Schneider Electric announced that its Wuxi factory in China has been recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Sustainability Lighthouse.
Designated an Advanced Lighthouse in 2021, this latest recognition for Wuxi specifically acknowledges the factory’s advanced solutions to reduce its environmental impact. Schneider Electric now has the highest number of Sustainability Lighthouses of any company with four of the 25 globally including Hyderabad, India, Lexington, Kentucky, and Le Vaudreuil, France.
The Forum, together with McKinsey & Company, co-founded the Global Lighthouse Network in 2018. It has grown to become a community of 189 production facilities and value chains leveraging cutting-edge Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies for exceptional performance in productivity, supply chain resilience, customer centricity, sustainability, and talent development. These global leaders reaffirm the Network’s role in setting a standard and creating a shared learning journey.
Schneider Electric’s Wuxi campus is an electronics manufacturing center that produces key products for the company’s two business units, Energy Management and Industrial Automation. In 2022, the site achieved net zero for Scope 1 and 2 emissions, eight years ahead of its goal.
Through AI-powered eco-design, a closed-loop CO2 tracking platform with suppliers, machine learning models to improve energy efficiency, and new circular business models developed in partnership with customers, the site has reduced its Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 90%, Scope 3 emissions by 65%, and water use by 15%, all in two years.
