Production process and product performance improvements with a focus on the environment

Over the past several years, SMC has continued to take on its social responsibility to seriously promote and support sustainability in order to minimize negative impacts to the environment.
SMC is always looking to develop newer and greener solutions with CO₂ reduction as a top priority as a leader in the field of pneumatics. One of the key components of our comprehensive approach is the designing of compact and lightweight products. Smaller, lighter products require less raw materials to make and less time to process. In addition, the products themselves use less energy.
All of these efforts contribute to reduced CO₂ emissions.
SMC’s fully integrated technical, production, and sales departments are able to respond to the needs of our customers from around the world with a shared goal of finding new methods to effectively protect the environment.

SMC’s CO₂ emission-reducing initiatives also include the promotion of eco-friendly factories and products. In addition, SMC promotes the reduction of CO₂ emissions in our operations.

With SMC’s use of topology optimization ※1 in the design process, more compact, lightweight products can be realized compared with existing products, resulting in a large reduction in the amount of CO₂ emissions during production.
In addition, these products can also contribute to energy saving and CO₂ reduction during usage.
※1Topology optimization is the methodology of finding the most efficient design for an object on a mathematical and mechanical basis.

Sustainable Management of CO₂

Please download the pamphlet about our CO₂ reduction efforts from the following link.

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