Azenta Inc

INFORMATION RELATED TO FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This Annual Report on Form 10‑K contains statements that are, or may be considered to be, forward-looking statements within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended, Section-27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act, and Section-21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act. All statements that are not historical facts, including statements about our beliefs or expectations, are forward-looking statements. These statements may be identified by such forward-looking, terminology as “expect,” “estimate,” “intend,” “believe,” “anticipate,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “continue,” “likely” or similar statements or variations of such terms. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements that relate to our future revenue, margins, costs, operating expenses, tax expenses, capital expenditures, earnings, profitability, product development, demand, acceptance and market share, competitiveness, market opportunities and performance, levels of research and development, the success of our marketing, sales and service efforts, outsourced activities, anticipated manufacturing, customer and technical requirements, the ongoing viability of the solutions that we offer and our customers’ success, our management’s plans and objectives for our current and future operations and business focus, litigation, our ability to retain, hire and integrate skilled personnel, our ability to identify and address increased cybersecurity risks, including as a result of employees continuing to work remotely, the anticipated growth prospects of our business, the expected benefits and other statements relating to our divestitures and acquisitions, the adequacy, effectiveness and success of cost saving plans and our business transformation initiatives, our ability to continue to identify acquisition targets and successfully acquire and integrate desirable products and services and realize expected revenues and revenue synergies, our adoption of newly issued accounting guidance, the levels of customer spending, our dependence on key suppliers or vendors to obtain services for our business on acceptable terms, including the impact of supply chain disruptions, general economic conditions, the impact of inflation, the sufficiency of financial resources to support future operations and the material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting. Such statements are based on current expectations and involve risks, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause the actual results, our performance or our achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include those which are set forth in Part I, Item 1A “Risk Factors” in this Annual Report on Form 10-K and other documents we file from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC, such as our quarterly reports on Form 10‑Q and our current reports on Form 8‑K. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof and are based on information currently and reasonably known to us. We do not undertake any obligation to release revisions to these forward-looking statements, to reflect events or circumstances that occur after the date of this Annual Report on Form 10-K or to reflect the occurrence or effect of anticipated or unanticipated events. Precautionary statements made herein should be read as being applicable to all related forward-looking statements wherever they appear in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Unless the context indicates otherwise, references in this Annual Report on Form 10-K to “we”, “us”, “our”, “the Company” and other similar references refer to Azenta, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries.

TRADEMARKS, TRADE NAMES AND SERVICE MARKS

This Annual Report on Form 10-K includes our trademarks, trade names and service marks, which are our property and are protected under applicable intellectual property laws. Solely for convenience, trademarks, trade names and service marks may appear in this Annual Report on Form 10-K without the®, TM and SM symbols, but such references are not intended to indicate, in any way, that we or the applicable owner forgo or will not assert, to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law, our rights or the rights of any applicable licensors to these trademarks, trade names and service marks. We do not intend our use or display of other parties’ trademarks, trade names or service marks to imply, and such use or display should not be construed to imply a relationship with, or endorsement or sponsorship of us by, these other parties.

INDUSTRY AND OTHER DATA

Unless otherwise indicated, information contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K concerning our industry and the markets in which we operate, including our general expectations, market position and market opportunity, is based on management’s estimates and research, as well as industry and general publications and research, surveys and studies conducted by third parties. We believe the information from these third-party publications, research, surveys and studies included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K is reliable. Management’s estimates are derived from publicly available information, their knowledge of our industry and their assumptions based on such information and knowledge, which we believe to be reasonable. This data involves a number of assumptions and limitations which are necessarily subject to a high degree of uncertainty and risk due to a variety of factors, including those described in this Annual Report on Form 10-K under “Information Related to Forward-Looking Statements” above and Part I, Item 1A “Risk Factors” below, as updated and/or supplemented in subsequent filings with the SEC. These and other factors could cause our future performance to differ materially from our assumptions and estimates.