We do more with less for our customers, planet, and society.
Our take-make-waste economy has grown to unsustainable levels, putting enormous pressure on environment, supply chains and the global economy. Societies are consuming 70% more resources than Earth’s ecosystems can regenerate, and only 6.9% of materials in use are recycled today.
Shifting to circular models that prioritize value recovery across the lifecycle not only benefits the planet but also creates tremendous economic opportunities and resilience. We decouple growth from resource consumption by extending lifecycles, optimizing resource use, and reducing waste.
We improve resource efficiency and empower circularity by equipping industries with technologies, extending asset lifecycles while enhancing performance, availability and utilization.
We strive to reduce our environmental footprint and secure our supply chain by designing for circularity, optimizing resource use, minimizing waste, as well as conserving water and biodiversity.
3D-printed furniture company Haddy wants to revolutionize the industry and prove that home furnishings can be innovative and aesthetic as well as sustainable.
Siemens and Haddy joined forces in Florida to build the state’s first 3D-printed café. The collaboration proves that circular materials and agile manufacturing can deliver resilient, sustainable spaces at scale.
Siemens technologies are everywhere, enabling everyday life while contributing to the circular economy through 3 distinct levers: create circular products, embrace circular business, and empower customer circularity.
We design for sustainable materials, optimal use, and value recovery. We optimize secondary material use and increase supply chain resilience. Our commitment to improving production efficiency helps minimize resource consumption.
Recycled materials
Can save resources and reduce emissions, for example, up to 70% upstream CO₂ by use of scrap, arc furnace, and green electricity for green steel production. Read more on green steel production.
We aim to enhance and preserve value through lifetime-extending services and the reuse of products and components. By closing the loop, we effectively recover value.
Retrofit of switchgears
Extends operational lifetime by up to 15 years, decreases CO₂-e emissions by up to 75%, and reduces material usage by up to 80% (compared to new installations). Read more on the retrofit of switchgears.
Circular Spares & Repairs
Prolongs product lifetime and reduces downtimes of your machines through repair, refurbishment, and remanufacturing. Read more on Circular Spares & Repairs.
We enable the creation of circular products with our software portfolio. Our solutions optimize resource-efficient customer operations and unlock additional grid capacity - up to twice as much usable power from existing assets - while generating value through innovative business models and partnerships.
NX Sustainability impact analysis
Puts environmental impact assessment and circularity thinking at the heart of the product design process, enabling smart decisions based on a diverse and comprehensive set of 30+ environmental impacts including CO₂e, freshwater consumption, and human toxicity. Read more on NX Sustainability impact analysis.
Predictive maintenance
Maximizes the use of existing resources, reduces waste, lowers energy use, and promotes longer product lifecycles. Read more on Predictive maintenance.
Unlock grid capacity
Our grid software and services help utilities and operators increase capacity, modernize infrastructure, and improve reliability - supporting the transition to resilient, sustainable, and increasingly autonomous grids. Read more on Grid Software
Our circularity framework spans the entire value chain, from products made from sustainable materials to circular business and customer circularity.
Siemens EcoTech highlights the outstanding environmental performance of products. The framework provides a comprehensive set of criteria covering the entire product lifecycle to help customers make transparent, responsible choices that support their sustainability goals.
Driving biodiversity protection by implementing a conservation program at 100% of our relevant sites.
Enabling the sustainability transition by supporting customers biodiversity and nature progress.
Highlighting how digitalization enhances ecodesign's impact as a strategic business move.
We aim for 100% Robust Eco Design across relevant hardware, software, and services, pursue zero waste to landfill, and implement conservation programs at all relevant sites to protect biodiversity.
Achieve 100% for relevant hardware, software and service portfolio.
Support circularity by pursuing zero waste to landfill.
Implement a conservation program at 100% of our relevant sites.
Between fiscal 2021 and 2025, RED increased for our relevant hardware, software, and service portfolio, growing from 16% to 67%.
Since fiscal 2021, we have reduced our waste to landfill rate by 52%.
In fiscal 2025, we increased the implementation rate of our conservation program at all our relevant sites from 18% to 55%.
From optimized resource use to eliminating waste, we aim to ease the pressure on the planet and open new paths for growth and innovation. Find out more about how we scale circularity.
