Infineon Technologies will provide customers with comprehensive Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) data, taking a pioneering role in the semiconductor industry. The company is committed to eventually providing PCF data for its entire product portfolio, starting now with about half of its portfolio.
The initiative will empower customers to advance their own sustainability goals and reduce their carbon footprint effectively along the entire supply chain.
The Product Carbon Footprint is a metric that quantifies the greenhouse gas emissions associated with an individual product, allowing the comparison of different products’ climate impact.
Infineon will share more insights with customers at the upcoming PCIM trade fair in Nuremberg, Germany, from 11 to 13 June 2024.
“By providing comprehensive Product Carbon Footprint data, we are driving the vision of a net-zero society and empowering our customers to reduce carbon emissions even more effectively,” says Elke Reichart, Member of the Management Board and Chief Digital and Sustainability Officer at Infineon. “Infineon is taking a leading role in carbon transparency by committing to include the entire product portfolio over the coming years. This underlines our ambition to be a leader not only in terms of technology, but also sustainability.”
For the increasing number of customers who urges to enhance transparency about their own carbon impact, Infineon’s unique product data is crucial. Additionally, it facilitates well-informed decision-making to take advantage of further opportunities to lower emissions along the value chain.
As there are no recognized industry standards, Infineon has created a reliable technique that takes best practices and client requirements into account when calculating the Product Carbon Footprint.
Emissions from Infineon’s own production operations, its partners’ manufacturing processes, raw materials and suppliers, and customer transportation are all included (“from cradle to gate”).
This indicates that scope 1 and scope 2 emissions from suppliers and manufacturing partners, as well as scope 3 emissions from all the way to the customer’s gate, are included in Infineon’s Product Carbon Footprint report.
The unit of measurement for the product’s carbon footprint is kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalent (kg CO 2e).
Infineon has published the assessment of reference product families on the Infineon website.
Encouraging openness is closely linked to Infineon’s resolute dedication to digitalization and decarbonization. Products from Infineon play a significant role in the worldwide energy transition and the development of a net-zero society.
They improve energy efficiency in many applications, including AI data centers, and are utilized in solar and wind power plants, electric automobiles, and other applications. The company’s chips reduce CO2 emissions during manufacture by 34 times throughout the course of their lifetime.
Determining the carbon footprint of individual products is a significant accomplishment in Infineon’s environmental endeavors. By 2030, Infineon intends to attain carbon neutrality for both direct and indirect emissions (scope 1 and 2).
The corporation also pledged last year to establish a science-based objective that included supplier chain emissions (scope 3).
