The 2025 Asia-Pacific Circular Economy Forum, organized by the Circular Taiwan Foundation and co-organized by the Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, and Ministry of Economic Affairs, gathered key stakeholders from government and industry. On October 22, Shih-Hung Huang, Vice President of R&D at COMPAL, was invited as a panelist in the session “Taiwan’s Electronics Supply Chain | High-Tech and Electronic Products.” The session, moderated by Director Lin Chun-Hsu of Academia Sinica, also featured Kuo-Hui Shou, Head of Environmental Affairs, Asia Pacific at Apple; Ling-Hui Tai, Director of Product Sustainability and Circular Economy, Asia Pacific at Dell; and Ching-Ching Liu, Chief Sustainability Officer at Acer, who together explored how the electronics sector can accelerate circular transformation across the value chain.
Against the backdrop of global decarbonization, the circular economy has become a core driver of a new industrial revolution—and Compal is positioning itself as an active pioneer of this change. Companies can no longer operate in isolation; supply chain resilience and sustainability are now critical to long-term competitiveness and survival.
Compal fully recognizes that no single company can achieve circularity alone. Only through trust-based collaboration with supply chain partners can a truly powerful and innovative value chain be created.
Building a “Big Loop” Circular Supply Chain
Compal’s circular strategy focuses on co-developing sustainable materials with suppliers, such as:
- Reusing tea waste and oyster shells in laptop components
- Reducing resource waste while improving each product’s environmental performance
To date, Compal has developed over 30 types of sustainable materials and applied them in product design. Every laptop is built on a fully modular architecture, enhancing ease of disassembly and making repair, upgrades and reconnection significantly easier throughout the product lifecycle.
Workshops and Dialogue: Exploring Sustainability Together
Vice President Shih-Hung Huang noted:
“Since the pandemic, almost every overseas customer visiting our facilities has specifically asked for higher proportions of eco-friendly materials in our products.”
In response, Compal has been actively organizing circular economy workshops, inviting suppliers to jointly explore new possibilities for sustainable development. These are not just knowledge-sharing sessions; they are genuine exchanges of values and aspirations, strengthening collective confidence in a sustainable future.
Co-Creation and Partnership Across the Ecosystem
Huang emphasized that, as one of Taiwan’s leading electronics manufacturers, Compal must work with the strongest and most forward-looking supply chain partners in order to advance fully modular, easily disassembled laptop designs:
“Current volumes may still be small, but we are confident that as the circular trend gathers momentum,
we and our partners will become key collective problem solvers for the industry.”
Throughout this process, Compal and its suppliers face challenges side by side, refuse to retreat when the path is difficult, and continue to experiment with and refine sustainable solutions. 🌱
Advancing a Sustainable Value Chain and ESG Goals
By steadily advancing along this path, Compal aims to build a sustainable value chain and work together with more enterprises to safeguard this new industrial revolution. The company is committed to working for the future of the planet and becoming a leader in sustainable development.
In close collaboration with sustainability-focused brand customers and supply chain partners, Compal puts stakeholder engagement into practice. The experience gained from these initiatives continues to drive Compal’s innovation and transformation—from production processes to design thinking—supporting the company’s ESG development goals and moving forward with the world on the journey toward sustainability.
Featured in CommonWealth Magazine, Issue No. 820. https://www.cw.com.tw/article/5134712