TY  - EJOU
AU  - 
T1  - Incorporating Pollution Taxes and/or Subsidies into Master Planning in Semiconductor Foundry Plants
T2  - International Journal of Management and Sustainability

PY  - 2017
VL  - 6
IS  - 1
SN  - 2306-0662

AB  - The continued development of manufacturing industries along with increasing greenhouse gas emissions has become a critical concern that forces mankind to reduce global warming. Given the long atmospheric lifetimes of Perfluorocarbons (PFCs), it is especially important to reduce the emissions of PFCs which are commonly found in the semiconductor industry. In this study, we propose four master planning models that incorporate pollution taxes, subsidies, and/or progressive pollution taxes into capacity allocation to examine the problem of anthropogenic PFC emissions. The results show that master planning with subsidies and/or progressive taxes provides more flexibility to a foundry plant than that with flat taxes only. Setting emission limits and considering taxation for master planning is the first step toward the success of an environmental policy.  
KW  - Master planning
KW  - Pollution tax
KW  - Subsidy
KW  - Environmental
KW  - policy
KW  - Linear programming
KW  - Sustainable supply chain.
DO  - 10.18488/journal.11.2017.61.8.22