Skyworks Achieves New Records in Environmental Resource Conservation and Waste Minimization
Reduces Year-Over-Year Carbon Dioxide Emissions by 22 Percent, Municipal Waste by 20 Percent and Hazardous
Waste by 16 Percent
Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: SWKS), an innovator of high performance analog semiconductors connecting people, places and
things, today released its 2016 Sustainability Report, a voluntary public document that provides a comprehensive self-assessment of the
company’s commitment to sustainable business practices. The report highlights Skyworks’ record efficiency improvements in energy
and water use, reductions in municipal and hazardous waste and progress across environmental, labor, supply chain, health, safety,
ethics and community activities.
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“Skyworks’ unit sales and revenue reached all-time highs in fiscal 2016 as global demand for our connectivity solutions
continued to accelerate,” said Steven C. Machuga, vice president of worldwide operations for Skyworks. “In meeting this record
demand, Skyworks never wavered in its commitment to sustainability. We are proud to be incorporating sustainable business practices
within our own facilities as well as our supply chain, working towards improving operations and aligning with customers to build a
better tomorrow.”
Skyworks continued its trend of manufacturing products with decreased environmental impact (per 1,000 production units).
Year-over-year, Skyworks:
- Lessened its carbon dioxide emissions by 22 percent
- Lowered its hazardous waste generation rate by 16 percent
- Reduced its energy usage rate by 13 percent
- Decreased its water consumption rate by 12 percent
The report and other sustainability information can be found on Skyworks’ Sustainability page.
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 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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and accurately predict market requirements and evolving industry standards and to identify opportunities in new markets; our
ability to develop, manufacture, and market innovative products and avoid product obsolescence; our ability to compete in the
marketplace and achieve market acceptance of our products; the availability and pricing of third-party semiconductor foundry,
assembly and test capacity, raw materials and supplier components; the quality of our products; economic, social, military and
geo-political conditions in the countries in which we, our customers or our suppliers operate, including security and health risks,
possible disruptions in transportation networks and fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; changes in laws, regulations
and/or policies that could adversely affect either (i) the economy and our customers' demand for our products or (ii) the financial
markets and our ability to raise capital; and other risks and uncertainties 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 obtained, free of charge, on Skyworks' website (www.skyworksinc.com) or at the SEC's website (www.sec.gov). Any forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made only as of the date
hereof, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise.
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