Strategic Approaches and Targets
We assess our progress toward sustainability goals and share updates on our projects, ensuring transparency for employees, partners, customers, and the general public.
Dimensions - Integrity and Accountability
Strategic Approach
Implementing effective regulatory compliance system:
Strengthen the process for identification of regulatory requirements and reinforcing education to increase employee awareness of regulatory requirements.
2024 Progress/Status
Continuous strengthening of the management mechanisms for regulatory compliance to ensure that the company's operations comply with the latest regulatory requirements. Collaborating with third parties to conduct comprehensive audits on supply chain management, environmental protection, and labor rights to ensure compliance with the local regulations in the areas where the company operates.
2025 Target
Focusing on regulatory integration, monitoring compliance, and strengthening internal legal training to maintain high standards of regulatory adherence, proactive responses to market changes, and societal trust.
2030 Target
- Cases involving violations by ASEH: 0
- Major cases involving violations by ASEH subsidiaries: 0
Strategic Approach
Implement business conduct and ethics-related policies and regulations:
Continue to promote education and training, commit to comply with ethical standards in all ASEH business activities, and ensure the effectiveness of reporting systems by audit.
2024 Progress/Status
Employee training coverage: 100%
2025 Target
Employee training coverage: 100%
2030 Target
Employee training coverage: 100%
Strategic Approach
Enhance information security governance:
Identify internal and external information security management risks, prevent or mitigate the business impact of information security incidents, provide regular employee education and training, and raise employee awareness to improve the security of business operations.
2024 Progress/Status
- Major information security incidents: 0
- NIST CSF information security maturity assessment coverage rate: 100%
- Percentage of employees receiving information security education and training: 100%
2025 Target
- Major information security incidents: 0
- NIST CSF information security maturity assessment coverage rate: 100%
- Percentage of employees receiving information security education and training: 100%
2030 Target
- Major information security incidents: 0
- NIST CSF information security maturity assessment coverage rate: 100%
- Percentage of employees receiving information security education and training: 100%
Dimensions - Innovation Service
Strategic Approach
- Set up a patent reward program to encourage patent applications, that will strengthen the company’s operations and IP portfolio
- Establish patent applications as the Key Performance Indicator of the Annual Objective Deployment (AOD)
2024 Progress/Status
9,760 patents granted
2025 Target
7,813 patents granted
2030 Target
9,000 patents granted
Strategic Approach
We conducted environmental impact analysis of product life cycles. In addition, we have established databases and incorporated simulation algorithms for product research and development to increase product value while elevating ecological efficiency.
2024 Progress/Status
Scope of product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): 56.01%
2025 Target
Scope of product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) by more than 50%
2030 Target
Scope of product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) by more than 50%
Strategic Approach
Continuously enhance customer communication:
Providing diverse communications channels to enable instant interaction and communication with customers; enhance information security management to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of customer proprietary information.
2024 Progress/Status
Customer satisfaction: 92%
2025 Target
Customer satisfaction: 90%
2030 Target
Customer satisfaction: 90%
Dimensions - Green Manufacturing and Low-carbon Transformation
Strategic Approach
- Increase the use of clean/renewable energy
- Continue to improve energy management: Establish standardized management systems through ISO 50001 to improve energy efficiency, and build smart energy management systems to facilitate precise control and lower standby mode energy consumption
2024 Progress/Status
- Adopting an energy saving plan to decrease annual power consumption by more than 2%
- Renewable energy to account for 19% of total energy consumption
- ISO 50001 coverage in manufacturing facilities: 73%
2025 Target
- Adopting an energy saving plan to decrease annual power consumption by more than 2%
- Renewable energy to account for 27% of total energy consumption
- ISO 50001 coverage in manufacturing facilities: 100%
2030 Target
- Adopting an energy saving plan to decrease annual power consumption by more than 2%
- Renewable energy to account for 42% of total energy consumption
- ISO 50001 coverage in manufacturing facilities: 100%
Strategic Approach
Reduce GHG emissions & provide green manufacturing services:
- Green facilities (efficient building designs)
- Efficient use of energy resources
- Purchase and use of clean/renewable energy and RECs
- Green product designs
2024 Progress/Status
- GHG emissions inventory coverage of the manufacturing facilities: 100%
- GHG intensity (Scope1+2 emissions/per revenue): achieve 40% reduction compared with 2015
- Absolute GHG emissions reduction
- Scopes 1 and 2: 2.4% increase compared to 2016
- Scope 3: 8%* reduction compared to 2020
2025 Target
- GHG emissions inventory coverage of the manufacturing facilities: 100%
- GHG intensity (GHG emissions per revenue): achieve 10% reduction compared with 2015
- Absolute GHG emissions reduction target
- Reduce Scopes 1 and 2 emissions by 37.8% with 2016 as baseline
- Reduce Scope 3 emission by 12.5% with 2020 as baseline
2030 Target
- GHG emissions inventory coverage of the manufacturing facilities: 100%
- GHG intensity (GHG emissions per revenue): achieve 15% reduction compared with 2015
- Absolute GHG emissions reduction target
- Reduce Scopes 1 and 2 emissions by 58.8% with 2016 as baseline
- Reduce Scope 3 emission by 25% with 2020 as baseline
* IC manufacturing and OSAT (outsourced semiconductor assembly and test) companies provide intermediate products and services that are not directly consumed by end-users. The use and disposal of the final products is also typically not related to our business operations. These are the factors highlighted by the SEMI SCC taskforce in their ‘Scope 3 Category 11 GHG Assessment’ report together with a recommendation that category 11 can be reasonably excluded for semiconductor manufacturing companies. In 2024, we recorded an 8% decrease in our Scope 3 emissions (excluding Categories 11 and 12). For information on the Scope 3 Category 11 GHG Assessment, please refer to the SEMI official website at https://discover.semi.org/scope-3-category-11-ghg-assessment-download-form.html
Strategic Approach
Establish a Sustainable Water Efficiency Management System:
Establish a systematic management model based on ISO 46001, conduct water review and set management goals and indicators, use reduction, replacement or reuse methods to continuously optimize water efficiency, reduce operating costs and protect global water resources.
2024 Progress/Status
- Day(s) of production shutdown in Taiwan facilities due to phase 3 water rationing (30% volume reduction of water supply): 0
- Water use intensity (water use per revenue): achieve 43% reduction compared with 2015
2025 Target
- Day(s) of production shutdown in Taiwan facilities due to phase 3 water rationing (30% volume reduction of water supply): 0
- Water use intensity (water use per revenue): achieve 35% reduction compared with 2015
2030 Target
- Day(s) of production shutdown in Taiwan facilities due to phase 3 water rationing (30% volume reduction of water supply): 0
- Water use intensity (water use per revenue): achieve 52% reduction compared with 2015
Strategic Approach
Enhancing source reduction in waste management:
Identify recyclable raw materials and moving towards minimizing waste through a circular model.
2024 Progress/Status
- General waste recycling rate: >97%
- Hazardous-waste intensity (hazardous waste generated per revenue): achieve 53% reduction compared with 2015
2025 Target
- General waste recycling rate: >90%
- Hazardous-waste intensity (hazardous waste generated per revenue): achieve 41% reduction compared with 2015
2030 Target
- General waste recycling rate: >90%
- Hazardous-waste intensity (hazardous waste generated per revenue): achieve 61% reduction compared with 2015
Dimensions - Inclusive Workplace
Strategic Approach
Implement employee engagement survey and feedback mechanisms:
Besides encouraging employees to be proactive in company activities, we understand employees’ opinions by using employee engagement surveys, and offer competitive compensation and benefit programs.
2024 Progress/Status
- Deployment of employee engagement survey in 2023-2024:
- Result of employee engagement survey: 77%
- Employee coverage: 95.1%
- Overall turnover rate: 11.4%
2025 Target
- Deployment of employee engagement survey every 2 years:
- Result of employee engagement survey: >75%
- Employee coverage: >90%
- Overall turnover rate: <15%
2030 Target
- Deployment of employee engagement survey every 2 years:
- Result of employee engagement survey: >85%
- Employee coverage: >95%
- Overall turnover rate: <15%
Strategic Approach
Enhance talent development and training effectiveness:
Provide challenging and valuable career development opportunities for employees by offering better training plans and promotion opportunities within the company.
2024 Progress/Status
- Percentage of management vacancies filled through internal promotion: 85.5%
- Rate of Open Positions Filled by Internal Candidates: 64.1%
2025 Target
- Percentage of management vacancies filled through internal promotion: >75%
- Rate of Open Positions Filled by Internal Candidates: >50%
2030 Target
- Percentage of management vacancies filled through internal promotion: >75%
- Rate of Open Positions Filled by Internal Candidates: >55%
Strategic Approach
Building a diversified and open workplace:
Promoting long-term plans for training and cultivating female managers and enhancing the technology competence of female employees as well as their knowledge in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Establishing a diversified, equal, inclusive, and friendly workplace that respects employees’ uniqueness and differences.
2024 Progress/Status
- Female employee in top management positions: 16.5%
2025 Target
- Female employee in top management positions: >15%
- Female Employee in STEM-related Positions:>17.5%
2030 Target
- Female employee in top management positions: >17.5%
- Female Employee in STEM-related Positions: >20%
Strategic Approach
Protection of human rights:
Prohibition of forced labor, child labor, discrimination and harassment; ensuring rights to freedom of association and privacy; ensuring reasonable working hours and appropriate compensation and benefits.
2024 Progress/Status
Complying with international standards and regulatory requirements within the areas of operation, enhancing our human rights policies and management systems to strengthen compliance.
2025 Target
Enhancing compliance and alignment with standards. Conducting regular audits and internal training to ensure the effective implementation of human rights protection measures by ASEH and its subsidiaries.
2030 Target
Major regulatory violations: 0
Strategic Approach
Continuously improve health and safety management system:
Make all reasonable efforts to prevent accidents and promote the physical and mental health of employees by shaping a corporate safety culture where the safety and health of all employees are safeguarded.
2024 Progress/Status
- Disabling Frequency Rate (F.R.): 0.53
- Disabling Severity Rate (S.R.): 16.06
- Major injury and occupational disease: 9 case
- Employee absenteeism rate: 1.6%
2025 Target
- Disabling Frequency Rate (F.R.): <0.5
- Disabling Severity Rate (S.R.): <9
- Major injury and occupational disease: 0 case
- Employee absenteeism rate: <2.3%
2030 Target
- Disabling Frequency Rate (F.R.): <0.5
- Disabling Severity Rate (S.R.): <9
- Major injury and occupational disease: 0 case
- Employee absenteeism rate: <2.3%
Dimensions - Responsible Procurement
ASEH Management
Business Impact on ASEH:
Establishing a sustainable supply chain is a win-win strategy that strengthens the protection of our suppliers' employees and assets and indirectly improves our competitiveness.
Strategic Approach:
Ensure supply chain's sustainable development:
Establish partnerships with our suppliers to ensure that they have their own sustainable development plans, which include providing a safe working environment, treating employees with respect and dignity, and maintaining ethical standards and environmental responsibility.
2024 Progress/Status
- Completion of sustainability risk survey:
- 81% for all Tier-1 suppliers
57.6%for non Tier-1 suppliers
- Completion of sustainability audits conducted:
- 229 Tier-1 suppliers
2025 Target
- Completion of sustainability risk survey:
- 100% for all Tier-1 suppliers
- Over 50% for non Tier-1 suppliers
- Completion of sustainability audits conducted:
- 120 Tier-1 suppliers
2030 Target
- Completion of sustainability risk survey:
- 100% for all Tier-1 suppliers
- Over 50% for non Tier-1 suppliers
- Completion of sustainability audits conducted:
- 120 Tier-1 suppliers
Dimensions - Corporate Citizenship
ASEH Management
Business Impact on ASEH:
Active community development through strategic charitable and educational programs, and social work helps to build positive and constructive relationships at the local level, strengthen our social license to operate and create a well-educated workforce for future recruitment.
Strategic Approach:
Social involvement strategies:
Environmental Conservation, Industry-academia Collaborations, Community Engagement and Public Advocacy.
2024 Progress/Status
- 8 industry-academia collaboration projects on environmental technology
- LED light tubes installed at 14 schools
- 16.84 hectares planted with trees
- 615 students attending semiconductor courses
- 485 disadvantaged students in the community attending after school program
- 65 innovative industry-academia collaboration projects
- 6 legal initiatives for issues related to the semiconductor industry and sustainability
2025 Target
- 10 industry-academia collaboration projects on environmental technology
- LED light tubes installed at 10 schools
- 10 hectares planted with trees
- 100 students attending semiconductor courses
- 100 disadvantaged students in the community attending after school program
- 30 innovative industry-academia collaboration projects
- 2 legal initiatives for issues related to the semiconductor industry and sustainability
2030 Target
- Over 150 industry-academia collaboration projects on environmental technology
- LED light tubes installed at 170 schools
- 250 hectares planted with trees
- Organizing semiconductor courses for 2,000+ students
- 2,000+ disadvantaged students in the community attending after school program
- 450 innovative industry-academia collaboration projects
- 25 legal initiatives for issues related to the semiconductor industry and sustainability
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