Minimize Our Environmental Impact

Throughout company facilities and the entire product life cycle, National Instruments consistently works toward its long-term goal to minimize its environmental footprint. NI aims to maximize the positive effects of its business and improve the world through innovative product design, supplier responsibility, and recycling programs, as well as through efficiencies in its consumption of resources such as water, electricity, and natural gas. At an individual level, NI employees drive grassroots projects that help the company minimize its environmental impact.

View the 2010 performance summary.

Product Life Cycle

• Product Design
• Optimizing Product Packaging
• Supplier Responsibility, Environmental Management, and Manufacturing Operations
• Product Recycling

Conserving Resources

• Reducing Energy Usage
• Reducing Natural Gas Usage, Water Usage, and Emissions
• Recycling and Waste Reduction

Employees Driving Change

• NI Green Team
• Individual Efforts