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. This commitment includes setting expectations with suppliers, recycling old NI products, and finding ways to conserve resources such as water, electricity, and natural gas. To achieve these and other goals, the company encourages and supports employees who drive grassroots projects to reduce environmental impact.
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NI continually looks for opportunities to improve product development and manufacturing processes, including packaging design.
NI conserves resources through its facilities and IT infrastructure by reducing energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, water use, and waste, as well as increasing recycling.
NI makes great efforts to minimize environmental impact, and countless projects are driven by individual employees or small groups of employees who are passionate about making a difference.
BY THE NUMBERS
47%
reduction in box size for products on which NI uses suspension packaging
10%
of total electricity usage at NI headquarters is provided by Austin Energy GreenChoice, a renewable energy program
55%
more employees joined the annual contest to lower carbon footprint than the previous year
Philip C. Samaro
Global Operations Manager, Sunbelt Supply LLC
“The National Instruments supplier program is an excellent example of corporate responsibility. Following NI’s lead, we have implemented similar programs such as EICC compliance, a supplier code of conduct, and employee philanthropy and volunteerism programs. We have seen success with these programs at headquarters as well as in our Hungary and Malaysia offices.”