Our Design for Environment Principles (DfE) provide guidance for new product development and redesign efforts within our Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) process. We target the full product lifecycle: prioritizing responsibly sourced and sustainable materials, optimizing the use of materials and energy in manufacturing, reducing energy and resources during use, extending product life through repairability and modularity, and mitigating impacts at the end of life.

To ensure consistent implementation across our businesses, we made setting specific sustainability targets mandatory for all new product development projects. We focus our efforts on optimizing material usage, material selection, and reducing the power consumption of our products. 

We aim to minimize waste and reduce the environmental footprint of our product packaging. We accomplish this by reducing the amount of packaging where practical, by using renewable packaging materials that are easily reusable, recyclable, or compostable—an important contribution toward a more circular economy.

We see good progress alongside further opportunities for improvement across our Business Units, many of which have adopted innovative packaging concepts that are often more sustainable and more cost-effective. 

A wide range of our products—including automated titrators, pH meters, thermal analysis instruments, high-precision laboratory and industrial balances, and process analytical sensors—play a crucial role in the research and development, manufacturing, and quality control of green and renewable technologies.

These technologies encompass lithium and various other types of batteries, green hydrogen, solar panels, and components for wind turbines. These same products—and our automated reactors and inline spectroscopy solutions—are instrumental in advancing green chemistry, chemical recycling processes, and the development of more sustainable materials.

These advancements by our customers benefit us all by leading the way toward a more sustainable future.