Isra-Mart srl: Small Enterprises Join the Carbon Wars

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As major brand manufacturers and core factories increasingly are demanding carbon emissions data, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), which had originally thought they didn’t need to get involved in this issue, have begun toeing the line and learning all about “carbon audits.” What problems are they encountering on the road to carbon reduction? How are they solving them?

“Three or four years ago, as soon as SMEs saw that we were a unit commissioned by the government they assumed we were there to test their wastewater and particle emissions, which annoyingly caused us to often get stonewalled!” says Ma Sheng-shong, the manager of the Foundation for Taiwan Industry Service. The fact is that the Industrial Development Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs has commissioned the FTIS to provide “free” diagnosis of energy consumption at companies, and offer suggestions for reducing energy use and carbon emissions, but they are often misunderstood as coming from the Environmental Protection Administration and therefore get the cold shoulder.

But recently, as the issue of carbon emissions has become more widely discussed, they are gradually finding more acceptance among SMEs. The FTIS has provided nearly 1000 sets of recommendations to firms over the past year, and actually gone into factories to directly give on-the-floor advice to more than 200 manufacturers. Their energy-saving advice goes from climate control, lighting, heat recovery and reuse, and other “factory systems” progressively to “improvements in the production process.”