Mausu Enterprise Co., Ltd. has created a closed recycling system that transforms wafer cassettes into a variety of different products, and is offering them to many different industries through a leasing service.
The semiconductor industry produces and discards a large quantity of wafer cassettes annually. These wafer cassettes are high-quality and made from excellent materials, which translates to tremendous waste if they are simply discarded after use.
Cross-industry Collaboration to Establish a Recycling System
Mausu Enterprise Co., Ltd. collaborated with many semiconductor plants in Taiwan to collect their wafer cassettes, made of different materials and in different sizes, and established a recycling system. The wafer cassettes are separated and recycled, with the recycled plastic pellets being used to develop many of the company’s own products. These include recycled display cabinets, cat trees for pet cats, partitions for epidemic prevention, shelving for market stalls, and reusable boxes for online shopping.
Leasing and Take-bake System to Ensure Maximized Resource Utilization
Mausu Enterprise Co., Ltd. created the brand Mangodan (a pun on “no need to wait” in Taiwanese) to lease and take-back products such as display cabinets, partitions for epidemic prevention, market stalls, and reusable boxes for online shopping, thereby ensuring that these products will be used over and over again. This model has been adopted by exhibition event operators, chain restaurant brands, and e-commerce vendors to reduce the volume of waste from single-use disposables.
Benefits
- Recycling 250,000 wafer cassettes every year and producing 2,000 tons of recycled plastic, which has become the main source of raw materials for Mangodan products.
- Increased the resource efficiency 30-fold [1].
- The cumulative carbon emissions from serving customers total approximately 710 kg CO2e, representing a reduction of 433,381 kg CO2e compared to traditional manufacturing and sales.
[1]Since its launch in 2019 until May 2024, Mangodan has served thousands of customers. If these demands were met through conventional manufacturing and sales, it would require approximately 450,000 kilograms of plastic and 230,000 kilograms of aluminum resources. In contrast, by opting for a leasing model, Mangodan only utilized 15,000 kilograms of plastic and 800 kilograms of aluminum pillars to fulfill customer needs. This approach represents a significant increase in resource efficiency, equivalent to a 30-fold reduction in resource consumption.