Semiconductor Manufacturer, UMC, Obtains Cleaner Production Certification for Taiwan Manufacturing Facilities

United Microelectronics Corporation, announced today that all eight of its Taiwan-based fabs have passed the Cleaner Production Assessment Method Evaluation conducted by the Industrial Development Bureau (IDB) of the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOE).

With this certification, UMC becomes the only semiconductor manufacturer in Taiwan to obtain cleaner production certification for all its local manufacturing facilities. Fabs 8A and 12A earned the Green Factory Mark in November 2012, while Fabs 6A, 8C, 8D, 8E, 8F, and 8S recently followed with their own green certifications.

According to Po-wen Yen, UMC CEO and head of the company's Corporate Sustainability committee, "Green production and environmental protection are core concepts for UMC to realize sustainable operations, and serve as a pillar for us to better support customers. Since the initial planning of UMC's cleaner production assessment system, we have aggressively helped the government to establish related systems and continuously realized them in practice, illustrated by UMC's fabs successfully obtaining cleaner production certification. Of particular note is Fab 6A, which has been operating for a quarter century and passed this demanding certification only after continuous improvement efforts, thus showing our determination to pursue excellence. These results also prove our ability to help customers produce green products with cleaner processes that meet environmental protection and sustainable development standards."

UMC integrates environmental protection, energy saving, and carbon reduction with the company's process, product, and service strategies. Internally, it has established indicators that covers energy and water saving, waste reduction, and low carbon, with inter-fab competitions held to enhance efficiency and continuously improve. In the future, UMC will implement green building design and cleaner production management for all its new fabs to provide customers with solid technical and environmental protection support when manufacturing their products.