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Oki Defines its Green Procurement Standard
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. today announced that it has defined the Green Procurement Standard, its guidelines for purchasing environment-protective materials and components from business partners in order to decrease negative affects on the environments. These guidelines are compliant with the Guidelines for Standardization of Material Declaration promoted by the JEITA set in April 2002 and focus on increasing the effectiveness of material-procurement surveys and the accuracy of their results. Oki will release the Green Procurement Standard on its web site and expand it to those partners seeking support in these issues.
Tokyo, Japan, October 9, 2002 -- Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. (TSE: 6703) today announced that it has defined the Green Procurement Standard, its guidelines for purchasing environment-protective materials and components from business partners in order to decrease negative affects on the environments. These guidelines are compliant with the Guidelines for Standardization of Material Declaration promoted by the JEITA (Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association) set in April 2002 and focus on increasing the effectiveness of material-procurement surveys and the accuracy of their results. Oki will release the Green Procurement Standard on its web site (http://www.oki.com/en/eco/greenprocure/), and expand it to those partners seeking support in these issues.
"In order to accelerate the environmental protection activities, we believe the broad range of collaboration in the industry is indispensable. By working together with our business partners, Oki would like to procure materials and components that meet our high-level environmental protection standard," said Masayoshi Ino, Executive Vice President at Oki Electric, responsible for Oki group's environmental protection strategies.
Oki has been developing its environmental protection programs since 1993, giving high priority to environmental activities in its corporate management policies throughout its group companies. In terms of products, Oki has been focusing its environmental activities on design and development processes.
The company introduced the Product Environment Assessment System* in 1995, in which a system to select materials and components safe for the environment at the product design stage was defined. It also introduced the Oki Eco Products System in 2000, setting the internal qualification method to manufacture environment-protective products.
The Green Procurement Standard describes Oki's basic procurement policies and requirements to its business partners. The requirements for partners are based on the criteria from both the Product Environment Assessment System and Oki Eco Products System. Oki intends to purchase materials and components that meet the equivalent levels of Okifs internal standards.
The major requirements for business partners include:
1. Enhancing environment-protective activities. This asks partners to establish corporate environmental management system through such activities as obtaining ISO14001, in order to observe laws and to reduce the production of materials that negatively affect the environment.
2. Reducing materials that negatively affect the environment. As global warming and diminishing resources become serious issues, Oki asks partners to provide materials and components that consume less power, contain less chemical material, and are more recyclable, by following these measures:
| | - To use plastic materials which are easily recyclable
- To avoid such processes as surface painting and labeling on plastic components
- To indicate material names of plastic components
- To avoid use of prohibited substances
- To support surveys on substances contained in materials used in component production
- To take measures to reduce power consumption
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"As the important management policies, Oki keeps its commitment to the environment protective activities by providing products much safer to the environment also through the acceleration of green procurement," said Ino.
Note:
| | - The Product Environment Assessment System: The system that assesses impacts on the environment at each stage of distribution, usage, and abandonment of products, and use the assessment results for product design processes.
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About Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.:
Founded more than a century ago in 1881, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. is Japan's first telecommunications manufacturer, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Oki Electric provides customers with top-quality products, technologies and solutions for telecommunications systems, information systems and electronic devices through its corporate vision, "Oki, Network Solutions for a Global Society." Visit Oki's global web site at http://www.oki.com/.
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