Sustainable business
Sustainable business
– our responsibility
Our focus is on creating value for our stakeholders and taking responsibility throughout our value chain. This approach helps us to identify opportunities to drive positive change and minimize negative impact. Together with our suppliers and customers, we want to create a more sustainable industry with growth and profitability for all. We believe that strong relationships and transparency are key to achieving this.
UN Global Compact
As part of our commitment to sustainable and responsible business practices, we have embedded the Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact into strategies and operations, and committed to respecting human and labour rights, safeguarding the environment, and working against corruption in all its forms.
EcoVadis for our sustainability work
We scored an overall 73 out of 100, which places us amongst the top 4 percent in the Manufacture of electronic components and boards industry and top 7 percent of all companies globally that have been rated by EcoVadis over the previous 12 months.
EcoVadis assesses a company’s sustainability management through its policies, actions and results. It focuses on 21 sustainability criteria across four key areas: Environment, Labor & Human Rights, Ethics and Sustainable Procurement. Our highest performing sustainability assessment themes are Environment and Sustainable Procurement.
Sustainability achievements
In 2025, we continued our important sustainability journey together with our customers, factories and employees. Here are some examples of our actions and achievements during that year:
- Joining the UN Global Compact initiative, reaffirming our dedication to sustainable development and transparency. This commitment builds on our already ongoing efforts in the areas of human rights, labour, environment, and anti-corruption.
- The focus remains strongly on social and environmental sustainability at NCAB’s manufacturing partners, along with greater focus on reducing 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 – 99.4% – 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.
- Our experts shared knowledge and expertise to support sustainable product development through conducting webinars, seminars, customer-tailored meetings, participated and presented at fairs and exhibitions around the world – Thermal Management, Sustainability in a PCB world, Circularity, Reducing climate impact, Standard stack-ups and impedance, Quality assurance and more.
- 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.
- Continued focus on a more sustainable PCB for increased 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 aims 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) decreased slightly compared to previous year. Our Scope 3 stands for 99.4% of our emissions, where the majority arise from PCB manufacturing and transportation of PCBs.
- Continued dialogue and activities with suppliers and customers to jointly strive to reduce emissions in the value chain.
- NCAB received an EcoVadis Silver rating for our sustainability work. We scored overall 73 out of 100 which places us amongst the top 4 percent in the Manufacture of electronic components and boards industry and top 7 percent of all companies globally that have been rated by EcoVadis over the previous 12 months.
- Introduced new packaging for delivery of our PCBs. We optimized our packaging from a material, circularity, and weight perspective for less environmental impact.
99.4%
High-quality performance
100%
Sustainability audited main factories
92
Score for sustainability in customer satisfaction survey
81
Customer Satisfaction Index
88
Employee Engagement Index
Our commitments
Supply Chain
Full responsibility throughout the supply chain.
Employees
Attract, engage and develop the best people.
Customers
Steer the sector in a green direction.
Long-term environmental goals
We strive to be a catalyst for a more sustainable PCB and manufacturing. Our goal is to ensure that our PCBs are produced in a way that minimizes the total environmental impact, and our overall climate impact goal is to reduce our Greenhouse Gas emission intensity with 50% by 2030.
Reduce our Greenhouse Gas emission
intensity by 50 % by 2030
Guided by our sustainability strategy
All our sustainability documents
Code of conduct, ISO, REACH, RoHS, TSCA and Conflict Mineral Policies.
Curious about our sustainability work?
Don’t hesitate to contact us if you would like to know more about our sustainability work.
NCAB Group whistleblower function
If employees of NCAB Group or other stakeholders discover serious irregularities or misconceptions that violate our Code of Conduct, we want them to feel confident about reporting this. We have thus set up a whistle blower function, involving an external party to whom employees can turn. Their issue is then anonymous and passed on to the NCAB Group’s investigative function.