Business Description

(1) B usiness Description MKS Inc., formerly known as MKS Instruments, Inc. (“MKS” or the “Company”), was founded in 1961 as a Massachusetts corporation and enables technologies that transform the world. The Company delivers foundational technology solutions to leading edge semiconductor manufacturing, electronics and packaging, and specialty industrial applications. The Company applies its broad science and engineering capabilities to create instruments, subsystems, systems, process control solutions and specialty chemicals technology that improve process performance, optimize productivity and enable unique innovations for many of the world’s leading technology and industrial companies. The Company’s solutions are critical to addressing the challenges of miniaturization and complexity in advanced device manufacturing by enabling increased power, speed, feature enhancement and optimized connectivity. These solutions are also critical to addressing ever-increasing performance requirements across a wide array of specialty industrial applications.