Seco´s purpose is to make manufacturing fast, easy and sustainable, and in 2025, the company is launching a series of impactful initiatives to support customers in reducing their environmental footprint and fostering responsible business practices. Driving net-zero and environmentally friendly manufacturing Building on the success of the 2024 pilot, Seco is expanding its Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) models for products like stationary turning tools and solid end mills. These enhanced (…)
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Ensinger: SBTi has approved net-zero science-based target by 2046
Ensinger, a family-owned leading supplier of compounds, profiles, stock shapes and parts made of high-performance plastics, announced that the Science Based Targets initiative [1] (SBTi) has approved Ensinger’s net-zero [2] science-based target by 2046. The net-zero target, committed in February 2022, is to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions (Scope 1, 2, and 3 [3]) for the entire supply chain by 2046, and was validated as a goal consistent with the 1.5 degrees Celsius increase (…)
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Sustainability is focus topic at EMO Hannover 2023
Climate change, environmental protection, energy and material efficiency – sustainability is now an integral part of our daily lives. It will also feature prominently at EMO Hannover 2023. Experts will be presenting ambitious, long-term strategies – and every proposal which is implemented represents a step in the right direction. But how can sustainability goals be met in a practical and, above all, verifiable way? The concrete projects of manufacturing companies and research institutes, as (…)
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Carbon footprint of injection moulding machines
Arburg has been working intensively on the topic of sustainability and resource efficiency for a very long time. As a supplier of Allrounder injection moulding machines, the machine manufacturer is increasingly active in evaluating climate protection activities along the entire value chain for its customers. On the basis of ISO TS 14067:2018, a standard that defines a product’s greenhouse gas emissions or product carbon footprint (PCF), Arburg has investigated how the PCF and specific energy (…)
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New survey reveals global industry is accelerating investment in energy efficiency
Global survey commissioned by ABB highlights current and future plans of companies to invest in energy efficiency to achieve Net Zero 90 percent will increase spending over the next five years while 52 percent plan to achieve Net Zero within the same period Growing impact of energy costs on profitability means that energy efficiency is receiving a higher priority, yet cost and downtime are major barriers to investment Global industry is accelerating its investment in energy efficiency in (…)