E Ink established the Corporate Social Responsibility Committee in 2016 to promote and realize the vision of sustainable development through organized management. ESG related issues are increasingly important in the operations of the Company and to reflect this, the Corporate Social Responsibility Committee was renamed in 2021 to the Corporate Sustainability Committee.
The Corporate Sustainability Committee includes members of the functional departments and is chaired and directly supervised by the Chairman, with the CFO as the Committee Chief. The Committee has seven subordinate functional groups corresponding to the foundation stones of the "Sustainable E Ink" framework. The seven divisions of "Product Sustainability": "Green Production", "Enterprise Care", "Corporate Governance", "Supply Chain", "Project and Stakeholders", and "Risk Management" are led by an officer at the divisional level or above, respectively. In addition, the Company set up a Secretary Division and a dedicated ESG Management Department for planning and implementation of related matters. The Steering Committee, formed by senior executives, provides required guidance and assistance.
The Corporate Sustainability Committee has 40 to 50 members from different departments of the Company's sites in Taiwan, China, US, Japan and Korea. The function groups discuss and set goals and blueprints on monthly basis, review and approve progress, and report to the Chairman each quarter. The Committee also reports to the Board of Directors on a regular basis according to E Ink's "Sustainability and CSR Best Practice Principles". In 2021, the progress of the Company's ESG efforts were reported to the Board of Directors twice.
