• The focus remains strongly on social and environmental sustainability at NCAB’s manufacturing partners, along with greater focus on climate impact in the value chain and in our own operations.
• Continued our sustainability audit programme in factories, conducting regular sustainability audits on-site at factories, improving health and safety and working conditions, and environmental performance. The results of our audits show a positive development for all main factories in China, where long-term cooperation focusing on continuous improvement and knowledge transfer has contributed to improved sustainability performance and increased awareness among factory management and employees.
• High quality performance – 99.5% – continued developing our quality processes and performance to keep high quality and reliability level, and to minimize scrap and resources used.
• Continued investing in employee skills development, specifically leadership, sales, technology and onboarding of new employees.
• Conducted webinars and seminars around the world – Design for Manufacturing, Sustainability in a PCB world, Circularity, Standard stack-ups and impedance, Thermal management, Quality assurance and more – our experts sharing our knowledge and expertise to support sustainable product development.
• Continued supporting customers in the design phase – personal technical expertise, as well as design guidelines for different types of PCBs available for download on our website.
• Technical Council focus group on sustainability – for a more sustainable PCB with focus on circularity and new innovative materials and PCB technologies. During the year, we were involved in the evaluation of bio-based and traditional materials with a view to increasing circularity and reducing environmental impact.

• NCAB has set targets and continues to take action to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Scope 1 to 3. Our target: By 2030, NCAB aim to have halved the emissions intensity for Scope 1–3 measured in tCO2e per SEK million in sales (of which Scope 3 accounts for 99.4 per cent), calculated from the base year of 2021.
• Emissions intensity (tCO2e/SEK million sales) is largely unchanged, attributable to a decrease in total emissions in in combination with lower sales compared with the year-earlier period.
• Scope 1 and 2 emissions slightly decreased.
• In Scope 3, emissions decreased mainly due to an increased share of manufacturing in Europe and a decreased share in China, but also due to an increased share of renewable energy used in manufacturing in China. Scope 3 accounts for 99.4%.
• Continued dialogue and activities with suppliers and customers to jointly strive to reduce emissions in the value chain.
• In 2024, an updated materiality assessment was compiled in accordance with the requirements for double materiality in the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).
• NCAB received an EcoVadis Silver rating for our sustainability work. We scored overall 79 out of 100 which places us amongst the top 3 percent in the Manufacture of electronic components and boards industry and top 6 percent of all companies globally that have been rated by EcoVadis over the previous 12 months.
• NCAB committed to set scientific climate targets through the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).

All our new company cars to be zero emission by 2025

We will have 100% renewable energy use in our offices and internal warehouses by 2030.

We will reduce our emissions from PCB transportation by 50% by 2030.