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Largest private employer in Malta, with 2,279 employees; 30% are graduate engineers or highly specialized technicians.
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Capital investment in Malta since 1981 totals US$681 million.
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ST provides 55% of the country’s total domestic exports.
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Winner of the 2000 award for Achievement in Industry and the 2001 Management Award for Sustainability.
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With such a large presence on this small Mediterranean island ST is a prominent member of the Maltese community. The plant, a showcase for industry, is high on the list of attractions for visitors, ranging from secondary school and university students to engineering and business management executives.
ST is involved in many social and educational initiatives that in small ways make a real difference to the everyday lives of the people. These include employees organizing donor campaigns to the hospital’s blood bank, and a whole range of environmental activities.
ST specialists lecture at the University in engineering electronics and business management, technologies and work practices. The Company also organizes a reading room in the university library. ST is regularly asked to support local, private and state organizations in their introduction of the TQM culture, as well as other successful ST corporate policies.
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Among the Top Three employers in Morocco; largest foreign employer.
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4,434 employees.
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Capital investment in Morocco totals US$445 million.
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Winner of the Moroccan Government Nationa Quality Award in 2000.
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Winner of the Hassan II Award for Outstanding Contribution to Environmental Protection in 1999.
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We have three assembly and test plants in Morocco located at Ain Sebaa and Bouskoura near Casablanca. The recently opened Bouskoura 2000, when fully equipped will be the most advanced back-end semiconductor plant in the world in terms of equipment and technology and will eventually represent a capital investment in Morocco of US $300 million.
ST enjoys a long and mutually beneficial relationship with the people of Morocco. The Company is deeply committed to the welfare of the city’s youth, especially the underprivileged, and donates medical, school and computer equipment to neighborhood schools, hospitals and orphanages. ST also sponsors holiday camps for children of employees, and negotiates special interest rates for home loans with local banks.
ST has strong links with the country’s universities and institutes of higher learning and is an important source of employment for newly qualified graduates. Educational initiatives include:
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the sponsoring and training of hundreds of young technicians and engineers by providing work experience at ST’s three sites in Casablanca; |
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the creation of a micrcroelectronics design center at EMI, one of the country’s best known engineering schools; |
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ST leads a program at the American University of AlAkhawayne, in semiconductor manufacturing technologies. A project, coordinated by ST, is underway between the University of AlAkhawayne and the University of Malta to cooperate on university-level teaching in technical disciplines; |
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ST sponsors new microelectronics departments within Moroccan institutes of higher learning. Initiatives include the provision of a university-level microelectronics course; the training of Moroccan university professors at ST in Grenoble in France; and the organization of practical, ‘hands-on’ training at ST’s design center at the University of Rabat. |
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Largest industrial fab employer in South Italy with 4,084 employees; 88% have diplomas or university degrees.
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208 patents from engineers and scientists at the Catania site have been registered in the United States.
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In Catania, “Etna Valley” is becoming as well known as the trailblazing Silicon Valley in California, with ST’s Sicilian success serving as a catalyst to regional development. Other companies, including IBM, Nokia, Magneti Marelli, have been attracted by the infrastructure, services and contacts with public and academic institutions that ST has built over the years and they have now established their own local research and development centers.
Some 60 businesses have been founded to serve the local high technology industry, employing over 2,000 people. In addition to the direct and indirect employment, the presence of a major global enterprise has fuelled the creation of an essential network of relationships with Italian and foreign research centers, professional experts and local enterprises, thereby supplying the fundamental conditions for economic growth.
ST has strong links with the University of Catania and is, by far, the largest local source of employment for graduates. On site, ST hosts research laboratories for the CNR IMM, the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Microelettronica e Microsistemi and for SuperLab, the Laboratory for Surfaces and Interphasis, run by the consortium Catania Ricerche, which includes the University of Catania and other research institutions.
In 2001, ST University’s Catania campus was opened to local business, engineering and governmental communities, making available the Company’s expertise in technical, marketing and TQM disciplines - an important contribution to improving local industrial culture.
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