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.
EcoVadis Medal 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.
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
Our vision is to be “The number 1 PCB producer wherever we are“. In 2023, we continued our challenging and important sustainability journey together with our customers, factories and employees. Here are some examples of our actions and achievements during that year:
- The result of the employee satisfaction survey showed a continued high degree of engagement among our employees and NCAB was named best employer in the Brilliant Awards.
- NCAB received an EcoVadis Gold rating for our sustainability work.
- 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.
- High quality performance – 99.6% – 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.
- Customer seminars and internal training continued online, reaching out to more customers and employees.
- 29 webinars and seminars and 2500 participants – Design for Manufacturing, Sustainability in a PCB world, 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.
- 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.
- Continued dialogue and activities with suppliers and customers to jointly strive to reduce emissions in the value chain.
99.5%
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.
Guided by our sustainability strategy
Our sustainable business – learn more in this video
All our sustainability documents
Code of conduct, ISO, REACH, RoHS, TSCA and Conflict Mineral Policys.
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.