Be the first to offer carbon footprints for PCBAs to your customers

Luminovo partners with Sluicebox.ai to offer carbon footprint estimates for single electronic components and whole assemblies: CO₂e for every MPN in your BOM. Sluicebox also offers an EPD (environmental product declaration) concierge service, through which you can buy verified EPDs.

New regulations such as the EU Digital Product Passport require detailed life cycle assessments (LCAs) that show how companies reduce their carbon footprint and source sustainably. More and more companies also set their own net-zero goals. Both put pressure on suppliers to disclose sustainability data across the whole electronics supply chain.

Even if your company isn’t affected by new regulations yet, your customers might be.

Cost and speed. A traditional LCA needs external consultants, costs $30,000 to $100,000 for a single assembly and takes 6 to 18 months. With Luminovo and Sluicebox.ai it costs a tenth of that, and you get to a verified EPD in weeks.

Data access. Distributors, traditional electronics data providers and most manufacturers don’t have carbon footprint data. A traditional LCA needs input from 148+ stakeholders for a single product. With Luminovo and Sluicebox.ai you connect one API.

Actionable insights. Quick, reliable estimates show the high-emission parts early, so you can choose alternates by CO₂e as well as by price and availability.

Sluicebox’s AI engine is scientifically vetted against ISO 14040/44 and the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), and TÜV certification is in progress. It combines data points from 40+ trusted sources such as ecoinvent, BEIS and other government databases with insights from about 12 million scientific papers in material science. It uses primary data like country of origin, materials and technology node to fit emissions data to each component’s supply chain, down to the single MPN.

Tested against Fortune 500 company results, Sluicebox’s data is 95% accurate.

Compliance with new regulations aside, two things make it concrete: the internal cost of carbon and carbon avoidance credits.

Internal cost of carbon. In 2021, nearly half of the world’s largest companies already had an internal cost of carbon. It ranges from $20 per ton (VW Group, 2023) to $300 per ton (Delta Electronics, 2022). When you help customers lower their product carbon footprint, you create real economic value for your products.

Carbon avoidance credits. These credits are issued for actions that prevent emissions that would otherwise occur. Your customers can create them by cutting emissions, then trade them on carbon exchanges or sell them to companies that offset their emissions. The price of one ton of carbon is projected to reach $25 to $30 by 2030.