Chicony Power integrates the concept of green design into the development of new products. The R&D team focuses on enhancing energy efficiency and ensuring compliance with regulations on hazardous chemicals. Efforts are also made to maximize the use of renewable and recyclable materials. In collaboration with suppliers, Chicony Power forms strategic partnerships that are key to its operations. These partnerships not only deliver valuable products and services to customers but also emphasize social and environmental values, continuously striving towards building a sustainable supply chain.
Chicony Power has introduced third-generation semiconductor materials, Gallium Nitride (GaN) and Silicon Carbide (SiC), to enhance the conversion efficiency of power supplies and reduce the size of transformers. This approach helps decrease the use of materials and carbon emissions from transportation. To address the thermal management challenges that arise from miniaturization, the design team has incorporated advanced materials like carbon nanotubes and graphene. These materials improve heat dissipation while reducing the need for metal heat sinks.
Chicony Power has collaborated with several automotive manufacturers to develop LED lighting modules, successfully reducing energy consumption by 80% while improving lighting range and brightness. The company has also applied Mini LED technology to various displays and laptop keyboard backlighting, achieving over 50% energy savings, and these products are now in mass production.
The company's IWA (Intelligent Web-based Application) integration platform incorporates environmental, social responsibility, and corporate governance principles into its design and services, providing sustainable energy solutions for global customers.
Patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets are the core constituents of intellectual property rights. Based on product development characteristics, Chicony Power prioritizes patents, and then trade secrets, trademarks, and copyrights to protect the Company’s products and technologies.
In line with the company’s mid-term goals (3-5 years), it has reviewed patent data from the past five years to strategically plan the development path for future energy-saving technologies.
Chicony Power has formulated the Restricted Substance Control Standards to provide suppliers and internal procurement, quality control, and R&D teams with guidelines for hazardous substances control. The substances subject to Chicony Power’s environmental management include prohibited substances, restricted substances, and self-managed substances. The purpose of substance control is to prevent parts materials, components, modules, secondary materials, and packaging materials that contain hazardous substances from being mixed into Chicony Power’s products so that the Company can comply with domestic and international laws and regulations, meet customers’ requirements, protect the environment, and reduce its impact on ecosystems.
Chicony Power’s major production factories (Suzhou, Chongqing, and Dongguan) have all passed QC 080000 (Hazardous Substance Process Management System) verification. “Process-oriented” approaches have been adopted for the management of hazardous substance use in products, through which the hazardous substances contained in manufactured or supplied products can be identified, managed, controlled, quantified, and reported during process development operations. Additionally, the Company monitors changes in important international regulations, such as RoHS2.0 (2011/65/EU & 2015/863/EU), REACH-SVHC, and Halogen-Free, and promptly updates relevant content in its internal control documents.
Chicony Power has formulated standardized supplier management procedures, which are the basis for assessing and auditing suppliers’ performance in labor rights, environmental protection, and health and safety management. Improvement measures are developed based on the assessment results to assist suppliers in making continuous progress, so that the Company can reduce supply chain operational risks and build partnerships for sustainable development. When selecting new suppliers, supplier assessment and audit teams conduct assessments in accordance with the Operating Procedures for New Supplier Assessments, with the aim of choosing suitable and excellent suppliers.
1. Supplier Assessment and Audit Team : The team is composed of personnel from purchasing or procurement, quality control, green products, parts engineering, and R&D units. Auditors’ eligibility should be confirmed, and assessments should be completed before orders are officially placed.
2. Timing of Supplier Assessments : Assessments should be conducted when the Company has a need for new technology, new parts, or needs related to quality, costs, or delivery.
3. Content of Supplier Audits :
The aforementioned Supplier Assessment and Audit Team should conduct assessments focusing on four major dimensions: suppliers’ business transaction management system, product design and development or engineering management, management of hazardous substance use, and quality assurance system management. The key points of the assessment are listed in the table below.
4. Supplier Assessments：
With the aim of connecting with international regulations, the Company requires that all suppliers must comply with the 『RBA Code of Conduct』 in terms of workers’ human rights, health and safety, environmental protection, integrity and ethics, and management systems. The Company has formulated Supplier Audit Management Regulations, which are used as a basis for conducting annual RBA compliance audits of major suppliers. Suppliers that fail to reach the scoring standard (70/100) are assisted in meeting RBA requirements.
Chicony Power has conducted audits on all factories’ Tier 1 suppliers (50 suppliers total) through online reviews (including SAQ self-assessment) or onsite inspections based on RBA-equivalent standards. All suppliers have been categorized as low-risk. In addition to requiring Tier-1 suppliers to comply with standards and conducting relevant audits, Chicony Power leads by example, all production sites in mainland China have obtained the RBA Silver Award certification (Silver Award requires an RBA VAP score of over 160, correction of all priority non-conformities, and submission of corrective action plans on the RBA Online platform). Moreover, the Suzhou factory has received the Factory Of Choice One Star Award, an RBA accolade (this certification requires an RBA VAP audit score above 160 and no priority non-conformities), becoming a model for suppliers to emulate and collectively creating a sustainable value chain.
Chicony Power has formulated the Green Supplier Evaluation Standards for Defining Evaluation Content and Methods. Suppliers that fail to meet the standards are required to improve within 1 year and to reach the standards set by Chicony Power.
Chicony Power has established sales channels in Asia, Europe, America, and other major markets to actively collect market information, and design and develop products that align with customers’ needs. Moreover, through close technical exchanges with downstream customers, Chicony Power has maintained well-established long-term partnerships with customers, based on which R&D and manufacturing strengths have been accumulated.
The regular ratings feedback and audit scores received from customers are the major impetus for Chicony Power to continuously improve customer service, maintain high-level performance, and implement comprehensive quality control. The best partner of customers, Chicony Power is committed to grasping market trends and providing professional product designs that maximize customer satisfaction. As a result, since its establishment, Chicony Power has continuously received many awards from its partners.
Chicony Power is active in establishing innovative circular economic models in the hope of significantly reducing energy consumption, resource consumption, and unnecessary waste generation to achieve the goal of green sustainability.
