Company: ALGN
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001097149-25-000021
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Company: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form: DEF 14A
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 recurring practices and renewable or recyclable materials into our business operations and products in ways that help manage the impact of our operations, mitigate risk, reduce costs and increase stockholder value.

We have embarked on a multi-year strategy to advance resilient and enduring operational initiatives to mitigate risks to our operations and the communities in which we operate and that we serve. This includes:

• Expanding our capabilities to assess and comply with emerging domestic and international regulations governing the ecological impacts of our operations.

• Obtaining limited assurance of our 2023 Scope 1 & 2 greenhouse gases (“GHG”) emissions, water and waste data by a third-party auditor.

• Publishing our Financial Year 2023 Sustainability Report, which was issued in compliance with Swiss law. A copy of the report can be found in the Corporate Social Responsibility section of our website.

• Evaluating the ecological and social impacts of our operations through a Double Materiality Assessment as we prepare to comply with reporting obligations under the European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive as early as 2026.

As we continue to evaluate our global sustainability and operating risks and impacts, we have various research, development, and operational initiatives underway.

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• Energy Consumption and Generation. We believe it is important to diversify our sources of energy to mitigate overdependence on any particular form of energy. This includes:

◦ Renewable Electricity Procurement . Clean energy programs and renewable energy credits comprised 47% of our total electricity consumption in 2024. Grid-supplied electricity for our San Jose campus is sourced from 100% renewable energy, and we are advancing efforts to further maximize the use of renewable energy sources across global operations where economically feasible and in furtherance of our efforts to avoid dependence on any one form of energy.

◦ Energy Generation . We utilize on-site solar PV systems as one of several means to reduce our reliance on grid-supplied electricity. In 2024, we installed three additional PV systems. In total, our PV systems generated 2,941 MWh of electricity in 2024.

• Strategically Leveraging Proximity and Smart Building Design. We continue to diversify operating risks, bring operations closer to our customers, and reduce shipping and transportation costs. This includes the expansion of our Wroclaw, Poland operations to speed delivery of our products to customers in Europe, Africa and portions of Asia while reducing shipping costs and ecological impacts. In addition, Wroclaw, Poland continues to maintain its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold