EDWARDS AND THE ENVIRONMENT

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Our Commitment We will be the leader in the field of vacuum pumping and abatement by applying technology, products and services to benefit the environment for future generations. Edwards is committed to excellence in the management of the environment and there is no higher priority for us. • Over our product’s lifecycle we are Green House Gas or Carbon equivalent negative, in other words our abatement products destroy compounds that have a very high global warming potential. • Our technologies enable the manufacturing of a wide range of environmental products - vacuum is essential for the production of solar cells and solid state lighting. • When our products need replacing we offer ways to refurbish them for reuse – we already refurbish 35,000 of them each year. At the end of their life cycle, our vacuum products are disassembled so that their primary materials are recycled keeping them out of landfills. • We’re also investing in new facilities that meet or exceed environmental norms and changing the ways we work. Read on to find out how we are doing it... and see our website for live updates on our progress. Matthew Taylor - CEO, Edwards Our Policy & Goals We are committed to constantly improving our environmental systems and our performance. • Climate change —— Reduce our products’ energy consumption —— Working to SEMI, ITRS & S23 guidelines* —— Reduce our emissions —— Reduce our customers’ emissions • Resource Conservation —— Reduce/Reuse/Recycle —— Reduce hazardous content of our products —— Remanufacturing & Service * SEMI = Semiconductor Equipment & Materials International ITRS = International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors S23 = Guide for conservation of energy, utilities and materials used by semiconductor manufacturing equipment
Our Aims To support these aims, we have published a set of Green Goals covering our plans to reduce the impact of our operations of our products. We will … • Reduce our customers’ carbon footprints through the use of our products - by providing equipment to abate our customers’ emissions and introducing high efficiency vacuum and abatement products. • Reduce the carbon intensity of our operations. • Reduce waste - from our facilities, eliminating all waste to landfill - and by enabling the reuse of our products through service and remanufacture. • Reduce water usage at our facilities. Strong environmental systems in place • Major sites certified to ISO14001 —— International standard for environmental management systems. • Member of Electronic Industries Citizenship Coalition (EICC) —— An electronics industry scheme to improve the social, economic and environmental conditions of the industry and its supply chain. • Member of SEMI Global Care —— Semiconductor industry program encouraging improvement and excellence in environment, safety and product stewardship. • Member of the International Sematech Manufacturing Initiative (ISMI) —— World-wide collaborative program dedicated to cooperatively finding and implementing the most cost-effective, environmentally-friendly manufacturing processes and procedures. • Member of Mayday Network —— UK’s largest group of businesses committed to taking action on climate change. • Contributing to case studies, such as the Special Report on GHG Management and Reporting, with Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) the professional membership body for promoting best practice standards in environmental management, auditing and assessment for all industry sectors.
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