Sustainability Strategy and Impact
Sustainability Strategy
Nanya formulated three sustainable development themes – "Creating Shared Value," "Promoting Sustainable Mutual Prosperity," and "Achieving Sustainable Development" to drive the six aspects of sustainability strategies, in order to achieve the vision of becoming the "Best DRAM Partner for a Smart World."
Linking to SDGs and Nanya Sustainability Performance
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Innovation
The Best Partner for Our Customer
SDGsIn order to maintain competitive advantages, we will research and develop advanced process technologies, and design new products of the next generation. Moreover, we will make forward-looking market plans, provide customers high value-added solutions, and establish high intelligent product lines to enhance efficiency.
Sustainability Performance in 2023R&D and Innovation
- The second-generation 10nm DRAM process 8Gb DDR4 products' design is currently being improved.
- Completed design of second generation 10nm 16Gb DDR5 products and had pilot-run wafers outputs.
- Cultivated a total of 450 engineers with AI theories and development capabilities.
- Completed a total of 110 items for AI application development.
Green Products
- Complete product life cycle inventory on 100% of products.
- 100% of products conform to hazardous substance free regulations and customers' specifications
- 100% of materials contained zero perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) or related substances.
- Ratio of 20nm and other advanced processes accounted for 97.4% and above.
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Talent
An Attractive Employer for Professional Talents
SDGsAs a human-oriented company, we establish an advantageous training and development system, reinforcing our employees' core technological capabilities to achieve the Company's annual strategic goals, and cultivate outstanding high-tech semiconductor talent.
Sustainability Performance in 2023Human Rights
- No major deficiencies are found in external audits or labor inspections.
- Workplace violence: 2 cases (The measures are fully disclosed in 2023 Sustainability Report)
- Employees' educational training on labor ethics completion rate: 100%.
Talent Cultivation and Development
- Annual planned course completion rate: 122.7%
- Key talent as a percentage of all employees: 6.3%
- Internal employee substitution rate for job openings: 65.8%
- Received the TCSA Talent Development Leader Award
Talent Retention and Employee Care
- Retention rate of key talent: 98%
- Voluntary turnover rate: 4.58%
- Employee Engagement Survey reached the average approval rate: 75.3%
Occupational Health and Safety
- Frequency of disabling injuries: 0.41
- Severity of disabling injuries: 18
- In-plant self-inspection rate: 95.2%
- 1,215 cases of proposals engaging all employees for safety and health
- Occupational diseases caused by chemical exposures maintained at 0 cases
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Green
A Practitioner of Green Technology
SDGsWe will include climate change risks into overall considerations of operations, and predict the probability of risk occurrence and levels of influence. We will also formulate risk response and mitigation plans, and crisis handling mechanisms in order to issue warnings as early as possible to mitigate the impact of climate risks on our operations.
Sustainability Performance in 2023Greenhouse Gas Management
- Scope 1+2 GHG emissions was reduced by 8.4% compared to 2020
- Scope 3 GHG emissions per unit product was reduced by 20.4 % compared to 2020
- Reduction rate of PFCs emissions during process reaches 93%
- Number of days production was suspended due to climate change disasters maintained at 0 days
Energy Management
- Cumulative energy saved with energy conservation measures from 2017 to 2023 reached 68,565 MWh
- Annual renewable energy use reached 24,490MWh
Water Management
- Accumulated water consumption per unit production capacity decreased 37.5% compared to 2017
- Production losses caused by restricted water supply: 0 wafer (slice)
Waste and Pollution Prevention
- 98% of auditing and coaching waste disposal contractors on-site
- 0 cases in violation of environmental laws and regulations
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Responsible Procurement
A Promoter of Shared Value
SDGsWe will promote sustainable performance of suppliers, improve resilience of supply chains, manage and control supply chain risks, and cooperate with suppliers to become the best partners in order to jointly move towards a sustainable future.
Sustainability Performance in 2023Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Use 100% conflict-free minerals and responsibly procured minerals
- Completion of SAQ by significant suppliers: 100%
- 100% completion rate of deficiency improvements by suppliers with high sustainability risk in audits
- 100% of suppliers signing Supplier Code of Conduct
- 100% completion of audits and guidance for significant suppliers
- Implement 2 supplier sustainability guidance projects
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Common Good
An Active Participant in Giving Back to Society
SDGsBased on our core competencies and values, we gather internal resources, invest in diverse aspects, and cooperate with upstream and downstream partners to convey the power of beauty and benevolence, and help create a better society.
Sustainability Performance in 2023Social Engagement
- The total number of social engagement hours grew 18% compared to 2022
- Current number of volunteers: 105 people
- Accumulated semiconductor talent currently cultivated: 878 people
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Integrity and Transparency
A Trustworthy Company
SDGsWe will build a sound corporate governance system and implement various business ethics policies and risk management mechanisms between suppliers, customers, and stakeholders to maintain the important cornerstone of corporate sustainable operation and value creation.
Sustainability Performance in 2023Business Integrity
- Material violations of regulations: 0 case , Corruption cases: 1 cases (The measures are fully disclosed in 2023 Sustainability Report)
- Workplace violence: 2 cases(The measures are fully disclosed in 2023 Sustainability Report)
- Violation of trade secrets 0 cases
- Employees' antitrust training completion rate: 100%
Risk Management
- 4 quarterly meetings and reported to the Board of Directors 2 times
- Emergency response plan completion rate: 69 items
- Implement 9 aspects of stress test
- Education and training: 100% of all employees
2025 Sustainable Goals
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Quality education
- Annual planned course completion rate ≧100%
- Accumulative semiconductor talent cultivated (since 2021) ≧1,500 people
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Clean water and sanitation
- 40% reduction in accumulated water consumption per unit production capacity since 2018 (compared to 2017)
- Annual average process waste water recovery rate ≧92%
- 0 wafers lost in production caused by restricted water supply
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Affordable and clean energy
- Total energy saved from energy conservation measures (since 2017) ≧80,000 MWh
- Renewable energy use in the entire year ≧25,000MWh
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Decent work and economic growth
- Percentage of employees that are key talents ≧6%
- Internal employee substitution rate for job openings ≧65%
- Retention rate of key talents ≧98%
- Voluntary turnover rate ≦5%
- Employee opinion survey reached the average approval rate ≧80%
- Frequency of disabling injuries <0.17
- Severity of disabling injuries <5.9
- Independent inspection rate >94%
- Number of proposals engaging all employees for safety and health >1,800 cases
- 0 Occupational diseases caused by chemical exposures
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Industry innovation and infrastructure
- Introduce 10nm technology into mass production
- Established high-performance production lines with AI-assistance and developed 150 intelligent systems
- Ratio of 20nm and other advanced processes ≧90%
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Reduced inequalities
- Percentage of females to all supervisors ≧40%
- 100% employees that received training on human rights policies and procedures
- No major deficiencies from external audits or labor inspections
- 0 Unlawful workplace harassment cases
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Responsible consumption and production
- Rate of auditing and coaching waste disposal contractors on-site >90%
- 0 violations of environmental laws and regulations cases
- 46% reduction in VOC emissions per unit production capacity (compared to 2017)
- 100% critical suppliers complete SAQ
- 100% high risk suppliers complete deficiency improvement
- 100% suppliers sign the Supplier Code of Conduct
- 100% auditing and counseling Critical suppliers
- Create at least 2 or more supplier sustainability counseling cases in a year
- 100% completion of audits and guidance for significant suppliers (a round of three-year)
- Implement at least 2 supplier sustainability guidance projects
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Climate action
- 100% products that conform to hazardous substance free regulations and customers' specifications
- 100% products that completed the product life cycle inventory
- 100% raw materials that do not contain PFOA related substances
- 40% reduction in GHG emissions per unit production capacity (compared to 2017)
- Reduction rate of PFCs emissions from processes ≧93%
- 40% reduction in PFCs emissions per unit production capacity (compared to 2015)
- 0 days production was suspended due climate change disasters
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Peace justice and strong institutions
- 100% non-conflict minerals used in wafer product lines
- 0 Material violations of regulations cases
- 0 Corruption cases
- 0 Violation of employee and labor ethics cases
- 0 Antitrust cases
- 0 Violation of trade secrets cases
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Partnerships for the goals
- Annual growth of resources invested in social engagement (person-hours) ≧10%
- Volunteers in the service team as a percentage of total employees ≧ 5%
Sustainable Impact
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NT$ 162.1 billion socioeconomic contributions of value chainProcurement demand has driven the industry chain's development and created 3x the economic value; sales of DRAM products created 1.85x the output value in customers' industries.
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90% environmental external cost comes from upstream and downstream in the value chainFrom an environmental perspective, the environmental footprint in the upstream supply chain and downstream product sales is greater than own operations, showing the importance of Nanya's green supply chain management and product energy and material conservation on the well-being of society.
Nanya sustainable impact valuation results
Eco-Friendly Product Environmental Influence
The energy consumption of electronic products in use is one of the most significant indicators of environmental impacts. Nanya is dedicated to research and develop advance and highly efficient eco-friendly products to assist consumers in lowering energy consumption and reducing carbon emissions during the usage of products. Compared with current mainstream memory, new generation memory possesses faster transmission efficiency while saving energy due to lower operating voltages.
