Sustainability in Action: Lenovo's Innovations in Product Design, Circular Economy, and Customer Empowerment

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / April 10, 2025 / Originally published in Lenovo's 2023/24 ESG Report

Innovating for manufacturing sustainability

In FY 2023/24, Lenovo finalized and put into use an ESG management system called Lenovo ESG Navigator that helps monitor key ESG metrics in manufacturing. The innovative system offers near real-time insights on greenhouse gas emissions and energy use, replacing traditional manual management of ESG metrics with a flexible, transparent, and highly automated approach that captures data across the value chain from a single point of control, enabling more data-informed decisions in areas impacting sustainability performance.

Innovating to help customers meet sustainability goals

Lenovo is focused on providing products and services that help contribute to customers' sustainability goals and a smarter future for all. Through focused initiatives at the product, packaging, and service level, Lenovo is innovating to improve the sustainability features of products and empower customers with options to consider sustainability through services.

Product and packaging innovations that focus on carbon impact

The latest generation of Lenovo Neptune liquid cooling technology is delivered in a broader range of ThinkSystem servers than prior generations, making its sustainability benefits available to more of Lenovo's customers. Lenovo Neptune liquid cooling technology helps to optimize product performance by capturing up to 98 percent of the system heat and reducing power consumption by up to 40 percent.

In addition to product innovations in its servers, Lenovo takes a holistic look at customer experience and sustainability goals by improving packaging design across product offerings. The Infrastructure Solutions Group uses a rack integration method of shipping servers with pre-installed in racks, saving 105 pounds of cardboard per rack. Lenovo designs select PC packaging for it to be made from more sustainable materials like bamboo and sugar cane.

Empowering customers with more sustainable choices

Lenovo provides IT life cycle solutions such as Asset Recovery Services, CO2 offsetting capabilities, Reduced Carbon Transport options, and certified refurbished equipment. All of Lenovo's products are offered as-a-service, a delivery model which can help optimize IT asset sustainability.

• TruScale Everything-as-a-Service: Circular Economy is all about designing out waste from the value chain. TruScale ‘as a Service' offerings optimize the process by leaving each stage of a product's cycle in the hands of qualified professionals so a customer can focus on their productivity priorities. TruScale inserts predictability into lifecycle management, enabling companies to plan and help maximize the reuse or recovery of their technology.