2025 BNI Taiwan International Conference BEYOND | Low-Carbon Circular Exhibition

2025 BNI Taiwan International Conference · Key Visual × Sustainable Exhibition

A conference of thousands used to leave truckloads of waste behind.
At BEYOND, we brought it down to a single crate.

See the Carbon Data → How the Fabric Lives On

2025 BNI Taiwan · BEYOND
ChiHe Design

The Concept · BEYOND

Thousands of entrepreneurs from 31 regions across Taiwan, one flagship event.
The visuals and the venue had to carry that stature.

The 2025 BNI Taiwan International Conference took BEYOND as its theme. ChiHe built the visual language around the Yushan mountain range, the Taiwan blue magpie, and native butterflies, turning the conference into more than a showcase of results: a brand statement of Taiwan stepping onto the global business stage. Sustainable exhibition design was built in from the start, so that going beyond also shows in the carbon numbers.

The Pain

The grandeur of a major conference usually equals a mountain of single-use waste.

At a business conference of thousands, the main backdrop walls, entrance features, and wayfinding fill the entire venue. The conventional approach covers it all in large-format PVC laminate prints on composite board, and the moment the event ends, clearing the waste takes truck after truck. The grander the occasion, the bigger the pile on teardown day.

The Answer

Pack the whole venue into crates with a re-shippable dye-sublimation stretch fabric system.

ChiHe replaced PVC laminate and backing board with modular, re-shippable dye-sublimation stretch fabric, redesigning the backdrop walls, brand features, and banners from the ground up. Teardown no longer needs multiple truck runs: a few crates were enough to recover everything. This is a low-carbon exhibition model any chapter in the world can replicate.

Reducing waste is where business civilization begins; cutting carbon together is a new height for BNI's growth.

Sustainable Event Design

From key visual to venue, one complete sustainable design strategy.

Visuals that tell the story, materials that circulate, teardown without the burden. ESG moves from organizational culture to a measurable result on the conference floor.

Yushan Visual System

Peak Identity

A mountain peak anchors the identity, woven together with the Yushan range, the Taiwan blue magpie, and native butterflies. The A in BEYOND is rebuilt as a peak, in one identity system extending to wayfinding, stage, certificates, and merchandise.

Circular Fabric Exhibition

Reusable Fabric System

Modular, reusable dye-sublimation stretch fabric fully replaces PVC laminate film and composite board, avoiding one-off carpentry and large-format prints. The fabric dismounts, ships, and installs again.

Teardown in One Crate

One Box to Clear

Modular design cuts teardown waste dramatically. What once took multiple truck runs to clear was recovered this time in just a few crates, a low-carbon template that can be replicated at major business events in any city.

Carbon Proof

The measured carbon saving of replacing conventional PVC output with dye-sublimation fabric

Assessed by ChiHe, the project's sustainability and carbon data partner: this edition's exhibition walls totaled 3,608 tsai (approx. 331 m²) of display output. With conventional PVC prints and composite board, the carbon footprint would be about 651.27 kgCO₂e; with the dye-sublimation stretch fabric solution, it drops to about 405.9 kgCO₂e.

Conventional PVC prints + composite board

651

kgCO₂e footprint

→

Dye-sublimation stretch fabric

406

kgCO₂e footprint

↓ ~37%

Lower exhibition-build footprint · ~245 kgCO₂e avoided

≈ 20 treesone year of carbon uptake

≈ 1,200 kmof car travel avoided

LCA methodology · Reusable dye-sublimation fabric GRI 301 Materials GRI 306 Waste Low-Carbon Exhibition Model

Carbon figures were estimated by ChiHe Design using secondary data from Taiwan's Product Carbon Footprint Information Platform, based on 3,608 tsai (approx. 331 m²) of exhibition walls. Tree and mileage equivalences are illustrative; actual results vary with each installation.

SDGs · Sustainable Development Goals

The UN Sustainable Development Goals this project advances

From fabric materials and low-carbon production to business-community collaboration, this project maps to the following three UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and ProductionReusable dye-sublimation fabric replaces single-use PVC prints, cutting exhibition waste at the source.

SDG 13 Climate ActionAbout 37% less carbon for this edition's exhibition walls (651→406 kgCO₂e), a quantified climate contribution.

SDG 17 Partnerships for the GoalsChiHe × BNI chapters co-created a low-carbon exhibition model, a replicable form of business-community collaboration.

Tied to the Future: limited-edition 2026 bow ties remade from the exhibition fabric

Aesthetic Circularity

The 2025 key-visual fabric, reborn as 2026's limited-edition bow ties.

A closed loop, not a slogan. The dye-sublimation stretch fabric printed with the BEYOND key visual never went to the garbage truck. After the conference it was remade into limited-edition bow ties for the following year's event.
The moment lives on. This year's stage visual becomes next year's bow tie, worn by members, so the memory of one event is carried forward, and worn.
2025 → 2026, circularity proven. The same batch of material spans two editions of the conference. That is circular economy made real, not a single-event carbon claim.
A replicable low-carbon model. From key visual to exhibition fabric to regenerated products, the whole workflow can be rolled out to major business events in any city.

Thousands of entrepreneurs from 31 regions across Taiwan, one flagship event.
The visuals and the venue had to carry that stature.

The grandeur of a major conference usually equals a mountain of single-use waste.

Pack the whole venue into crates with a re-shippable dye-sublimation stretch fabric system.