Infineon leads the best way in decarbonization with Product Carbon Footprint information for patrons

•  Infineon takes a pioneering position within the semiconductor business and creates transparency for its prospects concerning the local weather impression of particular person product households
• Infineon goals to ultimately cowl its complete product portfolio
• Offering carbon footprint information on the product stage is one other main milestone in Infineon’s sustainability technique

Infineon Applied sciences AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) will present prospects with complete Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) information, taking a pioneering position within the semiconductor business. The corporate is dedicated to ultimately offering PCF information for its complete product portfolio, beginning now with about half of its portfolio. The initiative will empower prospects to advance their very own sustainability targets and cut back their carbon footprint successfully alongside the complete provide chain. The Product Carbon Footprint is a metric that quantifies the greenhouse fuel emissions related to a person product, permitting the comparability of various merchandise’ local weather impression. Infineon will share extra insights with prospects on the upcoming PCIM commerce truthful in Nuremberg, Germany, from 11 to 13 June 2024.

“By offering complete Product Carbon Footprint information, we’re driving the imaginative and prescient of a net-zero society and empowering our prospects to scale back carbon emissions much more successfully,” says Elke Reichart, Member of the Administration Board and Chief Digital and Sustainability Officer at Infineon. “Infineon is taking a number one position in carbon transparency by committing to incorporate the complete product portfolio over the approaching years. This underlines our ambition to be a pacesetter not solely by way of know-how, but additionally sustainability.”

The particular information Infineon offers on its particular person merchandise is crucial for the rising variety of prospects who wish to enhance transparency on their very own carbon footprint. Furthermore, it helps knowledgeable choice making to leverage extra potential for lowering emissions alongside the worth chain.

Within the absence of established business requirements, Infineon has developed a strong methodology to calculate the Product Carbon Footprint, incorporating buyer wants and greatest practices. Infineon consists of emissions from uncooked supplies and provides, its personal manufacturing processes, manufacturing companions and transportation to the shopper (“from cradle to gate”). Which means the Product Carbon Footprint reported by Infineon covers scope 1 and a pair of emissions in addition to scope 3 emissions from suppliers and manufacturing companions, all the best way to the shopper’s gate. The Product Carbon Footprint is expressed in kilograms of carbon dioxide equal (kg CO₂e).

Infineon has revealed the evaluation of reference product households on the Infineon web site.

Driving transparency goes hand in hand with Infineon’s robust dedication to decarbonization and digitalization. Infineon’s merchandise make a significant contribution to the worldwide vitality transition and thus to a net-zero society. They’re utilized in photo voltaic and wind energy vegetation, electrical automobiles and enhance vitality effectivity in quite a few purposes, together with AI information facilities. Over their lifetime, the corporate’s chips total save 34 occasions the quantity of CO₂e emitted throughout their manufacturing.

Breaking the carbon footprint right down to the product stage is one other main milestone in Infineon’s sustainability journey. Infineon has already pledged to realize carbon neutrality by 2030 for direct and oblique emissions (scope 1 and a pair of). Final 12 months, the corporate moreover dedicated to setting a science-based goal encompassing provide chain emissions (scope 3) as nicely.