Environment & Quality

Dialog’s core IC technology increases the energy efficiency and extends the battery lifetime of portable devices. The technology is also applied to the industrial sector for energy saving lighting solutions. Typical usage tests show its PMICs are able to decrease the power usage of a portable device by approximately 30 per cent. In 2009, Dialog shipped over 100 million power management ICs, which represents a significant energy saving for the environment. The environmental agenda at Dialog considers climate change environmental protection aspects (air, land and water quality), effective resource management (eco-efficiency) and sustainability.

Environmental practices

Our commitment to the environment is evidenced by our ISO14001 certification. Since we firmly believe that sustainable development can be secured only if we safeguard our valuable resources, we deal only with suppliers which have similar environmental goals and are also accredited to the ISO14001 standard.

Within our supply chain, we continually emphasise that environmental issues should be an instinctive part of any decision-making process, and that suppliers should use environmentally-friendly technology to:

• reduce and eliminate emissions of ozone-depleting, and other, chemicals;
• manage, reduce and dispose of hazardous substances safely;
• monitor and control waste water and solid waste emissions;
• reduce and eliminate all types of waste, including water and energy;
• reduce waste by maximising product yields;
• ensure all environmental permits are obtained, maintained and kept current.

Continual monitoring

As a fabless semiconductor company, it is important to Dialog that all of its manufacturing partners also follow their requirement to respect the environment. To this end every supplier is required to complete a self-audit questionnaire to identify and document compliance to Dialog’s environmental requirements. Also, evidence of compliance to requirements is checked during regular supplier on-site audits. Some recent examples of the environmental improvements implemented by our suppliers are:

• reduction of VOC Emissions through the use of local scrubbers;
• reduction in water usage by 2% due to water recycling
  and developing of rainwater drainage systems to increase the collection of rainwater for reuse;
• reduction of scrap (failed devices) by maximising product yields;
• use of recycling facilities for extractions and reuse of precious metal and plastic. This has enabled a raw material recycle rate increase of around 7% compared to 2008.

Quality

Dialog’s policy is to supply quality products and services in full compliance with relevant specifications and to ensure that customer requirements are met with respect to contractual obligations and future needs.

Total customer satisfaction and zero defects is our goal. This approach encompasses all our products, services and internal operations and has made us a preferred supplier to the world’s best-known OEM companies.