Sustainability

Companies within LTG constantly review their operations and how to minimize the impact on the environment, to ensure that its needs are met without compromising the needs of future generations.

Asia Brewery, Inc.

Work and Life Balance

The company had various activities to promote a healthy work and life balance.

Renewable Energy

Mr. Michael G, Tan (left), President and COO of Asia Brewery, Inc. (ABI) and Mr. Bernd Krukenberg (right), President and COO of Shell Energy Philippines, Inc. (Shell) signed a contract for the supply of 1SMW of renewable energy for ABI’s plants in Luzon on July 26. The renewable energy will be from solar, geothermal and hydro sources.

TotalEnergies ENEOS Signs a Solar Rooftop Project for Asia Brewery, a Major Player in the Philippines’ Beverage and Industrial Packaging Industry

Reduction in Residual Waste for Hauling

At the glass plant in Sta. Rosa, Laguna, ferrous metal was segregated from residual waste to decrease the number of hauling trips and eventually reduce the cost of hauling. This resulted in savings of Php 460K in 2022.

Eton Properties Philippines, Inc.

Safety Seal for Eton Centris, BPO Office Buildings

Eton Centris in Quezon City received its certification in August 2021. The Eton Centris
Cyberpod 1 and 2 buildings also got safety seals.

Flexible Lease Terms for Tenants at Eton Centris During the Pandemic

Eton supported micro retailers by offering smaller and flexible commercial spaces to complement tenants’ e-commerce strategies. The Company also gave regular tenants a 25% discount on their leases.

Philippine National Bank

Financing Green and Sustainable Businesses and Projects

PNB provides financing or support for sustainable businesses and projects such as food manufacturing, agricultural production, water distribution and supply, energy generation and distribution, construction and operation of tolls roads and bridges, telecommunications infrastructure, responsible packaging, construction of green buildings and health facilities that promote nation building and countryside development.

The Bank continues to provide support for environmentally-compliant projects such as: Operation of Toll Roads and Bridges; Generation and Distribution of Power and Water; Construction of Green or LEED buildings and infrastructure; and Real Estate Development.

As of the end of 2022, the Bank had an outstanding
balance of such loans amounting to Php289 billion.

Digital Innovation and Transformation

PNB continues to work towards automating its operations. These include:

• Automating bank forms

• Encouraging customers to shift to e-SOA (Statements Of Accounts)

• Migrating existing customers to the Bank’s digital channels

• Improving its mobile banking offering, the PNB Digital, with enhanced security features, expanded payment and disbursement capabilities, and access to more products to provide a better mobile banking experience for its customers.

• Continuing to boost awareness, enrollment, and usage of the digital banking app in a paperless way, extensively using the Bank’s digital media assets (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, email, SMS) to promote the mobile app to PNB’s prospective and existing clients.

• Introducing the PNB Cashnet Plus mobile app, the Bank’s corporate internet platform, which promises a more efficient method of conducting online business transactions.

As of December 2022, the Bank had a 349% increase in new enrolments in its digital platforms—PNB Digital and Account Access Portal, compared to end-2021.

Recognition of Employees’ Excellence

Employees were recognized through different activities,
including:

• Living Our Values Everyday (L.O.V.E.) is releasedat least once a week to showcase stories of
actual events/activities/acts of employees
• Celebrate LOVE at Work is a month-long Valentine’s Day celebration with activities impacting on building relationships, creating memories, reconnecting with clients and colleagues, while raising funds for employees in need, and even promoting PNB products and services to employees.
• Hybrid Service Excellence Awards and Recognition Night to recognize loyal employee awardees, as well as employees who have gone above and beyond their line of work
• What Outstanding Work! (WOW!) Award
• Circle of Excellence Award where 432 people were
recognized.

PMFTC Inc.

Reduction of CO2 Emission: Equipment Efficiency in the Batangas Factory

• An optimizer for the entire compressed air system was installed which will control the loading and unloading of all 8 units of air compressors. It will automatically balance all the demand versus the capacity. This will result in USD38K per year.

• Improvements were made to the Miura Boiler Operations by adjusting the boiler matrix run, to optimize the set pressure based on the running loads. This will result in a reduction of 1,300 kgs of CO2 emissions and USD61K savings per year.

• Converted the exterior lighting of high-pressure sodium and metal halide lamps which have 400W lights to 120W LED high-efficiency lamps, which translated to savings of USD7.2K per year

• It was seen that the cooling process in the flash tower drier was unnecessary as it was not required to cool the entire room. It was consuming 131,000 kWh a year for this cooling process. The removal of this cooling process translated to savings of USD12.96K per year.

Alliance for Water Stewardship at the Batangas Factory

The Batangas Factory continuously commits and delivers projects and engagements with the community and stakeholders to drive the water sustainability goal of AWS. We were once again recertified after the first surveillance audit held last October 4 to 6, 2022, with zero non-conformities.

Moreover, the Contributions and Sustainability Team commits to helping increase the resilience of ecosystems, minimize climate change effects, and involve employees to increase their awareness of the changing conditions of our environment. Seventy employees, contractors, and community volunteers planted 250 tree saplings.

In response to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources’ request for private companies to help speed up the arsenic contamination detection at groundwater sources possibly affected by Taal Volcano eruption, PMFTC donated three units of Digital Arsenators on September 20, 2022, to help with the early detection of arsenic chemical on groundwater sources within the TVPL PAMO. Initial findings reached 40-70 parts per billion of arsenic versus the allowable safe level of 10 parts per billion.

At the “Walking to a Trash Free Philippines” events on September 14 and 17, where global leaders, together with PMFTC volunteers and contractors, were able to collect 888.9 kgs of various wastes.

A trash trap was installed at the major tributary of the San Juan river on August 9, 2022, located in Barangay Santiago, Sto. Tomas City.

In celebration of Global Handwashing day, with the help of NGO partners, PMFTC was able to donate 6 handwashing stations, with 60 faucets benefitting 4,306 pupils of 6 elementary schools at Tanauan City and Sto.Tomas City.

Alliance for Water Stewardship at the Marikina Factory

Marikina Factory underwent a certification audit to provide assurance to external and internal stakeholders that our claims of good water stewardship. The certification audit was done remotely and onsite on November 8 to 10, 2022.

Tanduay Distillers, Inc.

Solar Power Plant

The 2-megawatt solar power plant in the Absolut Distillers plant in Lian, Batangas generated 2,457,173 kilowatt-hours in 2021.

Organic Liquid Fertilizer Donated to Farmers

The Company continued to haul and donate fertilizer from distillery effluent to farmers in the Batangas area.

Creek Clean-Up

On December 3, 2022, TDI Murcia conducted a creek clean-up at Cabungan-an Creek. TDI – Negros plant personnel collected almost 10 kilograms of biodegradable, non biodegradable, recyclable, and residual wastes.

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