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Inzign partnered with Singapore’s leading manufacturing Environmental Review
technology research institute SIMTech, in 2014 to serve
the fast-growing lab-on-chip / microfluidic industry. This During our environmental review with Inzign’s Operation
partnership has allowed Inzign to expand its design and manager and Facility Supervisor, we explored the
development capabilities with technologies developed following areas for consideration:
by SIMTech.
Objective 1. Operational procedures: records and
documentation from paper to paperless;
Our objective for the environmental review was to 2. Waste reduction, recycling, and reuse;
learn and understand what we can do to reduce carbon 3. Energy Savings.
emissions and propose eco-solutions into Inzign business
practices, as shown in Figure 4. Our findings were based on the implementation of the
Checklist in Annex A, and other considerations were
summarised as follows:

Operational procedures: records and
documentation from paper to paperless

We checked with the company on how much paper
it uses and which part of its process utilises the most
paper during the review.

Inzign’s Operation Manager shared with us that with the

Figure 4: Production work of Inzign. number of orders the company has from companies.
Invoicing and delivery take up a high percentage of
paper printing.

Waste Reduction, Reuse and Recycling

Inzign uses raw materials shipped from overseas,
including large amounts of packaging materials, such
as carton boxes, bubble wraps, and plastic sheets, as
shown in Figure 5.

Figure 5: Leftover packaging materials.

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