ROHM announced the completion of a new building at their Apollo Chikugo plant, started in February 2019, to enhance the production capacity of SiC power devices. The new building is a state-of-the-art, environmentally friendly factory that introduces a number of energy-saving technologies to its production facilities, with 100% of its electricity coming from renewable energy sources. In addition, ROHM has strengthened their BCM system by introducing various disaster countermeasures. In January 2021, the company began installing production equipment and building a manufacturing system to meet the medium- to long-term increases in demand for SiC power devices. In addition to this new building, SiCrystal GmbH, a ROHM Group company that manufactures SiC wafers, is scheduled to start operating with 100% renewable energy from the next fiscal year, reducing CO2 emissions from purchased power at the plant to zero. As a result, all major production processes for SiC wafers will use environmentally friendly renewable energy.