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Epson has a long history of environmental
innovation and Corporate Social
Responsibility (CSR) actions. CSR Newsline is a regular newsletter describing
the company's efforts.
2009
August 2009
The Epson International Scholarship
Foundation was established in December
1997 to provide scholarships for students
from Asia to study in Japan, and
to foster educational, technological, and
cultural ties between Japan and the rest
of Asia.
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July 2009
East Asia has seen remarkable economic development over the last 50 years, and during that time Taiwan has emerged as one of the region's manufacturing powerhouses, along with Japan and South Korea.
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May 2009
As Epson strives to coexist with society
as a good corporate citizen, it is carrying
out a wide range of corporate citizenship
activities around the world to
help create a better society.
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February 2009
In its Environmental Vision 2050, Seiko
Epson Corporation ("Epson") set a
goal of cutting the CO2 emissions produced
across its product and service lifecycles
90 percent by 2050, and at the
same time the company pledged, as a
member of the ecosystem, to work together
with local communities to restore
and preserve biodiversity.
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2008
December 2008
The ultimate mission of Seiko Epson, as a manufacturing company, is to create products that have value and are easy for the customer to use. To achieve that mission, the company has been promoting efforts to improve usability, and those efforts are strongly reflected in this fall's new all-in-one printer.
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September 2008
Epson Deutschland GmbH (EDG), a sales affiliate of Seiko Epson Corporation, has actively involved all employees in its Green Way environmental initiative with the aim of becoming carbon neutral.
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July 2008
Epson established "Environmental Vision 2050," which provides a guide to how its new business operations should be carried out. The Vision incorporates the principle of equitability, which stresses that while every human being has an equal right to emit CO2 within the Earth's absorptive capacity, each and every one of us must strive to reduce emissions.
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May 2008
In China, Seiko Epson Corporation ("Epson") has been setting up plants primarily in the Huanan and Huadong regions since 1985, when it established Epson Engineering (Shenzen) Ltd. (ESL) as its first plant on Chinese soil.
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February 2008
Containers and packaging make up a large proportion of household garbage, and governments are introducing regulations to promote recycling of such materials in the aim of reducing volumes of waste.
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2007
December 2007
Epson manages zero emissions activities at all its plants around the world according to a single set of standards.
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September 2007
Seiko Epson Corporation has published its Sustainability Report 2007 outlining the Epson Group's community and environmental activities in fiscal 2006.
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June 2007
To ensure that the wood used as raw material for its paper products is procured from sustainable forestry production, the Seiko Epson Group has formulated a procurement management policy that traces Epson printer paper – including both regular and photographic paper – right back to the forest that produced the wood used to manufacture it.
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March 2007
With the aim of becoming a leader in environmental initiatives, Epson has taken a proactive approach to life cycle assessment (LCA). Its product development activities using LCA methods have been evaluated highly, with Epson being awarded the LCA Japan Forum Chairman's Prize in the 3rd LCA Japan Forum Awards (given by the Japan Environmental Management Association for Industry (JEMAI)).
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2006
December 2006
Epson's trust-based management is built on an ethos of keeping promises, and never lying or hiding the truth.
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September 2006
Given that 2010 is the mid-point of the first commitment period (2008-2012) under the Kyoto Protocol, Epson regards it as a key year in terms of both national environmental policies and corporate environmental measures. Our Action 2010 Comprehensive Environmental Policy sets out the goals we aim to achieve by 2010, and in fiscal 2006 we are launching specific initiatives to meet these goals.
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June 2006
As a company committed to environmental protection, Epson has always made every possible effort to build environmentally conscious, energy-saving buildings. In 2000, Epson built an environmentally conscious development facility for device-related R&D on the grounds of its Fujimi Plant. This was established to bring together on a single site divisions involved in R&D for advanced electronics devices and production processes.
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March 2006
An increasingly vital element of corporate strategy is a commitment to environmental management and CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility). In particular, multinational corporations that operate both national and international group companies are now expected to exercise CSR throughout the whole of their global corporate network-not just at their headquarters.
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2005
November 2005
Epson believes that trust-based management is a fundamental tenet of corporate endeavor.
That is one reason why it has pursued its business operations with attention to its place
in society and in the interest of doing more than merely satisfying society's current level
of expectations with regard to corporate social responsibility (CSR).
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July 2005
September 2005
In July 2005, Epson completed the introduction of E-chem, its intranet-based chemical data
management system to all 34 of its manufacturing sites worldwide. The introduction of this
system has created a mechanism enabling the integrated management of data on all chemical
substances used in production processes throughout the Epson Group, as well as minimizing
chemical hazard risks in all Group activities.
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March 2005
Epson has placed the utmost value on establishing trust-based relationships with its stakeholders
ever since it was founded. This emphasis is reflected in Epson's management philosophy and has
always underpinned the company's business activities. The company is actively engaged in social
contributions because it believes that community, particularly the various local communities in
which it operates, is a vital stakeholder in the company.
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2004
December 2004
With concern about the environment growing worldwide, many companies are embarking on
ambitious programs designed to reconcile their business activities with the need to preserve
nature for generations to come. This is why Epson and other leading environmental companies
have joined up with an NPO to create what is called the Kids' ISO Program for children.
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September 2004
Epson introduced environmental accounting in 1999 to quantitatively track the costs and effects of its environmental program. Since that time,
the company has been utilizing statistical analysis to evaluate its environmental programs, and to fulfill its commitment
to social accountability by publicly disclosing information about its activities, using its Sustainability Report.
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June 2004
Epson announced that it had achieved Zero Emissions Level 1 (100% recycling), at 12 of its overseas manufacturing
affiliates at the end of FY 2003. In total, waste-recycling routes had been established at 49 sites worldwide.
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March 2004
Epson is well known for incorporating environmental factors into its products from the design stage.
In this article, we look at how Epson is working to stay ahead of the myriad of product environmental information
disclosure regulations and provide its customers with the best possible data.
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2003
December 2003
Epson's Environmental Policy establishes the recovery and recycling of used products as one of the company's major environmental objectives. In the course of the effort for achieving this objective, two Epson Group Companies - Epson Logistics Corp. and Atmix Corp. - began recycling the metal components of recovered printers and other products into high value-added metal resources; from that was born a new system for using these components as materials for new products.
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September 2003
Conventional production methods for semiconductors and displays require vast quantities of electricity. Epson is seeking to change traditional thinking by developing what it calls the "scaleable minimum fab," a new container-sized fab that is relatively cheap to set up, and which keeps energy use to a minimum. This ambitious project, which the company hopes to introduce by 2010, also requires that Epson reform many of its production processes.
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June 2003
The complex processes used in the manufacture of electronic devices require immense amounts of electricity. Setting itself tough energy saving targets, Epson has dedicated itself to creating a "green factory." One of the company's newest production sites is the new LCD fab at the Toyoshina Plant, which was built from the ground up with environmental concerns in mind.
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March 2003
Until recently, electronics manufacturers only thought about providing products to customers. This is now changing as consumers become increasingly concerned about the recycling of electronic goods. Listening to customer opinion, Epson America, Inc. announced the launch of its product takeback program in February 2003, the latest in a series of such schemes announced by Epson affiliates worldwide.
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2002
December 2002
Electronic and electrical goods can cause serious damage to the environment. However, lead has long been considered an integral material in the manufacture of such products, especially in the solder for mounting integrated circuits (ICs) to the printed circuit boards that form the "brains" of electronic equipment. Epson is one company that has made strenuous efforts to eliminate lead from all its products, announcing it's the solders used in its products to be 98.6% lead free.
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August 2002
With governments continuing to bicker about the implementation of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, a few corporations have taken it upon themselves to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gases believed by many to be the major cause of global warming. Prominent among these is Epson, which has made strenuous efforts to reform its production processes to minimize the burden placed on the environment.
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