Environmental Responsibility
For Bittium, environmentally responsible operations mean minimizing the harmful environmental impacts of the entire value chain.
Environmental Responsibility
For Bittium, environmentally responsible operations mean minimizing the harmful environmental impacts of the entire value chain. The focus of environmental responsibility is on climate change mitigation and the circular economy.
Bittium’s environmental responsibility is guided by its own responsibility policy, environmental legislation and customer requirements. Bittium has certified ISO 14001 and ISO 50001 environmental and energy efficiency systems, through which Bittium improves environmental impact management, energy efficiency and the level of environmental work.
Bittium’s Environmental responsibility focus areas are:
- Improving energy efficiency in our own premises and production
- Decarbonization
- Ecological product design, material and energy efficient products
- Committing suppliers and partners to implementing environmental management systems and carbon neutrality
- Monitoring and complying with changes in laws and regulations concerning environmental protection and sustainable development
Climate Change Mitigation
Bittium is committed to climate change mitigation by setting goals for energy-efficient products and lower-emission business operations in accordance with its responsibility policy and environmental and energy efficiency policy.
Bittium In 2024, the company defined targets and measures for emission reductions in its own operations. The overall reduction target by 2030 is -44% of total emissions compared to the base year 2023. During 2025, Bittium has planned to develop its emissions calculation process, implement a tool for emissions calculation, and specify its transition plan for years 2025–2030.
Climate targets:
Scope 1 and 2: net zero by 2030
This goal can be achieved by switching to 100% renewable and emission-free district heating and electricity at our all own locations, and by replacing the company’s leasing vehicles with fully electric vehicles by 2030.
Scope 3: -42% reduction in Scope 3 emissions by 2030 (base year 2023)
Emission reductions will be targeted at the most significant emission source categories identified, which are purchased products and services, logistics, and energy and material efficiency of products. The transition plan will be completed during 2025.
Circularity
In Bittium’s business, the principles of circular economy principles are product durability, reusability, repairability, dismantling, refurbishment and recycling.
- Product design considers possible future product features for physical devices and software products. For example, customer needs with different frequency variants of products and wireless and radio connection-related solutions already considered in the design phase are anticipated in the product architecture design, which extends the life of the product family.
- Reuse of technical solutions is carried out within product families; whereby selected subassemblies can be reused in several sales products of the product family. This reduces the number of component items used, which in turn increases material efficiency.
- The life cycle of products is extended with so-called Mid Life Upgrade programs. Customers can maintain the systems they have purchased by purchasing individual system components instead of having to purchase the entire system as a new one.
- Product design also considers the modularity of products within product families, which improves material efficiency, increases repairability and reduces the amount of potential waste.
Waste
The waste generated by Bittium’s production is mainly sorted packaging waste, which is recycled with by the disposal partner that organizes waste management and recycling services. Packaging waste is mostly cardboard, paperboard and various plastics such as polystyrene and other plastic products used to protect products. Hazardous waste substances processed in production include various adhesives, pastes and epoxies.
All suitable packaging waste collected from imported deliveries is utilized in the packaging of products. Some of the packaging material is also ordered directly from the contract manufacturer to be used in Bittium’s product deliveries all the way to end customers, which reduces the need to purchase new packaging materials.
Circular economy targets:
- Material and energy efficiency improvement, Circular principles implementation into operational activities by 2027
- Waste management plan, recycling rate 99% by 2030