Corporate Social Responsibility
Since inception in 1988, Hartalega’s business philosophy has been guided by our vision to be a caring organisation to the community and environment. We not only take pride in delivery of value added products to our customers but also place great emphasis on good business ethics. As a profitable institution, we feel compelled to give back to the community; present and future. Environmental preservation is a way to ensure the security of our future generations.
Community Improvement Projects
Committed to improve the living standards of the community around us, we have pledged a total of RM1 million of our earnings to community projects. This tradition has never been broken; in fact a sizeable budget is allocated every year to projects that will offer social improvements to the people around us. As an example, 2.5% of proceeds from sale of carbon credits generated from our biomass CDM project are pledged to corporate social responsibility (CSR) projects. From building parks and children playgrounds to organising sporting events and nursing homes visits; all carried out in the name of a better living for our neighbours.
Environmental Preservation
Hartalega takes pride in innovative product and process designs, but we take technological leadership a step further. How we impact the environment is not only important to us, but also crucial to the interests of our future generations.
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Effluent water treatment plants
No less than RM8 million has been expended on the construction of effluent water treatment plants, ensuring effluent that we discharge is harmless to the environment. The latest treatment plants operate on an advanced dissolved air flotation technology from Austria.
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Biomass energy plants
These plants are a technological feat that is unprecedented in Malaysia, converting waste that is otherwise useless to valuable renewable energy resource. This avoids emission of Greenhouse Gases such as carbon dioxide and methane from anaerobic decay of the waste. The success of our biomass energy plants today goes a long way back to year 2004 where various technological improvements have to be made along the way, rising to the challenge of new technological development whilst reducing climate change due to global warming. Successful registration of these plants to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) or Kyoto Protocol in year 2007 marks a milestone of our organisation.
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