Providing leading-edge semiconductor devices from environmentally considerate factories

Sony Semiconductor Kyushu Corporation, which is the principle production site of the Sony Semiconductor Business Group, has, over many years, continued to strive to realize the Sony Group's environmental vision through site implementation.
By now, these efforts have born fruit in a variety of forms. At the same time, the level of society's requirements for corporate environmental protection activities has increased, for both the quality and amount of those efforts, and our stakeholders also have both strong interests and hopes regarding these efforts. In this issue we present the environment activities at Sony Semiconductor Kyushu Corporation, which at the same time as continuing to supply leading-edge semiconductor devices has deployed high-level energy-saving technologies and furthermore is deeply concerned with water resources and the natural environment.


From the Sony Group Environmental Vision
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■ Global warming
Sony is committed to reducing energy consumption and emissions of greenhouse gases generated by business activities throughout the life cycle of Sony products and services.
■ Natural Resources
Sony will continue to improve resource productivity in its manufacturing processes. Efforts will include reducing the volume of materials and water consumed and recycling and reusing these resources and other resources wherever possible.
■ Natural Environment
Sony recognizes the importance of maintaining the earth's biodiversity through protecting the ecosystems that make up the earth's forests and oceans and the wildlife they sustain, and will take constructive steps whenever possible to contribute to the preservation of the natural environment.