Environment - Our Responsibility

Environment, Health and Safety: key elements of our company

To minimize the ecological impact of our semiconductor production, LFoundry is actively committed to environmental protection, including preventive measures. All our business activities are driven by a strong sense of responsibility for our environment, as well as for the health and the safety of our employees.

For this, an Environmental Management System under DIN ISO 14001:2004 standard has been established. But active environmental protection does not just make demands on us – it brings great benefits to the company such as, for instance, reduced energy consumption, reduced waste-disposal cost, a minimum consumption of chemicals and process gases, improved employee motivation, enhanced legal compliance and the possibility of identifying saving potentials.

In the area of Occupational Health and Safety (OHS), a management system has been implemented that provides a framework for OHS responsibilities.The OHS system enables its users to specify processes that improve OHS activities continuously, and help to meet statutory requirements.

Environmental Policy

is to commit to the managerial guiding principles and define the environmental activities, which is generally based on ISO 14001 requirements:

Through a concise understanding of how to resolve best environmental problems facing the world, we will work to make contributions to society through the development of highly reliable technologies and products that meet these needs.
We consider reducing the negative environmental impacts which products will have throughout its entire life cycle, from the R&D and design stages, through to production, logistics, use and disposal.
In addition to observing international, national and local environmental regulations, we will develop our own standards where necessary to maintain environmental conservation.
In addition to working towards enhancing the environmental awareness of our employees, we will focus our activities on society at large, contributing to that society through environmental preservation activities carried out from a broad perspective.
When environmental problems arise as a result of our business activities, we will take appropriate steps to minimize the environmental impacts, and disclose accurate information about that immediately. For this purpose the best available technology under consideration of economical situation shall be used.
To realize this policy an environmental management system (EMS) is documented, implemented, maintained and communicated to all employees using periodical training, company newspaper and the like.
Upon request this policy is available for the community.