BYSTRONIC
BUSINESS V COMPLIANCE
Bystronic has expertise in using laser cutting and bending machines for the sheet metal industry .
Its machines run 24 / 7 , for up to 15 years and cut 30 tons of steel each week , bending 2D parts into 3D parts .
When the machines are in use , their emissions will be recorded as Scope 3 .
Michael says : “ This is the biggest impact on the emission side for our business ( up to 96 % of total emissions come from our machines in use ). Reducing Scope 3 is mainly depending on the electrical grid the machines are running on . If we would sell all our annual machines in Norway , Scope 3 would be only 18,000 t CO2e vs 1.3 Million t CO2e reporting in 2023 sustainability report .
“ The business opportunity comes in improving resource efficiency , in helping our clients with all the metals that are cut on the machines .
We are using nesting software to optimise the cutting path of the laser to cut pieces out of the sheet . So imagine when we are cutting the path of a sheet and improve this by 10 % – we could avoid millions of tons of emissions .”
However , he adds , this cannot be reported in current frameworks yet , because “ avoided emissions are not part of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol ”.
The opportunity is to look at sustainability through the lens of business opportunity , and you will find that sustainability is not a cost , but a value driver .
management systems to help companies manage from A to Z , integrating sustainability into a strategy and executing it through the organisation so that sustainability becomes the way companies do business .”
Barriers and solutions The good news is , many companies have understood “ why we need to do this ”, but they struggle in finding a business focused and pragmatic way to “ how can we do it ?”.
Michael says the most common theme he hears is that businesses don ’ t know where to start or cannot start , because they are struggling to figure out the baseline data before they can
96 December 2024