ASE Water Recycling Plant Marks First Milestone
October 23 2015 - 5:59AM
Business Wire
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. (TSE:2311) (NYSE:ASX)
today announced that its water recycling plant at its Kaohsiung
flagship facility has reached a significant milestone. The water
recycling plant completed a pilot run from January 15, 2015 to
April 15, 2015, and began full fledged operations by the end of
April 2015. On October 23, 2015, at 9.30am Taiwan time, the water
recycling plant recorded an accumulative output volume of 1 million
metric tons of recycled water. This volume of recycled water is
capable of filling up approximately 400 Olympic sized swimming
pools.
This year, Taiwan experienced a critical lack of rainfall which
had vastly reduced water levels at reservoirs and created a serious
water shortage. To combat such challenges, semiconductor companies
such as ASE have developed methods to save, reuse and recycle
water. "In our efforts towards a more sustainable enterprise,
greater focus on water recycling and usage has been the emphasis at
ASE," says KC Chou, Senior VP, ASE Kaohsiung. "We are also planning
to open up the water recycling facility for educational visits and
promote industry water conservation efforts to the public," he
added.
ASE invested about $25 million to complete Phase 1 of the
recycling facility, which can process up to 20,000 metric tons of
wastewater and recycle up to 10,000 metric tons per day. Since the
operation of the water recycling facility, ASE’s various
manufacturing plants at the Kaohsiung Nantze Processing Zone have
diverted their wastewater to this centralized facility for
processing. The facility employs a multi-stage water treatment
system to remove suspended solids, COD (chemical oxygen demand) and
other pollutants so that the effluents discharged meet prescribed
Environment Protection Bureau (EPB) standards. The treated water
goes through Ultra-filtration (UF) and Reverse Osmosis (RO). RO has
been most commonly used to desalinate sea water in many countries
to create potable water.
About the ASE Group
The ASE Group is the world's largest provider of independent
semiconductor manufacturing services in assembly, test, materials
and design manufacturing. As a global leader geared towards meeting
the industry’s ever growing needs for faster, smaller and higher
performance chips, the Group develops and offers a wide portfolio
of technology and solutions including IC test program design,
front-end engineering test, wafer probe, wafer bump, substrate
design and supply, wafer level package, flip chip,
system-in-package, final test and electronic manufacturing services
through Universal Scientific Industrial Co., Ltd. and its
subsidiaries, members of the ASE Group. The Group generated sales
revenues of US$8.5 billion in 2014 and employs over 68,000 people
worldwide. For more information about the ASE Group, visit
www.aseglobal.com.
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