GlobalWafers, the third largest semiconductor wafer manufacturer in the world, is one of the founding members of SEMI Global Semiconductor Climate Consortium (SCC, Semiconductor Climate Consortium). This year, GlobalWafers once again collaborated with SEMI to honor and celebrate the Earth Day (4/22), echoing the global theme for Earth Day 2024: ‘Planet vs. Plastics’. To raise the employees’ awareness of environmental sustainability, GlobalWafers promotes the ‘Planet vs. Plastics’ environmental action and provides 54 specific green proposals to our employees, such as bringing their own eco-friendly tableware, utilizing electronic documents to reduce paper printing, etc., encouraging the employees to take actions on reducing plastics and carbon emissions in their daily lives.
In the meantime, GlobalWafers remains attentive to the issues regarding climate change. In addition to actively considering implementing SBTi (Science Based Targets initiative), GlobalWafers is also committed to formulating future energy blueprints and achieving carbon reduction goals in manufacturing processes, renewable energy use, and operational strategies. GlobalWafers announced in 2021 that the Group will endeavor to meet the goal of using 100% renewable energy by 2050. In 2022, GlobalWafers officially joined the RE100 initiative, setting up its milestones for the proportion of renewable energy usage in each stage as 20% by 2030, 35% by 2035, 50% by 2040, and 100% by 2050. GlobalWafers’ strategies include reducing electricity consumption for existing equipment and actively optimizing the usage efficiency of major energy-consuming equipment in its daily operations; besides, in terms of its future energy blueprint, GlobalWafers expands on existing solar energy plants, builds new plants by signing into Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) and purchasing Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), and increases its green energy usage ratio by leveraging the abundant experience and advantages of the vertically integrated supply chain of its parent company, Sino-American Silicon Products Inc., a green energy total solution provider. GlobalWafers’ Danish site, Topsil, is poised to become the first semiconductor crystal manufacturing site to utilize its own installed 100% green electricity during 2H of 2024. By constructing a new solar park with an estimated capacity of 10.2MW, the power plant is expected to generate 9,500,000 kWh per year. Accordingly, Topsil is set to produce more electricity than it consumes, marking a significant milestone in GlobalWafers’ green manufacturing process. GlobalWafers will continue to join with the supply chain in semiconductor industry to contribute efforts towards a future of net-zero carbon emissions.
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