With the ever changing automotive industry, more and more new technologies and new products are being applied. We know deeply that only through continuous R&D and innovations can make our products leading edge. Every year, more than 5% of our sales revenue is set for research and development. Based on the concept of global collaboration, we have setup a R&D center in Ningbo China and an overseas R&D center in Springfield, Missouri.
We have successfully formed a multinational R&D team with nearly 30 experts. Most people in the team has excellent R&D experience in either automobile factories or large component manufacturing factories.
Our research and development is focused on two areas: Continuous innovation to create values for end users and contribute to environment protection through energy efficiency. A lot of years of innovation and accumulation, we have unique advantages in areas of project management, product lightweight, modular, energy-saving and environmental protection.
For the past 10 years, we have developed over 2,000 SKUs, of which some SKUs are developed for 20 models of vehicles for the automobile factory, 70 SKUs are designed by ourselves and 20 patents that focus on energy conservation and environment protection.
We have a clear understanding that the basis for a healthy and sustainable grow of the company relies on certain operating principles and business ethics. It is essence to keep these principles and ethics in order to achieve our mission, make our vision come true, inherit and demonstrate our spirit. Therefore, we are fully committed to the following principles:
Maintain honesty and integrity within the company and with business partners, customers, and suppliers to keep relevant confidential information and trade secrets. Respect our employees, shareholders, business partners, customers, and suppliers, actively listen to their opinions, cherish their feedbacks, and treat them fairly.
We are committed to provide customers with high quality products and services. Our understanding of high quality is to meet or exceed customer expectations. We set clear policies and objectives on quality. Our pursuit of high quality is endless.
Fulfill corporate responsibilities, comply with laws, regulations and policies of the countries and regions where the business is located. We advocate social responsibility, environmental protection and other values that are beneficial to mankind. We strive to improve the community environment through our work and services.
We believe in the common value of mankind. Regardless of the area or the ethnicity of the population that our business involves with, we are respectful and tolerant of their traditional culture, values and beliefs. We shall understand, learn, and apply appropriately.
Through communication, consultation and inspection, we cultivate and enhance the sense of social responsibility of our suppliers. We strive to make all of our suppliers to establish an effective social responsibility management system and practice it systematically.
We promise to provide customers with standard, high quality, environmentally friendly products and services. We carry out the business with our environmental responsible attitude. We comply with laws, regulations and policies regarding the environment. Through implementing systematic environment, adopting health and safety policies, and actively promoting environmental improvement projects and service plans, we establish strict environmental management to practice our own commitments.
WONH has been practicing “green operation” since 2006. We take low-carbon and other environmental protection into our daily operations, and achieved effective improvements and measurable benefits.
We advocate nature temperature in our offices. Each office has its own air conditioner instead of a centralized air conditioner. The air conditioner only runs when the temperature is below 5 ℃ or more than 28 ℃.
We advocate natural light in our offices and public areas with voice and light control switch. Light switch in our standard office unit controls no more than three energy-saving lights. We try to reduce artificial light power as much as possible.
We advocate minimize office supply consumption. Paperless office platform was introduced in 2006. The approval of most of our internal processes are done electronically. The approval process is convenient and easy to file. We place PLM query terminal directly in the production site. It replaces all paper technical drawings. This change helped saving 1140 kgs of printing papers in one year. The saving is equivalent of 190 20 year old trees.
We promote reasonable usage of office supplies. The company developed an office supply approval system to minimize unnecessary consumption of office supplies. We focus on recycle uses like replace ink or recharge toners to promote “make the best use of” thinking.
We apply ISO14000 environment system certification standards. We established the environmental management committee to set energy-saving and emission reduction targets. We put these targets to each department’s annual performance evaluation for periodic assessment. When evaluating business profit, carbon dioxide emissions are also being measured. We encourage the use of fewer natural resources to have minimal environmental impact.
The environmental requirement of green low carbon is also being implemented by our alliance partners. We signed waste recycling agreements with qualified recycling company to ensure the process meet environmental requirements. Starting from 2011, we signed with our major supplies purchase agreements that emphasis on social responsibility and environmental production. The terms of the contract include compliance with labor condition, safety and health, environmental protection, no child labor, respect human rights and personality, proper management of chemical substances, etc.
We promote reasonable usage of office supplies. The company developed an office supply approval system to minimize unnecessary consumption of office supplies. We focus on recycle uses like replace ink or recharge toners to promote “make the best use of” thinking.
We purchase bulky and heavy raw materials from nearby supply sources to reduce carbon dioxide emission and fuel consumption due to long-distance transportation.