Sustainable Future
As part of our drive to be better, we have set a goal to use 100% renewable electricity across our global operations by 2030.
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Advancing Humanity
Since our founding, KLA has used our expertise and innovative thinking to overcome monumental challenges and improve lives. We continue to advance humanity with technologies and ideas that inspire action by making strides in leadership, opportunity, innovation and stewardship.
Focused on Driving Sustainable Profitability and Growth
Our Areas of Impact
Advancing Leadership
~85%
VP promotions are from within KLA
Our solutions move industries forward, but our people make it happen. We empower today’s leaders—and tomorrow’s—by infusing our foundational values into everything we do.
Advancing Innovation
15%
of revenue invested annually to R&D over the past 4 years
Through significant investment in research and development, KLA makes the best use of our diverse ideas, collaborative teams and passion for excellence to advance innovation and tackle our customers’ most complex problems.
Advancing Opportunity
$8.5M
total community giving in 2020
We strive to help build a world where everyone can reach their full potential. That means keeping our employees healthy and happy, nurturing an ethical, inclusive and diverse culture, strengthening our communities, and ensuring that we uphold human rights and safe working conditions across our supply chain.
Advancing Stewardship
52%
of company-wide waste is diverted from landfills
By introducing programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, conserve water and decrease waste streams we’re advancing stewardship and shaping a more sustainable future.
Our ESG Journey
Proactively managing our environmental, social and governance (ESG) impacts is an integral part of our mission to advance humanity. Our ESG strategy serves as a roadmap to get us there—informing our decisions, holding us accountable for progress within our business and our communities, and helping our customers achieve their own ESG goals.
We are on a journey to continually improve our understanding of the evolving ESG topics most relevant to KLA, manage them accordingly, and drive improvements in our performance. As part of our drive to be better, we have set a goal to use 100% renewable electricity across our global operations by 2030. Looking ahead, we will continue to build out our long-term ESG strategy with an eye toward further reducing our climate impact, increasing disclosure and deepening the positive impact we deliver through our business and community engagement.
Global Impact Report
Making an impact that contributes to advancing humanity has long been a part of the KLA DNA, and we remain committed to our purpose in everything we do — through leadership, opportunity, innovation and stewardship.
KLA Foundation
The KLA Foundation is committed to advancing humanity by investing in our communities to create a more equitable, inclusive and accessible world. The Foundation focuses on three critical areas: education, health and wellness, and community enrichment.
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We quickly invest resources in our communities impacted by disasters.
We help advance food, education, health and housing equity through our Social Equity Fund.
We support the STEM education pipeline through our partnership with FIRST Robotics and our annual RoboGames.