Business Activities

CROWN Beverage Cans Hong Kong Ltd.
This joint venture between Swire Pacific (44.6%) and Crown Holdings Inc. of the USA (55.4%) is the holding company for Swire's two-piece aluminium beverage can production interests in Mainland China.

Akzo Nobel Swire Paints Ltd.
In 1990, Swire Duro's paint manufacturing and marketing business in Hong Kong merged with one of the world's largest and most renowned paint producers, ICI, to form ICI Swire Paints Ltd which was then renamed as Akzo Nobel Swire Paints Ltd after the completion of the acquisition of ICI by AkzoNobel in 2008. The business is now an industry-leader in Hong Kong, with Swire Pacific holding 40% of the joint venture.

Swire SITA Waste Services Ltd.
Swire SITA specialises in long-term environmental contracts and is a 50:50 joint venture between Swire Pacific and Suez Environment of France - a part of the Suez group. The company operates in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and Mainland China and works closely with local authorities on strategic environmental initiatives. These involve waste treatment, cleansing and recycling - all supported by modern technology and advanced techniques.

In Hong Kong, Swire SITA is a major specialist contractor to the SAR Government's Environmental Protection Department (EPD) for the design, construction and operation of key waste management facilities. These include Hong Kong's two stateof- the-art mega landfills: the West New Territories (WENT) and North East New Territories (NENT) landfills. WENT, with a total designed void space of 65 million cubic metres, is one of the largest landfills of its kind in the world. NENT, a joint venture with New World Infrastructure, has a total capacity of 35 million cubic metres.

In June 2003, a 25-year agreement was signed between Far East Landfill Technologies, a subsidiary of Swire SITA, and local gas supplier, Hong Kong and China Gas Co. Ltd. (Towngas) for the development of a landfill gas treatment system at the NENT landfill site and the construction of a 19-kilometre pipeline to transmit compressed, treated surplus LFG to the Towngas plant in Tai Po. The system came on stream in early 2008. In what is one of the largest “green” energy recovery and reuse programmes in the world, this initiative will reduce the emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by an estimated 135,000 metric tonnes, as well as helping to conserve fossil fuels.

Under various agreements with the EPD, Swire SITA has designed, constructed and now operates 11 refuse transfer stations around Hong Kong, including the Island East and Island West facilities and several additional Outlying Island facilities. Most of these facilities have been designed to function in spatially restrictive and environmentally sensitive urban locations. Containerised, compacted waste from a number of these stations is transported by sea on purpose-built vessels managed by HUD Marine.

The company also manages six closed landfills, and is implementing restoration programmes that include capping, re-profiling and restructuring, to ensure that they are fully contained and will pose no further hazard to the environment in the years to come.

At street level, Swire SITA's subsidiary Waylung Waste Services provides solid and liquid waste collection services throughout Hong Kong. In neighbouring Macao, subsidiary CSR, which has a workforce of more than 400, handles all municipal waste collection and street cleansing services under a long-term contract with the Government. CSR has designed, built and now operates a hazardous waste treatment centre for the Government of Macao.

In Hong Kong, Swire SITA is involved in a number of schemes to minimise and reuse waste, such as the recycling of household appliances at Yuen Long in the New Territories. In Macao, in addition to collecting recycled materials, CSR visits schools and public events to promote the benefits of waste minimisation and recycling.

A composting plant at Sha Ling, designed and operated by Waylung under EPD contract, turns livestock waste collected from local farmers into garden compost for landscaping use.

Taikoo Sugar Ltd.
Established in 1881, Taikoo Sugar markets premium sugar products under the Taikoo brand, and is the market leader in Hong Kong's retail and catering sectors. Taikoo supplies bulk sugar products, and branded and private label single-service sachets of sugar, salt, pepper and tea to many of Hong Kong's leading hotels, restaurants, and fast-food outlets. Taikoo is the major sugar importer and leading supplier to the majority of industrial users in Hong Kong. The company also has a well-established export business, and currently markets branded sugar products in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and North America.

Mainland China

Swire Environmental Services Ltd.
Swire Environmental Services Ltd. (SES) has been established to develop, invest in and operate large-scale, long-term infrastructure projects to provide water, wastewater and other environmental-related services to industrial and municipal customers in mainland Chinese cities. The company aims to deliver tailor-made solutions, which combine industry best practice with the application of appropriate technology in order to meet the specific needs of customers and clients locally.

Taikoo (Guangzhou) Sugar Ltd.
Taikoo Sugar operates a wholly owned sugar packaging plant in Guangzhou, and markets premium packaged sugar products in Mainland China. Taikoo is the only dominant national foreign brand in the category, and enjoys high consumer recognition. Taikoo is also the leading sugar supplier to the catering market, and serves many leading hotels, restaurants and fast food outlets in Mainland China.

ICI Swire Paints (China) Ltd. (AkzoNobel has acquired ICI in 2008)
Swire Pacific has a 36% shareholding in this joint venture paint production facility in the Guangzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone. The company manufactures a wide range of solvent-borne and water-borne paints.

ICI Swire Paints (Shanghai) Ltd. (AkzoNobel has acquired ICI in 2008)
Akzo Nobel Swire's second Mainland paint production plant opened in 1998. Swire has a 30% shareholding in this company, which produces water-based paints in the Songjjang Industrial Zone, to the west of Shanghai, and has a production capacity of 35 million litres a year.

Akzo Nobel Swire Paints' plants in Guangzhou and Shanghai service the Mainland with a wide range of products. Innovative products like 'Five-in-One', wood-care and high performance coatings have been well received by the market. A wide distribution network, supported by focused brand building, is keeping business growth at a healthy level, resulting in increasing market share.

CROWN Beverage Cans Beijing Ltd.
This company is a joint venture between CROWN Beverage Cans Hong Kong Ltd. (92.7%) and Beijing Shunyi County Zhangxizhuang Agricultural Industry & Commerce Corp. (7.3%). It operates an aluminium beverage can manufacturing plant at the Airport Industry Zone in Shunyi County.

CROWN Beverage Cans Huizhou Ltd.
Formed in 1995, CROWN Beverage Cans Huizhou Ltd. is a 99%-owned subsidiary of CROWN Beverage Cans Hong Kong Ltd. The company manufactures two-piece aluminium beverage cans and ends at Huizhou in Guangdong Province.

CROWN Beverage Cans Shanghai Ltd.
This company is a joint venture between CROWN Beverage Cans Hong Kong Ltd. (60%) and Shanghai Maling Aquarius (Group) Co. Ltd. (24%) and Shanghai Foods Industrial Investment Co. Ltd. (16%). It operates an aluminium beverage can and end manufacturing plant in the Shanghai Jinqiao Export Processing Zone.

Foshan Continental Can Co. Ltd.
Foshan Crown Easy Opening End Co. Ltd.
CROWN Beverage Cans Hong Kong Ltd. has a 50% shareholding in these two companies in a joint venture with Foshan Can Factory.

SCIP Swire SITA Waste Services Co. Ltd.
In Shanghai, Swire SITA has entered into a joint venture with the Shanghai Chemical Industrial Park (SCIP) to build Mainland China's largest and most sophisticated chemical waste incinerator. With a capacity of 60,000 tonnes a year, the plant will serve mainly multinational clients such as BASF, Huntsman and Bayer. It started operations in 2006.

Taiwan

Swire SITA (Taiwan) Co. Ltd.
This business operates the Ren-Wu energy-from-waste facility in Kaohsiung County, an advanced treatment centre capable of processing up to 1,200 tonnes of municipal and industrial waste daily. The incinerator is fitted with the latest pollution control and energy recovery facilities.

Vietnam

CROWN Beverage Cans Hanoi Ltd.
This company, located in the north of Vietnam, is a joint venture between Swire Pacific (38%), Crown Holdings Inc. of the USA and two Vietnamese companies, Vietnam National Foodstuffs Import & Export Corp and Union Foodstuffs Co.

Its production facility is capable of producing two-piece aluminium beverage cans of 330 ml, 355 ml and 250 ml sizes. The company has recently successfully converted international brands from three-piece steel to two-piece aluminium cans.