Citizenship Report

Last month, Applied was recognized as a finalist in the Computerworld Storage Networking awards for a green IT project that reduced the cost and improved the performance of one of our data storage environments.

Mission-critical applications, those systems deemed absolutely necessary to run a business, have to be stored in a reliable IT environment. For the past several years, Applied hosted these applications at a third-party data center. When our lease came up for renewal, we wanted a new system that would cost less and use less energy, while providing more performance.Read more

Earlier this week Applied Materials was selected as a recipient of Acterra’s 2010 Business Environmental Awards in the Sustainability-Large Company category.  Acterra is a Bay Area nonprofit organization that has focused upon the environment for 40 years.  Many of Acterra’s program focus upon educating and empowering individuals to take leadership roles in their communities, businesses and as volunteers at other nonprofits.  Applied Materials is proud to have been a supporter of Acterra for a number of years.Read more

In this past week Covalence (a Swiss company) released its annual Ethical Reputation Ranking of 581 multinational companies. Applied Materials was #77 on this list and technology companies dominated the top of the list with IBM at #1, Intel at #2, Xerox at #9 and Dell at #10.Read more

Ever wonder how much energy could be saved by a corporation if it set a goal. Or what about the amount of water saved in a year? The answers for these and other sustainability questions - as well as a peak into some of Applied's community achievements - can be found in Applied's recently published 2009 Citizenship Report.Read more