Environment

For Infineon, we are responsible in sustainability and protection of our environment as part of the legal fulfilment. We actively explore ways and drives various Energy Management approach to utilise our resources wisely.

At Infineon Singapore, the Environmental, Safety and Health (ESH) committee reviews Infineon's daily production meetings, monthly safety committee meetings and annual management reviews. It also has communication campaigns to promote environmental sustainability.  Some of these campaigns include "Go for Safety, Go for Green" and "Safe-Organise-Conserve Carnival" held annually.

We manage our waste via a recycling centre located within the factory premises. Municipal waste are separated from recyclable waste at our recycling centre and these recyclable materials are sent to our appointment recycling contractor

The "Water Efficient Building" Certificate was awarded to Infineon for its efforts in implementing water efficiency measures for long term savings.

Infineon Singapore has earmarked several projects to improve energy efficiency at its factories and offices. First is the chiller system efficiency improvement project which plans to replace existing chillers with more energy-efficient ones. Second is the air-compressor project to sequence and replace old and poor performing compressors respectively to improve energy efficiency. Third is the LED retrofit project to progressively replace existing lamps with LED ones to save energy.

Infineon Cares

Infineon Cares is an initiative about Infineon’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) focusing on our voluntary social commitment in Singapore. We believes in improving lives. Our commitment towards promoting environmental initiatives and education will create sustainable impact to the society that we operate in. In addition to monetary and material donations, the commitment of our employees can be expressed in voluntary activities. Infineon making life easier, safer and greener.

Employee volunteering and monetary contribution 2019

Infineon Cares organized the first experiential lunch date for employees to taste food prepared by people with special needs at Association for Persons with Special Needs (APSN) Mystical Cafe, thereby gave these individuals the opportunity to practice as well the confidence to serve the public when they graduate from the school. Employees also had the chance to work alongside with these individuals to understand the challenges they face in their daily lives and be inspired by their determinations to overcome their physical and mental limitations to bring values to their life and society.

This year’s Earth Hour Week aimed to inculcate 3R (reduce, reuse and recycle) habits and mindset by volunteers conducting DIY workshops for fellow employees to re-use old materials, such as T-shirts, to make into another useful items, such as tote bags. Hence, giving their old items a new lease of life.

As part of the Earth Hour Week celebration, Infineon Asia Pacific supported the signature Earth Hour lights-off event by switching off the lights of the Singapore offices for an hour during Earth Day.

Earth Hour 2019
Earth Hour 2019
Earth Hour 2019

During the weekend prior to Singapore National Day, Infineon participated in the ComChest HeartString Walk 2019 with more than 200 employees and family members to raise fund for charity causes as well as to accompany more than 50 seniors from Loving Heart Multiservice for the 4km walk around Marina Bay Sands area. This is the 3rd year Infineon Cares participated in the event.

Infineon Cares Walk
Infineon Cares Walk
Infineon Cares Walk

Instead of the regular clean up activity at Kallang Riverside Park, this year Infineon Cares sponsored 6 kayaks with the proceeds raised from last year’s 3R flea market to commemorate the 3-year partnership with Waterway Watch Society (WWS). With these kayaks, WWS can run more corporate and school events to raise fund for its conservation work at Kallang Riverside.

Kallang Riverside Cleanup
Kallang Riverside Cleanup
Kallang Riverside Cleanup

Infineon Cares marked the third year anniversary in Nov 2019 with the annual 3R Year End Charity Flea Market. Employees flexed their creativity muscles to make handicrafts from recycle materials, such as cardboard stools, mix & match recyclable carpets, bio-friendly enzyme as washing detergent and assortments of crochet handicrafts. Management also contributed their creative artworks for sales. Social enterprise, Bettr Barista, was invited to the event to share about their missions to create jobs for the disadvantaged and employees had the chance to taste the Latte, Cappuccino, Mocha and assorted tea served by their beneficiaries. Infineon Cares successfully raised more than $6k from the event

Singapore Flea Market 2019
Singapore Flea Market 2019
Singapore Flea Market 2019
Infineon Cares 3rd Anniversary Flea Market
Infineon Cares 3rd Anniversary Flea Market
Infineon Cares 3rd Anniversary Flea Market

Comchest HeartStrings Fun Walk 2017

On 9th September 2017, a group of Infineon employees along with their family members participated in the Comchest HeartStrings Walk. The Comchest HeartStrings Walk aims to invite all Singaporeans to walk as one to show care and support for an inclusive nation. More than 80 employees and family members signed up.

ComChest Heartstrings Walk 2017
ComChest Heartstrings Walk 2017
ComChest Heartstrings Walk 2017

Corporate Citizenship Effort in Infineon Singapore

Infineon Cares is a volunteer committee in Infineon Singapore that aims to address the needs of the community by means of volunteerism and fund raising in various forms (in kind, cash and skills).

ComChest Heartstrings Walk 2017
ComChest Heartstrings Walk 2017
ComChest Heartstrings Walk 2017

Infineon Cares is proud to partner with Community Chest (ComChest), which is an arm of Singapore National Council of Social Service (NCSS), whose mission is to raise funds for more than 80 charity organisations in Singapore. These charity organisations are then able to do what they are best at – providing social service programmes to help children with special needs, people with disabilities, frail and lonely seniors and families facing difficulties.

Since November 2016, Infineon Singapore has also signed up as a partner of SHARE as One program that offers a platform for Singapore employees to donate regularly to ComChest to help the less fortunate. By consolidating donations from our employees under SHARE as One, the government will provide dollar-for-dollar matching (up to $20,000) for 3 years starting from 1st April 2016. For more information, click here.

ComChest Heartstrings Walk 2017
ComChest Heartstrings Walk 2017
ComChest Heartstrings Walk 2017

To further strengthen our partnership, a group of Infineon Singapore employees together with their family members, supported the ComChest HeartStrings Walk 2017 on 9th Sept 2017, organised by ComChest and Marina Bay Sands, that aimed to bring all parts of the community, corporations, volunteers and beneficiaries for a fun Saturday morning walk around Marina Bay to support the cause for an inclusive society.

Keep Clean! Singapore 2017

On 27th May 2017, Infineon Singapore supported the national campaign of keeping Singapore clean by performing litter picking at Kallang Riverside Park. 45 employees participated in this event with their family members and collectively gathered 61kg litter (20kg – recyclable, 41kg – non-recyclable). Environmental conservation is one of the cause that Infineon Cares supports, especially to create a clean, safe and conducive environment for our employees and the community near the company’s premise. This is aligned with Infineon’s global corporate citizenship direction to support environmental initiatives that creates awareness on the importance to protect the environment and the ecosystems.

Despite the strict rules in Singapore, there are still litters at public areas, such as housing estates, gardens, beaches, car parks, hawker centres, streets, drains and so forth. Complacency is the likely reason for Singapore's litter woes. In a study done by National Environment Agency from 2009 to 2010, 4 out of 10 people in Singapore said they would litter out of convenience or if they knew they could get away with it. Experts say that when people know there will be cleaners to pick up after them, they become too lazy to do the right thing. Commonly found litters in Singapore are tissue papers, cigarette butts, flyers, receipts, unfinished food items, food wrappers, Styrofoam, aluminium cans and plastic bags. Hence, it is important to have regular clean-up activities by the community and companies so as to inculcate the habit of cleanliness.

The 'Keep Singapore Clean' campaign was launched in 1968 by then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. The month-long campaign aims to make Singapore the cleanest and greenest city in the region by addressing the problem of inconsiderate littering. This is now an annual ground-up movement led by The Public Hygiene Council (PHC). Starting from this activity, Infineon Singapore has adopted Kallang Riverside Park as its Bright Spot, which the company will take ownership of the cleanliness of the place and help to educate cum encourage good practices amongst the community.

Infineon Cares volunteers pick up litter at Kallang Riverside
Infineon Cares volunteers pick up litter at Kallang Riverside
Infineon Cares volunteers pick up litter at Kallang Riverside
A fun and meaninful clean up activity at kallang riverside park
A fun and meaninful clean up activity at kallang riverside park
A fun and meaninful clean up activity at kallang riverside park

Earth Hour Week 2017

Infineon Singapore celebrated the Earth Hour with a week long of activities that were held during Mar 20 – 25 2017. The aim of this year’s activities is to create lasting impact by encouraging habits that care for the environment; such as walking and cycling as sustainable modes of transport, no plastic and styrofoam in Infineon Singapore caferias from Mar 20 onwards and planting trees at the national park to green the city. As the world stands at a climate crossroads, it is powerful yet humbling to think that our actions today will decide what tomorrow will look like for future generations. Therefore it is important for everyone to adopt green as a way of life. This is aligned with Infineon core business of making life easier, safer and greener.

Employees in front of steps challenge slide
Employees in front of steps challenge slide
Employees in front of steps challenge slide

Department Steps Challenge

171 employees participated in the Department Steps Challenge that took place between Mar 20 – 22. Head of Departments set good examples for their employees by being the mandatory participants in their teams. During the 3-day challenge, employees took the stairs instead of lifts, walked to the nearest lunch place instead of driving and walked to their colleagues’ desk for discussion instead of sending messages. A total of 2.2 million steps were clocked by the participants, which was equivalent to 1,700 kilometers (assuming average 76cm/step) and had reduced 250g CO2 emission (based on the emission of Toyota Corolla Altis 1.6 at 151g CO2/km). The winner for the steps challenge is IFAP F AFT led by Wong Shwu Fung Lynn that clocked 173,010 step counts. Infineon Cares hopes the employees will continue to walk for greener and healthier lifestyle.

 

Safe Cycling Campaign

Cycling is an enjoyable and sustainable mode of transport to the office. Land Transport Authority and Safe Cycling Federation shared with Infineon Singapore employees the traffic rules to observe and safety measures while cycling during the commemorative event on Mar 24. Obike, a Singapore-based bike sharing start up, showcased their solution for easy bike renting from the nearest MRT and shoping mall. While bicycle vendor, AXSports, offered attractive staff discounts to Infineon employees that wish to own bicycles. Infineon management supported this activity by installing bicycle racks and painting of cycling tracks inside the premises, as well as having shower facilites at Kallang Sector and 168 Kallang Way for employees to freshen up. All these work towards a more sustainable commute.

 

No Plastic Day

The average time for a plastic bottle to completely degrade is at least 450 years. Hence from Mar 20 onwards, Sail Deck and Sky Café styrofoam food containers & plastic cutleries will be replaced with biodegradable ones. Infineon Cares supported this initiative and sponsored the cost of the biodegradable containers during Earth Hour Week. Thereafer, employees are charged additional cost for takeaway to support the green initiative to reduce takeout waste.

Plant a tree outing at woodlands park connector
Plant a tree outing at woodlands park connector
Plant a tree outing at woodlands park connector

Plant a Tree

Plant-A-Tree Program is managed by Garden City Fund (NPark) that was established in 2002 under our founding patron, Mr Lee Kuan Yew. The program is a platform for organisations and individuals to actively participate in the greening of our city in a garden by planting trees. Infineon Cares donated to Garden City Fund with 50% of the fund collected from 3R flea market held in Dec'16 together with generous sponsorships from senior management of Infineon Singapore. Around 50, employees together with their family members, joined Infineon Cares in caring for our environment. The group planted 15 trees at Woodlands Park Connector, which remained as a permanent reminder of their contributions to the environment.

About Earth Hour:

Earth Hour is a worldwide movement organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). The event is held annually, which households and businesses turn off their non-essential lights for one hour, from 8:30pm to 9:30pm. Infineon Singapore switched off all lights and 17 servers from its compute server farm, as well as the company's roof top signage, during that hour.

Infineon Cares and Teck Ghee CC Lego™ BrickArt Camp on 11 March 2017 Nurturing our youths interest in STEM through Lego™ BrickArt Camp 3/29/2017

On 11 March Saturday, Infineon Cares committee organized a Lego™ BrickArt Camp togther with Teck Ghee Community Centre (CC). It was the first time we collaborated with Teck Ghee CC to promote interest in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) among the young in our society. Infineon Cares decided to partner with Teck Ghee Community Centre for this inaugural camp as they are actively promoting STEM in their community outreach programme and we have an existing link from one of our colleague doing community work there. This camp was opened to youth age 7 - 14 years old in the Teck Ghee CC vicinity and our own Infineon colleagues’ children. The aim of this camp was to nurture our youth to be excited about STEM through Lego™ building activities and to expose and get them excited on a Technology / Engineering career in future.

 

Children at an event
Children at an event
Children at an event

A total of about 40 youths participated in the camp together with volunteers and staff from Teck Ghee CC and our Infineon Volunteers. From the start of the camp our youths participants has no problem assimilating with Lego™ bricks and they soon started to get into building activties and challenges working as a team.

This event allow our youths from different background and culture to work as a team. It was through facilitated sessions, our youths were introduced subtle STEM topics such as ballon powered vehicle to cover the distance. Through creative and innovative thinking, they have to come up with designs that meet the challenges. Most important element for that day, our participants have lots of fun doing the activities.

Infineon cares and teck ghee cc lego brick art camp on 11 march 2017
Infineon cares and teck ghee cc lego brick art camp on 11 march 2017
Infineon cares and teck ghee cc lego brick art camp on 11 march 2017

The most important highlight on that day was a chance for the participants to experience our Smart Factory concept at level 3 168 Kallang Way. Robotics was the buzzword among the particpants that day as they get close and befriended one of them. Participants also got a chance to witness and experience our factory and it was certainly heartening to hear one participant mentioned: “I like to work in this company when I grow up“

The Lego™ BrickArt Camp is one of the activties that Infineon Cares organised in our Education outreach programme to promote STEM. There will be more of such activties in the pipeline for rest of this calender year. We seek your support and welcome volunteers to our future Infineon Cares Education programme.

2017 Flash Back

Programs

3R Flea Market 2017

The much anticipated 3R (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) Year End Charity Flea Market will take place in Nov'17. We aim to raise SG$5k fund for Horseshoe Crab Rescue & Research Program by Nature Society (50%) and ComChest SHARE as One (50%) by you donating your pre-loved items for resale.

The proceeds from the activity will help rescue trapped wildlife and assist the less privileged in the community.

Achivements

3R Year End Charity Flea Market:

$6,362.80 was raised for Horseshoe Crab Rescue & Research Program by Nature Society (50%) and ComChest SHARE as One (50%)

 

NTUC Book Donation Drive:

>600 books collected for distribution to needy students nationwide

 

Hack-A-Toy:

15 battery powered toys were modified for children with special needs

 

 

Race to Praise 2017

In conjunction with Children’s Day celebration on 6th Oct, Infineon Cares is supporting the Race to Praise campaign that encourages parents to affirm their children for qualities beyond classroom and celebrate their everyday achievements.

The objectives of the campaign are:

1. Initiate preventive measures against unhealthy stress and other behavioral problems among children

2. Encourage parents to play an intentional role in affirming and nurturing resilience in their children

Each employee will get a praise coupon during 2 Oct - 6 Oct, 2017. Your department secretary will collect on your behalf.

Let's praise our children, nieces and nephews today!

Use Your Power to build a Better Tomorrow

Light were switched off at the Asia Pacific Headquarters during Earth Hour, 30 March 2020, from 8.30pm - 9.30pm.
On the night of Earth Hour, people from 190 countries and territories took part digitally and at home in solidarity with people and our planet.
Infineon Singapore has been participating in Earth Hour since 2012.

Infineon Cares

Infineon Cares is an initiative about Infineon’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) focusing on our voluntary social commitment in Singapore. We believes in improving lives. Our commitment towards promoting environmental initiatives and education will create sustainable impact to the society that we operate in. In addition to monetary and material donations, the commitment of our employees can be expressed in voluntary activities. Infineon making life easier, safer and greener.

Employee volunteering and monetary contribution 2019

Infineon Cares organized the first experiential lunch date for employees to taste food prepared by people with special needs at Association for Persons with Special Needs (APSN) Mystical Cafe, thereby gave these individuals the opportunity to practice as well the confidence to serve the public when they graduate from the school. Employees also had the chance to work alongside with these individuals to understand the challenges they face in their daily lives and be inspired by their determinations to overcome their physical and mental limitations to bring values to their life and society.

This year’s Earth Hour Week aimed to inculcate 3R (reduce, reuse and recycle) habits and mindset by volunteers conducting DIY workshops for fellow employees to re-use old materials, such as T-shirts, to make into another useful items, such as tote bags. Hence, giving their old items a new lease of life.

As part of the Earth Hour Week celebration, Infineon Asia Pacific supported the signature Earth Hour lights-off event by switching off the lights of the Singapore offices for an hour during Earth Day.

Earth Hour 2019
Earth Hour 2019
Earth Hour 2019

During the weekend prior to Singapore National Day, Infineon participated in the ComChest HeartString Walk 2019 with more than 200 employees and family members to raise fund for charity causes as well as to accompany more than 50 seniors from Loving Heart Multiservice for the 4km walk around Marina Bay Sands area. This is the 3rd year Infineon Cares participated in the event.

Infineon Cares Walk
Infineon Cares Walk
Infineon Cares Walk

Instead of the regular clean up activity at Kallang Riverside Park, this year Infineon Cares sponsored 6 kayaks with the proceeds raised from last year’s 3R flea market to commemorate the 3-year partnership with Waterway Watch Society (WWS). With these kayaks, WWS can run more corporate and school events to raise fund for its conservation work at Kallang Riverside.

Kallang Riverside Cleanup
Kallang Riverside Cleanup
Kallang Riverside Cleanup

Infineon Cares marked the third year anniversary in Nov 2019 with the annual 3R Year End Charity Flea Market. Employees flexed their creativity muscles to make handicrafts from recycle materials, such as cardboard stools, mix & match recyclable carpets, bio-friendly enzyme as washing detergent and assortments of crochet handicrafts. Management also contributed their creative artworks for sales. Social enterprise, Bettr Barista, was invited to the event to share about their missions to create jobs for the disadvantaged and employees had the chance to taste the Latte, Cappuccino, Mocha and assorted tea served by their beneficiaries. Infineon Cares successfully raised more than $6k from the event

Singapore Flea Market 2019
Singapore Flea Market 2019
Singapore Flea Market 2019
Infineon Cares 3rd Anniversary Flea Market
Infineon Cares 3rd Anniversary Flea Market
Infineon Cares 3rd Anniversary Flea Market

Comchest HeartStrings Fun Walk 2017

On 9th September 2017, a group of Infineon employees along with their family members participated in the Comchest HeartStrings Walk. The Comchest HeartStrings Walk aims to invite all Singaporeans to walk as one to show care and support for an inclusive nation. More than 80 employees and family members signed up.

ComChest Heartstrings Walk 2017
ComChest Heartstrings Walk 2017
ComChest Heartstrings Walk 2017

Corporate Citizenship Effort in Infineon Singapore

Infineon Cares is a volunteer committee in Infineon Singapore that aims to address the needs of the community by means of volunteerism and fund raising in various forms (in kind, cash and skills).

ComChest Heartstrings Walk 2017
ComChest Heartstrings Walk 2017
ComChest Heartstrings Walk 2017

Infineon Cares is proud to partner with Community Chest (ComChest), which is an arm of Singapore National Council of Social Service (NCSS), whose mission is to raise funds for more than 80 charity organisations in Singapore. These charity organisations are then able to do what they are best at – providing social service programmes to help children with special needs, people with disabilities, frail and lonely seniors and families facing difficulties.

Since November 2016, Infineon Singapore has also signed up as a partner of SHARE as One program that offers a platform for Singapore employees to donate regularly to ComChest to help the less fortunate. By consolidating donations from our employees under SHARE as One, the government will provide dollar-for-dollar matching (up to $20,000) for 3 years starting from 1st April 2016. For more information, click here.

ComChest Heartstrings Walk 2017
ComChest Heartstrings Walk 2017
ComChest Heartstrings Walk 2017

To further strengthen our partnership, a group of Infineon Singapore employees together with their family members, supported the ComChest HeartStrings Walk 2017 on 9th Sept 2017, organised by ComChest and Marina Bay Sands, that aimed to bring all parts of the community, corporations, volunteers and beneficiaries for a fun Saturday morning walk around Marina Bay to support the cause for an inclusive society.

Keep Clean! Singapore 2017

On 27th May 2017, Infineon Singapore supported the national campaign of keeping Singapore clean by performing litter picking at Kallang Riverside Park. 45 employees participated in this event with their family members and collectively gathered 61kg litter (20kg – recyclable, 41kg – non-recyclable). Environmental conservation is one of the cause that Infineon Cares supports, especially to create a clean, safe and conducive environment for our employees and the community near the company’s premise. This is aligned with Infineon’s global corporate citizenship direction to support environmental initiatives that creates awareness on the importance to protect the environment and the ecosystems.

Despite the strict rules in Singapore, there are still litters at public areas, such as housing estates, gardens, beaches, car parks, hawker centres, streets, drains and so forth. Complacency is the likely reason for Singapore's litter woes. In a study done by National Environment Agency from 2009 to 2010, 4 out of 10 people in Singapore said they would litter out of convenience or if they knew they could get away with it. Experts say that when people know there will be cleaners to pick up after them, they become too lazy to do the right thing. Commonly found litters in Singapore are tissue papers, cigarette butts, flyers, receipts, unfinished food items, food wrappers, Styrofoam, aluminium cans and plastic bags. Hence, it is important to have regular clean-up activities by the community and companies so as to inculcate the habit of cleanliness.

The 'Keep Singapore Clean' campaign was launched in 1968 by then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. The month-long campaign aims to make Singapore the cleanest and greenest city in the region by addressing the problem of inconsiderate littering. This is now an annual ground-up movement led by The Public Hygiene Council (PHC). Starting from this activity, Infineon Singapore has adopted Kallang Riverside Park as its Bright Spot, which the company will take ownership of the cleanliness of the place and help to educate cum encourage good practices amongst the community.

Infineon Cares volunteers pick up litter at Kallang Riverside
Infineon Cares volunteers pick up litter at Kallang Riverside
Infineon Cares volunteers pick up litter at Kallang Riverside
A fun and meaninful clean up activity at kallang riverside park
A fun and meaninful clean up activity at kallang riverside park
A fun and meaninful clean up activity at kallang riverside park

Earth Hour Week 2017

Infineon Singapore celebrated the Earth Hour with a week long of activities that were held during Mar 20 – 25 2017. The aim of this year’s activities is to create lasting impact by encouraging habits that care for the environment; such as walking and cycling as sustainable modes of transport, no plastic and styrofoam in Infineon Singapore caferias from Mar 20 onwards and planting trees at the national park to green the city. As the world stands at a climate crossroads, it is powerful yet humbling to think that our actions today will decide what tomorrow will look like for future generations. Therefore it is important for everyone to adopt green as a way of life. This is aligned with Infineon core business of making life easier, safer and greener.

Employees in front of steps challenge slide
Employees in front of steps challenge slide
Employees in front of steps challenge slide

Department Steps Challenge

171 employees participated in the Department Steps Challenge that took place between Mar 20 – 22. Head of Departments set good examples for their employees by being the mandatory participants in their teams. During the 3-day challenge, employees took the stairs instead of lifts, walked to the nearest lunch place instead of driving and walked to their colleagues’ desk for discussion instead of sending messages. A total of 2.2 million steps were clocked by the participants, which was equivalent to 1,700 kilometers (assuming average 76cm/step) and had reduced 250g CO2 emission (based on the emission of Toyota Corolla Altis 1.6 at 151g CO2/km). The winner for the steps challenge is IFAP F AFT led by Wong Shwu Fung Lynn that clocked 173,010 step counts. Infineon Cares hopes the employees will continue to walk for greener and healthier lifestyle.

 

Safe Cycling Campaign

Cycling is an enjoyable and sustainable mode of transport to the office. Land Transport Authority and Safe Cycling Federation shared with Infineon Singapore employees the traffic rules to observe and safety measures while cycling during the commemorative event on Mar 24. Obike, a Singapore-based bike sharing start up, showcased their solution for easy bike renting from the nearest MRT and shoping mall. While bicycle vendor, AXSports, offered attractive staff discounts to Infineon employees that wish to own bicycles. Infineon management supported this activity by installing bicycle racks and painting of cycling tracks inside the premises, as well as having shower facilites at Kallang Sector and 168 Kallang Way for employees to freshen up. All these work towards a more sustainable commute.

 

No Plastic Day

The average time for a plastic bottle to completely degrade is at least 450 years. Hence from Mar 20 onwards, Sail Deck and Sky Café styrofoam food containers & plastic cutleries will be replaced with biodegradable ones. Infineon Cares supported this initiative and sponsored the cost of the biodegradable containers during Earth Hour Week. Thereafer, employees are charged additional cost for takeaway to support the green initiative to reduce takeout waste.

Plant a tree outing at woodlands park connector
Plant a tree outing at woodlands park connector
Plant a tree outing at woodlands park connector

Plant a Tree

Plant-A-Tree Program is managed by Garden City Fund (NPark) that was established in 2002 under our founding patron, Mr Lee Kuan Yew. The program is a platform for organisations and individuals to actively participate in the greening of our city in a garden by planting trees. Infineon Cares donated to Garden City Fund with 50% of the fund collected from 3R flea market held in Dec'16 together with generous sponsorships from senior management of Infineon Singapore. Around 50, employees together with their family members, joined Infineon Cares in caring for our environment. The group planted 15 trees at Woodlands Park Connector, which remained as a permanent reminder of their contributions to the environment.

About Earth Hour:

Earth Hour is a worldwide movement organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). The event is held annually, which households and businesses turn off their non-essential lights for one hour, from 8:30pm to 9:30pm. Infineon Singapore switched off all lights and 17 servers from its compute server farm, as well as the company's roof top signage, during that hour.

Infineon Cares and Teck Ghee CC Lego™ BrickArt Camp on 11 March 2017 Nurturing our youths interest in STEM through Lego™ BrickArt Camp 3/29/2017

On 11 March Saturday, Infineon Cares committee organized a Lego™ BrickArt Camp togther with Teck Ghee Community Centre (CC). It was the first time we collaborated with Teck Ghee CC to promote interest in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) among the young in our society. Infineon Cares decided to partner with Teck Ghee Community Centre for this inaugural camp as they are actively promoting STEM in their community outreach programme and we have an existing link from one of our colleague doing community work there. This camp was opened to youth age 7 - 14 years old in the Teck Ghee CC vicinity and our own Infineon colleagues’ children. The aim of this camp was to nurture our youth to be excited about STEM through Lego™ building activities and to expose and get them excited on a Technology / Engineering career in future.

 

Children at an event
Children at an event
Children at an event

A total of about 40 youths participated in the camp together with volunteers and staff from Teck Ghee CC and our Infineon Volunteers. From the start of the camp our youths participants has no problem assimilating with Lego™ bricks and they soon started to get into building activties and challenges working as a team.

This event allow our youths from different background and culture to work as a team. It was through facilitated sessions, our youths were introduced subtle STEM topics such as ballon powered vehicle to cover the distance. Through creative and innovative thinking, they have to come up with designs that meet the challenges. Most important element for that day, our participants have lots of fun doing the activities.

Infineon cares and teck ghee cc lego brick art camp on 11 march 2017
Infineon cares and teck ghee cc lego brick art camp on 11 march 2017
Infineon cares and teck ghee cc lego brick art camp on 11 march 2017

The most important highlight on that day was a chance for the participants to experience our Smart Factory concept at level 3 168 Kallang Way. Robotics was the buzzword among the particpants that day as they get close and befriended one of them. Participants also got a chance to witness and experience our factory and it was certainly heartening to hear one participant mentioned: “I like to work in this company when I grow up“

The Lego™ BrickArt Camp is one of the activties that Infineon Cares organised in our Education outreach programme to promote STEM. There will be more of such activties in the pipeline for rest of this calender year. We seek your support and welcome volunteers to our future Infineon Cares Education programme.

2017 Flash Back

Programs

3R Flea Market 2017

The much anticipated 3R (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) Year End Charity Flea Market will take place in Nov'17. We aim to raise SG$5k fund for Horseshoe Crab Rescue & Research Program by Nature Society (50%) and ComChest SHARE as One (50%) by you donating your pre-loved items for resale.

The proceeds from the activity will help rescue trapped wildlife and assist the less privileged in the community.

Achivements

3R Year End Charity Flea Market:

$6,362.80 was raised for Horseshoe Crab Rescue & Research Program by Nature Society (50%) and ComChest SHARE as One (50%)

 

NTUC Book Donation Drive:

>600 books collected for distribution to needy students nationwide

 

Hack-A-Toy:

15 battery powered toys were modified for children with special needs

 

 

Race to Praise 2017

In conjunction with Children’s Day celebration on 6th Oct, Infineon Cares is supporting the Race to Praise campaign that encourages parents to affirm their children for qualities beyond classroom and celebrate their everyday achievements.

The objectives of the campaign are:

1. Initiate preventive measures against unhealthy stress and other behavioral problems among children

2. Encourage parents to play an intentional role in affirming and nurturing resilience in their children

Each employee will get a praise coupon during 2 Oct - 6 Oct, 2017. Your department secretary will collect on your behalf.

Let's praise our children, nieces and nephews today!

Use Your Power to build a Better Tomorrow

Light were switched off at the Asia Pacific Headquarters during Earth Hour, 30 March 2020, from 8.30pm - 9.30pm.
On the night of Earth Hour, people from 190 countries and territories took part digitally and at home in solidarity with people and our planet.
Infineon Singapore has been participating in Earth Hour since 2012.