Promoting Environmental Considerations toward Suppliers and Procured Products, to Provide Environmentally Conscious Products or ECPs

The environmental protection assessment on suppliers and the environmental performance survey on procured products are conducted. Relevant data is utilized in the design, production and procurement divisions.

To provide ECPs, the TOSHIBA TEC Group aims to procure items with lower environmental impacts from suppliers, who actively promote environmental protection, while implementing green procurement at the procurement phase of raw materials related to products. The "Guidelines for Green Procurement" have been formulated in cooperation with TOSHIBA Corporation.

TOSHIBA TEC Corporation gives precedence to suppliers, who are actively promoting environmental protection, for procurement.

Environmental Protection

1. Set up an environment policy.
2. Maintain the environmental protection system.
3. Establish systems for education and to check whether education is provided.

Guidelines for Green Procurement

TOSHIBA TEC Corporation requests suppliers to provide items with lower environmental impacts in compliance with environment-related laws, regulations and standards.

Control on Environment-Related Substances

1. Thoroughly keep relevant divisions and suppliers known about the control.
2. Satisfy requirements for management of environment-related substances.
3. Respond to the survey on whether environment-related substances are used.
4. Obtain information required to respond to the above survey.
5. Perform analysis and measurement, and obtain analysis results from suppliers (when necessary).
6. Investigate and understand suppliers' control system.

Environmental performance information data is provided from the green procurement support system to various in-house systems via the global component database, and utilized in the design, production and procurement divisions.

TOSHIBA TEC Corporation requests suppliers to unify communication patterns (JAMP AIS . MSDS) to provide data on chemicals in products. In addition, the Corporation collects data on the Eco, Substances of concern exchange & management system in the Toshiba group (Eco Socce-T), and complies with laws and regulations including REACH, to promote green procurement and reduction of hazardous substances.

Component Database and Design Support System

Component search system screen

Eco, Substances of concern exchange & management system in the Toshiba group

Eco Socce-T screen

In response to the EU Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment or WEEE Directive, duty is imposed on manufacturers to recycle electrical and electronic equipment in EU Member States. The TOSHIBA TEC Group complies with the WEEE Directive while registering manufacturers and taking part in the recycling scheme through its affiliates outside Japan.

In response to the EU Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment or RoHS Directive, marketing of electrical and electronic equipment, which contains certain hazardous substances such as lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyl or PBB, and polybrominated diphenyl ether or PBDE, is prohibited in EU Member States. The TOSHIBA TEC Group has configured a system to further ensure no certain hazardous substances are contained in products. In terms of components and raw materials, the TOSHIBA TEC Group defines voluntary standards and performs inspections through simple analyzers at production sites in and outside Japan, while obtaining pledge forms from its suppliers.

The REACH Regulation, which was effective in June 2007, is a regulation concerning the registration, evaluation, authorization and restriction of chemicals. It requires firms to register and report molded products, which contain chemical substances, as well as chemical substances when manufactured or imported, depending on the quantity. TOSHIBA TEC Corporation effectively collects data regarding purchases on the Eco, Substances of concern exchange & management system in the Toshiba group (Eco Socce-T). TOSHIBA TEC Corporation is thoroughly in compliance with the REACH Regulations regarding registration and notification of chemical substances contained in its products.