- link Copy Url - [ Share on twitter ](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=HP: 3D Printing Can Cut IT's Supply Chain Carbon Footprint https://www.3blmedia.com/markdownify/node/209181?absolute=1&via=3blnews "link to 3 B L Media's Twitter") - [ Share on linkedin ](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://www.3blmedia.com/markdownify/node/209181?absolute=1 "link to 3 B L Media's Linkedin") - [ Share on facebook ](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://www.3blmedia.com/markdownify/node/209181?absolute=1 "link to 3 B L Media's Facebook") - [ email Share via email ](mailto:?subject=HP: 3D Printing Can Cut IT's Supply Chain Carbon Footprint&body=ESG News from HP Inc. https://www.3blmedia.com/markdownify/node/209181?absolute=1 "Share via email") [Sustainable Development Goals](/CSR-News/sustainable-development-goals) # HP: 3D Printing Can Cut IT's Supply Chain Carbon Footprint ##### Tech giant outlines measures to meet its sustainability goals Aug 6, 2018 2:05 PM ET Campaign: [HP Inc. | Climate Action](/news/campaign/hp-inc-climate-action) [Originally published on IT Pro](http://bit.ly/2nhHLbC) by Keumars Afifi-Sabet HP has admitted to experiencing "challenges" in regard to its progress on sustainability, but believes innovations like 3D printing and its own PageWide technology can help it reach its green goals. Speaking at the company's annual Sustainability Summit in London yesterday, HP's UK MD, George Brasher, explained how the environmental benefits of "short run printing" could play a part in countering the carbon footprint of businesses' supply chains. "If you think today, most products are designed somewhere, they're shipped typically overseas, they're built there, and then they're transported - all having an impact on the environment," he said, speaking to partners, customers and journalists. "In the future what's going to happen is you'll design a product - instead of having a physical supply chain you'll have a digital one, so you'll ship ones and zeroes, and then that production will occur closer to the consumer, significantly reducing the impact on the environment." In HP's [137-page Sustainable Impact Report](http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-information/global-citizenship/index.html), which measures progress made against its sustainability goals, the company announced it had introduced devices to more than 14.5 million students to assist with learning, against a target of 100 million by 2025, and recorded an 8% rise in 'diversity hires' in the US in the last year. [**Continue reading on IT Pro>>>**](http://bit.ly/2nhHLbC) [![HP logo](/sites/default/files/Clients/1200px-HP_logo_2012.svg_.png)](/profiles/hp-inc) ### More from HP Inc. ###### [4 Organizations Changing the Gaming World for Good](/news/4-organizations-changing-gaming-world-good) Oct 19, 2022 12:00 PM ET ###### [How a New Black-Owned Tech Ecosystem Is Taking Shape in Tulsa](/news/how-new-black-owned-tech-ecosystem-taking-shape-tulsa) Oct 12, 2022 6:00 PM ET ###### [Disruptive Innovation Is the Key to Plastics Sustainability](/news/disruptive-innovation-key-plastics-sustainability) Sep 27, 2022 5:20 PM ET ###### [Why Teaching Tech to Teachers Is More Important Than Ever](/news/why-teaching-tech-teachers-more-important-ever) Sep 22, 2022 11:00 AM ET ###### [What Younger Employees Want: The Chance To Do Good in the World](/news/what-younger-employees-want-chance-do-good-world) Sep 21, 2022 11:00 AM ET ###### [Oprah Winfrey Congratulates Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng on Winning New Africa Education Medal](/news/oprah-winfrey-congratulates-professor-mamokgethi-phakeng-winning-new-africa-education-medal) Sep 20, 2022 3:45 PM ET ###### [HP's HBCU Tech Conference Returns With a Focus on Career Success](/news/hps-hbcu-tech-conference-returns-focus-career-success) Sep 15, 2022 5:10 PM ET ###### [HP and the YMCA Team Up To Bridge the Digital Divide](/news/hp-and-ymca-team-bridge-digital-divide) Sep 13, 2022 11:30 AM ET