Grade summary

Nan Ya Plastics does not produce any SIN List chemicals or substances officially recognised as chemicals of high concern by the EU. However, data is available for less than a quarter of the company’s production, as the rest takes place outside the EU and US. The company has a method in place to screen and assess the sustainability of its products and includes intrinsic hazards of ingredients in the screening process. It does not, however, have a phase-out strategy for hazardous substances. The company follows several voluntary standards of good conduct, and has only been involved in one environmental incident over the last ten years, when a major fire caused pollution in the region where it occurred.

Opportunities for improvement

1. Add transparency to the hazardous product portfolio. We can only rank less than a quarter of Nan Ya’s overall production since the rest takes place outside the EU and US. For other regions there are no reliable and publicly available sources for identifying producers of hazardous chemicals. Informing ChemSec of hazardous chemical production outside the EU and US could help raise the company’s score.
2. Phase out hazardous chemicals. Nan Ya Plastics has already established a Green Product Promotion Committee (GPPC) to comply with legislation and customer requirements, and a Hazardous Substances Free (HSF) management to make sure that no banned or unwanted chemicals end up in its products. So, the mechanisms are in place. Now, it’s only a matter of putting them into practice.
3. Market the company’s safer alternatives. Nan Ya aims to use Life Cycle Assessment in order to develop greener and more eco-friendly products. We identified a couple of safer alternatives to phthalates, but Nan Ya does not market them publicly.

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