Creating Shared Value IRPC is committed to creating shared value with communities and the society at large through various projects focusing on improving the quality of life of communities, promoting education, enhancing public health, and conserving natural resources and the environment. The Company believes business, communities and the society can grow together. We are confident that with improved standard of living communities and society will come to appreciate our sustainable business approach by undertaking the following strategy: Promote CSR to create Social Impact Build good relationships with all stakeholder groups through effective Engagement and Community Communication CSR Projects In 2021, IRPC implemented projects aimed at creating value for communities surrounding the company’s industrial zone and the society at large. These included: IRPC Prostheses Project Objectives 1. To create sustainable social benefits capitalizing on the Company’s business operations in bringing together products of high-quality standard, innovations, and personnel knowledge base to create prosthetic legs and prostheses parts free of charge 2. To enhance the quality of life of amputees 3. To create social and business innovations through the Company’s CSR project 4. To help support the society and public sector in caring for many amputees 5. To advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Article 10, Reduced Inequalities IRPC donated Polypropylene (PP) plastic pellets to the Prosthetic Leg Foundation under the patronage of the late HRH Princess Mother for the production of prosthetic legs and prostheses parts for the amputees to improve their quality of life under the Creating Shared Value (CSV) approach. In so doing, the Company was able to use its commercial products for the benefits of the amputees, creating shared value in the process. The project has been ongoing since 2011. IRPC donated about 20 tons of Polypropylene to the foundation each year. IRPC’s plastic pellet products have been delivered for the production of prosthetic legs at the head office of the Prostheses Foundation in Chiang Mai for distribution not only throughout Thailand but also to neighboring countries, such as Malaysia, Myanmar, and Cambodia. The foundation’s prosthetic leg production facilities at 94 hospitals in all parts of Thailand have also received donated plastic pellets from the company. So have the prosthetic leg production workshops that the Prostheses Foundation helped set up at military hospitals in Burundi, Senegal, where many people had been amputated following political unrest, and in Indonesia’s Banda Aceh hard hit by a tsunami many years ago. Between 2011 and 2021 (as of September 30, 2021), a total of 32,632 prosthetic legs were produced using the Company’s plastic pellet products. 140 IRPC PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED 56-1 ONE REPORT 2021
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