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Partner Profile
| Fairchild Semiconductor | |
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| Location | South Portland, ME |
| Goal | Fairchild Semiconductor pledges to reduce U.S. GHG emissions by 30 percent per manufacturing index from 2003 to 2010. |
| Company Description Fairchild Semiconductor is a global supplier of high performance power products critical to today's leading electronic applications in the computing, communications, consumer, industrial and automotive segments. As The Power Franchise®, Fairchild offers a broad portfolio of components that optimize system power through minimization, conversion, management and distribution functions. Fairchild’s 9,000 employees design and manufacture products in the power, interface, analog, mixed signal, logic, optoelectronic, and configurable products markets from the company’s headquarters in South Portland, ME and numerous other locations around the world. | |
| Reasons for Joining Climate Leaders Fairchild believes that taking an active part in protecting the environment is the company’s responsibility to its employees, customers, and communities in which it operates. Fairchild has participated in various voluntary environmental programs and has attained International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 14001 environmental management accreditation. Fairchild continually sets environmental improvement goals to help prevent dramatic and detrimental effects on future generations. “Fairchild Semiconductor takes pride in our environmental performance, and we’re recognized as environmental leaders in the countries and communities where we operate worldwide,” says Mark Thompson, President and CEO. “We share the concern with all the world’s citizens over the potential problems posed by global warming, and we recognize the need to do our part to reduce energy consumption and emission of greenhouse gases. We’re excited to be a partner in EPA’s Climate Leaders program.” | |
| GHG Reductions Before Joining Climate Leaders Fairchild began actively monitoring and reducing its emissions in 2000 when the company became a signatory of a Memorandum of Understanding between EPA and the U.S. Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) to reduce absolute perfluorocarbon (PFC) emissions by 10 percent from a 1995 baseline by 2010. Fairchild also implemented a team in 2001 to improve resource conservation by focusing on electrical power, natural gas and fuels. The team helped reduce the company’s overall cost of electrical power usage by $1.38 million. In 2003, Fairchild was identified by the Semiconductor Industry Association as the Best in Association for Electrical Power, measured as electricity per unit of production. | |
| Approach to GHG Management Fairchild has identified all sources of GHGs used in its manufacturing operations through the creation of its Inventory Management Plan. This has revealed areas where improvement in energy utilization and manufacturing processes will result in GHG emissions reductions. The company has also defined methods for reporting inventory quantities and maintaining records and change control. To realize emissions reductions, Fairchild continually optimizes the implementation of alternative chemistries on processes that use large quantities of PFCs. Fairchild has replaced the PFC gas used in its chemical vapor deposition manufacturing process to potentially reduce GHG emissions significantly. All GHG emissions reduction projects must meet a minimum financial rate of return in order for their approval to be granted. From 2001-2003, Fairchild made significant reductions in energy usage. Since then, Fairchild has pledged to further reduce its total U.S. operations' GHG emissions by 30 percent per manufacturing index from 2003 to 2010. | |
| Progress Towards Goal Completion To monitor its progress on achieving its goal, Fairchild updates its executive staff on a monthly basis about all Climate Leaders activities and in turn receives support and direction regarding reducing emissions. Fairchild also reviews on a quarterly basis its energy reductions and manufacturing process projects that have the potential for GHG emission reductions. | |