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| Fox Business Network's Liz Claman interviews Applied Materials' chairman and CEO Mike Splinter on the current outlook for the industry, the company's move to solar energy, and the need for government policy and transformation to enable job creation in the growing energy and environment sectors. Fox Business Network, June 10, 2009
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| Applied Materials, Inc. is pleased to announce that two members of its Board of Directors, Alexander "Andy" Karsner, former Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy with the U.S. Department of Energy, and James Rogers, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Duke Energy Corporation, will be inducted into the inaugural Hall of Fame of the Energy Efficiency Forum. The forum was one of the first to bring together politicians, business leaders, and non-governmental organizations to promote energy efficiency as the first and most important solution to global energy challenges. Andy Karsner and Jim Rogers were chosen for their respective contributions in pioneering energy policy and implementation and demonstrating leadership in energy efficiency. Applied Materials, June 2009
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| More than 45 Applied Materials employee volunteers equipped with hard hats, tool belts and harnesses, in partnership with GRID Alternatives, spent 350 hours installing 36 rooftop solar panels on the homes of three low-income first-time homeowners at the new Habitat for Humanity development in Santa Clara, California.
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As Congress prepares environmental and energy legislation to mitigate the effects of global warming, Joe Pon, vice president of Corporate Affairs at Applied Materials, U.S. Representative Zoe Lofgren and U.S. Representative Mike Honda along side Applied Materials' 2MW solar array meet to discuss the company's strategy to enable lower cost-per-watt of solutions for solar cell manufacturing – with the goal of making solar a more meaningful contributor to the global energy supply.
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| Mike Splinter, chairman and CEO of Applied Materials at the Dow Jones Alternative Energy Innovations Conference, Tuesday April 21, 2009. Splinter urged the U.S. government to establish progressive renewable portfolio standards and explained how this would drive innovations in clean energy by establishing a "Moore's Law" sense of urgency and act as a catalyst for job creation and economic stimulus. Splinter was interviewed on stage by Ken Anderson of Dow Jones. |
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| Construction has begun on the solar-powered houses for the U.S. Department of Energy's 2009 Solar Decathlon. The biennial international competition focuses on a crucial global problem — the ever-increasing need for energy — by giving students of today a chance to design the optimal solar-powered house of tomorrow. Applied Materials, April 2009
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| Since 2007, Applied has set aggressive goals to reduce its environmental footprint - by at least 50,000 metric tons of carbon equivalents by 2012 - or approximately 20% of its 2006 footprint. What better time than Earth Day, which is observed during April, to review the company's progress to date and re-engergize its sustainability efforts? Applied Materials, April 2009
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Applied Materials was recognized on FORTUNE Magazine's 2009 "World's Most Admired Companies" list, ranking among the top five companies in the semiconductor industry. Money.CNN.com, March 16, 2009
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| The water crisis in California is creating a friendly corporate competition in the Bay Area, with companies such as Applied Materials using cutting edge efforts to conserve 51 million gallons of water a year off its 2006 water use levels, conserving about 16 percent a year alone in the South Bay. ABC7, March 12, 2009
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| Bloomberg For the Record's Monica Bertran interviews Applied Materials president and CEO Mike Splinter at the company's Analyst Day in New York, for an update on Applied's solar and semiconductor businesses, the government's potential to impact the solar industry with the stimulus package and other policies, and the company's plans to harness the sun and lead the renewable energy revolution. Bloomberg For the Record, March 6, 2009
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| Applied Materials was recognized on Corporate Responsibility Officer Magazine's 2009 list of "100 Best Corporate Citizens," North America's most prestigious corporate citizenship and responsibility ranking for Russell 1000 companies. TheCRO.com, March 6, 2009
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| Applied Materials demonstrates the "carbon-free" transportation of the future utilizing energy generated by its parking lot-based solar array. KRON 4 / ABC7, February 2009
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| Applied Materials hosts conference looking at how green technology, such as solar power, can help grow the economy around the world. ABC7, February 13, 2009
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| Applied Materials' president of Applied Solar, Charlie Gay sat down with Matt Nauman of the San Jose Mercury News to discuss the company's solar strategy and the worldwide view of solar. San Jose Mercury News, February 11, 2009
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| Applied president and CEO Mike Splinter met with President Obama and a group of CEOs at the White House to discuss the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan. In the discussion, Mike urged President Obama to include key aspects of the clean-tech agenda, including incentives for solar energy adoption as a means to create new jobs and stimulate the U.S. economy.
The Wall Street Journal, January 28, 2009
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| ABC News highlights the eighth annual Tech Awards presented by Applied Materials, a premier humanitarian awards program honoring a select group of entrepreneurs who are applying technology to translate hopes and dreams into real solutions for a better world. ABC News, November 18, 2008
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| EETimes.com interviews Applied Materials' Mark Pinto on the company's solar business and how it's ramping up SunFab thin film production lines in customer factories around the world in hopes of driving solar energy costs down to a competitive level. EETimes.com, October 3, 2008
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| Scientific American interviews Applied Materials' Mark Pinto on how Moncada Energy Group, s.r.l., an Italian maker of wind farm technology, is working closely with the company to leverage solar energy and erect solar panels made on Applied's SunFab thin film production line in the same fields as Moncada's wind turbines, thereby drawing energy day and night from the sun and wind. SciAm.com, September 30, 2008
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Applied Materials is a winner in the energy category of the Wall Street Journal's 2008 Technology Innovation Awards, for developing "a better way to make solar panels," recognizing its SunFab production line's ability to manufacture extremely large solar-power panels using thin-film photovoltaic material. This allows customers to turn out solar panels more quickly and cheaply than traditional production methods, and is helping to drive down the cost of solar power so that it's more competitive with electricity from traditional sources.
WSJ.com, September 29, 2008
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| Applied Materials president and CEO Mike Splinter talks about the company's solar strategy and the investments and policy changes needed to harness the power of the sun. Forbes.com, September 15, 2008
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| Applied Materials is recognized for its leadership in improving technology education in India and for partnering with the American India Foundation (AIF) in developing a Digital Equalizer (DE) program aimed at bridging the digital and educational divide by providing computers, software, and internet access to children and teachers in underprivileged schools. Times News Network, September 3, 2008
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Applied Materials was named to Plenty Magazine's second annual 'Plenty 20' list of key businesses that are making a sustainable future more possible, citing the company's expertise in nanomanufacturing technology and Applied's efforts to help create the largest thin-film solar cells in the world.
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