How does a Jaipur bearing maker count the steel it buys in its footprint?

Put purchased bearing steel, tubes and rings in Scope 3 category 1, at the supplier's figure per tonne or a stated default. Add your own heat treatment fuel and electricity in Scope 1 and 2. Bearings are not CBAM goods, but buyers ask for footprints.

Steel

• Bar, tube or forged rings bought in, by weight.
• Supplier figure per tonne, or a default with its source.
• Scrap sold from turning reduces nothing in Scope 3 but is worth recording.

Own plant

• Electricity for turning, grinding and assembly.
• Gas or electricity for heat treatment furnaces.

Per bearing

Divide by bearings made, weighting by mass if sizes differ.

What Senseible does here

Senseible reads bills, fuel invoices and production records into dated, fingerprinted records, so the figure you send a buyer can be traced to its documents.

• Ball bearing footprint
• Are bearings covered by CBAM?
• Hebei wire rod Scope 3

Sources: GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard, GHG Protocol Corporate Standard, CEA CO2 Baseline Database

Last reviewed 2026-10-22.