Machine manufacturers step up their commitment to sustainable production

• More than 75% of the world's 50 largest machine manufacturers (OEMs) actively promote the ways their machines enable increased sustainability for manufacturers.
• This new study from Siemens Financial Services reveals the sustainability definitions and characteristics of leading OEMs.
• It also explores how OEMs are leveraging financing to meet manufacturers' demands for sustainability-friendly technologies and equipment.
• Energy efficiency (promoted by 77% of major OEMs) – a critical component of decarbonization and resource efficiency – is the most widely cited sustainability benefit.
• Nearly half of the OEMs consulted also promote circular economy features, in the form of retrofit/renovations (54%) and remanufactured parts (45%).

This study helps understand how OEMs define how their solutions ensure sustainability. It also highlights the sustainability priorities promoted by leading machine manufacturers – a reflection of demand from the manufacturing sector.

These sustainability features promoted by OEMs cover a wide range, from energy efficiency, to improving productivity through digitalization, to developing low-footprint products through digital twins, to retrofitting, and waste, raw materials, water consumption and reduction of pollutants.

Recognizing the need to invest in more sustainable manufacturing machinery is one thing. Finding the capital is another – whether it's completely new equipment or a retrofit.

Specialized financing solutions help technology machinery and equipment suppliers sell their more sustainable offering by allowing the manufacturer to easily invest through monthly payments, without the need to find (and tie up) large sums of capital. limited capital.

For Zakaria Jghab, President of Siemens Financial Services France: “It is now widely recognized that OEMs provide manufacturers with technology that promotes sustainable development. This trend is driven by pressures on manufacturers themselves, via corporate sustainability reporting standards, shareholder pressure, financial market definitions, etc. However, moving to more sustainable technologies comes at a cost, at a time when capital is precious. Specialized financing solutions are designed to facilitate the green and sustainable transition, both for machinery suppliers and their manufacturing customers. »