| Environmental Policy |
KLA-Tencor Corporation is committed to complying with all applicable regulatory and other requirements regarding the Environment and preventing pollution worldwide. KLA-Tencor Corporate Environmental, Health, Safety and Risk (EHS/Risk) Department is responsible for oversight of compliance. We regularly evaluate the aspects of company operations that impact the environment. Aspects for improvement are selected based on changes in the regulatory environment, costs, degree of impact, interest of stakeholders and potential return on investment. Management reviews progress towards mitigating adverse environmental impacts, appropriate actions are taken to ensure the success of those projects that are ongoing, and new projects are selected to further improve our environmental performance. KLA-Tencor has been registered to the ISO 14001 standard since 2003 and continues to improve on its environmental programs. Each year the company evaluates its impacts (aspects) on the environment and identifies those aspects over which we have sufficient control then establish goals and objectives to reduce our environmental impacts. Since the inception of the Environmental Management System, KLA-Tencor continues to address the issue of solid waste production in our manufacturing facilities. Through a series of recycling, education programs and hard work from our Corporate Facilities and Real Estate department, we are proud to report an 80% diversion rate of solid waste away from landfills in our main campus in Milpitas, California. The California Integrated Waste Management Board has recognized KLA-Tencor’s efforts and has awarded KLA-Tencor with a waste reduction award (WRAP Award) for the last 5 years. With the consolidation of the San Jose campus and 2 smaller local facilities into the Milpitas campus, our goal is to continue our recycling and diversion efforts to meet or exceed an 80% diversion rate through the transition and into 2011. Design for EHS As the world's leading supplier of process control and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related microelectronics industries, our products are designed to meet the forward looking challenges not only of technology, but of environmental, health and safety as well. Our design teams are trained in a full complement of regulatory and compliance related subjects that address these requirements . Some of the standards include: SEMI S23 (Guide for Conservation of Energy, Utilities, and Materials used by Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment), RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances and Management Methods for Controlling Pollution Caused by Electronic Information Products Regulation), WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) and hundreds more. In 2009 KLA-Tencor tested 90% of our most energy consuming tools with the plan to develop future tools that are more efficient. By then end of 2010, 100% of our most energy consuming tools will be evaluated and have baseline energy requirements available. Corporate Packaging The KLA-Tencor Packaging Engineering department has made efforts to improve our environmental impact as well. KLA-Tencor Waste Reduction Efforts of Product Packaging:
Semi Global Care™ Global Care is a semiconductor and equipment industry initiative designed to establish a framework on which the diverse membership of SEMI can build and strengthen commitment to the environment, health and safety (EHS). The commitment is based on five key principles: Workplace Health and Safety, Resource Conservation, Product Stewardship, Community Service and (program) Excellence. Success Story KLA-Tencor Corporation is committed to reducing the electrical load on the California energy grid in an effort to minimize our carbon footprint. KLA-Tencor Corporate Facilities is responsible for monitoring and reducing high energy characteristics of all building equipment and layouts. We are constantly striving to curtail our electrical growth by implementing equipment design programs, enhancing building controls, and installing new energy efficient equipment. In an effort to reduce our carbon footprint, we worked closely with PG&E on our Milpitas Campus energy project. This project involved proven energy saving ideas such as a centralized chilled water plant, variable frequency drives and smart building controls to reduce our carbon footprint by 2,429 tons of CO2 per year, comparable to eliminating 519 cars off the road. Data Centers are proven to be large energy consumers. Servers in this day and age require a significant amount of energy to run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This, combined with the cooling necessary to keep these servers operating, makes Data Centers a top priority for energy efficiency. The KLA-Tencor Data Center project separated the room into a hot and cold aisle configuration, allowing this hot air to be ducted straight to the cooling system. As more hot air is ducted, the cooling units operate more efficiently, allowing for previously used units to be de-commissioned. This project saved us approximately 110 tons of CO2 per year. A look into the future: KLA-Tencor continues to strive for energy conservation excellence. Solar and alternative energies may become a viable option as company awareness and power costs increase. Solar has been considered in the past but money allocation to other energy projects have yielded a much larger carbon reduction per dollar spent. It was in KLA-Tencor’s and the environments best interest to use the money on projects such as the Milpitas campus energy project. In 2010, we are driving toward reducing our Bay Area energy usage down by 18% from 2009 usage. For more info, please contact Vince Staub, Sr. Director, EHS & Risk: Phone: (408) 875-3008 KT- Israel: Environmental.KTIsrael@kla-tencor.com Confidential Tip Number: (888) 278-3169 |