Promotion of Green Procurement

Companies are both providers delivering products and services to customers and consumers purchasing materials, parts, products and services from other companies. Purchasing items with a reduced environmental burden on a preferential basis is referred to as “Green Purchasing” or “Green Procurement”.

We established the “Green Purchase Guidelines” in September 1998 for eco-friendly procurement and subsequently renamed them “Green Procurement Guidelines”. We have now published the 9th version. Major changes from the 8th version include the unification of the notation method of chemical substances and the correspondence to the latest version of the REACH regulation and the IEC62474 substance list. For details, refer to the Appendix entitled “Substance of Concerns”. These Guidelines are intended to showcase our basic attitude towards the environment to material providers and request that they cooperate in our environmental preservation activities.