shimizu, Chief analyst, Environment and Energy Department, Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting Co., Ltd.】
【Hwong-wen Ma, Professor, National Taiwan University】
【Shi-long Chang, former advisor, China Steel Corporation】
【Chi-Yi Chang, Chairman, Taiwan Design Center】
【Per Møller, Head of Department, Symbiosis Center Denmark】

Learn how to create efficiency of energy and resources via re-planning the production system of agriculture and husbandry while taking into consideration the sustainability of land. Explore the various possibilities of agricultural wastes while producing high-value circulation with cross-sector technologies.

Sites：

A pig farm with modern cultivation facilities and green power generation technology as well as functions of tourism and environmental education echoes with circular economy in accordance with the biogas power generation policy. A regional biogas center and sewage processing facility are thus established to process wastes and sewage within/without the compound as resources for reutilization.

Industrial Technology Research Institute collaborates with Pingtung County Government in creating the innovative Pingtung Circular Hub that combines local agricultural industry in Pingtung. Facilitated by the industry, high-value agroindustrial technology is applied to share information and achieve the purpose of clustering a local industrial ecosystem.

A toxic-free, harmless environment that mimics the ecosystem of rainforest and human’s internal organs and cardiovascular system, it is designed to deliver water, nutrients, and air directly to earth via sub-irrigation to create a lively ecological environment and an active circular system.

Experience the recycling mechanism full of fun, and see how Taiwanese manufacturers turn recycled bottles into the materials for textile. Go on a journey from bottle to fiber that combines recycled fiber with fashion via cross-sector collaboration.

Sites：

A listed garment company and the supplier for renowned brands in the world, including GAP and ANN TAYLOR, promotes the cross-sector, innovative project via enterprise co-creation that recovers and remanufactures fabric while connects the upstream and downstream of supply chains with design demands to foster a design ecosystem for functional garment fashion.

Departing from the thinking of circular economy, ECOCO encourages the public to work with enterprises via entertaining incentive! In 2018, it launched “ECOCO Circular Economy” platform of eco-friendliness, reward points, and recycling to put the idea of resource sustainability into practice with the concepts of ECO and Coin combined.

A textile company that owns dyeing mills and weaving factories and mainly produces quality plaid fabrics for export to supply high-end brands such as Burberry and Ralph Lauren collaborates with Camangi Corporation to turn waste scales of milkfish into Umorfil fiber for functional textile while introducing artificial intelligence to improve the efficiency of production and inventory.

One of the few textile companies that are vertically-integrated from spinning to dyeing of fabrics and from processing to manufacturing of garments utilizes plastic bottles and waste yarn for fagoting. Eco-friendly materials like Bio-PU membrane, water-based polyurethane membrane, and fluorine-free water repellent are introduced in the processes.

**Single-trip of HSR available, free of charge; dismissed at Taichung HSR station on the return trip**

Learn the recycling system in Taiwan as how it transforms wastes that are stable in quality into recycled materials before being manufactured into consumer goods via the R&D capabilities of industries and returns them into the cycles in the system.

Sites：

Over 98% of the plastic industry are SMEs. To facilitate the development, testing, and quality in the industry, PIDC plays the role of mentoring enterprises in improving facilities, production technologies, and manufacturing with ample R&D energy and results.

Producing bottle pump, spray gun, and PET bottle for markets worldwide, it manufactures and supplies 100% renewable bottle for O’right. Tritan aligned with the FDA standards is used to manufacture various toxic-free, recyclable, safe utensils without BPA. It also works with PIDC and catering service providers to build a closed-loop recovery system to introduce renewable plastic materials to manufacture new products, which is a practice of circular economy.

The largest recycling company in Taiwan that operates recycling stations as an enterprise established brand “zerozero”, the first O2O platform in the recycling industry, to elevate the willingness and efficiency of recycling of the public as well as of logistics and recycling operators. With a complete recycling system and a stable source of supply, it can produce eco-friendly recycled materials on its own. Its 100% PCR plastic is Blue Angel certified.

99% of the metals in Taiwan are imported. How should we conserve resources and even develop urban mining? An unexpected tie between natural gas and groups exists thanks to cross-sector collaboration.

Sites：

A factory of Liquefied Petroleum Gas requires a huge amount of seawater to increase the temperature in the process of gasification, which produces seawater approximately 15°C. To meet the Effluent Standards, extra energy is needed to heat it up. For an effective utilization of the cool energy, CPC and the fishermen of Yongan utilize the cold effluent to cultivate healthy, quality groupers.

Ten Drum Culture Village is a compound of about 5 hectares with 16 old warehouses constructed in the Japanese colonial period. Assumed by Ten Drum Art Percussion Group in 2005, it is redesigned to repurpose the unused spaces. Under careful planning, Rende Sugar Refinery unused for years is bestowed with a new look to bring back the former glory of the sugar refinery aged almost a century. The drum music unique to Taiwan by Ten Drum is introduced as well to present the first international art village themed with drum music in Asia.

Dedicated to the development of circular economy and the application of new materials, SOLARTECH takes precious metals as the platform, combining vertical integration and horizontal division of labor, to create values from small circulation (within factory) to middle circulation (within the industry) and from middle circulation to big circulation (within the society), constantly generating product-oriented and service-oriented innovations.

Your wastes are my materials. The authentic implementations in the industries improves the integrated utilization of resources, energy, and water, creating a symbiotic partnership with mutual benefits.

Sites：

With “China Steel Corporation” at its core, the Linhai Industrial Park energy integration plan integrates the energy, water, and resources in the Park up to 2 million tons of the linked quantity of energy and resources per year, saving 120,000 kiloliters of fuel consumption per year and reducing 362,000 tons of CO2 emission per year.

CHC Resources Corporation is a subsidiary of China Steel Corporation. It dedicates itself into the resource recycling industry, supplying ecofriendly construction materials like blast furnace slag cement and ground-granulated blast-furnace slag high in quality, strength, and value while transforming co-product in steelmaking like the basic oxygen furnace slag into resources.

The first water recycling plant that turns the domestic wastewater into industrial water. It serves as a small reservoir in the city. As the recycled water’s quality, conductivity, turbidity, and hardness are better than those of tap water, industries can save their water production cost while reduces risks in industrial water use with a stable supply of water.