REHOVOT, Israel , April 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Nova (NASDAQ: NVMI), a leading innovator and a key provider of advanced metrology and process control solutions used in semiconductor manufacturing, today announced that it has published the Company's second Sustainability Insight Report. The Report provides details on the Company's sustainability strategy, vision, and goals and progress the Company has made since the 2022 Insight Review.

The Report reflects the Nova's ongoing maturation in embedding principals of sustainability, governance and social responsibility into the operating model of the company, including announcing an updated set of goals that place greater emphasis on our key environmental and social impacts that support business performance. The new report details key achievements the Company has made since the prior report, including achieving 88% renewable energy use and a significant reduction in scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (from a 2022 baseline). Additional achievements include a 35% internal mobility rate, a professional certification program to better serve customers, and a 148% increase in employee volunteering hours (from a 2022 baseline), a proven index of employee engagement and productivity. 

"We believe that our environmental, governance and social priorities play a vital role in our business performance, and our updated goals reflect that belief," said Gaby Waisman, Nova's President & CEO. "In 2024, we made significant progress on our plan. We expanded our reach into the advanced packaging market, increased growth of our dimensional metrology solutions, secured record revenues from materials metrology solutions, and achieved record revenue from chemical metrology solutions."

The review was developed with reference to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) guidelines, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  

About Nova

Nova is a leading innovator and key provider of material, optical and chemical solutions for metrology and process control in semiconductor manufacturing. Nova delivers continuous innovation by providing state-of-the-art, high-performance metrology solutions for effective process control throughout the semiconductor fabrication lifecycle. Nova's product portfolio, which combines high-precision hardware and cutting-edge software, provides its customers with deep insight into developing and producing the most advanced semiconductor devices. Nova's unique capability to deliver innovative solutions enables its customers to improve performance, enhance product yields, and accelerate time to market. Nova acts as a partner to semiconductor manufacturers from its offices worldwide. Additional information may be found on Nova's website link - https://www.novami.com/.

Nova is traded on the Nasdaq and TASE, Nasdaq ticker symbol NVMI.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 relating to future events or our future performance, such as statements regarding, but not limited to, anticipated growth opportunities and projections about our business and its future revenues, expenses and profitability. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to differ materially from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied in those forward-looking statements. Factors that may affect our results, performance, circumstances or achievements include, but are not limited to, the following:  risks related to information technology security threats, sophisticated computer crime, and data privacy; foreign political and economic risks including supply-chain difficulties; regulations that could restrict our operations such as economic sanctions and export restrictions; changes in U.S. trade policies and taxation; indirect effects of the Russia – Ukraine conflict; market instability including inflation and recessionary pressures; risks related to doing business with China; catastrophic events; inability to protect our intellectual property; open source technology exposure, including risks related to artificial intelligence; risks related to the use of artificial intelligence technologies; challenges related to our new ERP system; failure to compete effectively or to respond to rapid technological changes; consolidation in our industry; difficulty in predicting the length and strength of any downturn or expansion period of the market we target; factors that adversely affect the pricing and demand for our product lines; dependency on a small number of large customers; dependency on a single manufacturing facility per product line; dependency on a limited number of suppliers; difficulty in integrating current or future acquisitions; lengthy sales cycle and customer delays in orders; risks related to conditions in Israel, including Israel's conflicts with Hamas and other parties in the region; risks related to our convertible notes; currency fluctuations; and quarterly fluctuations in our operating results. We cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. The matters discussed in this press release also involve risks and uncertainties summarized under the heading "Risk Factors" in Nova's Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2024, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 20, 2025. These factors are updated from time to time through the filing of reports and registration statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Nova Ltd. does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press release.

Company Contact:
Guy Kizner, Chief Financial Officer
Tel: +972-73-229-5760
E-mail - investors@novami.com
Nova website link - https://www.novami.com/ 

Investor Relations Contact:
Miri Segal MS-IR LLC
E-mail - msegal@ms-ir.com 

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