News: Microelectronics
2 December 2024
Infineon wins German Sustainability Award in category ‘Electrical Engineering and Electronics’
Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany has won the German Sustainability Award in the ‘Electrical Engineering and Electronics’ category. “Infineon has assumed a leading role in the field of sustainability and serves the sector as a ‘beacon’ for successful transformation,” the judges stated. The German Sustainability Award recognizes companies that make effective and exemplary contributions to transformation and that function as role models within their industry.
Working together with the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce (DIHK), WWF Germany, PwC Germany, Leuphana University Lüneburg (CSM Lüneburg) and other industry associations to design and implement the competition, the German Sustainability Award is Europe’s largest award for ecological and social commitment. The jury selected winners in 100 different sectors from among around 2000 competing companies.
“This award is recognition, as well as an incentive to be a role model in sustainability and to continue rigorously implementing our ambitious sustainability strategy – together with our employees, customers and partners,” says Elke Reichart, management board member & chief digital and sustainability officer at Infineon, who accepted the award in Duesseldorf.
Pursuing a comprehensive decarbonization strategy, Infineon says it is making good progress towards the goal it defined in 2020: achieving climate neutrality by 2030. Since then, emissions have been reduced by more than two-thirds while revenue has almost doubled. Moreover, Infineon is intensifying its collaboration along the entire supply chain. Infineon this year began reporting emissions at the individual product level (the Product Carbon Footprint). The data is already available for half of all Infineon products today.
Infineon says that its semiconductors contribute to making the generation, transmission, storage and use of energy more efficient. A recent example of sustainable product innovation is a new type of energy-saving silicon carbide (SiC) module, whose developers were nominated for the 2024 Deutscher Zukunftspreis. The solution increases the energy efficiency of existing high-performance electrical applications such as solar and wind power plants and train drives. Among other things, the module also facilitates the efficient electrification of large drives such as those found in agricultural and construction machinery, ships and aircraft. A single electric locomotive equipped with the new drive system saves around 300MW-hr per year (equivalent to the annual energy requirements of 100 single-family homes).
