Eco-Friendly Products
We are accelerating the development of Green Products and Super Green Products and are working to reduce environmental burdens throughout the product life cycle.
Green and Super Green Product Development
The Fujitsu Group has adopted a unified Group-wide approach to eco-design for newly designed products and works to improve environmental performance throughout the product life cycle. We have been implementing our own environmental assessments for products since 1993, and we strive to develop eco-friendly products that reflect environmental considerations in such areas as energy saving, 3R design(*1), non-use of hazardous chemical substances, packaging materials, and information disclosure.
Moreover, in 1998, to further strengthen development of eco-friendly products, we established Green Product Evaluation Standards and positioned the products that satisfy them as Green Products(*2). Then, in fiscal 2004, we combined what had previously been two separate sets of regulations.for product environmental assessment and for Green Product evaluation. into a single set of standards with even higher levels of consideration for the environment. We called these Product Environmental Green Assessment Regulations(*3), and they have helped to both strengthen our Green Product development efforts and make them more efficient.
Furthermore, since fiscal 2004, we have been working on what we call "Super Green Product" development for newly developed products. Super Green Products are those that meet the required conditions for Green Products and are also top class in terms of low energy consumption and/or 3R design technology, non-use of hazardous substances, packaging materials and use of eco-friendly materials and technologies. Super Green Products are products or systems recognized as having superior environmental characteristics to others we supply or are available on the market.
In fiscal 2008, 42 product families were recognized as Super Green Products.
(*1)3R design
Design based on the principles of reduce, reuse and recycle
(*2)
We achieved the target "All newly developed products to be Green Products by the end of fiscal 2003" in "Stage 3 Fujitsu Group Environmental Protection Program" (From fiscal 2001 to fiscal 2003), and have been continuing.
(*3)
Items such as "Observance of the environmental law", "Environmental preservation", "Resource saving", "Long-term
usability", "Energy conservation", "Global warming prevention","Recycling", "Recyclable design", "Easiness
of disassembly and disposal", and "Disclose of information" are provided, and the use of the recycled material (recycled
plastic and recycled magnesium) and the reused parts is included.
Please refer to the following link for the activities for PCs.
