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Kuehne+Nagel Launches Air Freight Carrier Engagement Sustainability Programme

To lead the way to a more sustainable future, Kuehne+Nagel announces the launch of its carrier engagement sustainability programme. As part of the programme, Kuehne+Nagel has signed individual Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) agreements with fourteen global airline carriers to advance sustainability initiatives and innovations around the world. This first-of-its-kind collaboration...

Are We Moving Fast Enough on Semiconductor Sustainability?

We continue to deal with a paradox: semiconductor chips are necessary to support digitalization and society’s transition to lower carbon power and transportation. At the same time, semiconductor manufacturing is resource- and energy-intensive. Efficiency improvements are one part of the solution, but they can only take us so far. There’s...

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Tracking and Reporting Sustainability: A Stake in the Sand

As sustainability matures, the fall of the year seems to be when there is a significant focus on sustainability, culminating in the Conference of the Party (COP) meetings in late November. Companies publish their ESG reports if they have done so earlier in the year. Ratings companies release their rankings,...

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Sustainability 101: Considering the UN Sustainable Development Goals

In evaluating companies for the 3D InCites Sustainability Award, we consider progress on four of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Clean Water and Sanitation (6), Affordable and Clean Energy (7), Responsible Consumption and Production (12), and Climate Action (13). Many more of the UN SDGs are directly or indirectly...

Veeco Releases New Sustainability Report

Report Highlights Ongoing Commitment to Environmental, Social and Governance Goals PLAINVIEW, N.Y., March 21, 2023 – Veeco Instruments Inc. (NASDAQ: VECO) today released its latest Sustainability Report highlighting the company’s continued progress towards environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives. This Sustainability Report, reflecting 2022 data, demonstrates our ongoing commitment to...

Materials Science Solutions for Electronics Sustainability

This summer, the temperature reached 111°F in Silicon Valley, where I live. This historical record unmistakably brought home the “inconvenient truth”: global warming is upon us, for real – not in the future, but right here, right now. It is incumbent on each and every one of us, in society...

Semiconductor Sustainability Efforts Need Collaboration

During the recent Applied Materials/SEMI Sustainability Forum, panelists touched on the fact that the big drivers of electronics — Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Facebook — are looking to cut carbon emissions across their supply chains. From a semiconductor perspective, this would include the energy and greenhouse gases used in...

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Sustainability 101, The Product Lifecycle: Sustainability and the Supply Chain

Sustainability should start in the design phase. When engineers consider environmental impact during product design, they may be able to avoid toxic materials, reduce solvent and water use, improve energy efficiency during manufacturing, and make it easier to recover components at the end of the product’s life. But a design...

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Sustainability in the Semiconductor Fab and Sub-Fab

Building a state-of-the-art integrated circuit takes a lot of resources. Water, energy, chemicals, gases, and silicon wafers are just a few of the key elements required to build a chip. According to Scotten W. Jones at IC Knowledge LLC, there are 600 to 800 process steps at 5nm depending on...

Sustainability 101: GHG Emissions – Definitions and Scopes

Welcome to Sustainability 101. The purpose of this blog post series is to define what we mean when we mention sustainability and reach a shared understanding of common terms. The series will cover: Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions—Definitions and scopes Sustainability reporting—standards and trends Circular economy, part I—What is zero waste?...