With the belief, “benefited from the society, returning benefits to the society,” FENC has been dedicating itself to public welfare and charity for over half a century. By leveraging its core strengths and capital, the Company promotes educational, cultural, environmental and community development, giving back to society through the power and influence of synergy within the entire Far Eastern Group (FEG), which include the non-profit foundations. FENC is returning benefits to the public, embracing social diversity, inclusion and mutual prosperity.  

Amount Invested in Social Engagement and Percentage to Profits After Tax

Note: 
1. The total amount invested in social engagement includes the main subsidiaries on FENC’s consolidated statement. Among them, FarEasTone Telecommunications, Co., Ltd publishes its own Sustainability Report. 
2. The 2025 social engagement includes a donation of NT$151 million to the Yuan Ze University College of Nursing and Medicine.

Social Engagement at FENC Sites

FENC’s worldwide operation spans across Taiwan, mainland China, Vietnam, Japan  ,U.S. and Malaysia. For years, FENC has been building rapport with residents in the communities adjacent to its operation sites, such as Hsinchu County and Taoyuan City in Taiwan. The Company engages community organizations and provides resources, such as venues for community assemblies or fire drills. The Company also extends a helping hand to the underprivileged members of the community, conducts beach cleanup campaigns and helps schools and local neighborhoods clean their environment. Volunteers from all FENC sites contributed a total of 13,223 hours to non-profit causes in 2025. In order to promote the circular economy, recycling and reuse, FENC formed partnerships across disciplines to develop environmental education programs, spreading the seeds of recycling and circularity.

Expanding Social Impact Through Core Strengths

With its core strengths as the engine, FENC promotes environmental protection and recycling while raising public awareness by creating a free on-campus environmental education program, providing free environmental outreach displays and sharing circular economy case studies during exhibitions. The Company is also the incubator of the pillars of sustainability by offering student internship and industry-academia collaboration at its production sites. Specifically, OPTC received 80 teachers and students from schools such as the Affiliated Tao-Yuan Agricultural and Industrial Senior High School of National Taipei University of Technology in October 2025. During their visit, OPTC led the students on a tour of the plant with a presentation given by experts explaining the production process. It was an opportunity for the students to gain firsthand knowledge regarding the equipment and operational procedures in the industry with insights into the significance of petrochemical safety, environmental management and sustainable production from the field. The experience is beneficial for improving their professional capabilities. Sustainability issues such as carbon reduction, wastewater management and the circularity of resources were also introduced, giving additional dimensions to the visit by honing their professional and ESG proficiency. For the educators, such programs address the lack of field education and limited practical and industry knowledge; for students, these programs nourish their aspirations for future careers.

FENC participated in the 2025 Sustainable Education Action Selection organized by 5% Design Action, a social design platform. The campaign echoes the essence of industry-academia partnerships exhibited through Earth Solutions and the Textbook for Sustainable Development. Out of 82 projects from Taiwan, FENC’s Circular Economy Campus Program was selected to receive the certification of 2025 Textbook for Sustainability SELECT during the Earth Solutions 2025 Sustainable Design Action Summit on April 22.

 

Creating Sustainable Impact from Gaming to Real Life

1. FENC x Beitou Refuse Incineration Plant, Celebrating 10-year Partnership by Unveiling the Rebirth of PET Bottles with New Displays
FENC and Beitou Refuse Incineration Plant under the Department of Environmental Protection, Taipei City Government have been partners promoting recycling during a decade-long journey. Since April 2015, FENC has been designing and producing educational displays for the Egret Academy, the environmental educational center at the plant. The displays, which feature the circular economy of recycled PET bottles, have undergone two updates. After discussing in-depth with the academy and assessing the needs of the educators and visitors, FENC customized the content and format accordingly and presented the displays to the academy for environmental education purposes completely for free. With the brand-new displays, FENC is embracing its 10-year partnership with the Egret Academy! 

The new design sheds light on the recycling and remanufacturing process of PET bottles, illustrating how colored PET bottles become transparent and colorless; how composite materials are simplified, which improve recycling efficiency and recycled material quality. Visitors may also utilize built-in interactive devices for a closer look at the evolution of PET bottles.

FENC x Beitou Refuse Incineration Plant, Celebrating 10-year Partnership by Unveiling

2. Sowing Circularity in 80 Minutes
The depletion of resources is increasingly recognized as a global threat, putting responsibilities on environmental education to evolve from the conveyor of knowledge to the driver of behavioral changes. Working with the social enterprise, Friendly Seeds, FENC co-developed “The Transformative Magic of Circularity,” an on-campus program designed for elementary schools with an educational focus on the circular economy. Beginning in 2022, the program has been delivering innovative and interactive content packed in 80 minutes. Statistically, the results are quite noticeable; qualitatively, the influence is also far-reaching with impacts on cognitive reframing and intergenerational communication.

The program reached 9,958 teachers and students through 173 campus sessions in over 230 hours, providing intensive resources on sustainability for schools in Taiwan. The program departs from the traditional classroom format with gamified design such as “The Magic Puzzle” and “The Demon King,” transforming students from passive listeners to active explorers. This is the most profound effect observed from 7,746 pieces of student feedback. Keyword analysis reveals that gamification (The Magic Puzzle) is the key to engage student interests and to ingrain rigid concepts such as linear/circular economy into their minds. Based on the questionnaire, as high as 91% changed their perception towards “the finitude of resources” and “circular economy.” The program turned abstract economic concepts into languages that students could understand and accept, creating spillover effects that reached beyond the classroom. As many as 87% of the participating students promised to reuse and recycle after school, and some even expressed the intention to pass the knowledge to the next generation. 

 

Additionally, the program received high marks from educational professionals for its innovative design, with 99% of participating teachers acknowledging the program as being “a program demonstrating innovative qualities.” The positive feedback is a testimony that this program has the power to connect businesses, schools and communities, generating a collaborative force in advancing the circular economy.

 
Video Documentary on “The Transformative Magic of Circularity”

3. Environmental Week with FEPV and AEON Mall
FEPV and AEON Mall co-organized an Environmental Week event in Vietnam to promote recycling and the value of recycled products to local residents. The two companies also signed a memorandum of understanding for the creation of Vietnam's first Closed Loop PET recycling project. PET bottles collected by AEON Mall are remanufactured by FEPV into high-quality rPET as a raw material for new products. In 2025, a total of 220,000 PET bottles were recycled through this Closed Loop project, totaling 4,468 kilograms and the equivalent of avoiding approximately 7,908 kgCO2e of carbon emissions.

The Environmental Week event made its debut in 2022. In the following year, the event was expanded from southern to northern Vietnam with activities held at AEON Mall’s four nationwide locations. FEPV engaged the public through lectures, video presentations, quizzes and exhibition booths about PET bottle recycling and remanufacturing technologies, and the smart recycling machine was placed on site to show the participants how the PET bottles were crushed into flakes during recycling. The 2025 event, which zoomed in on the theme, “Bottle Recycling · Sowing the Future”, aimed to keep waste away from landfills and ocean by instilling environmental knowledge in the younger generation. With staff’s instruction, participants cleaned and flattened the bottles after removing the caps and labels to make recycling more efficient. For every 20 PET bottles recycled, participants received one canvas bag made of 100% recycled materials. The event reached 23,000 local residents, and a total of 8,435 PET bottles were recycled.

In addition, FEPV held the ECO Contest 2025 at three AEON Mall branches in southern Vietnam for students aged 11 to 13. With the theme, “Green Generation–Act for the Environment,” the competition evaluated students’ knowledgeability in recycling, sorting and environmental protection, helping them understand the importance of waste classification and raising environmental awareness among the younger generation.

 

4. Exploring Recycling Challenges by Connecting School Reading to Reality with APG Polytech
APG Polytech was invited to the Buffalo Elementary School in South Carolina, U.S. to provide a realistic perspective on the environmental concerns the world is facing. With 200 students in the audience, APG Polytech shared how corporate and individual efforts could be the engine of environmental changes by focusing on recycling and reuse. The concept echoed The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, the school reading at the time. APG Polytech helped students understand the complexities and challenges of addressing plastic pollution, which involve standards, logistics, technologies and regulations that require concerted efforts from all sectors. They were also reminded that everyone could make a difference by properly collecting and processing recyclable waste to achieve circularity. APG Polytech took the opportunity to expand its sustainability outreach, impressing upon the young minds the concept of circular economy.

 

Community Care and Sustainability Action

All FENC sites engage in a wide spectrum of community activities with the aim of fulfilling the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Among them, APG Polytech has a long track record of supporting and caring for the local community. Every Thanksgiving, APG Polytech invites employees to participate in Crosslight of Hope–Thanksgiving Food Drive with the mission to gather ingredients for families in need to prepare a healthy Thanksgiving feast. The 2025 initiative helped more than 230 families. Employees from APG Polytech showed strong support by purchasing, packaging and delivering the food themselves. It is the hope that this meaningful campaign may strengthen the bond and trust between APG Polytech and the local community while giving employees a deep sense of fulfillment as they tend to the needs of local families.

Created in 2019, FENV’s Caring Connection program has entered its seventh year. The program is designed to lend a helping hand to employees and their families during difficulties, and in 2025, assistance was provided to two employees whose family members suffered a serious illness and death. The financial donation, in the equivalent of eleven-month salaries for each, helped alleviate their burden and stress.

Since 2024, FEAV has been sponsoring the purchase of medical equipment, constructing facilities, providing potable water purifiers and taking on the responsibility of maintaining and repairing the purification equipment for the Đình Phước Elementary School in Dầu Tiếng District of Bình Phước Province, Vietnam, which improved the learning environment as well as safety and health conditions for the schoolchildren. During the reporting year, all FENC production sites continued devoting themselves to social engagement, advocating the protection of marine and terrestrial ecosystems, eradication of poverty and promotion of environmental knowledge with the ultimate goal to achieve the common good. 

Coast to Community, Protecting Earth Through Volunteering

In April 2025, Hsinpu Chemical Fiber Plant, Kuanyin Chemical Fiber Plant, Kuanyin Dyeing and Finishing Plant, OPTC, FEFC and OGM mobilized 188 participants, including employees and their families, to take part in the FENC Beach Cleanup Campaign. The employees worked in groups, collecting more than 1,000 kilograms of coastal debris and sorting them into recyclable, non-recyclable and hazardous waste. OPTC launched another beach cleanup campaign in April with 50 employees and 50 volunteers from Baiyu Village of Guanyin District, Taoyuan City. They provided cleanup and maintenance at the Daku River estuary and the Baiyu Algal Reef Reserve, working in sync and determined to protect the natural habitat. The Baiyu algal reef is formed by Crustose coralline algae, a type of calcifying red algae which deposits calcium carbonate. Slow growing in nature, however, the deposit accumulates only a few millimeters each year, and to reach the present scale, it would require thousands of years. With their porous structure, algal reefs are an ideal hiding place and breeding ground for crustaceans, mollusks and echinoderms, and therefore, foster a rich mix of marine life. They are also the ideal spot for ecological and nighttime observation, play irreplaceable roles in maintaining ecological balance and habitat conservation nearshore. 

 

OGM collaborated with the Office of Coast and Resource Circulation Construction of Taoyuan City Government and promoted a corporate coastline adoption and cleanup program. The stewardship encourages corporations to adopt and provide long-term maintenance for specific coastlines. OGM employees clean the adopted coastline every Wednesday afternoon, and each year, the plant holds two large-scale beach cleanup campaigns. A total of 60 employees participated in the 2025 events, during which art installations were included as a creative outreach to convey environmental concepts. Interactive components were also arranged to guide participants to reflect upon issues caused by marine debris, raise environmental awareness and encourage actions through fun and interaction.

 

PFEM participated in a beach cleanup event organized by the Malaysian Plastics Manufacturers Association. Twelve employees, led by senior executives, patrolled the coastline, identified and sorted the recyclable and non-recyclable waste they collected and moved them to a centralized location for disposal. The clear division of labor and safety guidelines helped the PFEM staff cleaned the coastline with efficiency, and the experience gave them a better understanding of issues surrounding marine debris and plastic waste reduction. The event also enhanced the cohesiveness and participation in ESG initiatives. Meanwhile, with collaborative efforts from multiple industry peers, the event provided an opportunity to protect the environment by leveraging industry influence through cross-enterprise partnerships.

 

In November 2025, FENV held an environmental campaign targeting local residents and children with the supermarket chain, Co.opmart. The participants were offered reusable bags for the waste batteries they collected to promote proper battery disposal and increase their awareness of the environmental consequences caused by improper disposal. The reusable bags acted as the incentive to minimize the consumption of single-use plastic bags. Trivial games with questions about environmental protection were held with Co.opmart coupons as prizes. The event drew an enthusiastic crowd, 500 reusable bags were handed out, and 98 kilograms of waste batteries were collected and disposed of, effectively raising the local environmental awareness. 

 

Social Engagement by Corporate Foundations 

FENC has been branching into charitable causes since the 1960s, devoting attention to education, arts, culture, healthcare and technology while dedicating corporate resources to humanitarian care for local communities. It is the hope that by providing long-term support in social engagement, FENC will bring warmth to all who are in need.

Vision and Direction for Social Engagement

 

Establishing the Non-Profit Organizations to Contribute to the Society