EDGAR 10-K Filing

Company CIK: 1101302
Filing Year: 2025
Filename: 1101302_10-K_2025_0001101302-25-000015.json

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ITEM 1. BUSINESS
Item 1. Business.
OUR COMPANY
Entegris, Inc. (“Entegris”, “the Company”, “us”, “we”, or “our”) is a leading supplier of critical advanced materials and process solutions for the semiconductor and other high-technology industries. We leverage our unique breadth of capabilities to help our customers improve their productivity, product performance and technology in the most advanced manufacturing environments.
Semiconductors, or integrated circuits, are key components in electronic devices that continue to change the way we live, communicate and work. Products and emerging applications such as artificial intelligence, high-performance and cloud computing, smartphones, wearable technology, self-driving vehicles, the Internet of Things, gaming and virtual reality, and smart healthcare will require faster, more powerful, more compact and more energy efficient semiconductors. We believe these trends, combined with existing applications, will drive long-term secular growth for semiconductors, with semiconductor sales reaching approximately $1 trillion by 2030, creating significant opportunities for our products.
To meet the demanding requirements of advanced products and applications, semiconductors have rapidly become increasingly complex, moving to smaller geometries and adopting new device architectures. These advancements are enabled by new and innovative materials and ensuring the purity of the materials and the cleanliness of wafers throughout the manufacturing process. We believe Entegris offers the industry’s most comprehensive electronic materials portfolio, with core capabilities in materials science and materials purity, and complementary solutions that enable faster time to yield. We believe these capabilities are critical enablers of our customers’ technology roadmaps. We expect these trends to translate into a higher served addressable market for our products and to expand Entegris’ content per semiconductor wafer, which we believe will allow us to achieve growth that outperforms our markets.
In the fourth quarter of 2024, the Company announced an internal reorganization, combining two complementary divisions into one and realigning its customer facing organization. Our business is now organized and operated in two operating segments as discussed below. The current annual and succeeding annual periods will disclose the reportable segments with prior periods recast to reflect the change. These segments share common business systems and processes, technology centers and technology roadmaps.
•The Materials Solutions segment, or MS, provides materials-based solutions, such as chemical vapor and atomic layer deposition materials, chemical mechanical planarization (“CMP”) slurries and pads, ion implantation specialty gases, formulated etch and clean materials, and other specialty materials that enable our customers to achieve better device performance and faster time to yield, while providing for lower total cost of ownership.
•The Advanced Purity Solutions segment, or APS, offers filtration, purification and contamination-control solutions that improve customers’ yield, device reliability and cost by ensuring the purity of critical liquid chemistries and gases and the cleanliness of wafers and other substrates used throughout semiconductor manufacturing processes, the semiconductor ecosystem and other high-technology industries.
With our complementary capabilities, we believe we are uniquely positioned to create new, co-optimized and increasingly integrated solutions for our customers, which should translate into improved device performance, lower cost of ownership and faster time to market. For example, we have the capabilities and core competencies to develop and co-optimize offerings solving customers’ complex manufacturing challenges across the deposition, CMP process and post-CMP modules, with solutions including advanced deposition materials, CMP slurries, pads and post-CMP cleaning chemistries (each from our MS segment), and CMP slurry filters, high-purity packaging and fluid monitoring systems (each from our APS segment).
ACQUISITIONS AND DIVESTITURES
On July 6, 2022, we completed the acquisition of CMC Materials, Inc. (now known as CMC Materials LLC) (“CMC Materials”). We acquired all of the issued and outstanding common shares of CMC Materials for $133.00 in cash and 0.4506 shares of our common stock per share, representing a total purchase price (inclusive of debt retired and cash assumed) of $6.0 billion (based on our closing price on June 30, 2022), including $3.8 billion in cash paid to CMC Materials’ shareholders, the issuance of 12.9 million shares of our common stock (excluding unvested CMC stock options and unvested CMC Materials restricted stock units, restricted shares and performance share units equity awards assumed), $0.9 billion of debt retired and approximately $0.3 billion of acquired cash. We financed the cash portion of the purchase price through debt financing.
On February 10, 2023, the Company terminated a definitive agreement to sell its Pipeline and Industrial Materials (“PIM”) business, which became part of the Company with the acquisition of CMC Materials, to Infineum USA L.P. At the time of the termination, the transaction had not received clearance under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976.
On March 1, 2023, the Company completed the sale of QED Technologies International, Inc. (“QED”), which became part of the Company with the acquisition of CMC Materials, to an affiliate of Quad-C Management, Inc. for $134.3 million.
On June 5, 2023, the Company terminated an Alliance Agreement (the “Alliance Agreement”) between the Company and MacDermid Enthone Inc., a global business unit of Element Solutions Inc (“MacDermid Enthone”). In connection with the termination of the Alliance Agreement, Entegris received net proceeds of approximately $191.2 million.
On October 2, 2023, the Company completed the sale of its Electronic Chemicals (“EC”) business to FUJIFILM Holdings America Corporation (“Fujifilm”) for $675.3 million. The EC business, which was a separate reporting unit within the MS reportable segment, was acquired by Entegris with the acquisition of CMC Materials in July 2022.
On March 1, 2024, the Company completed the sale of its Pipeline and Industrial Materials (“PIM”) business, to SCF Partners, Inc. The Company received gross cash proceeds of $263.2 million, or net proceeds of $256.2 million, and up to $25.0 million in cash earn-out payments contingent upon the performance of the PIM business in 2025 and 2026.
THE SEMICONDUCTOR ECOSYSTEM
The manufacture of semiconductors requires hundreds of highly complex and sensitive manufacturing steps, during which a variety of materials are repeatedly applied to a silicon wafer to build integrated circuits on the wafer surface. The areas of the semiconductor ecosystem that rely most heavily on our products and solutions are described below.
Photolithography. Photolithography, a process repeated during semiconductor fabrication, is used to print complex circuit patterns onto the wafer. During this process, the wafer is coated with a thin film of light-sensitive material, called photoresist. Light is projected to expose the photoresist, which is then developed to create a pattern. Our product offerings that are used throughout the photolithography process include:
•Liquid filtration, high-purity packaging and high-precision dispense systems designed to ensure the pure, accurate and uniform distribution of contamination-free photoresists onto the wafer, enabling manufacturers to achieve optimum yields in the manufacturing process; and
•Gas microcontamination control solutions designed to eliminate airborne contaminants that can disrupt effective photolithography processes.
Etch and Resist Strip. During the etch process, specific areas of thin film that have been deposited on the surface of a wafer are removed to leave a desired circuit pattern. After the etch process, the hardened resist must be completely removed and the etched area must be cleaned, which requires the use of high-purity chemicals. Several of our products are utilized during and after the etch process, including:
•Selective etch chemistries to enable high aspect ratio structures, such as 3D-NAND devices and gate-all-around (“GAA”) features;
•Formulated cleaning solutions to remove photoresists and post-etch residues;
•Filters and purifiers, which help to ensure the purity of formulated cleaning chemistries and to achieve desired yields in the etch processing steps; and
•Precision-engineered coatings to provide barriers to corrosive chemistries in the etch environment, protect surfaces of equipment components from erosion and minimize particle generation.
Deposition. Deposition is a process during which certain materials are transferred to the surface of a wafer. Deposition processes include physical vapor deposition, or PVD, chemical vapor deposition, or CVD, and atomic-layer deposition, or ALD. We provide products that are used during deposition processes and that are critical to enabling new device architectures. These products, which are designed to ensure device performance and achieve desired manufacturing yields, include:
•Advanced precursor materials, which are utilized to meet the semiconductor industry’s composition, uniformity and thickness requirements of deposited films; and
•Filtration and purification products, which are used to remove contaminants during the deposition process, consequently reducing defects on wafers.
Ion Implant. Ion implantation is a method repeated many times during semiconductor fabrication where dopants are introduced into a semiconductor wafer enhancing conductivity. Our products used during the ion implant process include:
•Implant process gases and mixtures in our Safe Delivery Source® (“SDS®”) and Vacuum Actuated Cylinders (“VAC®”) gas delivery systems, designed to ensure the safe, effective and efficient delivery of these materials; and
•Electrostatic chucks and proprietary low temperature plasma coating processes for core components, which are critical elements of ion implantation equipment.
Chemical Mechanical Planarization. CMP is a polishing process used by semiconductor manufacturers to planarize, or flatten, many of the layers of material that have been deposited on silicon wafers. Our offerings include:
•CMP slurries, used for polishing a wide range of materials used in semiconductors, including tungsten, dielectric materials, copper, tantalum (commonly referred to as “barrier”), molybdenum, aluminum, silicon carbide (“SiC”) and gallium nitride (“GaN”);
•CMP polishing pads, which are used in conjunction with slurries in the CMP process on a variety of polishing tools and wafers over a range of technology nodes and applications, including tungsten, copper, and dielectrics;
•Formulated cleaning chemistries, which remove residues from wafer surfaces after the CMP process;
•Filtration and purification solutions, which are used to remove select particles and contaminants from slurries and cleaning chemistries that can cause defects on a wafer’s surface; and
•Process monitoring and control equipment, which maintain the integrity of the CMP slurries.
Wafer and Reticle Transport. Our products, such as our front-opening unified pods (“FOUPs”), wafer transport and process carriers, standard mechanical interface pods (“SMIF pods”) and extreme ultraviolet (“EUV”) reticle pods, protect wafers and reticles from damage or abrasion and ensure purity during transportation and automated processing. Protection of processed wafers is essential to our customers because wafer processing involves hundreds of steps and can take several weeks, making the scrapping of damaged wafers very costly.
Chemical Handling. Semiconductor manufacturing and other high-technology manufacturing processes utilize large volumes of high-purity and hazardous chemicals. We provide solutions for the handling and ensuring the purity of such chemicals, including:
•Ultra-high purity chemical container products, such as drums, flexible packaging and associated coded connection systems, which are designed to maintain chemical purity, maximize utilization and ensure safe transport, containment and dispense of valuable, ultra-clean process fluids, from bulk chemical manufacturing to point-of-use in the manufacturing process; and
•Ultra-pure valves, fittings, tubings and sensing and control products, which are used to distribute these chemicals around the fab and in wet process tools.
Wafer and Package Testing. We develop and manufacture high-performance consumable products for cleaning advanced probe cards and test sockets at semiconductor manufacturing facilities and innovative polymer products for semiconductor fabs that improve front-end tool uptime and reduce operating costs.
INDUSTRY TRENDS
Emerging and Existing Applications. The market for semiconductors has grown significantly over the past few decades. Although there have been and will likely continue to be periodic downturns, as parts of the industry have been experiencing recently, we expect the long-term growth trend to continue. We believe that artificial intelligence, high-performance and cloud computing, smartphones, wearable technology, self-driving vehicles, the Internet of Things, gaming and virtual reality, and smart healthcare will drive growth in the demand for semiconductors, drive wafer starts and create significant opportunities for our products. Existing applications in data processing, wireless communications, broadband infrastructure, personal computers, handheld electronic devices and other consumer electronics are also expected to drive demand for semiconductors, and in turn, for our products.
Manufacturing Complexity and Device Architectures. Emerging applications require more powerful, faster and more energy-efficient semiconductors. In response, semiconductor architectures are changing and dimensions are shrinking, with transistor design increasing in complexity, the use of extreme ultraviolet lithography, multilayered patterning, and vertical structures such as FinFET, 3D NAND and GAA devices. These advanced technologies and architectures require more process steps, new and innovative materials and more sophisticated contamination control solutions. For example, leading-edge semiconductor manufacturers are moving towards atomic layer scale. These advanced materials need to be supplied and delivered at increasing levels of purity and control, from point-of-production to point-of-dispense on the wafer to improve and maximize yields and minimize the risk of defects. We believe that the increase in process steps in lithography, deposition, CMP, etching and cleaning required to manufacture leading-edge semiconductors will increase the overall demand for our solutions.
New and Advanced Materials. New and advanced materials have played a significant role in enabling improved device performance, and we expect this trend to continue. As dimensions get smaller, more novel materials will be required to enable transistor connectivity. Our portfolio of critical materials includes advanced deposition materials, implant gases, CMP slurries, formulated cleaning chemistries, selective etch chemistries and high-purity wet chemicals. We believe our portfolio addresses many of the challenges our customers face as they introduce more complex architectures and search for new materials to improve the performance of their devices.
Materials Purity. Contamination control in a semiconductor fab is crucial for achieving acceptable device yields as feature size decreases and 3D structures proliferate. Our advanced filtration and purification products and solutions for air, bulk or specialty gas, and wet chemicals are designed to reduce defects and enable higher yields for our customers. We also have solutions, such as FOUPs and high-purity drums, that ensure the purity of and protect critical materials throughout the fabrication process, allowing our customers to store, process and transport critical materials in ultra-pure environments throughout the manufacturing process. We believe that the trend for greater materials purity will provide opportunities for us to provide innovative materials management, filtration, purification, transport and process solutions to semiconductor customers.
Geopolitical Implications of the Semiconductor Industry. We have seen, and expect to continue to see, certain governments foster and bolster domestic semiconductor manufacturing and the broader semiconductor ecosystem. Examples include the United States (“U.S.”) and European Union (“EU”) CHIPS Acts and similar initiatives in Japan and Korea. We have been proactively developing a manufacturing strategy to better serve our global customers as they build new fabs in various countries and seek reliable local supply chain partners. Recent examples of this strategy include our new facilities located in Kaohsiung Science Park (“KSP”) in Taiwan and in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Our KSP site, which opened in May 2023, will be our largest manufacturing facility and will enhance our ability to serve our customers efficiently and effectively in Taiwan and other Asia Pacific locations. We continue to make progress on our new state-of-the-art Colorado Springs manufacturing facility, which we expect to start production in the second half of 2025. In December 2024, we announced that we entered into a definitive agreement providing for up to $77.0 million in funding under the CHIPS and Science Act in connection with our Colorado Springs facility, with installments of such award based on achievement of agreed-upon milestones. This new Colorado Springs facility is intended to increase our service levels to new fabs expected to be built in the U.S. and provide us with greater manufacturing resiliency in the form of enhanced business continuity plans.
See “Item 1A. Risk Factors” for a more detailed description of the geopolitical risks we face.
Reliance on Trusted Suppliers. Our customers require that their key materials suppliers demonstrate greater capabilities and resiliency in their processes, including sustainability, scalability, flexible manufacturing, quality control, supply chain management and the ability to effectively collaborate on solutions to problems. In response to these customer expectations, we seek to leverage our manufacturing, operational and technical capabilities, along with our broad technology portfolio, to become an increasingly important and strategic trusted partner to our customers. We have established tech centers and manufacturing capabilities in strategic locations to enable us to better collaborate with and serve our customers. Furthermore, as
we continue to achieve greater scale, for example, through the acquisition of CMC Materials, we believe we will better serve our customers, be able to invest more in engineering, research and development (“ER&D”) and bring complementary, co-optimized solutions to market faster than ever before.
Continued Consolidation. Our customer base within the semiconductor industry has consolidated in recent years through mergers and acquisitions. As a result, the importance of maintaining and developing strong and close relationships with our customers becomes even more essential. In addition, we seek to further broaden our customer base by leveraging our core capabilities, technologies, and expertise in serving semiconductor applications to address adjacent market opportunities, including in hydrogen purification, clean energy, batteries, light emitting diodes (“LEDs”), optical space systems and products for life sciences applications.
OUR COMPETITIVE STRENGTHS AND BUSINESS STRATEGY
We believe that our platform is well-positioned and sets us apart from our competitors for several reasons.
•In 2024, our revenue was predominantly unit driven or recurring in nature, from products repeatedly consumed as a result of the semiconductor manufacturing process. As a result, our revenue is generally more impacted by overall global semiconductor demand and global GDP growth, rather than the sales of semiconductor capital equipment, which has historically been more cyclical.
•Our solutions are increasingly specified into our customers’ manufacturing processes and tailored to meet our customers’ unique process conditions and technical roadmaps. We collaborate closely with our customers to create complementary solutions across platforms and modules allowing them to optimize value and accelerate time to yield. Therefore, switching away from our products may be costly and time-consuming for our customers and may introduce risk to their manufacturing yields.
•We have a broad product portfolio that is not overly concentrated on any single product or product platform. As of December 31, 2024, we offered over 21,000 standard and customized products, and in 2024 no single product platform represented more than 3% of our net sales.
•We have a broad and diverse customer base. As of December 31, 2024, our top ten customers make up 48% of our sales. Our customers include a cross-section of the semiconductor ecosystem, from chemical companies and equipment manufacturers to semiconductor fabs.
•We have streamlined our platform to focus on the core areas of our businesses that we believe have the greatest strategic value in supporting our customers and their technology roadmaps. To that end, as further described above, during 2023 and 2024, we completed the divestitures of QED, our EC business and our PIM business and terminated the Alliance Agreement with MacDermid Enthone.
•We intend to continue to further pay down our debt, while also investing in research and development and the advanced manufacturing capabilities necessary to maintain and expand our technology leadership and to drive organic growth.
Customers Collaboration. We believe the strong relationships we have with our customers, which include leading logic and memory semiconductor manufacturers, original equipment manufacturers (“OEMs”) and semiconductor materials suppliers, are critical to our long-term success. We have built strong relationships with our customers through our expansive global presence, which allows us to engage with our customers where they operate. For example, we chose to invest in our KSP manufacturing facility in Taiwan and in our new research center in South Korea to effectively collaborate with our customers locally in order to jointly uncover novel solutions for our customers’ yield, reliability and performance challenges. We are actively engaged with our key customers to design technology roadmaps specifically tailored to their short- and long-term strategic plans. These customer relationships provide us with collaboration opportunities at the early product design stage (in certain cases years ahead of commercialization), which facilitate our ability to introduce new products and applications that serve our customers’ needs. We intend to reinforce and further strengthen these relationships through, among other things, collaborations and joint development activity.
Supporting the Integration of New Materials. We understand the significant challenges our customers face as they introduce new materials into processes to manufacture increasingly advanced and complex semiconductor chips. New materials must outperform incumbent materials and deliver equivalent or higher yields without causing integration issues with other process
steps. For example, the decision to introduce a new material at the deposition stage of the semiconductor manufacturing process will impact CMP and the post-CMP cleans, etch and post-etch residue cleans, as well as the selection of filters in several other stages of the process. We believe one of our value propositions is our ability to both manufacture new materials and to support our customers in evaluating how those new materials interact with other stages in the manufacturing process. Specifically, we leverage our understanding of upstream and downstream interactions between unit process steps and tailor our product offerings to lower the risk of issues arising as a result of new material introduction into these processes. We believe this approach is critical for accelerating the introduction of new material innovations because it reduces development cycles of learning while accelerating the time to market and yield for our customers.
Technology Leadership and Strong, Diverse Portfolio. Our customers need a broad range of advanced, customized, reliable and cost-effective products and materials, as well as the technological and application expertise to enhance their productivity, quality and yield, especially as they move towards more advanced technology nodes. We believe our comprehensive offering provides us with a competitive advantage, allowing us to meet a broad range of their needs and to serve customers in many aspects of the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem. To build upon our technology leadership, we have made, and plan to continue to make, significant investments in ER&D initiatives to continue to advance our technology and product offerings, increasingly focusing on meeting the needs of next generation technology nodes. We spent approximately $316.1 million, $277.3 million and $229.0 million on such activities in 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively, representing 9.8%, 7.9% and 7.0% of our net sales, in 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively. We are committed to providing customers with innovative technologies and solutions for their evolving manufacturing needs. For example, we have introduced sub-5 nanometer filtration products, advanced deposition materials for next generation transistor and interconnect technologies, polishing slurry and pad solutions with post-cleaning formulations to meet the needs of advanced memory applications, selective etching formulations for advanced device applications, advanced reticle pods for EUV photolithography applications, advanced 300 millimeter wafer carriers and advanced coatings to meet the rigorous defectivity specifications for the manufacturing of advanced technology nodes.
Global Infrastructure. We have a global infrastructure of design, manufacturing, logistics, distribution, service and technical support facilities to meet the needs of our global customers. We further enhanced this footprint with the opening of a new manufacturing center of excellence in Taiwan, our KSP facility, in May 2023, which will become our largest manufacturing facility. In addition, we continue to make progress on our new state-of-the-art Colorado Springs manufacturing facility, which we expect to ramp production in the second half of 2025 and a new tech center in South Korea, which we expect to commence operations during the first half of 2025. Over the last several years we have also invested in expanding our capacity and capabilities at our existing facilities to meet existing and anticipated demand, including adding new capacity in liquid filtration in Billerica, Massachusetts and Yonezawa, Japan, in deposition materials in Toronto, Ontario, in materials handling in Chaska, Minnesota and JangAn, Korea, in CMP filter and CMP slurries in Taiwan, in SiC slurries in Aurora, Illinois and in solid precursors in Burnett, Texas.
Operational Excellence. Our customers are increasingly focused on the effectiveness, dependability, resiliency and consistency of their supply chains. Our strategy is to continue to develop and enhance our extensive supply chain and manufacturing capabilities into a competitive advantage by driving operational excellence, operating in a manner that ensures the safety of our employees and the quality of our products. As described above, we believe our significant investments in our new KSP facility in Taiwan and our facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado will enhance our operational excellence. To perform at the high level of our customers’ expectations, we intend to continue to invest in the following priorities:
•Manufacturing equipment and facilities incorporating leading-edge process technology, including advanced cleanroom and cleaning procedures;
•Automated manufacturing, statistical process controls, quality and supply chain management systems; and
•A highly skilled and agile organization, capable of rapid design, prototyping and ramping to high volume manufacturing while promptly responding to new customer requirements and feedback.
Leveraging Our Collective Expertise. We leverage our expertise across our segments and broad portfolio of advanced materials, materials handling and purification capabilities to create innovative, new and co-optimized solutions to address unmet customer needs. For example, certain of our formulated cleaning chemistry products are developed and manufactured by our MS segment, with collaboration from our filtration expertise in our APS segment, packaged with our ultra-clean container and connector system, delivered to the process tools through fluid handling systems each from our APS segment, and, in the process tools, may be purified through systems produced by our APS segment. Another example of our internal collaboration and broad technical expertise is in our advanced deposition materials business, which requires comprehensive capabilities across several disciplines, including the synthesis of unique molecules, purification of these materials and the capability to
safely transport and deliver them onto the wafer, free from contaminants, at a high throughput. Furthermore, as the semiconductor industry looks to new interconnect metals like molybdenum, our portfolio of deposition precursors, CMP slurries and pads, post-CMP cleans and selective etch formulations, combined with our filtration, sensing, and delivery products will enable us to create complementary solutions and enable our customers to enhance their device performance and optimize time to yield.
Strategic Acquisitions, Partnerships and Related Transactions. We have completed the integration of CMC Materials into the Company and have streamlined our portfolio through the divestitures of QED, our EC business and our PIM business and the termination of the Alliance Agreement with MacDermid Enthone, with the proceeds of these transactions used for debt pay down. We expect to continue to pursue strategic acquisitions and business partnerships that enable us to address gaps in our product offerings, secure new customers, diversify into complementary product markets, broaden our technological capabilities and product offerings, access local or regional markets and achieve benefits of increased scale. We believe we have a strong track record of executing these transactions and their integration. Our acquisition of CMC Materials broadened our product and technology capabilities and increased our scale. In the years preceding the CMC Materials acquisition, we completed numerous small to mid-sized acquisitions, which strengthened and expanded our product portfolio. Further, we will reevaluate our existing businesses from time to time and may decide to sell, restructure or replace one or more businesses. Finally, we regularly evaluate opportunities for strategic alliances, joint development programs and other strategic investments to achieve a variety of objectives including expanding our manufacturing capacity, producing products closer to our customers, developing optimized products more quickly and developing new sources of supply to provide us with a competitive advantage.
Adjacent Markets. We leverage the expertise that we have gained from serving the semiconductor industry, as well as our core capabilities in material science and material purity, to develop product extensions for other industries that employ technologies and production processes that require materials integrity management, high-purity fluids and integrated dispense systems. We believe our products and technologies are well-suited to create innovation in industries like hydrogen purification, clean energy, batteries, LEDs, optical space systems and products for life sciences applications. We plan to continue identifying and selectively developing product extensions that address needs in adjacent markets and, in doing so, we seek to increase the total available market for our products and to increase our return on ER&D investments.
Corporate Social Responsibility. We seek to embed our corporate social responsibility (“CSR”) program into our business strategy and measure progress toward the 2030 goals we have established. Our program is built around the four core pillars of Innovation, Safety, Personal Development and Inclusion, and Sustainability. The program includes goals for each of the four pillars to guide us towards 2030. Our latest corporate social responsibility report released in 2024 provides a comprehensive overview of Entegris’ continued efforts to advance these goals. Recent accomplishments include continuing to achieve a “Gold” rating from EcoVadis with a ranking in the 98th percentile and an “A” rating from MSCI. The annual corporate social responsibility report is published on our website at http://www.Entegris.com under “About Us - Corporate Social Responsibility”.
OUR SEGMENTS
Following a change in our organization structure in the fourth quarter of 2024, our business is organized and operated in two segments: Materials Solutions, or MS, and Advanced Purity Solutions, or APS. These segments collaborate to create new and increasingly integrated solutions for our customers, such as leveraging the purification and handling expertise of the APS segment to ensure maximum purity and stability of CMP slurries and cleans solutions from the MS segment and leveraging the advanced materials expertise from the MS segment in formulated cleaning chemistries and in slurry formulation to develop differentiated filtration and purification solutions in the APS segment. The following is a detailed description of our segments.
MATERIALS SOLUTIONS SEGMENT
MS provides complementary materials solutions around the primary modules in the semiconductor manufacturing process and in the emerging area of advanced packaging, including deposition materials, integrated circuit CMP solutions, high-performance etch and clean chemistries, gases and materials, and safe and efficient materials delivery systems that enhance our customers’ product performance. Our ability to deliver advanced materials at high purity, together with critical products like CMP slurries and pads, enables our customers’ technical roadmap, improves device performance, enhances their yields and is critical to enabling the performance of leading-edge logic and memory devices. We believe the growing long-term demand in the advanced logic and memory market, the need to introduce new and innovative materials at advanced nodes with increasingly complex device design schemes and the importance of recess chemistries and specialized cleaning solutions will drive demand in our MS segment.
Deposition and Etch Solutions. We offer the following Deposition and Etch Solutions products:
Advanced Deposition Materials Products. Our advanced deposition materials include ultra-pure liquid and solid precursors, including organometallic and inorganic precursors for the deposition of molybdenum, tungsten, titanium, hafnium, zirconium, aluminum and other emerging metal and metal-based films. We also offer organosilane precursors for the deposition of silicon oxide, silicon nitride and advanced dielectric materials films as well as a variety of molecules required to enable area-selective deposition applications. These precursors are designed in close collaboration with OEM process tool manufacturers and device makers to produce application-specific solutions that are compatible with complex integrations of material solutions used to build the semiconductor device. We offer delivery systems and containers that allow for reliable storage and delivery of low volatility solid and liquid precursors required in atomic layer deposition processes. When combined with our proprietary corrosion-resistant coatings and filtration solutions, we believe our advanced deposition solutions enable the industry’s highest purity levels, resulting in improved device performance.
Surface Preparation and Integration Products. We offer a range of materials used to prepare the surface of a semiconductor wafer during the manufacturing process and to integrate with materials being used on the wafer. We offer a broad range of cleaning solutions for applications such as semiconductor post-etch residue removal, wafer etching, organics removal, resist removal, edge bead removal and corrosion prevention. In addition, we offer selective etch products designed to enable advanced architectures such as 3D-NAND.
Dry Process Solutions. We offer the following Dry Process Solutions products:
Specialty Gases. Our specialty gas solutions provide advanced safety and process capabilities to semiconductor and display manufacturers. Our SDS cylinders safely store and deliver hazardous gases, such as arsine, phosphine, germanium tetrafluoride and boron trifluoride, at sub-atmospheric pressure through the use of our proprietary carbon-based adsorbent materials. These cylinders are designed to minimize potential leaks during transportation and use and allow more gas to be stored, providing significant safety, environmental and productivity benefits over traditional high-pressure cylinders. We also offer VAC, a complementary technology to SDS, where select implant gases and gas mixtures are stored under high pressure but are delivered sub-atmospherically.
Specialty Coatings. Our high-performance specialty coatings, such as our Pegasus™ and Cearus™ coatings, provide erosion resistance, minimize particle generation and prevent contamination on critical components in semiconductor environments and other high-technology manufacturing operations.
Advanced Cleaning Materials. We develop and manufacture high-performance consumable products for cleaning advanced probe cards and test sockets, designed to improve customer yields and throughput in wafer and package test operations at semiconductor device manufacturers, foundries, and outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (“OSAT”) facilities.
Integrated Circuits (“IC”) Polishing Solutions. Our IC Polishing Solutions enables us to fully leverage our capabilities as a CMP solutions provider to the semiconductor industry by providing the following products:
CMP Slurries. We develop, produce, and sell CMP slurries for polishing a wide range of materials used in semiconductor devices, including tungsten, dielectric materials, copper, barrier, aluminum, and other emerging materials used in semiconductor device fabrication. We believe that we are uniquely positioned to be able to develop and optimize new slurries that can be utilized on emerging materials used in semiconductor device fabrication, such as molybdenum and ruthenium.
CMP Pads. CMP pads are critical in the CMP process to flatten and polish wafers and can have a significant impact on process performance. Our CMP Pads, such as our NexPlanar™, Medea™ and Ultra pad products are designed to provide the exact hardness, pore sizes, compressibility, and groove patterns needed to meet and exceed the requirements of various CMP applications. Our Epic Power™ CMP Pads are designed for SiC wafers and offer a balance of best-in-class performance, quality, and cost of ownership.
Post-CMP Cleans and Brushes. Our post-CMP clean chemistry products, such as PlanarClean® and ESC 784, are designed to efficiently remove the abrasive slurry particles and organic residue from the wafer after the CMP process, removing residue that might affect yield while not contributing to contamination. In addition, our consumable polyvinyl alcohol roller brush products are used to clean the wafer following the CMP process.
Advanced Materials Markets (“AMM”). AMM focuses on developing and selling products to customers in new and emerging market areas outside of the semiconductor manufacturing process. AMM includes our POCO® premium graphite products, used to make precision consumable electrodes for electrical discharge machining, hot glass contact materials for glass product manufacturing and forming and other consumable products for various industrial applications, including aerospace, optical, medical devices, air bearings and printing. It also includes our slurry products used for polishing bare silicon wafers and other ultra-hard surface materials, including SiC and GaN substrates as well as disk substrates and magnetic heads used in hard disk drives, which are utilized in power electronics and advanced communications end-markets. AMM also provides specialty chemicals and specialty materials to enable advanced performance of product solutions in a wide range of end-markets, including aircraft, aerospace, wound care and medical devices.
ADVANCED PURITY SOLUTIONS SEGMENT
The APS segment is the segment resulting from combining the Microcontamination Control (“MC”) segment and the Advanced Materials Handling (“AMH”) segment, both of which offered highly complementary products with a core focus on ensuring critical materials purity. The APS segment offers solutions to ensure the purity of critical liquid chemistries, process gases, wafers and substrates in semiconductor manufacturing processes and other high-technology industries. Our liquid and gas filtration and purification products are critical to semiconductor manufacturing processes, including photolithography, deposition, planarization and surface etching and cleaning, because they remove nanometer-sized contaminants, directly reduce defects, improve manufacturing yield and enhance the long-term reliability of the semiconductor device. Our microenvironment solutions improve our customers’ yields by ensuring the purity of wafers and protecting them from contamination and damage during manufacturing and transportation, while our fluid management solutions ensure the purity and safe delivery of advanced chemicals from the chemical manufacturer to the point-of-use in the semiconductor fab.
We believe the value proposition of materials purity is increasing, in large part due to increasing manufacturing complexity, continuous node shrink in logic semiconductors and the ramp in the 3D NAND market, as the risk and cost of yield loss due to contamination grows.
Liquid Microcontamination Control Products. We offer a variety of products that control contaminants in our customers’ wet processes both in the fab environment and upstream at the chemical manufacturers. For example, our Torrento® series of filters is used for the filtration of aggressive acid and base chemistries for both semiconductor fabs as well as specialty chemical manufacturers, including our MS segment. Manufacturers of high purity chemicals and semiconductor fabs use our Trinzik® and Microgard™ products for the filtration of chemicals and ultra-pure water. Our Impact® series of filters are used in point-of-use photochemical dispense applications where the delivery of superior flow rate performance and reduced microbubble formation is critical. Our Protego® series of liquid purifier/filter products are used to reduce metallic contamination in chemical manufacturing and in critical wafer rinsing and drying applications by our customers. In addition, we provide membrane and liquid filtration offerings serving semiconductor, pharmaceutical and medical applications.
Gas Microcontamination Control Products. We offer a broad portfolio of products designed to remove particulate and molecular contaminants from controlled environments and gas streams in semiconductor, flat panel display and LED fabs. Our Wafergard® gas filters reduce outgassing and remove particle contamination. Our GateKeeper® gas purifiers and large facility-wide gas purification systems provide continuous purified gas supply to customer fabs from the point of creation on the gas pads to the point-of-use at the wafer by chemically reacting and absorbing contaminants, effectively removing gaseous contaminants down to part-per-trillion levels. Our Chambergard™ gas diffusers provide semiconductor equipment manufacturers with the capability to rapidly vent their tools to atmosphere to dramatically reduce process cycle times without adding particles to the wafers. In addition, our Vaporsorb products are used to eliminate airborne molecular contamination from critical process tool areas or cleanrooms in the fab. These products are used in or alongside critical processing tools to improve yield and reduce tool downtime.
Microenvironment Solutions. Our wafer carriers are high-purity “micro-environments” that carry wafers between manufacturing process steps. Each of these microenvironments is designed to protect the safety, security, and purity of the wafers throughout the fabrication life cycle. We lead the market for 300 millimeter FOUPs, wafer transport and process carriers and SMIF pods for 200 millimeter wafer applications. Our high-volume line of Ultrapak® products for wafers ranging from 100 to 200 millimeters ensure the clean and secure transport of wafers from the wafer manufacturers to the semiconductor fabs. We also offer a front-opening shipping box (“FOSB”) for the transportation and automated interface of 300 millimeter wafers. Our EUV reticle pod is designed to provide defect-free protection of EUV reticles during shipping, storage, handling, and vacuum-transferring operations.
Fluid Management Products. Our broad range of fluid management solutions maximize fab productivity, improve fab yields and reduce cost of ownership throughout bulk chemical delivery, CMP, wet etch and clean and lithography processes. Our broad portfolio of packaging and container products, from low-volume containers to transport high-value photoresist chemistries, such as our NOWPak® products, to large intermediate bulk containers, such as our FluoroPure® products, ensures the purity of the chemistries they contain. We are a leader in high-purity fluid handling products such as valves, fittings, tubing, piping and associated connection systems, such as our PrimeLock® connections, for high-purity chemical applications. Our proprietary digital flow control technology improves the uniformity of chemicals applied on wafers. For example, our IntelliGen® integrated, high-precision liquid dispense systems enable the uniform application of advanced chemistries during the wafer fabrication process, integrating our valve control expertise with filter device technologies, in order to conserve high-value chemistry and reduce defects on wafers. Our instrumentation solutions ensure consistency and monitoring of complex blended chemistries, such as our on-tool Accusizer® system, which performs automated online particle size and count analysis with applications in both semiconductor and life science industries, and our SemiChem® systems and our Invue® products, which measure chemical concentration in CMP slurries and formulated cleaning chemistries.
OUR CUSTOMERS AND MARKETS
Our customers include logic and memory semiconductor device manufacturers, semiconductor equipment makers, gas and chemical manufacturing companies and wafer grower companies serving the global semiconductor industry. We also sell our products to OSAT facilities, flat panel display equipment makers, panel manufacturers, manufacturers of hard disk drive components and devices and their related ecosystems.
Our other high-technology markets include manufacturers and suppliers in the solar and life science industries, electrical discharge machining customers, glass and glass container manufacturers, aerospace manufacturers and manufacturers of biomedical implantation devices.
Below is a table showing the percentage of our net sales to top customers and the percentage of our net sales that are international during the three most recent fiscal years.
2024 2023 2022
Percentage of net sales to top customers:
TSMC 16% 11% 12%
Remaining top ten customers 32% 32% 31%
Total top ten customers 48% 43% 43%
Percentage of net sales by market:
Domestic/U.S. 21% 25% 24%
Foreign/International 79% 75% 76%
We may enter into supply agreements with our customers. These agreements typically do not contain any long-term purchase commitments. Instead, we work closely with our customers to develop non-binding forecasts of the future volume of orders. However, customers may cancel their orders, change production quantities from forecasted volumes or delay production for reasons beyond our control.
SALES, MARKETING AND SUPPORT
We sell our products worldwide, primarily through our direct sales force and strategic independent distributors located in all major semiconductor markets. We also use independent distributors in other market territories and for specific market segments. As of December 31, 2024, our sales and marketing force consisted of approximately 800 employees worldwide.
Our unique capabilities and long-standing industry relationships have provided us with the opportunity for significant collaboration with our customers at the product design stage, which has facilitated our ability to introduce new materials and new solutions that meet our customers’ needs. We continuously seek to identify and address challenges our customers may have with choice, selection and integration of materials and risk of contamination in their processes that may be addressed by our solutions. Our sales representatives provide our customers with worldwide technical support and information about our solutions.
We believe that our technical and application support services are important to our sales and marketing efforts. These services include assisting in defining a customer’s needs, evaluating alternative products and materials, designing a specific system to perform the desired operation, training users and assisting customers in compliance with relevant government regulations. Additionally, our field application engineers, located in major markets we serve, work directly with our customers on product qualification and process improvements in their facilities. We maintain a network of service centers, applications laboratories and technology centers located in key markets internationally and in the U.S. to support our products and our customers with their advanced development needs, provide local technical service and application support and help ensure fast turnaround time.
COMPETITION
The market for our products and solutions is highly competitive. While price is an important factor, we compete primarily on the basis of the following factors:
technical expertise; time to solution;
product quality and performance; complementary solutions;
advanced manufacturing capabilities; supply chain resiliency;
total cost of ownership; breadth of geographic presence;
historical customer relationships; customer collaboration, service and support; and
breadth of product offerings; after-sales service.
We believe that we compete favorably with respect to the factors listed above. We believe that our key competitive strengths include our broad product offerings, our strong research and development infrastructure and investment, our manufacturing excellence, our advanced quality control systems, the low total cost of ownership of our products, our willingness to closely collaborate with our customers to create technical roadmaps aligned with their short- and long-term strategies, our ability to co-optimize our products and our applications expertise in semiconductor manufacturing processes. However, our competitive position varies depending on the market segment and specific product areas within these segments. While we have longstanding relationships with a number of semiconductor and other electronic device manufacturers, we still face significant competition from companies that also have longstanding relationships with other semiconductor and electronic device manufacturers and, as a result, have been able to have their products specified by those customers for use in their fabrication facilities.
The competitive landscape is varied, ranging from business segments within large multinational companies to small regional or regionally-focused companies. While product quality and technology remain critical, industry trends indicate a shift to localized, cost-competitive and consolidated supply chains. Because of the unique breadth of our capabilities, we believe that there are no global competitors that compete with us across the full range of our product offerings.
Notable competitors with respect to our reporting segments include:
Advanced Purity Solutions Materials Solutions
Pall Corporation (part of Danaher Corporation) EMD Performance Materials division of Merck KGaA
Shin-Etsu Polymer Co. Ltd. Electronics & Industrial division of DuPont de Nemours, Inc.
Cobetter Filtration Electronics Advanced Materials division of Air Liquide
Gudeng Precision Industrial Linde plc
Aicello Corporation Anji Microelectronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd
Mersen
ENGINEERING, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
We believe that technology is important to the success of our businesses. We plan to continue to devote significant resources to ER&D, balancing efforts between shorter-term market needs and longer-term investments. As of December 31, 2024, we had approximately 1,400 employees in ER&D. We have supplemented and may continue to supplement our internal research and development efforts by licensing technology from third parties and/or acquiring rights with respect to products incorporating externally owned technologies. Our ER&D expenses consist of personnel and other direct and indirect costs for internally funded project development, including the use of outside service providers.
We believe we have a rich pipeline of development projects. Our ER&D efforts focus on developing and improving our technology platforms for semiconductor and advanced processing applications and identifying and developing products for new applications, often working directly with our customers to address their particular needs.
We have ER&D capabilities in many locations where our customers operate, including Taiwan, South Korea, the U.S., Japan, Canada, China, Singapore and Malaysia. We use sophisticated methodologies to research, develop and characterize our materials and products. Our capabilities to test and characterize our materials and products are focused on continuously reducing risks and threats to the integrity of the critical materials that our customers use in their manufacturing processes.
In addition, we collaborate with leading universities and industry consortia, such as Stanford University, Yale University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Illinois (Champaign Urbana), SUNY Albany, the Fraunhofer Institute, the Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (imec®) and CEA-LETI. We undertake this work to extend the reach of our internal ER&D and to gain access to leading ideas and concepts beyond the time horizon of our internal development activities.
PATENTS AND OTHER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
As of December 31, 2024, we owned approximately 4,500 active patents worldwide, of which about 800 were U.S. patents. Additionally, we owned about 2,300 pending patent applications globally. We also license certain patents owned by third parties. We rely on a combination of patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret laws and license agreements to establish and protect our proprietary rights. We seek to refresh our intellectual property on an ongoing basis through continued innovation. We also license and expect to continue to license technology used in the manufacture and distribution of products from third parties. However, we do not consider any particular Company patent or third-party license to be material to our business.
We vigorously protect and defend our intellectual property. We require each of our employees, including our executive officers, to enter into agreements with us pursuant to which the employee agrees to keep our proprietary information confidential and to assign to us inventions made during the course of employment. We also require outside scientific collaborators, sponsored researchers and other advisors and consultants who are provided confidential information to execute confidentiality agreements with us. These agreements generally provide that all confidential information developed or made known to the entity or individual during the course of the entity’s or individual’s relationship with the Company is to be kept confidential and not disclosed to third parties except in specific limited circumstances.
MANUFACTURING
Our customers rely on our solutions to ensure the integrity of the critical materials used in their manufacturing processes by providing purity, cleanliness, consistent performance, dimensional precision and stability. Our ability to meet our customers’ expectations, combined with our substantial investments in worldwide manufacturing capacity and comprehensive supply chain strategy, positions us well to respond to the increasing demands from our customers for yield-enhancing materials and solutions.
To meet our customers’ needs worldwide, we have established an extensive global manufacturing network with facilities in the U.S., Canada, China, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. Because we work in an industry where contamination control is paramount, we maintain Class 100 to Class 10,000 cleanrooms for manufacturing and assembly. We believe that our worldwide advanced manufacturing capabilities are important competitive advantages. These include:
engineered polymer conversion and processing; specialty coating capabilities;
advanced membrane modification and cleaning; solids and powders compounding and handling;
chemical formulation, blending, synthesis and purification; graphite synthesis;
gas delivery systems; blow molding;
high-purity gas handling and transfilling; rotational molding;
high-purity materials packaging; machining; and
membrane casting; assembly.
cartridge manufacturing and assembly;
We have made significant investments in systems and equipment to create innovative products and tool designs, including metrology and 3D printing capabilities for rapid analysis and prototype production. In addition, we use contract manufacturers for certain of our products both in the U.S. and Asia.
RAW MATERIALS
Our products are made from a wide variety of raw materials that are generally available from multiple sources of supply. Our strategy is to secure various sources of different raw materials, as appropriate, to enable the desired performance of our products, and monitor those sources as necessary to provide supply assurance. While we seek to have several sources of supply for raw materials, certain materials included in our products, such as certain filtration membranes and polymer resins in our APS segment and certain engineered abrasive particles, specialty and commodity chemicals and petroleum coke in our MS segment, are obtained from a single source, a limited group of suppliers or from suppliers in a single country. We have entered into multi-year supply agreements with certain suppliers for the purchase of raw materials in the interests of supply assurance and cost control.
GOVERNMENTAL REGULATION
Our operations are subject to federal, state and local regulatory requirements relating to export controls, environmental, waste management and health and safety matters, including measures relating to the release, use, storage, treatment, transportation, discharge, disposal and remediation of contaminants, hazardous substances and wastes, as well as practices and procedures applicable to the construction and operation of our plants. Although some risk of costs and liabilities related to these matters is inherent in our business, we believe that our business is operated in substantial compliance with applicable regulations. However, new, modified or more stringent requirements or enforcement policies could be adopted, which could adversely affect us. While we expect that capital expenditures will be necessary to ensure that our manufacturing facilities remain in compliance with environmental and health and safety laws, we do not expect these expenditures to be material.
See “Item 1A. Risk Factors” for a more detailed description of the regulatory risks we face.
HUMAN CAPITAL RESOURCES
We believe that our employees are a critical asset in achieving our mission of helping our customers improve their productivity, performance and technology by providing enhanced materials and process solutions for the most advanced manufacturing environments. In order to attract and retain top talent, we are focused on creating a diverse, inclusive and safe workplace. We are committed to providing competitive total rewards and quality development and training opportunities for our employees.
As of December 31, 2024, we had approximately 8,200 employees, of whom approximately 53%, 15%, 10%, 8%, 7%, 5% and 2% are located in North America, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, China and Europe, respectively. Given the variability of business cycles in the semiconductor industry and the rapid response time required by our customers, it is critical that we be able to quickly adjust the size of our production staff to meet our customers’ demands and maximize efficiency and we use skilled temporary labor when possible. None of our employees are represented by a labor union or covered by a collective bargaining agreement other than statutorily-mandated programs in certain international jurisdictions. We believe that our labor relations have generally been good.
Culture. Our organization is built around what we refer to as our PACE values: our core values of treating people with respect and dignity, acting honestly and consistently, encouraging creativity and innovation and a dedication to excellence. We believe that by continuing to focus on these values, we provide our employees with a positive work environment that allows them to develop professionally and encourages them to continue innovating.
We regularly conduct surveys of our employees to understand their perspectives on a number of topics. During 2024, these topics included commitment to Entegris’ core values, safety and general employee satisfaction. Management uses the information gathered from these surveys to inform its decision making with respect to employee matters, aiming to continue to be an employer of choice.
We believe that maintaining a culture of diverse perspectives, experiences and backgrounds helps enable us to innovate more effectively and perform better overall. To that end, we seek to promote diverse backgrounds and perspectives throughout our organization and strive to provide fair and equal opportunity for career development and advancement to all our employees. An example of this commitment is our Employee Network groups, which are designed to focus on personal development and career empowerment and to foster a culture of inclusive collaboration.
Health and Safety. Our success depends on the well-being of our employees. We maintain a culture with an intense focus on safety and strive to identify, eliminate and control risk in the workplace in an effort to prevent injury and illness. Our employees have access to a global safety management system and are encouraged to report incidents, near misses or other observations in
the system. Management uses the information generated by the system to set safety-related policies and to set goals for future performance.
We also design our products with the safety of the people who are using them in mind. Our Safe Delivery Source products are designed to minimize potential leaks during transportation and use of hazardous gases, features which provide significant safety, environmental and productivity benefits over traditional high-pressure cylinders. In addition, our fluid-handling products, such as tubing, valve, fittings and drum products, are used to safely store, transport and dispense volatile and dangerous chemistries, protecting those who work with them.
Total Rewards. Our total rewards program is designed to be attractive and competitive and to enable our employees to reach their highest potential by directly impacting their financial security, career growth opportunities, and the health and well-being of them and their families. We seek to attract and retain talented employees by providing a compelling total rewards package consisting of competitive pay, health and welfare, work-life benefits and financial wellness programs. We design our programs with the core belief that our employees are at their best when they prioritize their emotional and physical health. We review and assess these programs annually. Examples of our benefits include a Global Employee Support Program through which our employees and their families have access to resources in support of their mental and emotional well-being and our Employee Education Assistance Program, which is designed to encourage our employees to continue their education in courses that will help them advance their career at Entegris. We also recently implemented a new global Rewards and Recognition program that aims to recognize and reward the outstanding achievement of individuals within the Company, reinforcing our corporate values, culture and acknowledging the outstanding performance, exceptional efforts and achievements that earn tangible and specific business results.
Talent Development and Training. We are committed to the ongoing training and development of our employees. We foster an on-the-job training and development culture by investing in rotational development programs in operations, supply chain, and engineering. We are continuously expanding and delivering technical and leadership training for internal talent through our Entegris Great Leader Profile, Management Achievement, and Supervisor Training programs that are aimed at advancing leadership and management skills for current and future career growth. Employees are provided feedback and continuous development discussions through formal and informal review sessions throughout the year. While we continue to search for new perspectives and insights with external hires, we also seek to provide opportunities for our employees to grow their careers at the Company and regularly fill open vacancies with internal candidates. In addition, management systematically assesses succession planning for certain key positions and reviews our workforce to identify high potential employees for future growth and development.
Oversight. Our Board of Directors, through the Management Development and Compensation Committee, provides oversight on human capital matters through a variety of methods and processes. These include receiving regular updates from our Senior Vice President, Global Human Resources, and facilitating discussion related to human capital management efforts and other initiatives impacting the workforce, health and safety matters, employee survey results, hiring and retention, employee demographics, labor relations, compensation and benefits, succession planning and employee training initiatives. We believe the Board’s oversight of these matters helps identify and mitigate exposure to labor and human capital management risks, and is part of the broader framework that guides how we attract, retain and develop a workforce that aligns with our values and strategies.
For additional information on these important initiatives, see our annual corporate social responsibility report on our website at http://www.Entegris.com under “About Us - Corporate Social Responsibility.”
OUR HISTORY
The Company was incorporated in Delaware on March 17, 2005 in connection with a merger between Entegris, Inc., a Minnesota corporation, and Mykrolis Corporation, a Delaware corporation. On April 30, 2014, the Company acquired ATMI, based in Danbury, Connecticut. On July 6, 2022, the Company acquired CMC Materials, based in Aurora, Illinois. Entegris has been helping its customers solve their critical materials challenges and enhance their manufacturing yields for over 55 years, tracing its corporate origins back to Fluoroware, Inc., which began operating in 1966.
AVAILABLE INFORMATION
Our Internet address is www.entegris.com. On this website, under the “About Us-Investor Relations-Financial Information” section, we post the following filings as soon as reasonably practicable after they are electronically filed with, or furnished to, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”): our annual, quarterly, and current reports on Forms 10-K, 10-Q, and 8-K; our proxy statements; any amendments to those reports or statements, and Form SD. All such filings are available on our website free of charge. The SEC also maintains a website (www.sec.gov) that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC. The content on our website and any other website as referred to in this Annual Report on Form 10-K is not incorporated by reference into this Annual Report on Form 10-K unless expressly noted.

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ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS
Item 1A. Risk Factors.
In addition to the other information in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, the following risk factors should be carefully considered in evaluating us and our common stock. Any of the following risks, many of which are beyond our control, could materially and adversely affect our financial condition, results of operations or cash flows or cause our actual results to differ materially from those projected in any forward-looking statements. We may also face other risks and uncertainties that are not presently known, are not currently believed to be material or are not identified below because they are common to all businesses. Past financial performance may not be a reliable indicator of future performance and historical trends should not be used to anticipate results or trends in future periods. For more information, see “Cautionary Statements” in Item 7 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Risk Factor Summary
Risks Related to Our Business and Industry
•Fluctuations in demand for semiconductors and volume of semiconductor manufacturing.
•Global economic uncertainty, including volatile financial markets, inflation, fluctuations in interest rates, economic recessions, and national debt and bank failures.
•Variability of revenues and operating results.
•Supply chain risks, including partial reliance on sole, single or limited source suppliers.
•Challenges inherent in operating a global business, including managing complex political, legal, regulatory, and operational environments across the jurisdictions in which the Company operates.
•Regional and global instabilities and hostilities, including the ongoing conflicts between Ukraine and Russia, and between Israel and Hamas.
•The impact of export controls, economic sanctions and other similar restrictions.
•Customer concentration.
•Continuing innovation and introduction of new products.
•Risks related to competition.
•Manufacturing interruptions or delays and other operational disruptions.
•Information technology (“IT”) system failures, network disruptions, data breaches, and other cybersecurity threats.
•The use of hazardous materials in our operations.
•The impact of tariffs, additional taxes, and other protectionist measures.
•Goodwill impairment.
•Loss of key employees.
•Our ability to obtain, protect, and enforce intellectual property rights.
•Environmental, social, and governance commitments.
Risks Related to Government Regulation
•The impact of being subject to numerous rapidly evolving environmental laws and regulations across many jurisdictions.
•Risks related to the regulatory environment, including compliance costs and being subject to potentially inconsistent or conflicting regulations.
•Changes in taxation or adverse tax rulings.
•The impact of government incentives, including added operational complexity and competition.
Risks Related to Our Indebtedness
•The impact of our indebtedness, including our ability to obtain future financing.
•Risks related to our ability to generate sufficient cash to service our indebtedness.
•Restrictions on our operations as a result of the terms of the Amended Credit Agreement (as defined below) and the Indentures (as defined below).
Risks Related to Owning our Common Stock
•The volatility of the price of our common stock.
•Changes in capital allocation strategy.
•Provisions in our charter documents and Delaware law may delay or prevent us from being acquired.
General Risks
•Significant competition.
•Our ability to successfully acquire or integrate other businesses, form joint ventures, or divest businesses.
•The impact of climate change, including changes in market dynamics and stakeholder expectations, and unexpected operational disruptions.
Risks Related to Our Business and Industry
Our revenue is primarily dependent upon demand from the global semiconductor ecosystem and fluctuations in demand for semiconductors and the overall volume of semiconductor manufacturing may decrease demand for our products and may adversely affect our business.
Our revenue is primarily dependent upon demand from the global semiconductor ecosystem. The semiconductor industry has historically been, and is likely to continue to be, cyclical with periodic downturns, resulting in decreased demand for our products, which has negatively impacted our results of operations in the past and could do so again in the future. Factors that may negatively impact the demand for our solutions include, but are not limited to, decreased consumer spending; macroeconomic uncertainty; slow or negative economic growth; customer inventory corrections; demand trends for different types of electronic devices such as logic versus memory integrated circuit devices, or digital versus analog IC devices; the various technology nodes at which those products are manufactured; customers’ rate of use of our consumables products; customers’ device architectures and specific manufacturing processes; the short order to delivery time for our products; quarter-to-quarter changes in customer order patterns; market share and competitive losses; and pricing changes by us and our competitors. Furthermore, our limited visibility of future customer orders makes it difficult for us to predict industry trends.
During downturns in the semiconductor industry, which can occur suddenly, we typically experience greater pricing pressure and shifts in product and customer mix, which can adversely affect our gross margin and net income. The semiconductor industry is also affected by seasonal shifts in demand, and as a result, we have in the past and may experience in the future short-term fluctuation in our results of operations from one period to the next. We are unable to predict the timing, duration or severity of any current or future downturns in the semiconductor industry. Furthermore, the semiconductor industry is subject to rapid advancements and demand for new and emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence. If we do not have, or are unable to develop, products and solutions that are utilized to manufacture semiconductors that enable new end-user demand trends, we may not be able to grow our revenue as fast as anticipated and our results of operations may be impacted.
Global economic uncertainty may materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Uncertain and volatile economic conditions, including uncertain and volatile financial markets, inflation, fluctuating interest rates, economic slowdowns and/or recessions, national debt and bank failures, could materially and adversely impact our operating results. Such uncertain and volatile conditions in any of our key sales or manufacturing regions can cause or exacerbate negative trends in business and consumer spending, which, in turn, have historically had a negative impact on customer demand for our products and costs of manufacturing and delivering our products.
These uncertain and volatile economic conditions can cause material adverse changes in our results of operations and financial condition, including:
•a decline in demand for our products, which would have an immediate and potentially long-lasting negative impact on our revenues;
•an increase in reserves for accounts receivable due to our customers’ inability to pay us;
•lower utilization of our manufacturing facilities, which could lead to lower margins;
•an increase in write-offs for excess or obsolete inventory that we cannot sell;
•potential impairment charges relating to goodwill, intangible assets, manufacturing equipment or other long-lived assets, to the extent that any downturn indicates that the carrying amount of the asset may not be recoverable;
•limiting our suppliers’ ability to deliver parts and raw materials, which would negatively affect our ability to manage operations, manage our costs and sell our products;
•consolidation or strategic alliances among other suppliers to semiconductor manufacturers, which could adversely affect our ability to compete effectively;
•greater challenges in forecasting operating results, making business decisions and identifying and prioritizing business risks;
•additional cost reduction efforts, including additional restructuring activities, which may adversely affect our ability to capitalize on opportunities; and
•limitations on our ability to access cash maintained in our bank accounts as a result of bank failures, which could affect our ability to manage our operations.
Our revenues and operating results have fluctuated in the past and may do so in the future, which could impact our stock price.
Our revenues and operating results may fluctuate significantly from quarter-to-quarter or year-to-year due to a number of factors, many of which are outside our control. A lower volume of sales can have a large and disproportionate impact on our profitability. For example, to remain competitive in the semiconductor industry, we have in the past, and will likely in the future, maintain or increase our ER&D activity and invest in our infrastructure, even during downturns and periods of slower demand. Additionally, if we do not, or are unable to, adequately anticipate changes in our business environment, we may lack the infrastructure, manufacturing capacity and resources to scale up our business to meet customer expectations and compete successfully during a period of growth. Conversely, we may expand our capacity too rapidly, resulting in excess fixed costs and lower profitability. Because some of our expenses are fixed in the short term, a change in the timing of revenue or the amount of profit we generate from a small number of transactions can unfavorably affect operating results in a particular period. Factors that may cause our financial results to fluctuate unpredictably include:
•legal, tax, accounting or regulatory changes (including changes in import/export regulations and tariffs, such as regulations imposed by the U.S. government restricting exports to China) or changes in the interpretation or enforcement of existing requirements;
•trends in the semiconductor industry, macroeconomic and market conditions and geopolitical uncertainty, including impacts caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the war between Israel and Hamas, conflict and resulting political instability in the Middle East or bank failures;
•customer considerations, including the size and timing of customer orders, customers’ decisions to accelerate, decelerate or delay shipments, customers’ decisions on how to manage their inventory, customers’ rate of replacement of our consumable products or their decisions to delay expansion projects, and the consolidation of our customers, which may impact their future purchasing decisions;
•procurement shortages, increased prices, the failure of suppliers to perform their obligations and additional expenses we may incur to respond promptly to mitigate any supply shortages or other supplier problems;
•changes in our capital expenditure requirements, such as our new facilities in Taiwan and Colorado, and the schedule and timing, including potential delays, thereof;
•unanticipated manufacturing difficulties;
•changes in average selling prices, customer mix and product mix;
•our ability to develop, introduce and market new, enhanced and competitive products in a timely and cost-effective manner;
•our competitors’ introduction of new products;
•disruptions in transportation, communication, demand, information technology (“IT”) or supply resulting from factors outside of our control, including strikes, acts of God, wars, terrorist activities, international conflict and natural or man-made disasters; and
•foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations.
Interruptions in our supply chain, including those from our sole, single and limited source suppliers, could affect our ability to manufacture our products and meet demand, which, in turn, could have an adverse effect on our revenue and results of operations.
Our ability to increase sales of our products depends in part upon our ability, in a very short timeframe, to ramp up our manufacturing capacity and to mobilize our supply chain. If we are unable to do so, our customers could obtain products from our competitors, which would reduce our market share, harm our reputation as a trusted partner and impact our results of operations. Ensuring a robust and resilient supply chain is critical for us to meet the demand, quality and technological requirements of our customers. We rely on the timely delivery of parts, materials and services, including components and subassemblies, from our suppliers and contract manufacturers.
The Company’s strategies to limit its reliance on single, sole or limited source suppliers and utilize alternative sources are not feasible or practical in all circumstances. For example, we rely on single, sole or limited source suppliers for certain raw materials that are critical to the manufacturing of our products, such as plastic polymers, filtration membranes, abrasive particles, petroleum coke and other materials. If we were to lose any one of these or other critical sources, or there is as an industry-wide increase in demand for, or the discontinuation of, raw materials or other components used in our products, it could be difficult for us, or we may be unable, to find an alternative supplier to provide certain raw materials and components, in which case our operations could be adversely affected.
Surge in demand for semiconductors and other factors outside of our control have resulted in, and may in the future result in, a shortage of raw materials and components needed to manufacture and deliver our products, higher raw materials costs, costly and time-consuming re-qualification of products manufactured with new raw materials and delays in, and unpredictability of, shipments due to transportation interruptions. These results could harm our reputation or the competitiveness of our products. Such shortages, delays and unpredictability have adversely impacted, and may impact in the future (1) our suppliers’ ability to meet our demand requirements, (2) our manufacturing operations, (3) our ability to meet customer demand, (4) our gross margins and (5) our other operating results. Our actions to counteract adverse impacts to our gross margins and other operating results could be unsuccessful or reduce demand, which would adversely impact our revenue. Additionally, our suppliers may not have the capacity to meet increases in our demand for raw materials and other components, in turn, making us unable to meet customer demand for our products. If our suppliers or sub-suppliers are unable to maintain their operations, due to operational restrictions or financial hardship caused by an economic slowdown or recession, we may increase our safety stocks of raw materials or components or alter our payment terms with such suppliers, including prepaying for raw materials, which could put downward pressure on our cash flow.
Further, increased restrictions imposed on a class of chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”), which are used in a number of products, including parts and materials that are incorporated into our products, may negatively impact our supply chain due to the potentially decreased availability, or non-availability, of PFAS-containing products. Proposed regulations under consideration could require that we transition away from the usage of PFAS-containing products, which could adversely impact our business, operations, revenue, costs, and competitive position. Suitable replacements for PFAS-containing parts and materials may not be available at similar performance and costs, or at all.
Because a significant amount of our sales and manufacturing activity occurs outside the U.S., we are exposed to risks inherent in operating a global business.
Sales to customers outside the U.S. accounted for approximately 79%, 75% and 76% of our net sales in 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively. We anticipate that international sales will continue to account for a majority of our net sales. In addition, a number of our key domestic customers derive a significant portion of their revenues from sales in international markets. We also develop and manufacture a significant portion of our products outside the U.S. and depend on international suppliers for many of our parts and raw materials. We intend to continue to maintain extensive sales, product development and manufacturing operations internationally, which are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and potential costs that could adversely affect our revenue, profitability and reputation, including:
•changes and uncertainties with respect to trade and export regulations (including new and changing regulations for exports of certain technologies to China), trade policies and sanctions, tariffs, international trade disputes and any retaliatory measures, which impact countries in which we conduct significant business, which could (1) impose
additional costs on our operations, (2) limit our ability to operate our business and (3) adversely impact us, our customers or our suppliers;
•positions taken by governments or governmental agencies regarding national, commercial and/or security issues posed by the development, sale or export of certain raw materials, products and technologies;
•geopolitical tensions or conflicts, such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the ongoing conflict in the Middle East and increasing tensions between China and Taiwan and between China and the U.S., and other political and economic instability and uncertainty;
•cybersecurity incidents;
•challenges in hiring and integrating workers in different countries;
•challenges in managing a diverse workforce with different experience levels, languages, cultures, customs, business practices and worker expectations, along with differing employment practices and labor issues;
•challenges of maintaining appropriate business processes, procedures and internal controls and complying with legal, environmental, health and safety, anti-bribery, anti-corruption, trade compliance, data privacy, cybersecurity and other regulatory requirements that vary by jurisdiction;
•challenges in developing relationships with local customers, suppliers and governments;
•fluctuating pricing and availability of raw materials and supply chain interruptions or slowdowns, including as a result of difficulties, financial or otherwise, faced by segments of the transportation industry;
•public health crises;
•expense and complexity of complying with U.S. and foreign import and export regulations, including the ability to obtain and renew required import and export licenses;
•fluctuations in interest rates and currency exchange rates, including the relative strength or weakness of the U.S. dollar against foreign currencies that are important to our business;
•liability for foreign taxes assessed at rates higher than those applicable to our domestic operations;
•imposition of a global minimum tax rate, including by the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (“OECD”);
•challenges and costs associated with the protection of our intellectual property throughout the world;
•challenges associated with managing global and regional third-party service providers, including certain engineering, software development, manufacturing, IT and other functions;
•customer or government efforts to encourage operations and sourcing in a particular country, such as Korea or China, including efforts to develop and grow local competitors, require local manufacturing, and provide special incentives to government-backed local customers to buy from local competitors; and
•impacts of natural disasters and extreme and chronic weather events on our operations and those of our customers and suppliers, which may be exacerbated by climate change.
In the past, these factors have disrupted our operations and increased our costs, and we expect that these factors will continue to do so in the future. Furthermore, there is inherent risk, based on the complex relationships among China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and the U.S., that political, diplomatic and national security influences could lead to trade disputes, impacts and/or disruptions, in particular those affecting the semiconductor industry. This can adversely affect our business with China, Japan, Korea, and/or Taiwan and potentially the entire Asia Pacific region or global economy. A significant trade dispute, impact and/or disruption in any area where we do business could have a materially adverse impact on our future revenue and profits.
Export controls, economic sanctions, and other similar restrictions may limit our ability to sell our products to certain customers, require us to obtain governmental licenses, put the Company at a competitive disadvantage both domestically and internationally and expose us to additional legal liability, all of which could harm our business and financial condition.
We are subject to export control and economic sanctions laws and regulations that restrict the delivery of some of our products and services to certain countries (and nationals thereof), to certain end users, and for certain end uses. These restrictions may prohibit the sale of certain of our products, services and technologies, and they may require us to obtain a license from the U.S. government before delivering the controlled item or service. Obtaining export licenses may be difficult, costly and time-consuming, and we may fail to receive licenses that we apply for on a timely basis or at all. We must also comply with export control and economic sanctions laws and regulations imposed by other countries. Our export and trade control compliance program may be ineffective or circumvented, exposing us to legal liabilities. Compliance with these laws could significantly
limit our sales in the future. Changes in, and responses to, U.S. trade controls could reduce the competitiveness of our products and cause our sales to decline, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Over the last several years, the U.S. government has significantly expanded export controls on certain technologies and commodities to certain markets, particularly with respect to semiconductor and other high technology exports to China, a market which represented approximately 21% of our sales in 2024. These and other regulations have reduced our ability to sell our products to customers in China and it is possible future regulation could further reduce demand for our products. As a result of these restrictive measures, certain of our customers have made efforts to source products domestically in order to mitigate perceived risks to their supply chain. Furthermore, these restrictive measures have incentivized Chinese domestic semiconductor companies to work more closely with local Chinese companies and companies headquartered outside of the United States in an effort to enable these companies to enhance the technology-level and quality of their products and, as a result, to better compete with our products. We may be unable to continue to compete favorably against these local and foreign competitors. If these efforts are successful, are widespread amongst our customers and expand to our products and solutions broadly, overall global demand for our products may be reduced, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. Furthermore, government authorities may take retaliatory actions, impose conditions that require the use of local suppliers or partnerships with local companies, increase tariff and other customs costs or require the license or other transfer of intellectual property, which could have a significant adverse impact on our business.
A significant portion of our sales is concentrated on a limited number of key customers, and our net sales and profitability may materially decline if we were to lose one or more of these customers.
Sales to a limited number of large customers constitute a significant portion of our overall revenue, shipments, cash flows, collections and profitability. Our top ten customers accounted for 48%, 43% and 43% of our net sales in 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively. We would have no or limited contractual recourse if our customers decided to stop buying and using our products in their manufacturing processes with limited advance notice to us. The cancellation, reduction or deferral of purchases of our products by any one of these customers could significantly reduce our revenues in any particular quarter. If we were to lose any of our significant customers, if our products are not specified for our significant customers’ products or if we suffer a material reduction in their purchase orders, our revenue could decline and our business, financial condition and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected. Due to the long design and development cycle and lengthy customer product qualification periods required for most of our products, we may be unable to replace these customers quickly, if at all. In addition, our principal customers hold considerable purchasing power and may be able to negotiate sales terms that result in decreased pricing, increased costs, lower margins and/or limit our ability to share jointly-developed technology with others. The semiconductor industry may continue to undergo consolidation, and if any of our customers merge or are acquired, we may experience lower overall sales to, or lower profitability from sales to, the merged or combined companies.
Our customer base is also geographically concentrated, particularly in Taiwan, Korea, Japan, China and the U.S. As a result, export regulations or other trends that apply to customers in certain countries, such as those in China, have exposed and may further expose our business and results of operations to greater volatility. The geographic concentration of our customer base could shift over time as a result of changes in technology and competitive landscape, as well as government policy and incentives to develop regional semiconductor industries.
If we are unable to anticipate and respond to rapid technological change and customer requirements by continuing to innovate and introduce new and enhanced products and solutions, we may experience a loss of market share, decreased sales, revenue, profitability and damage to our reputation.
We operate in the semiconductor industry, which is subject to rapid technological change, changing customer requirements and frequent new product introductions. In our industry, the first company to introduce an innovative product that addresses an identified market need will often have a significant advantage over competing products. Following development, it may take several years for sales of a new product to reach a substantial level, if ever. If a product concept does not progress beyond the development stage or only achieves limited acceptance in the marketplace, we may not receive a direct return on our expenditures, which may be significant, we may lose market share and our revenue, and profitability may decline. In the past, we incurred significant impairment charges for capital expenditures related to developing the capability to manufacture shippers and FOUPs for 450 millimeter wafers, which major semiconductor manufacturers announced that they would not initiate manufacturing for the foreseeable future.
We believe that our future success will depend upon our ability to continue to develop novel, mission-critical solutions to maximize our customers’ manufacturing yields and enable higher performance semiconductor devices. A failure to successfully anticipate and respond to technological changes by developing, marketing and manufacturing new products or enhancements to our existing products could harm our business prospects, limit our market share, result in unanticipated costs and significantly reduce our sales. The new products and technology we choose to develop and market may also not be successful. In addition, if new products have reliability or quality problems, we may experience reduced orders, higher manufacturing costs, delays in acceptance and payment, additional service and warranty expense and damage to our reputation.
Manufacturing interruptions or delays, or other disruptions to our operations, could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and reputation.
Our manufacturing processes are complex and require the use of expensive and technologically sophisticated equipment and materials. We have, on occasion, experienced manufacturing difficulties, such as critical equipment breakdowns, delayed ramp up of newly constructed or expanded manufacturing facilities or the introduction of impurities in the manufacturing process. Any future difficulties could cause lower yields, make our products unmarketable and/or delay deliveries to customers. In addition, any modification to the manufacturing process of a product, including changes designed to improve manufacturing yields, process stability and product quality, could require that the product be re-qualified by customers, which can increase our costs and delay or prevent our ability to sell this product to our customers. We have moved, and we may in the future move, the manufacture of certain products from one plant to another. If we fail to transfer and re-establish the manufacturing processes in the destination plant efficiently and effectively, we may not be able to meet customer demand, we may lose credibility with our customers and our business may be harmed. Even if we successfully move our manufacturing processes, we may not achieve the anticipated levels of cost savings or efficiencies, if any. These and other manufacturing difficulties may result in the loss of sales and exposure to warranty and product liability claims.
Disruptions to our operations may be caused by factors outside of our control, including severe weather events and natural catastrophes, civil unrest, outbreaks of disease, and terrorist actions. Our continuity plans may be insufficient to mitigate the impact of disruptions to our operations, and any prolonged disruption may impede our ability to manufacture and deliver products to our customers, resulting in an adverse impact on our business and results of operations.
We may be subject to IT system failures, network disruptions and cybersecurity and data breaches, which could damage our reputation and adversely affect our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows. New laws and regulations regarding data privacy may also increase our costs.
In conducting our business, we use, collect and store sensitive data, including our financial information, intellectual property, confidential information, proprietary business information and personally identifiable information of our employees and others, as well as similar information of our customers, suppliers and business partners. We maintain this information in our data centers, on our networks and on IT systems owned and maintained by third parties. The secure processing, maintenance and transmission of this information is critical to our operations. All IT systems are subject to disruptions, security breaches, outages and failures, which may be caused by a variety of internal and external factors. We and our third-party suppliers have experienced, and expect to continue to be subject to, cybersecurity threats and incidents ranging from employee or contractor error or misuse to individual attempts to gain unauthorized access to systems, to sophisticated and targeted measures known as advanced persistent threats. Cybersecurity threats may target us directly or indirectly through our third-party providers and global supply chain. Cybersecurity attacks are increasing in number and the attackers are increasingly organized and well-financed, or at times supported by state actors. Geopolitical tensions or conflicts, such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and increasing tensions with China, have created a heightened risk of cybersecurity attacks. Artificial intelligence capabilities are and will be used by threat actors to identify vulnerabilities and craft increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity attacks, making them even more difficult to defend against by creating more effective phishing emails or social engineering and by exploiting vulnerabilities in electronic security programs utilizing false image or voice recognition. The use of artificial intelligence by us, our customers, suppliers and other business partners and third-party providers may introduce vulnerabilities onto our IT systems. We may be unable to anticipate, prevent or remediate future attacks, vulnerabilities, breaches or incidents and in some instances we may be unaware of vulnerabilities or cybersecurity breaches or incidents or their magnitude and effects, particularly as attackers are increasingly able to circumvent controls and remove forensic evidence. We continue to devote significant resources to network security, threat monitoring and other measures to protect our systems and data from unauthorized access or misuse, and we may be required to expend greater resources in the future, especially in the face of evolving and increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity threats and laws, regulations, contractual and other actual and asserted obligations to which we are or may become subject relating to privacy, data protection, and cybersecurity.
IT system failures, network disruptions and breaches of data security could (1) cause disruption in our operations, issues with customer communication and order management, the unauthorized or unintentional disclosure of sensitive information, or disruptions in our transaction processing or (2) undermine the integrity of our disclosure controls and procedures and our internal control over financial reporting, which could affect our reputation, result in significant liabilities and expenses, adversely affect our ability to report our financial results in a timely manner and could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
Our efforts to comply with current and evolving laws, regulations and other obligations, such as contractual or commercial obligations from our customers or other third parties, concerning privacy, cybersecurity, and data protection, increase our compliance costs and could result in significant additional expenses. Any actual or alleged failure to comply with these obligations could result in inquiries, investigations, and other proceedings against us by regulatory authorities or other third parties.
Our operations use hazardous materials that expose us to various risks, including potential liability for personal injury and potential remediation obligations.
Our operations involve, and we are exposed to the risks associated with, the use and manufacture of hazardous materials. In particular, we manufacture specialty chemicals, which is an inherently hazardous process that may result in accidents, and store and transport hazardous raw materials, products and waste in, to and from various facilities. Potential risks that may disrupt our operations or expose us to significant losses and liabilities include explosions and fires, chemical spills and other discharges, releases of toxic or hazardous substances or gases, and pipeline and storage tank leaks and ruptures. These and other hazards may result in (1) liability for personal injury, death, damage to property and contamination of the environment; (2) suspension of operations; (3) the imposition of civil or criminal fines, penalties and other sanctions; (4) cleanup costs; (5) claims by governmental entities or third parties; (6) reputational harm; (7) increases in our insurance costs; and (8) other adverse impacts on our results of operations. Moreover, a failure of one of our products at a customer site could interrupt the business operations of the customer. For example, while we believe that our SDS and VAC delivery systems are safe to transport, store and deliver toxic gases, any leakage could cause serious damage, including injury or death, to any person exposed to those toxic gases, potentially creating significant product liability exposure for us. Our insurance coverage may be inadequate to satisfy any such liabilities, and our financial results or financial condition could be adversely affected.
Tariffs, additional taxes, and other protectionist measures resulting from international trade disputes, strained international relations and changes to foreign and national security policy could increase our procurement and manufacturing costs, reduce the competitiveness or availability of our products and have other adverse effects on our operations.
Tariffs, additional taxes, trade barriers and other measures may increase raw material and manufacturing costs, decrease margins, affect customer ordering patterns, reduce the competitiveness of our products or inhibit our ability to sell products or purchase necessary equipment and supplies, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations or financial condition. While significant attention has been paid to protectionist actions between the U.S. and China in recent years, some of which have impacted certain raw materials we use, it is anticipated that the U.S. will employ tariffs and other countermeasures broadly in pursuit of its political and economic strategies and that other countries may take similar or related actions.
We carry a significant amount of goodwill on our balance sheet.
As of December 31, 2024, we had goodwill of $3,943.6 million. The future occurrence of a potential indicator of impairment, such as a significant adverse change in business climate, an adverse action or assessment by a regulator, unanticipated competition, a material negative change in relationships with significant customers, strategic decisions made in response to economic or competitive conditions, loss of key personnel, or a more-likely-than-not expectation that a reporting unit or a significant portion of a reporting unit will be sold or disposed of, could result in goodwill impairment charges. We have recorded goodwill impairment charges in the past, and such charges have materially affected our historical results of operations. For additional information, see Note 9 - Goodwill and Intangible Assets to the accompanying consolidated financial statements.
Loss of any of our key personnel could harm our business, and our inability to attract and retain new qualified personnel could inhibit our ability to operate and grow our business successfully.
Many of our key personnel have significant experience in the semiconductor industry and deep technical expertise. The loss of our key employees or an inability to attract, hire, train, motivate and retain qualified and skilled employees, particularly research and development and engineering personnel, could cause business interruptions and inhibit our ability to operate and
grow our business. As the semiconductor industry has grown in recent years, competition for qualified talent, particularly those with significant industry experience, has intensified. Other factors impacting our ability to attract and retain key employees include the attractiveness of our compensation and benefit programs, global economic or political conditions, the ability to obtain necessary authorizations for workers to provide services outside their home countries and our ability to continue to foster a challenging and rewarding work environment. We have experienced in the past, and may in the future continue to experience, an increasingly competitive and constrained labor market, which may limit our ability to add headcount required to meet our customers’ demand, decrease our productivity due to an influx of inexperienced workers and cause our labor costs to increase and our profitability to decline. As a result, the difficulty and costs associated with attracting and retaining employees has risen and may continue to rise.
If we fail to obtain, protect and enforce intellectual property rights, our business and prospects could be harmed.
Our future success and competitive position depend in part upon our ability to obtain, maintain and enforce intellectual property rights. We rely on patent, trade secret and trademark laws as well as confidentiality agreements to protect many of our major product platforms. Even if patents are issued in respect of our patent applications, these patents may nonetheless (1) expire; (2) be challenged, invalidated, circumvented, rendered unenforceable or otherwise compromised by third parties; or (3) fail to provide us with any competitive advantage. We may lose trade secret protections as a result of actions or omissions by us, our employees, or third parties. Our confidentiality agreements (including confidentiality agreements entered into between us and our employees) may be breached and the remedies for any such breach may be inadequate. Our confidential and proprietary information and technology may also be replicated or obtained through lawful means. Replication of our intellectual property or the infringement or misappropriation of our intellectual property rights could result in uncompensated lost market and revenue opportunities, which could adversely affect our business and financial condition. Our failure to monitor and ensure the proper use of our data, confidential information, and intellectual property in the training and operation of generative artificial intelligence products may result in the loss of intellectual property and raise complex compliance, intellectual property and other issues.
We have initiated, and may initiate in the future, litigation in order to enforce our intellectual property rights, protect our trade secrets, and determine the validity and scope of the proprietary rights of others. From time to time, third parties have also asserted, and may continue to assert, intellectual property claims against us and our products. In the past, intellectual property-related litigation has caused us to expend significant financial and other resources. In the future, such litigation could (1) impose substantial costs and cause the diversion of resources and the attention of management; (2) require us to pay damages or royalties; (3) require us to alter our products or processes, or obtain a license to continue selling the impacted product, which we may be unable to do on commercially acceptable terms, or at all; (4) severely harm our reputation and competitive position; and (5) negatively affect our sales, profitability and prospects.
Implementation of, and reporting on, our environmental, social and governance commitments could result in additional costs, and our inability to achieve these commitments could have an adverse impact on our reputation and performance.
From time to time we communicate our strategies, commitments and targets related to sustainability, greenhouse gas emissions, the sustainability of our products, human rights, and other environmental, social and governance matters. These strategies, commitments and targets reflect our current plans and aspirations, and we may be unable to achieve them. Changing customer sustainability requirements, including increasing customer demand for sustainable products, as well as actions taken to achieve our sustainability targets, could cause us from time to time to alter our manufacturing, operations or products, and incur substantial additional expense. Any failure or perceived failure to timely meet these sustainability requirements or targets could adversely impact the demand for our products and subject us to significant costs and liabilities and reputational risks that could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. In addition, standards and processes for measuring and reporting greenhouse gas emissions and other sustainability metrics may change over time, increase our costs and result in inconsistent data or significant revisions to our strategies, commitments and targets, and our ability to achieve them. We also are or may become subject to new climate and sustainability laws and regulations, such as the State of California’s new climate change disclosure rules, the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and the SEC’s rules on climate-related risks. Compliance with such laws and regulations, as well as increased scrutiny from regulators, customers and other stakeholders in our sustainability practices, could result in additional costs and expose us to new risks, including reputational risks. Any scrutiny of our greenhouse gas emissions or other sustainability disclosures or our failure to achieve related strategies, commitments and targets, or our failure to disclose our sustainability measures consistent with applicable laws and regulations or to the satisfaction of regulators or our stakeholders, could negatively impact our reputation or performance.
Risks Related to Government Regulation
We are subject to a variety of rapidly evolving environmental laws and regulations that could cause us to incur significant liabilities and expenses.
The wide variety of federal, state, local and non-U.S. regulatory requirements relating to the design, manufacture, sale, shipping, import, export and use of our products, as well as the release, use, storage, treatment, transportation, discharge, disposal and remediation of, and human exposure to, hazardous chemicals, could result in future liabilities, remediation efforts or the suspension of production or shipment. These requirements are dynamic and have become stricter over time. These laws and regulations, among others, increase the complexity and costs of operating our facilities and manufacturing and transporting our products. Further changes to or our failure to comply with these and similar regulations could (1) restrict our ability to expand, build or acquire new facilities, (2) require us to acquire costly control equipment, (3) cause us to incur expenses associated with remediation of contamination, (4) cause us to modify our product design, operations or manufacturing or shipping processes or (5) otherwise increase our cost of doing business, which may have a negative impact on our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows. In addition, the potential adoption of new laws, rules or regulations related to climate change and the use or sale of PFAS-containing products poses risks, including subjecting us to future costs and liabilities, that could harm our results of operations or affect the way we conduct our businesses. For example, new or modified regulations could require us to make substantial expenditures to enhance our environmental compliance efforts.
We are exposed to various risks from our regulatory environment, including being subject to potentially inconsistent or conflicting laws and regulations in the jurisdictions in which we operate, international trade-related disputes and compliance costs, which may adversely impact our reputation, financial condition and results of operations.
We are subject to risks related to new, different, inconsistent, or even conflicting laws, rules, and regulations that may be enacted by legislative or executive bodies and/or regulatory agencies in the countries where we operate; disagreements or disputes related to international trade; and the interpretation and application of laws, rules, and regulations. As a public company with global operations, we are subject to the laws of multiple jurisdictions and the rules and regulations of various governing bodies, including those related to health and safety, import and export controls, financial and other disclosures, accounting standards, corporate governance, public procurement and public funding, environment (including those relating to sustainability and climate change), privacy, anti-corruption, such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other local laws prohibiting corrupt payments to governmental officials or customers, conflict minerals or other social responsibility legislation, employment practices, immigration or travel regulations and antitrust regulations, among others. Each of these laws, rules and regulations imposes costs on our business, including financial costs and potential diversion of our management’s attention, and may present risks to our business, including potential fines, restrictions on our actions and reputational damage if we do not fully comply. The volume of changes to such laws, rules and regulations may increase in the countries where we operate.
Changes in or ambiguous interpretations of laws, regulations and standards may create uncertainty regarding compliance matters. Efforts to comply with new and changing regulations have resulted in, and are likely to continue to result in, increased administrative expenses and diversion of management’s time and attention from revenue-generating activities to compliance activities. If we are found by a court or regulatory agency not to be in compliance with laws and regulations, our reputation, business, financial condition and/or results of operations could be adversely affected, we may be disqualified or barred from participating in certain activities and we may be forced to modify our operations to achieve full compliance.
Changes in taxation or adverse tax rulings could adversely affect our results of operations.
We operate in many foreign countries and are subject to taxation at various rates and audit by multiple taxing authorities. Our results of operations could be affected by tax audits, changes in tax rates, changes in laws and regulations governing the calculation, location and taxation of earned profit, changes in laws and regulations affecting our ability to realize deferred tax assets on our balance sheet and changes in laws and regulations relating to the repatriation of cash into the U.S. Each quarter, we forecast our tax liability based on our forecast of our performance for the year in each tax jurisdiction. If our performance forecast changes, our forecasted tax liability would also likely change, perhaps materially.
We have undertaken, and expect to continue to undertake, complex internal reorganizations of our foreign subsidiaries in order to rationalize and streamline our foreign operations, focus our management efforts on certain local opportunities and take advantage of favorable business conditions in certain localities. These or any future reorganizations could result in adverse tax consequences in one or more jurisdictions, which could adversely impact our profitability from foreign operations and result in a material reduction in our results of operations.
Various jurisdictions in which we operate are considering changes to their tax laws. For example, the OECD introduced the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting 2.0 project that seeks to impose a global minimum income tax rate of 15%. Any tax reform adopted in any foreign jurisdiction may exacerbate the risks described above.
We are exposed to risks related to government incentives and other agreements that may involve government entities, such as increases in the complexity and costs of our operations, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
From time to time, we may receive and enter agreements for grants, tax benefits and other incentives from national, state and local governments in jurisdictions throughout the world designed to encourage us to establish, maintain or increase our investment, research and development and production activities in those jurisdictions. Our future business plans are impacted by obtaining these government incentives, which may take various forms, including grants, subsidies, loans, and tax arrangements, and typically require us to achieve or maintain certain levels of investment, capital spending, employment, technology deployment or development milestones, construction or production milestones, or research and development activities to qualify for such incentives or could restrict us from undertaking certain activities. Compliance with these requirements may add complexity to our operations and increase our costs, and a failure to comply could result in cancelation of agreements or transactions, investigations, civil and criminal penalties, forfeiture of profits, reduction, termination or clawback of any funding, suspension or debarment from doing business with the government, or other penalties, any of which could have a material and adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. For example, we have entered into a direct funding agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce to receive a grant under the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act of 2022. We may be unable to successfully achieve the milestones and ancillary requirements to qualify for these incentives or such incentives may otherwise be withheld. We also may be unable to obtain future incentives, which may put us at a disadvantage against competitors, especially foreign competitors that may benefit from such incentives in the countries in which they are headquartered.
Risks Related to Our Indebtedness
We have a substantial amount of indebtedness and may in the future incur substantially more debt, each of which could adversely affect our ability to obtain financing in the future and react to changes in our business.
As of December 31, 2024, we had an aggregate principal amount of $4.0 billion of indebtedness outstanding, including the $0.8 billion from our senior secured term loan facility due 2029 (the “Term Loan Facility”), $1.6 billion aggregate principal amount of the 4.75% senior secured notes due April 15, 2029, $1.7 billion aggregate principal amount of the 5.95% senior unsecured notes due June 15, 2030, our 4.375% senior unsecured notes due April 15, 2028, and our 3.625% senior unsecured notes due May 1, 2029 (collectively, the “Notes”). In addition, we have approximately $575.0 million of unutilized capacity under our senior secured revolving credit facility due 2027 (the “Revolving Facility”). We refer to the Term Loan Facility and the Revolving Facility as the “Credit Facilities”. The credit agreements that govern the Credit Facilities are referred to collectively as the “Amended Credit Agreement”. Further, we may incur significant additional secured and unsecured indebtedness in the future.
Although the indentures governing the Notes (the “Indentures”), and the Amended Credit Agreement restrict our ability to incur additional indebtedness, the restrictions have a number of significant qualifications and exceptions. For example, the Amended Credit Agreement provides that we can request additional loans and commitments up to the greater of $1.1 billion or 100% of our EBITDA, as well as additional amounts if our secured net leverage ratio is less than a specified ratio. Further, these restrictions do not prevent us from incurring monetary obligations that do not constitute indebtedness. If we add new indebtedness and other monetary obligations to our current debt levels, the related risks that we now face would intensify.
Our debt could have important consequences, including:
•limiting our ability to obtain additional financing to fund future working capital, capital expenditures, acquisitions or other general corporate purposes;
•requiring a substantial portion of our cash flow to be dedicated to debt service payments instead of other purposes;
•increasing our vulnerability to adverse changes in general economic, industry and competitive conditions;
•exposing us to increased interest expense for borrowings with variable interest rates, including borrowings under the Credit Facilities; and
•placing us at a disadvantage compared to other, less leveraged competitors or competitors with comparable debt having more favorable terms.
We may be unable to generate sufficient cash to service our indebtedness and may be forced to take other actions, which may not be successful, to satisfy our obligations under our indebtedness.
We may be unable to maintain sufficient cash flow from operating activities to permit us to pay the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on our indebtedness. Our ability to make scheduled payments on or to refinance our debt obligations depends on our financial condition and operating performance and the condition of the capital markets, which are subject to prevailing economic, industry and competitive conditions, as well as many financial, business, legislative, political, regulatory and other factors beyond our control. If our cash flow and capital resources are insufficient to fund our debt service obligations, we could face substantial liquidity problems, be forced to reduce or delay investments and capital expenditures, dispose of material assets or operations, seek additional debt or equity capital or restructure or refinance our indebtedness, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial position and results of operations. In addition, the level and quality of our earnings, operations, business and management, among other things, will impact the determination of our credit ratings. Any failure to make payments of interest and principal on our outstanding indebtedness on a timely basis may result in a decrease in the ratings assigned to us by the ratings agencies, which may negatively impact our access to the debt capital markets and increase our cost of borrowing. In addition, we may be unable to maintain the current creditworthiness or prospective credit rating of the Company. Any actual or anticipated changes or downgrades in such credit rating may have a negative impact on our liquidity, capital position or access to capital markets and affect our ability to obtain any future required financing on acceptable terms or at all.
Any refinancing of our debt could be at higher interest rates and may require us to comply with more onerous covenants, which could further restrict our business operations. We may not be able to implement any refinancing on commercially reasonable terms or at all and, even if successful, a refinancing may not allow us to meet our scheduled debt service obligations. The agreements governing our indebtedness restrict our ability to dispose of assets and use the proceeds of such dispositions, and we may be unable to consummate any dispositions or generate proceeds sufficient to meet our debt service obligations.
If we cannot make scheduled payments on our debt, holders of the Notes and lenders under the Credit Facilities could declare all outstanding principal and interest to be due and payable, the lenders under the Revolving Facility could terminate their commitments to advance further loans, our secured lenders could foreclose against the assets securing their borrowings and we could be forced into bankruptcy or liquidation.
The terms of the Amended Credit Agreement and the Indentures may restrict our operations, particularly our ability to respond to changes or raise additional funds.
The Amended Credit Agreement contains restrictive covenants that impose significant operating and financial restrictions that may limit our and our restricted subsidiaries’ ability to take actions that may be in our long-term best interest, including restrictions on our and our restricted subsidiaries’ ability to:
•incur additional indebtedness and guarantee indebtedness;
•pay dividends or make other distributions in respect of, or repurchase or redeem, capital stock;
•prepay, redeem or repurchase certain debt;
•make investments, loans, advances and acquisitions;
•engage in sale-leaseback or hedging transactions;
•create liens on, sell or otherwise dispose of assets, including capital stock of our subsidiaries;
•enter into transactions with affiliates;
•enter into agreements that restrict the ability to create liens, pay dividends or make loan repayments;
•alter the businesses we conduct; and
•merge or sell all or substantially all of our assets or incur a change of control in our capital stock ownership.
Also, the Indentures contain limited covenants, such as a covenant restricting our ability and certain of our subsidiaries’ ability to incur certain debt secured by liens, engage in sale-leaseback and incur additional indebtedness by any restricted subsidiary.
In addition, the restrictive covenants under the credit agreement governing the Revolving Facility may, depending on the amount of revolving borrowings, unreimbursed letter of credit drawings and undrawn letters of credit, require us to maintain a secured net leverage ratio, which we may be unable to meet. Our failure to comply with these covenants could result in the acceleration of some or all of our indebtedness, which could lead to bankruptcy, reorganization or insolvency.
Risks Related to Owning our Common Stock
The price of our common stock has been and may remain volatile.
The price of our common stock has been volatile. In 2024, the closing price of our stock on The Nasdaq Global Select Market (“Nasdaq”) ranged from a low of $97.67 to a high of $146.48, and, as in past years, the price of our common stock may show even greater volatility in the future. The trading price of our common stock is subject to significant volatility in response to numerous factors, many of which are beyond our control or may be unrelated to our operating results, including the following:
•changes to our financial guidance, as well as potential decreased confidence in any guidance we do provide;
•changes in global economic and geopolitical conditions, including those resulting from trade tensions, rising inflation, and fluctuations in foreign currency exchange and interest rates;
•failure to meet the expectations of securities analysts, which may vary significantly from our actual results;
•changes in financial estimates by securities analysts;
•press releases or announcements by, or changes in market values of, comparable companies;
•high volatility in price and volume in the markets for high-technology stocks;
•public perception of equity values of publicly traded companies;
•fluctuations in our results of operations; and
•other risks and uncertainties described in this Annual Report on Form 10-K and in our other filings with the SEC.
Fluctuations in our results of operations could cause our stock price to decline significantly. Future decreases in our stock price may adversely impact our ability to raise sufficient additional capital in the future, if needed.
We may decrease or discontinue cash dividends and may never adopt a new program to repurchase our shares of common stock.
Future payments of quarterly dividends and any future repurchases of shares of our common stock are subject to capital availability and periodic determinations by our Board of Directors that they are in the best interest of our stockholders and comply with all laws and applicable agreements. Future dividends and any future share repurchases may be affected by, among other factors, potential capital requirements for acquisitions and the funding of our research and development activities; legal risks; changes in federal and state income tax laws or corporate laws; contractual restrictions, such as financial or operating covenants in our debt arrangements; availability of domestic cash flow; and changes to our business model. The amounts of our dividend payments may change from time to time, and we may decide at any time to reduce, suspend or discontinue the payment of dividends or the repurchase of shares. A reduction, suspension or discontinuation of our dividend payments or the cessation of our share repurchase program could have a negative effect on the price of our common stock and may harm our reputation.
Provisions in our charter documents and Delaware law may delay or prevent an acquisition of us, which could decrease the value of our shares.
Our certificate of incorporation, our by-laws and Delaware law contain provisions that could make it harder for a third party to acquire us without the consent of our board of directors. These provisions include limitations on actions by written consent of our stockholders.
Our certificate of incorporation makes us subject to the anti-takeover provisions of Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law. In general, Section 203 prohibits publicly held Delaware corporations from engaging in a “business combination” with an “interested stockholder” for a period of three years after the date of the transaction in which the person became an interested stockholder, unless the business combination is approved in a prescribed manner. This provision could discourage parties from bidding for our shares of common stock and could, as a result, reduce the likelihood of an increase in the price of our common stock that would otherwise occur if a bidder sought to buy our common stock.
Our certificate of incorporation authorizes our Board of Directors to issue, without further stockholder approval, up to 5,000,000 shares of preferred stock in one or more series and to fix and designate the rights, preferences, privileges and
restrictions of the preferred stock, including dividend rights, conversion rights, voting rights, redemption rights and liquidation preferences. The holders of any shares of preferred stock could have preferences over the holders of our common stock with respect to dividends and liquidation rights. Any issuance of preferred stock may have the effect of delaying, deterring or preventing a change in control. Any issuance of preferred stock could decrease the amount of earnings and assets available for distribution to the holders of common stock and could adversely affect the rights and powers, including voting rights, of the holders of common stock. The issuance of preferred stock could have the effect of decreasing the market price of our common stock.
General Risks
Competition from new or existing companies could harm our financial condition, results of operations and cash flow.
We operate in a highly competitive, global industry. We face many domestic and international competitors, some of which have substantially greater manufacturing, financial, research and development and marketing resources than we do. In addition, some of our competitors may have better-established customer relationships than we do, which may enable them to have their products specified for use more frequently and more quickly by these customers. We also face competition from smaller, regional companies that focus on serving customers in their regions. Further, customers continually evaluate the benefits of internal manufacturing versus outsourcing, and a customer’s decision to internally manufacture products that we provide may negatively impact us. If we are unable to maintain our competitive position, we could experience downward pressure on prices, fewer customer orders, reduced margins, the inability to take advantage of new business opportunities and a loss of market share, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations. Further, we expect that existing and new competitors will improve their products and introduce new products with enhanced performance characteristics. The introduction of new products or more efficient production of existing products by competitors could diminish our market share and increase pricing pressure on our products.
Our competitors include companies outside of the U.S., including companies in countries where foreign governments seek to build a domestic-centric semiconductor ecosystem. From time to time, governments around the world may provide incentives or make other investments that could benefit and give competitive advantages to our competitors. Government incentives may not be available to us on acceptable terms or at all. If our competitors can benefit from such government incentives and we cannot, it could strengthen our competitors' relative position and have a material adverse effect on our business.
We may acquire other businesses, form joint ventures or divest businesses, any of which could negatively affect our financial performance.
We intend to continue to engage in business combinations, acquisitions, joint ventures, investments, divestitures or other types of collaborations to (1) address gaps in our product offerings, (2) adjust our business and product portfolio to meet our ongoing strategic objectives, (3) diversify into new and complementary markets, (4) increase our scale or (5) accomplish other strategic objectives. These transactions involve numerous risks to our business, financial condition and operating results, including but not limited to:
•difficulty in identifying suitable acquisition candidates and completing transactions at appropriate valuations, in a timely manner, on a cost-effective basis or at all, due to substantial competition for acquisition targets;
•inability to successfully integrate any acquired businesses into our business operations;
•failure to realize the anticipated synergies or other benefits of any such transaction;
•entry into markets in which we have limited or no prior experience;
•finding acquirors and obtaining adequate value for businesses that no longer meet our strategic objectives;
•difficulties surrounding the disentanglement of a divested business, including the diversion of resources away from our business operations to address such matters;
•inability to complete proposed or pending transactions due to factors such as the failure or inability to obtain regulatory or other approvals, which may be exacerbated by the recent, more aggressive regulatory approaches to merger control globally, such as the July 19, 2023 joint statement of antitrust policy and final rules published on October 10, 2024 concerning changes to the premerger notification process under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act of 1976 by the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission and the April 15, 2023 Provisions on the Review of Concentrations of Undertakings issued by China’s State Administration for Market Regulation, among others;
•requirements imposed by government regulators in connection with their review of a transaction, which may include, among other things, divestitures and restrictions on the conduct of our existing business or the acquired business;
•undertaking multiple transactions at the same time in order to take advantage of acquisition or divestiture opportunities that do arise, which could strain our ability to effectively execute and integrate such transactions;
•diversion of management’s attention from our day-to-day business due to dedication of significant management resources to such transactions;
•employee uncertainty and lack of focus during the integration process that may also disrupt our business;
•risk of litigation or claims associated with a proposed or completed transaction;
•challenges associated with managing new, more diverse and more widespread operations, projects and people, potentially located in regions where we have not historically conducted or operated our business;
•dependence on unfamiliar or less secure supply chains and inefficient scale of the acquired entity;
•increasing costs of performing due diligence to meet the expectations of investors and government regulators;
•despite our due diligence, we could assume unknown, underestimated or contingent liabilities, such as potential environmental, health and safety liabilities, any of which could lead to costly litigation or mitigation actions;
•an acquired technology or product may have inadequate or invalid intellectual property protection or may be subject to claims of infringement by a third party, which may result in claims for damages and lower than anticipated revenue;
•negative effects on our reported results of operations from dilutive results from operations and/or from future potential impairment of acquired assets, including goodwill, related to acquisitions;
•an acquired company may have inadequate or ineffective internal controls over financial reporting, disclosure controls and procedures, cybersecurity, privacy, environmental, health and safety, anti-bribery, anti-corruption, human resource or other policies or practices, which may require unexpected or additional integration, mitigation and remediation costs;
•reductions in cash or increases in debt to finance transactions, which reduce the cash flow available for general corporate or other purposes, including repayment of existing debt, share repurchases and dividends; and
•difficulties in retaining key employees or customers of an acquired business.
Climate change may have a long-term impact on our business, including by causing disruptions to our operations which may result in decreased revenue and cash flows.
There are inherent climate-related risks wherever our business is conducted. Changes in market dynamics, stakeholder expectations, local, national and international climate change policies, and the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events on critical infrastructure in the U.S. and abroad, all have the potential to disrupt our business and operations. Such events could result in a significant increase in our costs and expenses and harm our future revenue, cash flows and financial performance. Global climate change is resulting in, and may continue to result, in certain natural disasters and adverse weather events, such as drought, wildfires, severe storms, sea-level rise and flooding, occurring more frequently or with greater intensity, which could cause business disruptions and adverse impacts where we operate.

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ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS
Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments.
Not Applicable.

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ITEM 2. PROPERTIES
Item 2. Properties.
Our principal executive offices are located in Billerica, Massachusetts. Information about our principal and certain other facilities is set forth below:
Location
Principal Function
Approximate
Square Feet
Leased/
Owned
Reporting Segment
Bedford, Massachusetts
Research & Manufacturing
80,000
Owned
APS & MS
Billerica, Massachusetts(1)
Executive Offices, Research & Manufacturing
175,000
Leased
APS & MS
Burnet, Texas
Research & Manufacturing
86,000
Owned
MS
Decatur, Texas
Manufacturing
359,000
Owned
MS
Chaska, Minnesota
Executive Offices, Research & Manufacturing
186,000
Owned
APS
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Manufacturing
82,000
Owned
APS
Danbury, Connecticut
Research & Manufacturing
73,000
Leased
MS
San Luis Obispo, California
Manufacturing
57,867
Owned
APS
San Luis Obispo, California
Manufacturing
59,124
Leased
APS
Aurora, Illinois
Manufacturing
414,000
Owned
MS
Hillsboro, Oregon
Manufacturing
112,344
Leased
MS
Hsin-chu, Taiwan
Executive Offices, Sales Research & Manufacturing
146,330
Leased
APS & MS
Kaohsiung City,Taiwan (North)
Manufacturing
105,874
Owned
MS
Kaohsiung City,Taiwan (South)
Manufacturing
573,696 Owned
APS & MS
JangAn, South Korea
Manufacturing
127,000
Owned
APS & MS
Oseong, South Korea
Manufacturing
108,355
Owned
MS
Suwon, South Korea
Executive Offices & Research
42,000
Leased
APS & MS
Kulim, Malaysia
Manufacturing
195,000
Owned
APS & MS
Yonezawa, Japan
Manufacturing
185,000
Owned
APS
Tsu, Mie, Japan
Manufacturing
160,259
Owned
MS
Singapore
Manufacturing
47,770 Owned
MS
(1) This lease has been extended through September 30, 2026 and is subject to one five-year renewal option.
In addition, we own and lease space for manufacturing, distribution, technical support, sales, service, repair, and general administrative purposes in the U.S., Canada, China, Germany, France, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. Leases for our facilities expire through October 2031. We currently expect to be able to extend the terms of expiring leases or to find suitable replacement facilities on reasonable terms. We believe that our facilities are well-maintained and suitable for their respective operations. We regularly assess the size, capability and location of our global infrastructure and periodically make adjustments based on these assessments.

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ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
Item 3. Legal Proceedings.
We are, from time-to-time, involved in various claims, proceedings and lawsuits relating to our business, employees, intellectual property and other matters. The outcomes of these matters are not within our complete control and may not be known for prolonged periods of time. In some actions, the claimants seek damages, as well as other relief, that could require significant expenditures or result in lost revenues. We record a liability for these matters when a loss is known or considered probable and the amount can be reasonably estimated. If the reasonable estimate of a known or probable loss is a range, and no amount within the range is a better estimate than any other, the minimum amount of the range is accrued. There is judgment required in the determination of the likelihood of outcome, and if necessary determination of the estimate or range of potential outcomes. Based on the current information, the Company does not believe any known matters have a reasonable possibility of a material amount for litigation or other contingencies related to legal proceedings.

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ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURE
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures.
Not applicable.
PART II

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ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT'S COMMON EQUITY
Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities.
Market Information and Holders
Entegris’ common stock, $0.01 par value per share, trades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “ENTG”. As of February 5, 2025, there were 965 shareholders of record.
Dividend Policy
Holders of the Company’s common stock are entitled to receive dividends when and if they are declared by the Company’s Board of Directors. The Company’s Board of Directors declared cash dividends of $0.10 per share during each of the first, second, third and fourth quarters of 2024, which totaled $60.7 million.
On January 15, 2025, the Company’s Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.10 per share to be paid on February 19, 2025 to shareholders of record as of January 29, 2025.
The Company currently expects to continue paying dividends comparable with our historic dividend practices. Future dividend declarations, if any, as well as the record and payment dates for such dividends, are subject to the final determination of our Board of Directors. Furthermore, the credit agreement governing the Credit Facilities contains restrictions that may limit our ability to pay dividends.
Issuer Sales of Unregistered Securities During the Past Three Years
None.
Comparative Stock Performance
The following graph compares the cumulative total shareholder return on the common stock of Entegris, Inc. from December 31, 2019 through December 31, 2024 with the cumulative total return on (1) The Nasdaq Composite Index, and (2) The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index, assuming $100 was invested at the close of trading on December 31, 2019 in Entegris, Inc. common stock, the Nasdaq Composite Index and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index and that all dividends are reinvested.
Prepared by Zacks Investment Research, Inc. Used with permission. All rights reserved. Copyright 1980-2024.
Index Data: Copyright NASDAQ OMX, Inc. Used with permission. All rights reserved.
December 31, 2019 December 31, 2020 December 31, 2021 December 31, 2022 December 31, 2023 December 31, 2024
Entegris, Inc. $100.00 $192.83 $278.79 $132.44 $243.04 $201.58
Nasdaq Composite 100.00 144.92 177.06 119.45 172.77 223.86
Philadelphia Semiconductor Index 100.00 153.66 219.50 142.94 238.72 287.31
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
The Company does not have a publicly announced stock repurchase program and we did not repurchase any equity securities during the year ended December 31, 2024.
The Company issues common stock awards under its equity incentive plans. In the consolidated financial statements, the Company treats shares of common stock withheld for tax purposes on behalf of its employees in connection with the vesting or exercise of the awards as common stock repurchases because they reduce the number of shares that would have been issued upon vesting or exercise. These withheld shares of common stock are not considered common stock repurchases pursuant to a Board-authorized common stock repurchase plan.

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ITEM 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA
Item 6. [Reserved]

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ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS
Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
The following discussion and analysis of the Company’s consolidated financial condition and results of operations should be read along with the consolidated financial statements and the accompanying notes thereto included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. This discussion contains forward-looking statements that involve numerous risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, those described in Item 1A, “Risk Factors” and the “Cautionary Statements” section of this Item 7 below. You should review Item 1A “Risk Factors” of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for a discussion of important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results described in or implied by the forward-looking statements contained in the following discussion and analysis. The Company has elected to omit discussion of the earliest of the three years covered by the consolidated financial statements presented except for the segment analysis. Information pertaining to fiscal year 2022 results of operations and the year-over-year comparison of changes in our Financial Condition and Results of Operations as of and for the year ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 can be found in Part II, Item 7, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023, filed on February 15, 2024.
Cautionary Statements
This Annual Report on Form 10-K and the portions of the Company’s Definitive Proxy Statement incorporated by reference in this Annual Report on Form 10-K contain “forward-looking statements.” The words “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “estimate,” “forecast,” “project,” “should,” “may,” “will,” “would” or the negative thereof and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on current management expectations and assumptions only as of the date of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. They are not guarantees of future performance and they involve substantial risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict and that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results expressed in, or implied by, these forward-looking statements.
These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, fluctuations in the demand for semiconductors and the overall volume of semiconductor manufacturing; the impact of global economic uncertainty, including volatile financial markets, inflationary pressures and interest rate fluctuations, economic recessions, national debt and bank failures, raw material shortages, supply and labor constraints, and price increases; fluctuations in the Company’s revenues and operating results and their impact on the Company’s stock price; supply chain interruptions and the Company’s dependence on sole, single and limited source suppliers; operational, political and legal risks of the Company’s international operations; the impact of regional and global instabilities, hostilities and geopolitical uncertainty, including, but not limited to, the ongoing conflicts between Ukraine and Russia, and between Israel and Hamas, as well as the global responses thereto; tariffs, additional taxes, and other protectionist measures resulting from international trade disputes, strained international relations, and changes in foreign and national security policy; export controls, economic sanctions, and similar restrictions; the concentration and consolidation of the Company’s customer base; the Company’s ability to meet rapid demand shifts; the Company’s ability to continue technological innovation and to introduce new products to meet customers’ rapidly changing requirements; manufacturing and other operational disruptions or delays; the risks associated with the use and manufacture of hazardous materials; goodwill impairment; challenges in attracting and retaining qualified personnel; the Company’s ability to protect and enforce intellectual property rights; IT system failures, network disruptions, and cybersecurity risks; the Company’s environmental, social, and governance commitments; legal and regulatory risks, including changes in laws and regulations related to the environment, health and safety, accounting standards, and corporate governance, across the jurisdictions in which the Company operates; changes in taxation or adverse tax rulings; the Company’s ability to effectively implement any organizational changes; the ability to obtain government incentives and the possibility that competitors will benefit from government incentives; the amount and consequences of the Company’s indebtedness, its ability to repay its debt and to obtain future financing, and the Company’s obligations under its current outstanding credit facilities; volatility in the Company’s stock price; the payment of cash dividends and the adoption of future share repurchase programs; challenges associated with a potential change of control; substantial competition; the Company’s ability to identify, complete and integrate acquisitions, joint ventures, divestitures or other similar transactions; the impacts of climate change; and other matters. These risks and uncertainties also include, but are not limited to, the risk factors and additional information described in this Annual Report on Form 10-K under the caption “Risk Factors,” elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K and in the Company’s other periodic filings. Except as required under the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations of the SEC, the Company undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements or information contained herein, which speak as of their respective dates.
Overview
This overview is not a complete discussion of the Company’s financial condition, changes in financial condition and results of operations; it is intended merely to facilitate an understanding of the most salient aspects of its financial condition and operating performance and to provide a context for the detailed discussion and analysis that follows, and must be read in its entirety in order to fully understand the Company’s financial condition and results of operations.
The Company is a leading supplier of critical advanced materials and process solutions for the semiconductor and other high-technology industries. We leverage our unique breadth of capabilities to help our customers improve their productivity, product performance and technology in the most advanced manufacturing environments.
In the fourth quarter of 2024, the Company announced an internal reorganization, combining two complementary divisions into one and realigning its customer facing organization. Our business is now organized and operated in two operating segments as discussed below. The current annual and succeeding annual periods will disclose the reportable segments with prior periods recast to reflect the change. These segments share common business systems and processes, technology centers and technology roadmaps.
▪The Materials Solutions segment, or MS, provides materials-based solutions, such as chemical vapor and atomic layer deposition materials, chemical mechanical planarization (“CMP”) slurries and pads, ion implantation specialty gases, formulated etch and clean materials, and other specialty materials that enable our customers to achieve better device performance and faster time to yield, while providing for lower total cost of ownership.
▪The Advanced Purity Solutions segment, or APS, offers filtration, purification and contamination-control solutions that improve customers’ yield, device reliability and cost by ensuring the purity of critical liquid chemistries and gases and the cleanliness of wafers and other substrates used throughout semiconductor manufacturing processes, the semiconductor ecosystem and other high-technology industries.
With our complementary capabilities, we believe we are uniquely positioned to create new, co-optimized and increasingly integrated solutions for our customers, which should translate into improved device performance, lower cost of ownership and faster time to market. For example, we have the capabilities and core competencies to develop and co-optimize offerings solving customers’ complex manufacturing challenges across the deposition, CMP process and post-CMP modules, with solutions including advanced deposition materials, CMP slurries, pads and post-CMP cleaning chemistries (each from our MS segment), and CMP slurry filters, high-purity packaging and fluid monitoring systems (each from our APS segment).
Regulatory Volatility
In light of the current geopolitical environment, in the near term, we anticipate greater uncertainty and inconsistency among the jurisdictions in which we operate with respect to policies and regulations that affect our business, including, without limitation, trade regulations, environmental regulations, labor and immigration regulations, tax policies, tariffs, sanctions and export controls. This may add additional uncertainty and volatility to business planning and forecasting for us and for our customers. While we continually monitor and explore options to mitigate this volatility through appropriate adjustments to our business planning and processes, the ultimate impact this rapidly evolving regulatory environment may have on the global economy, supply chains, logistics, raw material pricing and our business is likely to remain uncertain for some time.
Recent Events
On March 1, 2024, the Company completed the sale of its PIM business. The Company received net cash proceeds of $256.2 million. See Note 5 to our consolidated financial statements for additional information.
On March 28, 2024, the Company and certain of its subsidiaries entered into Amendment No. 3 (the “Third Amendment”), with the lenders party thereto and Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as administrative agent, which amended the Credit and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of November 6, 2018 (as amended and restated as of July 6, 2022 and as subsequently amended on each of March 10, 2023 and September 11, 2023, the “Existing Credit Agreement”), by and among the Company, as borrower, certain subsidiaries of the Company party thereto, as guarantors, the lenders party thereto, and Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as administrative agent and collateral agent. See Note 10 to our consolidated financial statements for additional information.
On December 3, 2024, the Company and the U.S. Department of Commerce entered into a definitive agreement providing for up to $77.0 million in direct funding to the Company under the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022. This funding will support the development of a facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado, which will produce products for the Company’s APS segment. See Note 21 to our consolidated financial statements for additional information.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
Management’s discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations are based upon the Company’s consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”). The preparation of these consolidated financial statements requires the Company to make estimates, assumptions and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses and related disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities. At each balance sheet date, management evaluates its estimates, including, but not limited to, those related to long-lived assets (property, plant and equipment, and identified intangible assets), goodwill and income taxes. The Company bases its estimates on historical experience and various other assumptions that management believes to be reasonable under the circumstances. Management’s utilization of different judgments or estimates could result in material differences in the amount and timing of the Company’s results of operations for any period. In addition, actual results could be different from the Company’s current estimates, possibly resulting in increased future charges to earnings.
Our critical accounting policies that are most significantly affected by estimates, assumptions and judgments used in the preparation of the Company's consolidated financial statements relate to business acquisitions and are discussed below. See Note 1 to the Company’s consolidated financial statements for additional information about the Company’s other significant accounting policies.
Goodwill
Goodwill is tested for impairment annually as of August 31. If circumstances change during interim periods between annual tests that would more likely than not reduce the fair value of a reporting unit below its carrying value, the Company will test goodwill for impairment. Factors that would necessitate an interim goodwill impairment assessment include a sustained decline in the Company's stock price, effects on a reporting unit such as a change in the composition or carrying amounts of its net assets, prolonged negative industry or economic trends, or significant under-performance relative to expected, historical or projected future operating results. Management uses judgment to determine whether to use a qualitative analysis or a quantitative fair value measurement for its goodwill impairment testing. The Company's fair value measurement approach combines the income and market valuation techniques for each of the Company’s reporting units that carry goodwill. These valuation techniques use estimates and assumptions including, but not limited to, the determination of appropriate market comparable, projected future cash flows (including timing and profitability), the discount rate reflecting the risk inherent in future cash flows, the perpetual growth rate, and projected future economic and market conditions.
If a reporting unit fails the quantitative impairment test, impairment expense is immediately recorded as the difference between the reporting unit’s fair value and carrying value not to exceed the amount of goodwill recorded.
Results of Operations
Year ended December 31, 2024 compared to year ended December 31, 2023
The following table sets forth the results of operations and the relationship between various components of operations, stated as a percent of net sales, for 2024 and 2023.
(Dollars in thousands) 2024 2023
% of net sales % of net sales
Net sales $ 3,241,208 100.0 % $ 3,523,926 100.0 %
Cost of sales 1,754,489 54.1 2,026,321 57.5
Gross profit 1,486,719 45.9 1,497,605 42.5
Selling, general and administrative expenses 446,567 13.8 576,194 16.4
Engineering, research and development expenses 316,111 9.8 277,313 7.9
Amortization of intangible assets 190,119 5.9 214,477 6.1
Goodwill impairment - - 115,217 3.3
Gain on termination of Alliance Agreement - - (184,754) (5.2)
Operating income 533,922 16.5 499,158 14.2
Interest expense 215,217 6.6 312,378 8.9
Interest income (7,368) (0.2) (11,257) (0.3)
Other expense, net 4,021 0.1 25,367 0.7
Income before income taxes 322,052 9.9 172,670 4.9
Income tax expense (benefit) 28,332 0.9 (8,413) (0.2)
Equity in net loss of affiliates 933 - 414 -
Net income $ 292,787 9.0 $ 180,669 5.1
Net sales For 2024, net sales were $3,241.2 million, decreased by $282.7 million, or 8%, from 2023. An analysis of the factors underlying the decrease in net sales is presented in the following table:
(In thousands)
Net sales in 2023
$ 3,523,926
Decrease associated with divestitures (434,241)
Decrease associated with effect of foreign currency translation (23,400)
Increase mainly associated with volume 174,923
Net sales in 2024
$ 3,241,208
As described in the table above, the decrease in net sales was primarily attributable to (i) the absence of sales totaling $434.2 million associated with divested businesses and (ii) a reduction of $23.4 million attributable to unfavorable foreign currency translation effects, primarily related to the weakening of the Japanese yen relative to the U.S. dollar compared to the year ago period ended December 31, 2023. These declines were partially offset by an increase of $174.9 million of sales due to increased semiconductor market demand compared to the year ago period ended December 31, 2023.
Sales percentage on a geographic basis for 2024 and 2023 and the percentage increase (decrease) in sales for 2024 compared to sales for 2023 were as follows:
Year ended
December 31, 2024 December 31, 2023 Percentage increase (decrease) in sales
North America 21 % 25 % (25) %
Taiwan 20 % 17 % 12 %
China 21 % 16 % 18 %
South Korea 13 % 13 % (6) %
Japan 10 % 10 % (16) %
Europe 8 % 11 % (32) %
Southeast Asia 7 % 7 % (12) %
The decrease in sales to customers in North America primarily relate to the absence of sales from divested businesses. The increase in sales to customers in Taiwan primarily relates to increased demand for our APS products. The increase in sales to customers in China primarily relates to increased demand for our MS and APS products. The decrease in sales to customers in South Korea primarily relates to decreased demand for our MS and APS products. The decrease in sales to customers in Japan primarily relates to decreased demand for our APS products, partially offset by increased demand for our MS products. The decrease in sales to customers in Europe primarily relate to the absence of sales from divested businesses. The decrease in sales to customers in Southeast Asia primarily relates to the absence of sales from divested businesses, partially offset by increased demand for our MS products.
Gross margin
The following table sets forth gross margin as a percentage of net sales:
2024 2023 Percentage point change
Gross margin as a percentage of net sales: 45.9 % 42.5 % 3.4
Gross margin increased by 3.4% for 2024 compared to 2023. Gross margin increased primarily due to the positive impact of the divested businesses and improved plant performance.
Selling, general and administrative expenses
Selling, general and administrative (“SG&A”) expenses consist primarily of payroll and related expenses for the sales and administrative staff, professional fees (including accounting, legal and technology costs and expenses), and sales and marketing costs. SG&A expenses for 2024 decreased $129.6 million, or 22%, to $446.6 million from $576.2 million in 2023.
An analysis of the factors underlying the decrease in SG&A expenses is presented in the following table:
(In thousands)
Selling, general and administrative expenses in 2023
$ 576,194
Integration, deal and transaction costs, mainly due to CMC Materials acquisition (53,158)
Loss on sales of EC and QED businesses in 2023 (23,839)
Employee costs, mainly driven by divested businesses (17,991)
Impairment on long-lived assets, see Note 3 to the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements (17,497)
Depreciation expense (7,919)
Gain on sale of PIM business in 2024 (4,311)
Other decreases, net (4,912)
Selling, general and administrative expenses in 2024
$ 446,567
Engineering, research and development expenses
Engineering, research and development (“ER&D”) expenses consist of expenses for the support of current product lines and the development of new products and manufacturing technologies. These expenses were $316.1 million in 2024 and $277.3 million in 2023.
An analysis of the factors underlying the increase in ER&D expenses is presented in the following table:
(In thousands)
Engineering, research and development expense in 2023
$ 277,313
Employee costs 14,874
Project related costs 11,411
Depreciation expense 8,013
Other increases, net 4,500
Engineering, research and development expense in 2024
$ 316,111
The Company’s overall ER&D efforts will continue to focus on developing and improving its technology platforms to support the semiconductor ecosystem and identifying and developing products for new applications. The Company often works directly with its customers to address their needs.
Amortization of intangible assets Amortization of intangible assets was $190.1 million in 2024 compared to $214.5 million for 2023. The decrease primarily reflects the absence of amortization for certain identifiable intangible assets acquired in previous acquisitions that became fully amortized and the intangible assets disposed of as part of the EC disposition.
Goodwill impairment The Company recorded no goodwill impairment charges in 2024 and $115.2 million in 2023. See Note 3 to the Company’s consolidated financial statements for further discussion.
Gain on termination of alliance agreement In connection with the termination of the alliance agreement, the Company recognized a pre-tax gain, net of $184.8 million in 2023. See Note 5 to the Company’s consolidated financial statements for further discussion.
Interest expense Interest expense was $215.2 million in 2024 and $312.4 million in 2023. Interest expense includes interest associated with debt outstanding and the amortization of debt issuance costs associated with such borrowings. The decrease reflects lower interest expense related to lower average debt balances for the period due to repayments on the Company’s outstanding debt.
Interest income Interest income was $7.4 million in 2024 and $11.3 million in 2023. The decrease primarily reflects lower average cash balances.
Other expense, net Other expense, net, was $4.0 million in 2024 compared to $25.4 million in 2023.
In 2024, other expense, net consisted mainly of loss of extinguishment and modification of debt of $14.3 million associated with the repayments and the Third Amendment on the Company’s senior secured term loan facility (see Note 10 to the Company’s consolidated financial statements) and foreign currency transaction losses of $7.7 million, partially offset by a gain of $20.0 million related to the settlement of patent infringement litigation.
In 2023, other expense, net consisted mainly of loss of extinguishment and modification of debt of $29.9 million associated with the repayments on the Company’s bridge credit facility and senior secured term loan facility and the amendments of the
Company’s Existing Credit Agreement and foreign currency transaction losses of $5.7 million, partially offset by net proceeds received of $10.9 million resulting from the termination of the definitive agreement with Infineum related to the PIM business.
Income tax expense The Company recorded income tax expense of $28.3 million in 2024 compared to an income tax benefit of $8.4 million in 2023. The Company’s effective tax rate was 8.8% in 2024 compared to an effective tax rate of (4.9)% in 2023.
The change in the effective tax rate from 2023 to 2024 primarily relates to the integration of the CMC acquisition and, discrete divestiture activity that occurred in 2023. Additionally, the tax rate was lower in 2023 due to changes in U.S. tax regulations pertaining to foreign tax credits.
Net income Net income was $292.8 million, or $1.93 per diluted share, in 2024 compared to net income of $180.7 million, or $1.20 per diluted share, in 2023. The increase reflects the Company’s aforementioned operating results described in greater detail above.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures Information The Company’s consolidated financial statements are prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. The Company also utilizes certain non-GAAP financial measures as a complement to financial measures provided in accordance with GAAP in order to better assess and reflect trends affecting the Company’s business and results of operations. See “Non-GAAP Information” included below in this section for additional detail, including the reconciliation of the Company’s non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures.
The Company’s non-GAAP financial measures include Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted Operating Income, together with related percentage changes, and Non-GAAP Earnings Per Share, or EPS.
Year ended
(In thousands) December 31, 2024 December 31, 2023 Percent change
Adjusted Operating Income $ 742,954 $ 769,672 (3.5) %
Adjusted Operating Margin - as a % of net sales 22.9 % 21.8 %
Adjusted EBITDA $ 931,074 $ 942,355 (1.2) %
Adjusted EBITDA - as a % of net sales 28.7 % 26.7 %
Non-GAAP EPS $ 3.00 $ 2.64 13.6 %
The decreases in Adjusted Operating Income and Adjusted EBITDA in 2024 compared to 2023 are generally attributable to decreased net sales and gross profit due to divested businesses and higher operating expenses. The increase in Non-GAAP EPS in 2024 compared to 2023 is primarily attributable to lower interest expense, partially offset by the decreases noted above for Adjusted Operating Income and Adjusted EBITDA.
Segment Analysis
In the fourth quarter of 2024, in order to align its segment financial reporting with a change in its business structure, the Company realigned its segments. Following the segment realignment, the Company’s two reportable segments are Materials Solutions and Advanced Purity Solutions. Accordingly, our segment information was restated retroactively in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2024. The segment realignment had no impact on the Materials Solutions segment financial reporting. See Note 20 to the consolidated financial statements for additional information on the Company’s two segments.
The following table and discussion reflects the results of operations of the Company’s two reportable segments for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022.
(In thousands) 2024 2023 2022
Materials Solutions
Net sales $ 1,400,082 $ 1,689,467 $ 1,380,208
Segment profit 286,220 296,375 219,189
Advanced Purity Solutions
Net sales $ 1,850,199 $ 1,846,596 $ 1,913,985
Segment profit 496,131 531,448 595,213
Unallocated general and administrative expenses $ 58,310 $ 114,188 $ 190,468
Materials Solutions (MS)
For 2024, MS net sales decreased to $1,400.1 million, down 17% from $1,689.5 million in 2023. The sales decrease was driven primarily by the absence of $434.2 million in sales associated with divested businesses included in the prior year sales, partially offset by increased sales from CMP consumables, advanced deposition materials and selective etching products.
MS reported a segment profit of $286.2 million for 2024, down 3% compared to $296.4 million in 2023. The decrease was primarily associated with (1) the absence of a $184.8 million gain resulting from the termination of the alliance agreement with MacDermid Enthone in 2023, (2) the absence of segment profit associated with divested businesses, partially offset with (3) the absence of a goodwill impairment charge of $115.2 million, (4) the absence of $23.8 million loss on sale of business and held-for-sale in 2023, (5) a decrease of a $17.5 million of impairment charges related to the long-lived assets of a small, industrial specialty chemicals business in 2023, (6) a $4.3 million gain associated with sale of the PIM business, and (7) improved plant performance.
For 2023, MS net sales increased to $1,689.5 million, up 22% from $1,380.2 million in 2022. The sales increase primarily reflects the inclusion of sales of $537.8 million attributed to acquisitions, primarily of CMC Materials, and also reflects modestly improved sales of advanced deposition materials, formulated cleans, selective etch and specialty coating products.
MS reported a segment profit of $296.4 million for 2023, up 35% compared to $219.2 million in 2022. The increase in MS’s profit in 2023 was primarily due to the segment profit attributed to the CMC Materials acquisition, partially offset by unfavorable product mix and a $61.9 million charge for a fair value write-up resulting from the sale of acquired CMC Materials inventory.
Advanced Purity Solutions (APS)
For 2024, APS net sales are approximately flat at $1,850.2 million, compared to $1,846.6 million in 2023.
APS reported a segment profit of $496.1 million for 2024, down 7% compared to $531.4 million in 2023. The decrease in APS’s profit in 2024 was primarily due to increased costs associated with the ramp up of our new manufacturing facility in Taiwan and higher operating expenses.
For 2023, APS net sales decreased to $1,846.6 million, down 4% from $1,914.0 million in 2022. The sales decrease was primarily due to lower sales from our microenvironment solutions products, partially offset by improved sales from our liquid filtration products.
APS reported a segment profit of $531.4 million for 2023, down 11% compared to $595.2 million in 2022. The decrease in APS’s profit in 2023 was primarily due to lower sales, lower factory performance, increased costs associated with our new manufacturing facility in Taiwan and increased investment in research and development.
Unallocated general and administrative expenses
Unallocated general and administrative expenses for 2024 totaled $58.3 million compared to $114.2 million for 2023. The $55.9 million decrease is primarily due to a $53.2 million decrease in deal, transaction and integration costs related to the acquisition of CMC Materials.
Unallocated general and administrative expenses for 2023 totaled $114.2 million compared to $190.5 million for 2022. The $76.3 million decrease is primarily due to a $95.7 million decrease in deal, transaction and integration costs related to the acquisition of CMC Materials, partially offset by an increase in employee costs of $14.1 million.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
We consider the following when assessing our liquidity and capital resources:
(In thousands) December 31, 2024 December 31, 2023
Cash and cash equivalents $ 329,213 $ 456,929
Working capital 1,091,126 1,463,332
Total debt 3,981,105 4,577,141
The Company has historically financed its operations and capital requirements through cash flow from its operating activities, long-term loans, lease financing and borrowings under domestic and international short-term lines of credit.
Based on our analysis, we believe our existing balances of domestic cash and cash equivalents and our currently anticipated operating cash flows will be sufficient to meet our cash needs arising in the ordinary course of business for the next twelve months and for the longer term.
We may seek to take advantage of opportunities to raise additional capital through additional debt financing or through public or private sales of securities. If in the future our available liquidity is not sufficient to meet the Company’s operating and debt service obligations as they come due, management would need to pursue alternative arrangements through additional equity or debt financing in order to meet the Company’s cash requirements. There can be no assurance that any such financing would be available on commercially acceptable terms, or at all. During 2024, we did not experience difficulty accessing capital and credit markets, but future volatility in the capital and credit markets may increase costs associated with issuing debt instruments or affect our ability to access those markets. In addition, it is possible that our ability to access the capital and credit markets could be limited at a time when we would like, or need, to do so, which could have an adverse impact on our ability to refinance maturing debt and/or react to changing economic and business conditions.
In summary, our cash flows for each period were as follows:
(In thousands) Year ended December 31, 2024 Year ended December 31, 2023
Net cash provided by operating activities $ 631,721 $ 644,476
Net cash (used in) provided by investing activities (67,079) 553,071
Net cash used in financing activities (688,987) (1,297,543)
Decrease in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash (127,716) (106,510)
Operating activities
Cash provided by operating activities is net income adjusted for certain non-cash items and changes in assets and liabilities.
Compared to 2023, the $12.8 million decrease in cash provided by operating activities in 2024 was primarily driven by $174.5 million of changes in operating assets and liabilities, offset by a $161.7 million increase of net income adjusted for non-cash reconciling items.
Changes in operating assets and liabilities were driven by changes in trade accounts and notes receivable, inventories and accounts payable and accrued liabilities. The change for trade receivables was mainly due to increased sales at the end of the period. The change for inventory was driven by increased business activity. The change for accounts payable and accrued liabilities was driven by timing of payments.
Investing activities
Investing cash flows consist primarily of capital expenditures, cash used for acquisitions, proceeds from sales of businesses and proceeds from sales of property and equipment.
In 2024, there was $67.1 million of cash used in investing activities compared to $553.1 million cash provided by investing activities in 2023. The decrease in 2024 resulted primarily from less proceeds from divestitures of $564.2 million and the absence of net proceeds from the termination of the alliance agreement of $191.2 million, partially offset by a $141.2 million decrease in capital expenditures compared to the prior year.
Acquisition of property and equipment totaled $315.6 million in 2024, which primarily reflected investments in facilities, equipment and tooling, compared to $456.8 million in 2023, which also primarily reflected investments in facilities, equipment and tooling. Capital expenditures in 2024 included spending related to our previously announced investment in our KSP site and new manufacturing facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Financing activities
Financing cash flows consist primarily of repurchases of common stock, payment of dividends to stockholders, issuance and repayment of short-term and long-term debt, and proceeds from the sale of shares of common stock through employee equity incentive plans.
In 2024, there was $689.0 million of cash used in financing activities compared to $1,297.5 million cash used in financing activities in 2023. The change in 2024 was primarily due to decreased net debt activity of $635.9 million compared to the prior year. See Note 10 to the Company’s consolidated financial statements for further discussion of the debt financing that occurred during the year.
The Company’s total dividend payments were $60.6 million in 2024 compared to $60.2 million in 2023. The Company has paid a cash dividend in each quarter since the fourth quarter of 2017. On January 15, 2025, the Company’s board of directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.10 per share to be paid on February 19, 2025 to shareholders of record as of January 29, 2025.
Other Liquidity and Capital Resources Considerations
Debt at par value outstanding
(In thousands) December 31, 2024 December 31, 2023
Senior secured term loan due 2029 at 4.71% (1)
$ 750,000 $ 1,373,774
Senior secured notes due 2029 at 4.75% 1,600,000 1,600,000
Senior unsecured notes due 2030 at 5.95% 895,000 895,000
Senior unsecured notes due 2029 at 3.625% 400,000 400,000
Senior unsecured notes due 2028 at 4.375% 400,000 400,000
Revolving facility due 2027 at 6.07% (2)
- -
Total debt (par value) $ 4,045,000 $ 4,668,774
(1) The Company entered into a floating-to-fixed swap contract on its variable rate debt under our senior secured term loan facility due 2029. The effective interest rate after consideration of this floating-to-fixed swap contract was 4.71%. Refer to Note 12 for a description of our interest rate swap contract.
(2) Our senior secured revolving credit facility due 2027 (the “Revolving Facility”) bears interest at a rate per annum equal to SOFR, plus an applicable margin of 1.75%. The Revolving Facility has commitments of $575.0 million.
On March 28, 2024, the Company amended its Existing Credit Agreement. The Third Amendment provides for, among other things, the refinancing of the Company’s outstanding term loans B under the Term Loan Facility in an aggregate principal amount of $955.0 million with a new tranche of term loans B in an aggregate principal amount of $955.0 million. The amended loans bear interest at a rate per annum equal to, at the Company’s option, either (i) the SOFR plus an applicable margin of 1.75%, which is a reduction from the applicable margin of 2.50% prior to the amendment, or (ii) a base rate plus an applicable margin of 0.75%, which is a reduction from the applicable margin of 1.50% prior to the amendment. In connection with the Third Amendment, the Company made a payment of $354.5 million on the term loans B. See Note 10 to our consolidated financial statements for further discussion.
During the fiscal year 2024, the Company repaid $623.8 million net of borrowings under the term loans B under the Term Loan Facility.
Through December 31, 2024, the Company was in compliance with all applicable financial covenants included in the terms of its debt arrangements.
The Company has commitments under the Revolving Facility of $575.0 million. The Revolving Facility bears interest at a rate per annum equal to, at the Company’s option, either a base rate (such as prime rate) or SOFR, plus, in each case, an applicable margin. During the twelve months ended December 31, 2024, the Company borrowed and repaid $140.0 million under this Revolving Facility and no balance was outstanding at December 31, 2024.
The Company also has a line of credit with one bank that provides for borrowings of Japanese yen for the Company’s Japanese subsidiary equivalent to an aggregate of approximately $6.4 million. There were no outstanding borrowings under this line of credit and no balance was outstanding at December 31, 2024.
Cash and cash requirements
(In thousands) December 31, 2024 December 31, 2023
Cash and cash equivalents $ 329,213 $ 456,929
U.S. 49,027 154,015
Non-U.S. 280,186 302,914
Our cash and cash equivalents include cash on hand and highly-liquid debt securities with original maturities of three months or less, which are valued at cost and approximate fair value. We utilize a variety of funding strategies in an effort to ensure that our worldwide cash is available in the locations in which it is needed.
Cash requirements
We have cash requirements to support working capital needs, capital expenditures, business acquisitions, contractual obligations, commitments, principal and interest payments on debt and other liquidity requirements associated with our operations. We generally intend to use available cash and funds generated from our operations to meet these cash requirements, but, in the event that additional liquidity is required, we may also borrow under our Revolving Facility.
The following table summarizes our short and long-term cash requirements as of December 31, 2024:
(In thousands) Total Due within one year of December 31, 2024 Due later than one year from December 31, 2024
Long-term debt (principal) $ 4,045,000 $ - $ 4,045,000
Interest payments on long-term debt 924,114 198,168 725,946
Capital purchase obligations 125,645 67,761 57,884
Supply purchase obligations 60,030 29,134 30,896
Operating and financing leases 108,174 20,012 88,162
Income tax liabilities 150,722 80,532 70,190
Total $ 5,413,685 $ 395,607 $ 5,018,078
Long-term debt and interest payments on long-term debt. We have contractual obligations for principal and interest payments on our long-term debt. See Note 10 of the consolidated financials for additional information. Debt obligations are classified based on their stated maturity date, regardless of their classification on the Company’s consolidated balance sheets. Interest projections on both variable and fixed rate long-term debt are based on interest rates effective as of December 31, 2024 and do not include $63.9 million for net unamortized discounts and debt issuance costs. On July 28, 2022, the Company entered into a floating-to-fixed interest rate swap agreement to hedge the variability in SOFR-based interest payments associated with $1.95 billion of its $2.495 billion Initial Term Loan Facility. The notional amount of the swap is $750.0 million at December 31, 2024 and is scheduled to decrease quarterly and will expire on December 30, 2025. The impact of the interest rate swap is not considered in the interest payments above.
Capital purchase obligations. We have capital purchase obligations that represent commitments for the construction or purchase of property, plant and equipment. They were not recorded as liabilities on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2024, as the Company had not yet received the related goods or taken title to the property.
We expect capital expenditure spending to be approximately $325.0 million in 2025 and includes spending for construction of, and tools and equipment in our new manufacturing facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Supply purchase obligations. We have non-cancelable commitments, including take-or-pay contracts, that are not presented as capital purchase commitments above. They were not recorded as liabilities on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2024, as the Company had not yet received the related goods or taken title to the property.
Operating and financing lease commitments. Commitments under operating and financing leases primarily relate to leasehold properties. See Note 14 of the consolidated financials for additional information.
Income tax liabilities. Of the tax liabilities included in the table above, $44.3 million relates to uncertain tax positions. We are unable to accurately predict when these amounts will be realized or released. However, it is reasonably possible that there could be significant changes to our unrecognized tax benefits in the next twelve months due to an unforeseeable event (such as a tax audit settlement). See Note 16 of the consolidated financials for additional information.
New Accounting Pronouncements
Recently adopted accounting pronouncements Refer to Note 1 to the Company’s consolidated financial statements for a discussion of accounting pronouncements implemented in 2024.
Recently issued accounting pronouncements Refer to Note 1 of the Company’s consolidated financial statements for a discussion of accounting pronouncements recently issued but not yet adopted.
Non-GAAP Information The Company’s consolidated financial statements are prepared in conformity with GAAP.
The Company also utilizes certain non-GAAP financial measures as a complement to financial measures provided in accordance with GAAP in order to better assess and reflect trends affecting the Company’s business and results of operations. These non-GAAP financial measures include Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted Operating Income, together with related measures thereof, and Non-GAAP EPS, as well as certain other supplemental non-GAAP financial measures included in the discussion of the Company’s financial results.
Adjusted EBITDA is defined by the Company as net income before, as applicable, (1) equity in net loss of affiliates, (2) income tax expense (benefit), (3) interest expense, (4) interest income, (5) other expense, net, (6) goodwill impairment, (7) deal and transaction costs, (8) integration costs, (9) restructuring costs, (10) acquired tax equalization asset reduction, (11) (gain) loss on sale of businesses and held-for-sale assets, net, (12) gain on termination of the alliance agreement, (13) impairment of long-lived assets, (14) amortization of intangible assets, and (15) depreciation. Adjusted Operating Income is defined by the Company as Adjusted EBITDA exclusive of the depreciation addback noted above. The Company also utilizes ratios of non-GAAP financial measures such as Adjusted EBITDA to Company net sales and Adjusted Operating Income to Company net sales (referred to as Adjusted EBITDA Margin and Adjusted Operating Margin, respectively).
Non-GAAP Net Income is defined by the Company as net income before, as applicable, (1) goodwill impairment, (2) deal and transaction costs, (3) integration costs, (4) restructuring costs, (5) patent infringement settlement gain, net (6) acquired tax equalization asset reduction, (7) loss on extinguishment of debt and modification, (8) (gain) loss on sale of businesses and held-for-sale assets, net, (9) gain on termination of the alliance agreement, (10) Infineum termination fee, net, (11) impairment of long-lived assets, (12) amortization of intangible assets, (13) the tax effect of the foregoing adjustments to net income, stated on a per share basis, divided by diluted weighted average shares outstanding. Non-GAAP EPS is defined as Non-GAAP Net Income divided by our diluted weighted-average shares outstanding.
The Company provides supplemental non-GAAP financial measures to help management and investors to better understand its business and believes these measures provide investors and analysts additional and meaningful information for the assessment of the Company’s ongoing results. Management also uses these non-GAAP measures to assist in the evaluation of the performance of its business segments and to make operating decisions.
Management believes the Company’s non-GAAP measures help indicate the Company’s baseline performance before certain gains, losses or other charges that may not be indicative of the Company’s business or future outlook and offer a useful view of business performance in that the measures provide a more consistent means of comparing performance. The Company believes the non-GAAP measures aid investors’ overall understanding of the Company’s results by providing a higher degree of transparency for such items and providing a level of disclosure that will help investors understand how management plans, measures and evaluates the Company’s business performance. Management believes that the inclusion of non-GAAP measures provides greater consistency in its financial reporting from period-to-period and facilitates investors’ understanding of the Company’s historical operating trends by providing an additional basis for comparisons to prior periods.
Management uses Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted Operating Income to assist it in evaluations of the Company’s operating performance by excluding items that management does not consider as relevant in the results of its ongoing operations. Internally, these non-GAAP measures are used by management for planning and forecasting purposes, including the preparation of internal budgets; for allocating resources to enhance financial performance; for evaluating the effectiveness of operational strategies; and for evaluating the Company’s capacity to fund capital expenditures, secure financing and expand its business.
In addition, and as a consequence of the importance of these non-GAAP financial measures in managing its business, the Company’s Board of Directors uses non-GAAP financial measures in the evaluation process to determine management compensation.
The Company believes that certain analysts and investors use Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted Operating Income and Non-GAAP EPS as supplemental measures to evaluate the overall operating performance of firms in the Company’s industry. Additionally, lenders or potential lenders use Adjusted EBITDA measures to evaluate the Company’s creditworthiness.
The presentation of non-GAAP financial measures is not meant to be considered in isolation, as a substitute for, or superior to, financial measures or information provided in accordance with GAAP. Management strongly encourages investors to review the Company’s consolidated financial statements in their entirety and to not rely on any single financial measure.
Management notes that the use of non-GAAP measures has limitations, including but not limited to:
First, non-GAAP financial measures are not standardized. Accordingly, the methodology used to produce the Company’s non-GAAP financial measures is not computed under GAAP and may differ notably from the methodology used by other companies. For example, the Company’s non-GAAP measure of Adjusted EBITDA may not be directly comparable to EBITDA or an Adjusted EBITDA measure reported by other companies.
Second, the Company’s non-GAAP financial measures exclude items such as amortization and depreciation that are recurring. Amortization of intangibles and depreciation have been, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future, significant recurring expenses with an impact upon the Company’s results of operations, notwithstanding the lack of immediate impact upon cash flows.
Third, there is no assurance that the Company will not have future charges for fair value write-up of acquired inventory, restructuring activities, deal and transaction costs, integration costs, asset or goodwill impairments, loss on extinguishment of debt or similar items and, therefore, may need to record additional charges (or credits) associated with such items, including the tax effects thereon. The exclusion of these items in the Company’s non-GAAP measures should not be construed as an implication that these costs are unusual, infrequent or non-recurring.
Management considers these limitations by providing specific information regarding the GAAP amounts excluded from these non-GAAP financial measures and evaluating these non-GAAP financial measures together with their most directly comparable financial measures calculated in accordance with GAAP. The calculations of Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted Operating Income, and Non-GAAP EPS, and reconciliations between these financial measures and their most directly comparable GAAP equivalents, are presented below in the accompanying tables.
The reconciliation of GAAP measures to Adjusted Operating Income and Adjusted EBITDA for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 are presented below:
(In thousands) 2024 2023
Net sales $ 3,241,208 $ 3,523,926
Net income $ 292,787 $ 180,669
Net income - as a % of net sales 9.0 % 5.1 %
Adjustments to net income
Equity in net loss of affiliates 933 414
Income tax expense (benefit) 28,332 (8,413)
Interest expense 215,217 312,378
Interest income (7,368) (11,257)
Other expense, net 4,021 25,367
GAAP - Operating income 533,922 499,158
Operating margin - as a % of net sales 16.5 % 14.2 %
Goodwill impairment 1
- 115,217
Deal and transaction costs 2
- 3,001
Integration costs:
Professional fees 3
2,574 36,650
Severance costs 4
794 1,478
Retention costs 5
- 1,687
Other costs 6
- 13,710
Restructuring costs 7
3,930 14,745
Acquired tax equalization asset reduction 8
2,959 -
(Gain) loss on sale of businesses and held-for-sale assets, net 9
(4,311) 23,839
Gain on termination of alliance agreement 10
- (184,754)
Impairment of long-lived assets 11
12,967 30,464
Amortization of intangible assets 12
190,119 214,477
Adjusted Operating Income 742,954 769,672
Adjusted Operating Margin 22.9 % 21.8 %
Depreciation 188,120 172,683
Adjusted EBITDA $ 931,074 $ 942,355
Adjusted EBITDA - as a % of net sales 28.7 % 26.7 %
1 Non-cash impairment charges associated with goodwill of our former Electronic Chemicals business and a small, industrial specialty chemicals business.
2 Deal and transaction costs associated with the CMC Materials acquisition and completed divestitures.
3 Represents professional and vendor fees recorded in connection with services provided by consultants, accountants, lawyers and other third-party service providers to assist us in integrating CMC Materials into our operations.
4 Represents severance charges related to the integration of the CMC Materials acquisition.
5 Represents retention charges related directly to the CMC Materials acquisition and completed divestitures, and are not part of our normal, recurring cash operating expenses.
6 Represents other employee-related costs and other costs incurred relating to the CMC Materials acquisition and the completed divestitures. These costs arise outside of the ordinary course of our continuing operations.
7 Restructuring charges resulting from cost saving initiatives.
8 Represents an asset reduction of an acquired tax equalization asset from the CMC Materials acquisition.
9 (Gain) loss from the sale of certain businesses and held-for-sale assets, net.
10 Gain on termination of the alliance agreement with MacDermid Enthone.
11 Impairment of long-lived assets.
12 Non-cash amortization expense associated with intangibles acquired in acquisitions.
The reconciliation of GAAP measures to Non-GAAP EPS for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 are presented below:
(In thousands, except per share data) 2024 2023
Net income $ 292,787 $ 180,669
Adjustments to net income:
Goodwill impairment 1
- 115,217
Deal and transaction costs 2
- 3,001
Integration costs:
Professional fees 3
2,574 36,650
Severance costs 4
794 1,478
Retention costs 5
- 1,687
Other costs 6
- 13,710
Restructuring costs 7
3,930 14,745
Patent infringement settlement gain, net 8
(20,033) -
Acquired tax equalization asset reduction 9
2,959 -
Loss on extinguishment of debt and modification 10
14,348 29,896
(Gain) loss on sale of businesses and held-for-sale assets, net 11
(4,311) 23,839
Gain on termination of alliance agreement 12
- (184,754)
Infineum termination fee, net 13
- (10,877)
Impairment on long-lived assets 14
12,967 30,464
Amortization of intangible assets 15
190,119 214,477
Tax effect of adjustments to net income and discrete tax items 16
(40,146) (71,284)
Non-GAAP net income $ 455,988 $ 398,918
Diluted earnings per common share $ 1.93 $ 1.20
Effect of adjustments to net income $ 1.07 $ 1.45
Diluted non-GAAP earnings per common share $ 3.00 $ 2.64
Diluted weighted average shares outstanding 151,840 150,945
1 Non-cash impairment charges associated with goodwill of our Electronic Chemicals and a small, industrial specialty chemicals businesses.
2 Deal and transaction costs associated with the CMC Materials acquisition and completed divestitures.
3 Represents professional and vendor fees recorded in connection with services provided by consultants, accountants, lawyers and other third-party service providers to assist us in integrating CMC Materials into our operations.
4 Represents severance charges related to the integration of the CMC Materials acquisition.
5 Represents retention charges related directly to the CMC Materials acquisition and completed divestitures, and are not part of our normal, recurring cash operating expenses.
6 Represents other employee-related costs and other costs incurred relating to the CMC Materials acquisition and the completed divestitures. These costs arise outside of the ordinary course of our continuing operations.
7 Restructuring charges resulting from cost saving initiatives.
8 During the fourth quarter of 2024, the Company settled patent infringement litigation and received net proceeds of $20.0 million.
9 Represents an asset reduction of an acquired tax equalization asset from the CMC Materials acquisition.
10 Loss on extinguishment of debt and modification of our Existing Credit Agreement.
11 (Gain) loss from the sale of certain businesses and held-for-sale assets, net.
12 Gain on termination of the alliance agreement with MacDermid Enthone.
13 Non-recurring gain from the termination fee with Infineum.
14 Impairment of long-lived assets.
15 Non-cash amortization expense associated with intangibles acquired in acquisitions.
16 The tax effect of pre-tax adjustments to net income was calculated using the applicable marginal tax rate for each respective year.

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ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosure About Market Risks.
Entegris’ principal financial market risks are sensitive to interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates. The Company’s interest-bearing cash and cash equivalents and variable rate debt are subject to interest rate fluctuations. The Company’s cash and cash equivalents include cash on hand and highly-liquid debt securities with original maturities of three months or less. A 100-basis point change in interest rates would potentially increase or decrease annual net income by approximately $2.5 million and $3.4 million for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. On July 28, 2022, the Company entered into a floating-to-fixed interest rate swap agreement to hedge the variability in SOFR-based interest payments associated with $1.95 billion of its $2.495 billion Initial Term Loan Facility. The notional amount of the swap is $750.0 million at December 31, 2024 and is scheduled to decrease quarterly and will expire on December 30, 2025.
The cash flows and results of operations of the Company’s foreign-based operations are subject to fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates. Approximately 16.7% and 22.0% of the Company’s sales during 2024 and 2023 were collectively denominated in the South Korean won, New Taiwan dollar, Chinese renminbi, Canadian dollar, Malaysian ringgit, Singapore dollar, euro, Israeli shekel and the Japanese yen. Financial results therefore will be affected by changes in currency exchange rates. If all foreign currencies were to see a 10% reduction versus the U.S. dollar during the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, revenue would be negatively impacted by approximately $53.2 million and $76.8 million, respectively.
The Company occasionally uses derivative financial instruments to manage the foreign currency exchange rate risks associated with its foreign-based operations. However, we are unlikely to be able to hedge these exposures completely. We do not enter into forward contracts or other derivative instruments for speculative or trading purposes. See Note 12 of the consolidated financials for additional information.

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ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.
The information called for by this item is set forth in the Consolidated Financial Statements covered by the Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm at the end of this report.

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ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS
Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure.
Not applicable.

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ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures.
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Based on management’s evaluation (with the participation of our principal executive officer and principal financial officer), as of the end of the period covered by this report, our principal executive officer and principal financial officer have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act), are effective to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed by us in reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in SEC rules and forms, and is accumulated and communicated to management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
There were no changes to our internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) that occurred during the quarter ended December 31, 2024 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
Management Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of our financial reporting and the preparation of consolidated financial statements for external purposes in accordance with GAAP.
Management assessed our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024. Management based its assessment on criteria established in Internal Control-Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 framework). Management’s assessment included evaluation of elements such as the design and operating effectiveness of key financial reporting controls, process documentation, accounting policies, and our overall control environment.
Based on its assessment, management has concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of the end of the fiscal year to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of consolidated financial statements for external reporting purposes in accordance with GAAP. We reviewed the results of management’s assessment with the Audit and Finance Committee of our Board of Directors.
The effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024 has been audited by KPMG LLP, our independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in their report which is included in of this Annual Report.
Inherent Limitations on Effectiveness of Controls
Our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, does not expect that our disclosure controls and procedures or our internal control over financial reporting will prevent or detect all errors and all fraud. A control system, no matter how well-designed and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the control system’s objectives will be met. The design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs. Further, because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that misstatements due to error or fraud will not occur or that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, have been detected.

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ITEM 9B. OTHER INFORMATION
Item 9B. Other Information.
During the quarter ended December 31, 2024, no director or officer, as defined in Rule 16a-1 under the Exchange Act, adopted, modified or terminated a “Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement” or a “non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement”, each as defined in Item 408 of Regulation S-K.

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ITEM 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance.
Except as set forth below, the information required by this Item 10 has been omitted from this report, and is incorporated by reference to our Definitive Proxy Statement for the Entegris, Inc. Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which is currently scheduled to be held on April 23, 2025, and to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Regulation 14A within 120 days after the end of our 2024 fiscal year.
CODE OF BUSINESS ETHICS
In 2005, our board of directors adopted a code of business ethics, The Entegris, Inc. Code of Business Ethics, applicable to all of our executives, directors and employees, as well as a set of corporate governance guidelines, which have been updated from time to time. The Entegris, Inc. Code of Business Ethics, the Corporate Governance Guidelines and the charters for our Audit & Finance Committee, Environmental, Health, Safety & Sustainability Committee, Governance & Nominating Committee and our Management Development & Compensation Committee all appear on our website at http://www.Entegris.com under “Investor Relations - Corporate Governance”. The Entegris, Inc. Code of Business Ethics, Corporate Governance Guidelines and committee charters are also available, free of charge, in print to any shareholder that requests a copy. Copies may be obtained by contacting our Secretary through our corporate headquarters. The Company intends to comply with the requirements of Item 5.05 of Form 8-K with respect to any amendment to, or waiver of, the provisions of the Entegris, Inc. Code of Business Ethics applicable to the registrant’s Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Accounting Officer or Controller by posting notice of any such amendment or waiver at the same location on our website.
INSIDER TRADING POLICY
We have adopted an insider trading policy governing the purchase, sale and other dispositions of our securities by our directors, officers and employees which we believe is reasonably designed to promote compliance with insider trading laws, rules and regulations, and any applicable listing standards. A copy of the policy is filed as Exhibit 19.1 to this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
INFORMATION ABOUT OUR EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
The following is a list of our Executive Officers, their ages and their offices, as of the date of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Name Age Office
Bertrand Loy 59 President and Chief Executive Officer
Linda LaGorga 56 Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Sue Rice 66 Senior Vice President, Global Human Resources
Joe Colella 43 Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Secretary
Jim O’Neill 60 Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Olivier Blachier 51 Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer
Clint Haris 52 Senior Vice President and President, Advanced Purity Solutions
Daniel Woodland 54 Senior Vice President and President, Materials Solutions
Michael Besnard 54 Senior Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer
Neil Richards 52 Senior Vice President, Global Operations, Supply Chain, and Quality
Michael D. Sauer 59 Vice President, Controller & Chief Accounting Officer
Bertrand Loy has been our Chief Executive Officer, President and a director since November 2012 and Chair of our Board of Directors since 2023. From July 2008 to November 2012, he served as our Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. From August 2005 until July 2008, he served as our Executive Vice President in charge of our IT, global supply chain and manufacturing operations. He served as the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Mykrolis, a company spun out of Millipore Corporation, a life science products company, from January 2001 until August 2005. Prior to that, Mr. Loy served as the Chief Information Officer of Millipore Corporation during 1999 and 2000, and previously served in various strategic planning, global supply chain and financial roles with Millipore and Sandoz Pharmaceuticals (now Novartis), a pharmaceutical company. He has served on the board of directors of Harvard Bioscience, Inc., a global manufacturer of a broad range of life sciences solutions, since November 2014, and is currently the lead independent director. Since July 2013, Mr. Loy has also been on the board of directors of SEMI, the global industry association representing the electronics manufacturing supply chain, serving as the chairman of the association until December 2022.
Linda LaGorga has been our Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since May 2023. Ms. LaGorga joined the Company from Honeywell International Inc., where she most recently served from March 2022 until April 2023 as vice president and Chief Financial Officer of Honeywell’s UOP business unit, which provides process technology, catalysts, adsorbents, and equipment to the refining, gas processing, and petrochemical industries. Previously, from 2021 until 2022, she served as vice president and Chief Financial Officer of the Honeywell aerospace mechanical systems and components business unit. From 2018 to 2021, she led Honeywell’s corporate financial planning and analysis organization. Prior to joining Honeywell, from 2013 until 2018, Ms. LaGorga served as the global treasurer and led business development for Bausch Health Companies Inc. Earlier in her career, she held various positions of increasing responsibilities at Goldman Sachs, most recently serving as a managing director in the investment banking division.
Sue Rice has been our Senior Vice President of Global Human Resources since September 2017. Prior to that, Ms. Rice served as Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer for Thermo Fisher Scientific, a scientific equipment company, from 2013 to 2017, Region Vice President HR Asia Pacific & Emerging Markets from 2009 to 2013 and Group Vice President, HR Analytical Technologies Group from 2006 to 2009. Prior to that, Ms. Rice held senior human resource positions with Fidelity Human Resources Services Company and Sherbrooke Associates.
Joe Colella has been our Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Secretary since April 2020. Previously, Mr. Colella served as our Vice President, Deputy General Counsel from December 2018 until April 2020, Assistant General Counsel from April 2018 until December 2018 and Senior Corporate Counsel from December 2013 until April 2018. Prior to joining Entegris, Mr. Colella served as an associate at an international law firm from 2007 until 2013.
Jim O’Neill, Ph.D. has been our Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer since September 2019, having previously served as our Vice President, Chief Technology Officer beginning in April 2014 when he joined Entegris as part of our acquisition of ATMI. At ATMI, Dr. O’Neill was Senior Vice President of Electronic Materials from January 2012 to April 2014. Prior to that, he held numerous technical and leadership roles in semiconductor research and development with over 23 years at IBM.
Olivier Blachier has been our Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer since February 2024. From November 2021 until February 2024, he was our Senior Vice President, Business and New Markets Development. Since joining the Company in November 2021, he has been responsible for the Company’s strategic planning, merger and acquisition activities and for the
commercialization of emerging businesses. Before joining Entegris, Mr. Blachier held various senior leadership positions between 2007 and 2021 at Air Liquide Group, a global leader in gases, technologies and services for the industrial and healthcare sectors. Most recently, he served as President of Air Liquide Far Eastern from September 2018 until June 2021 and APAC Vice President, Hydrogen & Energy Transition, from June 2021 until October 2021. From 1997 to 2007, Mr. Blachier worked for Edwards, Ltd., a global vacuum and abatement process leader and subsidiary of BOC Group, where he held multiple roles in the U.S. and United Kingdom, including leading acquisitions and joint ventures.
Clint Haris has been our Senior Vice President and President, Advanced Purity Solutions since October 2024. Previously, he served as our Senior Vice President and President, Microcontamination Control from July 2022 until October 2024, our Senior Vice President and General Manager, Microcontamination Control from July 2016 until July 2022 and our Vice President, Liquid Microcontamination Control from August 2014 until July 2016. Prior to joining Entegris, Mr. Haris served in a variety of executive roles at Brooks Automation Inc., including Senior Vice President, Life Science Systems from 2010 until 2014 and Senior Vice President and General Manager, Systems Solutions from 2009 until 2010.
Daniel Woodland, Ph.D. joined Entegris in 2022 as part of the acquisition of CMC Materials. Dr. Woodland has served as our Senior Vice President and President, Materials Solutions since September 2023. From July 2022 until September 2023, Dr. Woodland served as Senior Vice President and President, Advanced Planarization Solution. Prior to joining Entegris, Dr. Woodland served several roles at CMC Materials (previously Cabot Microelectronics) since 2003, including as Vice President and President, Electronic Materials from September 2019 until July 2022, Vice President and Chief Marketing and Operations Officer from October 2017 until November 2018, and Vice President of Marketing from January 2015 until October 2017.
Michael Besnard has been our Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer since 2016. Prior to that, Mr. Besnard served as Vice President of Global Strategic Accounts from 2014 until 2016. Prior to joining Entegris as part of the acquisition of ATMI, Mr. Besnard served ATMI as the vice president of global strategic accounts. Prior to that, he served as director of business development for Copper Plating at MacDermid Enthone (previously Enthone).
Neil Richards has been our Senior Vice President, Global Operations, Supply Chain, and Quality since September 2019. Prior to that, Mr. Richards served as Vice President of Operations for the Company’s Specialty Chemicals and Engineered Materials division from 2016 until September 2019. Prior to joining Entegris, Mr. Richards held several positions with the BOC Group, which merged with Linde in 2006.
Michael D. Sauer has been our Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer since June 2012. Prior to that, he served as the Corporate Controller since 2008. From the time of the merger with Mykrolis in August 2005 until April 2008, Mr. Sauer served as Director of Treasury and Risk Management. Mr. Sauer joined Fluoroware, Inc., a predecessor to Entegris Minnesota, in 1988 and held a variety of finance and accounting positions until 2001 when he became the Director of Business Development for Entegris Minnesota, the successor to Fluoroware, serving in that position until the merger with Mykrolis.

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ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
Item 11. Executive Compensation.
The information required by this Item 11 has been omitted from this report, and is incorporated by reference to our Definitive Proxy Statement for the Entegris, Inc. Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on April 23, 2025, which will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Regulation 14A within 120 days after the end of our 2024 fiscal year.

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ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS
Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters.
Securities Authorized for Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans:
As of December 31, 2024, our equity compensation plan information is as follows:
Equity Compensation Plan Information
Number of securities to
be issued upon exercise
of outstanding options,
warrants and rights Weighted-average
exercise price of
outstanding options,
warrants and rights(1)
Number of securities remaining
available for future issuance
under equity compensation
plans (excluding securities
reflected in column (a))(2) (3)
Plan category (a) (b) (c)
Equity compensation plans approved by security holders 2,617,736 $ 71.76 7,997,763
Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders - - -
Total 2,617,736 $ 71.76 7,997,763
(1)The weighted average exercise price does not take into account the shares issuable upon vesting of outstanding restricted stock units, which have no exercise price.
(2)These shares are available for future issuance under the 2020 Stock Plan in the form of stock options, restricted stock units, performance shares and other stock awards in accordance with the terms of the 2020 Stock Plan.
(3)Includes 879,194 shares remaining available for future issuance under the Company’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan as of December 31, 2024.
The other information required by this Item 12 has been omitted from this report and is incorporated by reference to our Definitive Proxy Statement for the Entegris, Inc. Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on April 23, 2025, which will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Regulation 14A within 120 days after the end of our 2024 fiscal year.

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ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS
Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence.
The information required by this Item 13 has been omitted from this report and is incorporated by reference to our Definitive Proxy Statement for the Entegris, Inc. Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on April 23, 2025, and which will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Regulation 14A within 120 days after the end of our 2024 fiscal year.

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ITEM 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING FEES AND SERVICES
Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services.
The information required by this Item 14 has been omitted from this report, and is incorporated by reference to our Definitive Proxy Statement for the Entegris, Inc. Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on April 23, 2025, which will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Regulation 14A within 120 days after the end of our 2024 fiscal year.
PART IV

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ITEM 15. EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules.
(a)The following Financial Statements are included herein:
1.Financial Statements:
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Consolidated Balance Sheets at December 31, 2024 and 2023
Consolidated Statements of Operations for the Years Ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income for the Years Ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022
Consolidated Statements of Equity for the Years Ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Years Ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
2. Financial Statement Schedule - All financial statement schedules have been omitted since the information is either not applicable or is included in the consolidated financial statements notes thereof.
3. Exhibits - The following exhibits are incorporated by reference into this Annual Report on Form 10-K:
Reg. S-K
Item 601(b)
Reference Document Incorporated Referenced Document on file with the Commission
2.1 Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of December 14, 2021, by and among Entegris, Inc., CMC Materials, Inc. and Yosemite Merger Sub, Inc.
Exhibit 2.1 to Entegris, Inc. Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 16, 2021
3.1 Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Entegris, Inc., as amended
Exhibit 3.1 to Entegris, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011
3.2 By-Laws of Entegris, Inc., as amended December 8, 2022
Exhibit 3.1 to Entegris, Inc. Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 9, 2022
4.1 Form of certificate representing shares of Common Stock, $.01 par value per share
Exhibit 4.1 to Form S-4 Registration Statement of Entegris, Inc. and Eagle DE, Inc. (No. 333-124719)
4.2 Indenture, dated as of April 30, 2020, by and among the Company, certain subsidiaries of the Company and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee, including the form of note representing the 2028 Notes
Exhibit 4.1 to Entegris, Inc. Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 30, 2020
4.3 Indenture, dated as of April 30, 2021, by and among the Company, certain subsidiaries of the Company and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee, including the form of note representing the 2029 Notes
Exhibit 4.1 to Entegris, Inc. Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 30, 2021
4.4 Indenture, dated as of April 14, 2022, by and among Entegris Escrow Corporation, as escrow issuer and Truist Bank, as trustee and notes collateral agent, including the form of note issuable thereunder
Exhibit 4.1 to Entegris, Inc. Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 15, 2022
4.5 Indenture, dated as of June 30, 2022, by and among Entegris and Truist Bank, as trustee, including the form of note representing the Senior Unsecured Notes
Exhibit 4.1 to Entegris, Inc. Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 30, 2022
4.6 First Supplemental Indenture to the 2029 Secured Notes Indenture, dated as of July 6, 2022, by and among Entegris, certain subsidiaries of Entegris and Truist Bank, as trustee and notes collateral agent
Exhibit 4.3 to Entegris, Inc. Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 6, 2022
4.7 First Supplemental Indenture to the 2030 Unsecured Notes Indenture, dated as of July 6, 2022, by and among Entegris, certain subsidiaries of Entegris and Truist Bank, as trustee.
Exhibit 4.4 to Entegris, Inc. Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 6, 2022
4.8 Equal Priority Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of July 6, 2022, among Entegris, certain subsidiaries of Entegris, Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as senior credit facilities collateral agent, and Truist Bank, as notes collateral agent.
Exhibit 4.5 to Entegris, Inc. Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 6, 2022
4.9 First Supplemental Indenture to the 2028 Notes Indenture, dated as of July 6, 2022, by and among Entegris, certain subsidiaries of Entegris and Computershare Trust Company, National Association, as successor to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee.
Exhibit 4.7 to Entegris, Inc. Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 6, 2022
4.10 Supplemental Indenture to the 2029 Notes Indenture, dated as of July 6, 2022, by and among Entegris, certain subsidiaries of Entegris and Computershare Trust Company, National Association, as successor to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee.
Exhibit 4.9 to Entegris, Inc. Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 6, 2022
4.11 Indenture, dated as of June 30, 2022, by and among Entegris Escrow Corporation, as escrow issuer and Truist Bank, as trustee, including the form of note issuable thereunder.
Exhibit 4.1 to Entegris, Inc. Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 30, 2022
4.12 Amendment and Restatement Agreement, dated as of July 6, 2022, among Entegris, as borrower, certain subsidiaries of Entegris, as guarantors, the lenders party thereto, the issuing banks party thereto and Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as administrative agent and collateral agent.
Exhibit 4.10 to Entegris, Inc. Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 6, 2022
4.13 Amendment Number 1 to the CMC Materials, Inc. 2021 Omnibus Incentive Plan*
Exhibit 4.3 to Entegris, Inc. Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 7, 2022
4.14 Amendment No. 1, dated as of March 10, 2023, among Entegris, Inc., as borrower, the other credit parties party thereto, the lenders party thereto and Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as administrative agent.
Exhibit 10.1 to Entegris, Inc. Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 13, 2023
4.15 Amendment No. 2, dated as of September 11, 2023, among Entegris, Inc., as borrower, the other credit parties party thereto, the lenders party thereto and Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as administrative agent.
Exhibit 10.1 to Entegris, Inc. Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 13, 2023
4.16 Amendment No. 3, dated as of March 28, 2024, among Entegris, as borrower, the other credit parties party thereto, the lenders party thereto and Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as administrative agent
Exhibit 10.1 to Entegris, Inc. Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 28, 2024
4.17 Description of Capital Stock
Exhibit 4.1 to Entegris, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 7, 2020
10.1 CMC Materials, Inc. 2021 Omnibus Incentive Plan*
Exhibit 10.1 to Entegris Registration Statement on Form S-3 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 7, 2022
10.2 Cabot Microelectronics Corporation 2012 Omnibus Incentive Plan*
Exhibit 10.2 to Entegris Registration Statement on Form S-3 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 7, 2022
10.3 Entegris, Inc. - 2010 Stock Plan, as amended*
Exhibit 10.1 to Entegris, Inc. Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended July 3, 2010
10.4 Entegris, Inc. 2020 Stock Plan*
Annex 1 to the Entegris, Inc. Schedule 14A proxy statement for its 2020 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (No. 001-32598), as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 18, 2020
10.5 Entegris, Inc. Outside Directors’ Stock Option Plan*
Exhibit 10.2 to Entegris, Inc. Registration Statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-33668)
10.6 Entegris, Inc. 2024 Employee Stock Purchase Plan*
Appendix B to the Entegris, Inc. Schedule 14A proxy statement for its 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (No. 001-32598), as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 18, 2024
10.7 Second Amended and Restated Entegris Incentive Plan*
Exhibit 10.1 to Entegris, Inc. Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 24, 2017
10.8 Lease Agreement, dated April 1, 2002 between Nortel Networks HPOCS Inc. and Mykrolis Corporation, relating to Executive office, R&D and manufacturing facility located at 129 Concord Road Billerica, MA
Exhibit 10.1.3 to Mykrolis Corporation’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2002
10.9 Amendment of Lease between Entegris, Inc. and KBS Rivertech, LLC dated April 1, 2012
Exhibit 10.1 to Entegris, Inc. Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2012
10.10 Second Amendment of Lease, dated March 8, 2016, between Entegris, Inc. and KBS Rivertech, LLC
Exhibit 10.1 to Entegris, Inc. Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 11, 2016
10.11 Third Amendment to Lease Agreement, dated as of October 21, 2021, between Entegris, Inc. and Rivertech Owner LLC
Exhibit 10.4 to Entegris, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021
10.12 Fourth Amendment to Lease Agreement, dated as of September 16, 2022, by and between the Company and Rivertech Owner LLC
Exhibit 10.1 to Entegris, Inc. Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended October 1, 2022
10.13 Form of Indemnification Agreement between Entegris, Inc. and each of its executive officers and directors*
Exhibit 10.30 to Entegris, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended August 27, 2005
10.14 Form of Executive Change of Control Termination Agreement between Entegris, Inc. and certain of its executive officers*
Exhibit 10.31 to Entegris, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended August 27, 2005
10.15 Form of Revised Executive Change of Control Termination Agreement between Entegris, Inc. and certain of its executive officers executed in 2015 (other than those executive officers who executed the form previously filed)*
Exhibit 10.1 to Entegris, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 29, 2016
10.16 Entegris, Inc. 2018 Stock Option Award Agreement*
Exhibit 10.3 to Entegris, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 11, 2019
10.17 Entegris, Inc. 2019 Stock Option Award Agreement*
Exhibit 10.3 to Entegris, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 7, 2020
10.18 Entegris, Inc. 2020 Stock Option Award Agreement (under 2010 Stock Plan)*
Exhibit 10.3 to Entegris, Inc. Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended March 28, 2020
10.19 Entegris, Inc. 2021 RSU Award Agreement*
Exhibit 10.3 to Entegris, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020
10.20 Entegris, Inc. 2021 Stock Option Award Agreement*
Exhibit 10.4 to Entegris, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020
10.21 Entegris, Inc. 2022 Performance-Based RSU Award Agreement*
Exhibit 10.1 to Entegris, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021
10.22 Entegris, Inc. 2022 RSU Award Agreement*
Exhibit 10.2 to Entegris, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021
10.23 Entegris, Inc. 2022 Stock Option Award Agreement*
Exhibit 10.3 to Entegris, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021
10.24 Entegris, Inc. 2023 Performance-Based RSU Award Agreement *
Exhibit 10.1 to Entegris, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022
10.25 Entegris, Inc. 2023 RSU Award Agreement *
Exhibit 10.2 to Entegris, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022
10.26 Entegris, Inc. 2023 Stock Option Award Agreement *
Exhibit 10.3 to Entegris, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022
10.27 Executive Employment Agreement, effective November 28, 2012, between Entegris, Inc. and Bertrand Loy*
Exhibit 10.1 to Entegris, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012
10.28 Amendment No. 1, dated April 26, 2013, to Executive Change in Control Termination Agreement, between Entegris, Inc. and Bertrand Loy*
Exhibit 99.1 to Entegris, Inc. Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 26, 2013
10.29 Amendment No. 2, dated February 5, 2020, to Executive Change in Control Termination Agreement, between Entegris, Inc. and Bertrand Loy*
Exhibit 10.4 to Entegris, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 7, 2020
10.30 Employment Offer Letter, dated April 8, 2023, between Entegris, Inc. and Linda LaGorga*
Exhibit 10.1 to Entegris, Inc. Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended April 1, 2023
10.31 Amended and Restated Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan for Key Salaried Employees of Entegris, Inc.*
Exhibit 10.38 to Entegris, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023
10.32 Amended and Restated Entegris, Inc. Clawback Policy
Exhibit 97 to Entegris, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023
* A “management contract or compensatory plan”
The Company hereby files as exhibits to this Annual Report on Form 10-K the following documents:
Reg. S-K
Item 601(b)
Reference Exhibit No. Documents Filed Herewith
(10) 10.33 Deferred Compensation Plan for Non-Employee Directors of Entegris, Inc.*
(10) 10.34 Form of Entegris, Inc. Performance Share Unit Award Agreement (2024+)*
(10) 10.35 Form of Entegris, Inc. Global RSU Award Agreement (2024+)*
(10) 10.36 Form of Entegris, Inc. Stock Option Award Agreement (2024+)*
(10) 10.37 Form of Entegris, Inc. RSU Award Agreement (Directors) (2024+)*
(19) 19.1 Insider Trading Policy of Entegris, Inc.
(21) 21.1 Subsidiaries of Entegris, Inc.
(23) 23.1 Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
(24) 24.1 Power of Attorney by the Directors of Entegris, Inc.
(31) 31.1 Certification required by Rule 13a-14(a) in accordance with Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
(31) 31.2 Certification required by Rule 13a-14(a) in accordance with Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
(32) 32.1 Certification required by Rule 13a-14(b) and 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
(32) 32.2 Certification required by Rule 13a-14(b) and 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
(101) 101.INS
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(101) 101.SCH
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(104) 104 Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101)
* A “management contract or compensatory plan”