Skyworks Releases Positive Sustainability Report
July 15 2019 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Increases Efficiencies Across All Major
Environmental Categories
Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: SWKS), an innovator of high
performance analog semiconductors connecting people, places and
things, recently released its 2018 Sustainability Report, a
voluntary, non-financial public document that provides a
comprehensive self-assessment of the company’s sustainable business
practices. The report highlights Skyworks’ reductions in waste,
energy and water usage, as well as progress across other areas
including labor, ethics, health and safety, and management
systems.
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By utilizing well-established environmental management systems
and setting aggressive targets, Skyworks exceeded its internal
goals, resulting in meaningful year-over-year improvements. 2018
milestones included:
- Conserving 72,700 megawatt hours of energy, enough to power
6,156 homes for one year
- Averting nearly 9,300 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent
emissions, comparable to removing 1,974 passenger vehicles from the
road for one year
- Saving 106 million gallons of water
- Avoiding the generation of 526,000 pounds of hazardous
waste
- Keeping 102,000 pounds of municipal waste from landfills
“Skyworks is proud to have achieved significant efficiency
improvements across all major environmental categories,
particularly as we increased production and capacity,” said Steven
C. Machuga, vice president of worldwide operations for Skyworks.
“As an enabler of ubiquitous connectivity, we remain steadfast in
our commitment to meet the growing demand for our wireless engines
without compromising our sustainability initiatives.”
The full report and other sustainability information can be
found on Skyworks’ website at
www.skyworksinc.com/Sustainability.
About Skyworks
Skyworks Solutions, Inc. is empowering the wireless networking
revolution. Our highly innovative analog semiconductors are
connecting people, places and things spanning a number of new and
previously unimagined applications within the aerospace,
automotive, broadband, cellular infrastructure, connected home,
industrial, medical, military, smartphone, tablet and wearable
markets.
Skyworks is a global company with engineering, marketing,
operations, sales and support facilities located throughout Asia,
Europe and North America and is a member of the S&P 500® and
Nasdaq-100® market indices (Nasdaq: SWKS). For more information,
please visit Skyworks’ website at: www.skyworksinc.com.
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uncertainties, including those identified in the "Risk Factors"
section of Skyworks' most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K (and/or
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q) as filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission ("SEC"). Copies of Skyworks' SEC filings can be
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(www.skyworksinc.com) or at the SEC's website (www.sec.gov). Any
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