UMC Selected as a DJSI Global Component for 10th Consecutive Year
2017年9月7日 - 06:00PM
ビジネスワイヤ(英語)
United Microelectronics Corporation (NYSE:UMC; TWSE:2303)
("UMC"), a leading global semiconductor foundry, today announced
that Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) has selected UMC as a
global component for the 10th consecutive year. DJSI awarded UMC
with the industry’s highest scores for “Environmental Policy &
Management System” and “Environmental Report,” with the foundry
earning perfect scores in multiple other categories. UMC’s overall
scores have continued to increase in recent years, illustrating the
company's continued excellence in sustainable operations. This
accomplishment sets a standard for leading global companies and is
recognized by international investors. DJSI-World 2017 evaluated
approximately 2,500 global enterprises, with only five
semiconductor companies selected worldwide.
SC Chien, president at UMC, said, "Being listed as a DJSI global
component for the 10th consecutive year highlights UMC’s success in
integrating sustainable development practices into our core foundry
business. Our company’s vision is based on being people-oriented,
co-existence with the environment and societal co-prosperity. We
use this foundation as the basis to develop risk and opportunity
plans for sustainable development and implement them into practical
action to increase our competitiveness. UMC also follows the United
Nations set of 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) to continue
advancing our wafer processing solutions to play a critical role in
enhancing today’s digital world. With the help of all UMC
employees, we successfully reached our ‘Green 2020’ goal for energy
saving, water and waste reduction within the first year of setting
the target. In addition, UMC created the industry’s first ‘Green
Award’ to bring together outstanding programs and ideas through the
selection of eco-conservation proposals for award consideration.
This award facilitates society’s involvement in contributing
positive ideas to help better the environment. We have also set up
an ‘energy saving volunteer team’ to provide energy-saving and
carbon reduction services for the underprivileged and maximize
enterprise resource productivity in order to actively address the
problem of global warming. In the future, we hope partner with all
stakeholders to work together for a sustainable future.”
Dow Jones Sustainability Indices was launched jointly by Dow
Jones Index, STOXX and Sustainable Asset Management (SAM) in 1999.
DJSI is the first index that traces social responsibility
performance of leading-edge enterprises, and is also one of the
most creditable evaluation tools for reviewing sustainability
worldwide. The Dow Jones Sustainability World Index and respective
subsets track the performance of the top 10% of the 2500 largest
companies in the S&P Global Broad Market IndexSM that lead the
field in terms of sustainability. In addition to the DJSI honors,
UMC also won 2017’s corporate social responsibility award from
Global Views Magazine and corporate citizenship award from
CommonWealth Magazine.
About UMC
UMC (NYSE: UMC, TWSE: 2303) is a leading global semiconductor
foundry that provides advanced IC production for applications
spanning every major sector of the electronics industry. UMC’s
comprehensive foundry solutions enable chip designers to leverage
the company’s sophisticated technology and manufacturing, which
include high volume 28nm High-K/Metal Gate technology, 14nm FinFET
mass production, ultra-low power platform processes specifically
developed for Internet of Things (IoT) applications and the
automotive industry’s highest-rated AEC-Q100 Grade-0 manufacturing
capabilities for the production of ICs found in vehicles. UMC’s 11
wafer fabs are strategically located throughout Asia and are able
to produce nearly 600,000 wafers per month. The company employs
over 19,000 people worldwide, with offices in Taiwan, China,
Europe, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and the United States. UMC can be
found on the web at http://www.umc.com.
Note from UMC Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
Some of the statements in the foregoing announcement are
forward-looking within the meaning of the U.S. Federal Securities
laws, including statements about introduction of new services and
technologies, future outsourcing, competition, wafer capacity,
business relationships and market conditions. Investors are
cautioned that actual events and results could differ materially
from these statements as a result of a variety of factors,
including conditions in the overall semiconductor market and
economy; acceptance and demand for products from UMC; and
technological and development risks. Further information regarding
these and other risks is included in UMC’s filings with the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission. UMC does not undertake any
obligation to update any forward-looking statement as a result of
new information, future events or otherwise, except as required
under applicable law.
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