Sustainability Strategy and Impact
Sustainability Strategy
To achieve our vision as the Best DRAM Partner for Smart World, Nanya Technology has formulated three key pillars for sustainable strategic development: Creating Shared Value, Facilitating Common Good and Sustainability, and Practicing Sustainable Operations. These pillars drive six key dimensions for sustainable strategic development.
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 2024R&D and Innovation
- Second-generation 10nm-class DRAM process 8Gb DDR4 and 16Gb DDR5 product meet shipping verification standards
- Cultivated a total of ≧500 engineers with AI theories and development capabilities
- Completed a total of 134 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 96.5% and above
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Talent
An Employer Who Values Professional Talent
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 2024Human Rights
- No major deficiencies are found in external audits or labor inspections
- Workplace violence: 1 cases
- Employees' educational training on labor ethics completion rate: 100%
Talent Cultivation and Development
- Annual planned course completion rate: 161.5%
- Key talent as a percentage of all employees: 7.4%
- Internal employee substitution rate for job openings: 61.4%
Talent Retention and Employee Care
- Retention rate of key talent: 96%
- Voluntary turnover rate: 6.21%
- Employee Engagement Survey reached the average approval rate: 73%
Occupational Health and Safety
- Frequency of disabling injuries: 0.41
- Severity of disabling injuries: 5.0
- In-plant self-inspection rate: 96.3%
- 1,555 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 Producer via 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 2024Greenhouse Gas Management
- Scope 1+2 GHG emissions was reduced by 12.9% compared to 2020
- Scope 3 GHG emissions per unit product was reduced by 19.4 % 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 2024 reached 74,078 MWh
- Annual renewable energy use reached 35,230MWh
Water Management
- Accumulated water consumption per unit production capacity decreased 35.1% compared to 2017
- Production losses caused by restricted water supply: 0 wafer (slice)
Waste and Pollution Prevention
- 100% of auditing and coaching waste disposal contractors on-site
- 0 cases in violation of environmental laws and regulations
- Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) reduction 96.4%
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Responsible Procurement
A Promoter of Shared Values
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 2024Sustainable 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 Contributor 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 2024Social Engagement
- The total number of social engagement hours grew 22%
- Current number of volunteers ≧150 people
- Accumulated semiconductor talent currently cultivated 1,226 people
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Integrity and Transparency
A Company That Honors Its Commitments
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 2024Business Integrity
- Material violations of regulations: 0 case
- Corruption cases: 1 cases
- Violation of trade secrets 0 cases
Risk Management
- 4 quarterly meetings and reported to the Board of Directors 6 times
- Emergency response plan completion rate 72 items
- Implement 9 aspects of stress test
- Education and training: 100% of all employees
Customer Service
- Achieved a customer satisfaction score of 95.7
- Provided 1,032 customer platform parameter measurement services
- Conducted 27 customer product joint qualification services
- Held 96 technical sharing and training sessions
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
- 35.5% reduction in accumulated water consumption per unit production capacity since 2018 (compared to 2017)
- 0 wafers lost in production caused by restricted water supply
- Annual average process waste water recovery rate ≧52%
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Affordable and clean energy
- Total energy saved from energy conservation measures (since 2017) ≧75,000 MWh
- Renewable energy use in the entire year ≧45,000MWh
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Decent work and economic growth
- Percentage of employees that are key talents ≧7.5%
- Internal employee substitution rate for job openings ≧60%
- Retention rate of key talents ≧95%
- Voluntary turnover rate ≦6%
- Employee opinion survey reached the average approval rate ≧78%
- Frequency of disabling injuries <0.17
- Severity of disabling injuries <5.9
- Independent inspection rate >94%
- Maintaining a 100% completion rate for on-site Safety Walking and Talking (SWAT) improvement sessions for senior management
- 0 Occupational diseases caused by chemical exposures
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Industry innovation and infrastructure
- Third-generation 10nm-class DRAM process and 16Gb DDR5 product meet shipping verification standards
- Established high-performance production lines with AI-assistance and developed 150 intelligent systems
- Ratio of 20nm and other advanced processes ≧96%
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Reduced inequalities
- 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 ≧98%
- 0 violations of environmental laws and regulations cases
- 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
- 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
- Reduction rate of PFCs emissions from processes ≧93%
- 0 days production was suspended due climate change disasters
- 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
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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$ 136.8 billion socioeconomic contributions of value chainProcurement demand has driven the industry chain's development and created 2.85x 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 chainThe environmental impacts arising from supply and demand processes within the supply chain, as well as from the product use phase, highlight the importance of Nanya Technology's promotion of green supply chain management and its efforts to enhance product energy and material conservation to support human and social well-being.
Nanya sustainable impact valuation results
Green Product Design
As a critical part of the semiconductor industry chain, the DRAM industry's R&D and innovation in memory products directly impacts the performance and efficiency of computing devices. Nanya Technology has been long committed to the R&D, design, manufacturing, and sales of DRAM products. To fulfill technological development and market needs, Nanya Technology focuses on three main R&D sectors: manufacturing process shrinkage, product specification enhancement, and 3D stacked technology development, from which we aim to create green products.
