Our Vision: Do more while using less.
Our shared natural resources are essential to human and environmental health. They’re also critical in fueling Lam’s innovation pipeline. To continue delivering benefits for our company and society over the long term, we seek to find ways to conserve these resources, even as Lam’s business grows.
In our R&D and manufacturing processes, we strive to practice responsible water and waste management. We prioritize energy efficiency as we expand our operations and design new products. These factors serve as building blocks to achieve our sustainable operations goals, which include achieving net zero emissions by 2050.
Focus areas
Climate and energy
Along our path to net zero, we strive to address emissions across Lam’s value chain. This includes emissions generated by our supply chain, our operations, and the use and impact of our products.
Water
Our business relies on high-quality water. By investing in new water-saving technologies and efficiency upgrades, we’re working to find ways to make better use of this precious resource.
Waste
Through collaboration, we aspire to improve manufacturing efficiency and employ strong waste management practices. We seek to embed sustainable design principles to move toward a circular future.
Biodiversity
We recognize that biodiversity and ecosystem services enable our business to operate and that there is potential for our direct operations and supply chain to have impacts on biodiversity.
Climate and energy
Together, we are advancing Lam’s path to net zero
Along our path to net zero, we strive to address each aspect of Lam’s value chain emissions. This includes emissions generated by our supply chain, our operations, and the use and impact of our products.
As we advance climate action, we aspire to align with science-based best practices. Lam was the first U.S.-based semiconductor equipment manufacturer to receive the Science Based Targets initiative’s (SBTi) approval for our near-term greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions-reduction goals. The SBTi’s Target Validation Team re-validated Lam’s Scope 1 and 2 target as being in line with a 1.5°C trajectory—the most ambitious SBTi designation available. We also strive to engage our suppliers and customers worldwide to support them in setting science-based targets (SBTs) of their own.
Lam is a founding member of the Semiconductor Climate Consortium, the first global, ecosystem-wide collaborative of semiconductor companies dedicated to reducing the industry’s GHG emissions.
We are also a founding member of the Energy Collaborative, a joint initiative created by SEMI and the Semiconductor Climate Consortium.
Addressing each scope
Each part of Lam’s value chain presents unique emissions-reduction challenges and opportunities to make progress toward our net zero goal. To achieve progress on all fronts, we emphasize innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Here’s how we’re working to drive reductions across each scope:
Our Scope 1 (direct) emissions make up a relatively small part of our carbon footprint and are a result of Lam’s operational activities, such as R&D, customer demonstrations, and manufacturing. Key contributors include process chemistries, natural gas consumption, and refrigerants. To address them, we’re focused on optimizing our processes, products, and facilities to make them more energy- and resource-efficient.
Goal: By the end of 2030, reduce absolute Scope 1 and 2 (market-based) GHG emissions by 46.2% from a 2019 baseline
✓ SBTi approved1
Our Scope 2 (market-based, indirect) emissions make up a relatively small portion of our carbon footprint and occur from electricity purchased to power Lam’s offices, manufacturing facilities, and labs. To address Scope 2 emissions, we are working to maximize energy efficiency through capital and strategic energy management projects. We are also investing in large-scale projects to transition to renewable electricity—such as installing solar panels, as we have done at several sites—and purchasing renewable energy credits to offset our current emissions.
Goal: By the end of 2030, source 100% renewable electricity
✓ SBTi approved
Lam is a member of RE100, a global corporate renewable energy initiative led by the Climate Group that unites 400 large businesses for 100% renewable electricity.
Goal: Reduce Scope 3 emissions from use of sold products by 63.8% per USD value added by 2034 from a 2022 baseline.
Our Scope 3 (indirect) emissions make up the largest portion of our carbon footprint and are generated by activities in Lam’s supply chain and through product use. Because we have less control over these activities, it’s more difficult to measure and mitigate emissions. We also estimate that our products have an average lifetime of 25 years, and while a long lifetime supports circularity, it may increase our emissions related to product use. To address Scope 3 emissions, we are working to closely engage with our suppliers and customers to encourage and support them in establishing SBTs, reducing their climate impacts, and identifying opportunities to reduce energy and emissions associated with the use of our products.
Water
We make the most of this precious resource.
Water serves many purposes in semiconductor manufacturing. We use water for our chillers, house scrubbers, process cooling water systems, and soft water treatment plants. We share our water resources with communities and ecosystems that exist near Lam’s facilities around the world. With this in mind, we strive to manage water responsibly and sustainably.
Understanding water use worldwide
Lam operates in areas across the world, all of which have unique water-related risks, regulations, and challenges. In 2025, we conducted a water risk assessment, investigating local water risks and stressors and deepening our understanding of how our business impacts the communities and watersheds where we operate, particularly in water-stressed regions. Tailored to the unique circumstances and water needs in each region where we operate, our risk assessment considered the conditions of local watersheds, needs of communities, and terms of local regulations. This highly localized approach helps ensure we understand which watersheds need increased investment, where we can work with local nonprofits and governments, and how we can best contribute. In response to findings from the assessment, we undertook several new initiatives to help us better track and reduce our water use.
Practicing strong water stewardship
The first key to strong water stewardship is to ensure compliance, so we monitor our industrial wastewater and stormwater discharges in accordance with local regulatory requirements. Additionally, our Global Workplace Solutions team regularly explores new water-saving technologies and guides our facilities to invest in efficiency upgrades based on the results of water audits and emerging best practices. Often, we are able to repurpose process-based wastewater to support other areas of our operations.
Through sustainable water management initiatives, we strive to find new ways to do more while using less. For example, we recycle treated wastewater for house scrubbers and point-of-use abatement units and use brackish water for landscaping and fire suppression. We have implemented water recovery units in several of our abatement systems in California, and at our Lam subsidiary, Silfex—in Eaton and Springfield, Ohio—we have reduced wastewater through advanced cleaning and reclamation projects. Our Fremont, California, facility and our Korea Technology Center leverage systems for wastewater reclamation and recycling, as well as acid waste neutralization.
Goal: By the end of 2035, achieve 80 million gallons of water savings from a 2025 baseline
Waste
We’re exploring new ways to reduce and manage operational waste.
Through the development, manufacturing, and packaging of our products, Lam generates both non-hazardous and hazardous waste that we strive to divert from landfill and dispose of responsibly. We continually seek new ways to reduce and manage waste, actively monitoring our impact and engaging in industry initiatives to improve waste management practices throughout the value chain. Additionally, our ISO 14001 multi-site certification supports and reflects our efforts to reduce environmental impact.
Embracing circularity to manage non-hazardous waste
Most of the waste that Lam generates consists of non-hazardous materials such as wood pallets, cardboard and packaging, and municipal waste. With an eye toward circularity, we regularly seek to explore new ways to reduce, recover, reuse, and recycle these waste materials. We also work with a third party to audit and optimize our waste processes and engage our employees to support and advance waste-reduction practices. Examples of practices we have explored and implemented include the use of receptacles, signage, composting, and compacting.
Responsibly handling hazardous waste and diverting it from landfills
Hazardous waste that we generate primarily results from chemicals used in R&D. This waste can include lab debris and other corrosive or flammable byproducts. We manage hazardous waste carefully in our operations. Our preference is to recycle the waste where possible and divert it from landfills. Where feasible, we install onsite pretreatment systems to reduce the generation of hazardous waste. These systems typically require industrial wastewater permits before they discharge wastewater into publicly owned treatment facilities. In addition, as part of our environmental due diligence, we audit new and existing offsite hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities (TSDFs). We work to integrate the audit results into our overall TSDF selection and risk assessment process.
Proactive chemical management
We formed a working group led by Lam Environmental Health and Safety to develop a process for reviewing new chemicals that may pose high or unknown risks. This process includes conducting a process hazard analysis (PHA) when necessary. As part of the PHA, we identify chemicals and uses that have the potential to pose risks to facility employees, workers, the community, and the environment. We evaluate current safeguards and controls and implement additional controls to mitigate potential risks.
Lam’s chemical review process helps the teams to manage risks when installing new equipment, initiating new chemicals or processes, or updating existing systems. Our chemical management system keeps detailed records of where chemicals are stored and how they are used.
Lam works with staff and suppliers to help us prepare for regulatory changes.
Goal: Apply the EPA waste management hierarchy to all facilities by conducting thorough assessments of our top 80% of waste categories by mass to drive circular economy principles by 2030 from a 2025 baseline
Biodiversity
We recognize that biodiversity and ecosystem services enable our business to operate, and that there is potential for our direct operations and supply chain to have impacts on biodiversity.
To better understand our potential impacts, we conducted the company’s first high-level biodiversity assessment in 2024, which analyzed dependency and potential impact-related risks for our key manufacturing facilities, lab operations, and offices, as well as supplier locations. The assessment used a location-based approach, following the Locate, Evaluate, Assess, and Prepare (LEAP) methodology from the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures.
Amplifying our impact through employee-led action
Lam employees have a talent for sparking innovation. Across multiple continents, we engage our employees to support environmental action. From North America to Asia to Europe, employees drive initiatives forward to develop more efficient products and processes while minimizing waste.
In their local communities, employees join causes to help protect biodiversity, plant trees, and advocate for climate action. Many do so through the Lam Employee Sustainability Community (LESC), a global employee resource group that empowers participants to support sustainable change. By engaging and educating colleagues and increasing the visibility of Lam’s sustainability initiatives, LESC plays an important role in realizing environmental stewardship at Lam. We also hold annual Environmental Stewardship Awards to recognize employees’ sustainability-focused efforts and the important outcomes they have achieved.
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- We have revised our 2030 Scope 1 and 2 emissions-reduction target, due to ongoing due diligence revealing a need to adjust our baseline. The revised goal remains in line with SBTi expectations.