ASML proactively supports the circular economy concept as we believe it is essential to ensuring the future success and competitiveness of the semiconductor equipment industry.

In 2019, we further engaged with our suppliers in order to introduce ‘As-new’ modules into our mainstream manufacturing. ‘As-new’ modules are suitable for multiple product lifecycles: they are returned from field upgrades and, after a thorough re-qualification process, restored to as-new conditions and performance.

Over the past year, we successfully set up re-manufacturing plans in collaboration with more than 10 of our largest suppliers.

This resulted in an improved material availability for our supply chain, a positive environmental impact, a deeper insight into the reliability of our products and opened the way to a new shared business model.

Because of the positive feedback on common value creation, we are now working on opening the conversations with the rest of our main suppliers to further scale ASML’s circular economy efforts