Automation technology supplier Festo has announced that all of company production and logistics sites worldwide, including its German sales locations and corporate headquarters in Esslingen, will be CO2-neutral from the beginning of 2023.
According to Festo CEO Dr Oliver Jung, Festo has aligned its sustainability strategy with the strategic development goals (SDGs) of the United Nations.
Scope 3 emissions will play an increasingly important role as emissions from purchasing and logistics are considered alongside the use of products by customers.
In its annual Sustainability Report, Festo documents how it is aiming to transform industrial production into an efficient and more climate-friendly way of manufacturing.
“We want to express how automation technology can balance the supply of the world’s population and protect natural resources via climate-neutral production at the same time,” said Jung.
Recent Festo innovations include digital and intelligent pneumatics, as well as automation platforms and concepts for saving energy in pneumatics.
Festo said it sees the next development for industrial production in the transition toward a consistent circular economy.
“In nature, there is no waste and no wastage, we just have to learn to transfer these principles to our economic activity,” said Jung.
“That is why we are transferring these principles to automation as part of our Bionic Learning Network.”
