Company: BHE
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-051057
Chunk: 14

Company: BENCHMARK ELECTRONICS INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form: DEF 14A
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 Sustainability</div>

| The Company's Sustainability Council is responsible for leading our sustainability strategy and monitoring our corporate social responsibility and environmental sustainability initiatives. In addition, the Sustainability Council oversees Benchmark’s sustainability disclosures, including the production of its Sustainability Report (see www.bench.com/sustainability).The Sustainability Council includes cross-functional leadership and oversight from Finance, Operations, Human Resources, Facilities, Supply Chain, Marketing and Communications, Quality and Regulatory Compliance, and Legal. Additionally, six work groups have been established across the organization to work on Sustainability areas enterprise-wide and across business lines. These work groups include: a change management/communication work group, Responsible Business Alliance ("RBA)"/EcoVadis work group, a customer-focused work group, an environmental responsibility work group, a governance work group, and work groups for each of the four tenets of our ESG strategy: Environmental Responsibility, Our People, Our Community and Governance. The Nominating, Sustainability and Governance Committee of our Board of Directors oversees these efforts and assesses our performance against our agreed to objectives. The Company's Global Director of Sustainability, who leads programs to support our global sustainability strategy and further operationalize sustainability initiatives throughout our organization, reports to the SVP, General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer, with dotted line reporting to the VP, Quality Assurance Regulatory Affairs, and receives additional direction from the Sustainability Steering Committee. Through our sustainability reporting, we communicate transparently about how we prioritize and approach the topics most relevant to our business. Against this backdrop, we have, with the assistance of outside expertise, performed an assessment of key indicators and engaged with our internal and external stakeholders on sustainability topics to help further inform our future direction and priorities. The four tenets of our strategy are shown at right: |

| 13  Benchmark. Benchmark Electronics, Inc.     •    2025 Proxy Statement |

#### PROPOSAL 1 — ELECTION OF DIRECTORS
| 14  Benchmark. Benchmark Electronics, Inc.     •    2025 Proxy Statement |

#### PROPOSAL 1 — ELECTION OF DIRECTORS
Benchmark’s environmental strategy focuses on the following areas:

Energy Efficiency – Benchmark is continuously researching and designing innovative ways to save energy, such as utilizing high efficiency electrical equipment including LED lighting and HVAC units. Moreover, as mentioned above, all Benchmark manufacturing facilities are certified to ISO 14001:2015, the international standard that specifies requirements for an effective environmental management system.

Recycling – Benchmark’s efforts in this area include reusing and recycling materials, collaborating with customers