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Volume 30 (Nov 12, 2004)
Strengthening the transmission of environmental information
NEC Electronics is actively transmitting information about its involvement in environmental activities. Here, we will introduce our most recent information disclosure activities.
First, as part of our "eco-product activities," we are disclosing environmental information on our products. With more and more of our customers demanding statistics regarding the content of hazardous chemical substances in our products, we must rationally and rapidly respond. For this reason, we have established an in-house product environmental data system. In addition, in response to enforcement of the EU directive on end-of-life vehicles (ELV), environmental information on our products is being disclosed to customers through the International Material Data System (IMDS)* web site (Firure 1).
Next, we are strengthening our efforts to release information about chemical substances through our "eco-factory activities." More specifically, material information and input/output management information are loaded into chemical substance databases such as in-house regulations, thereby enabling us to understand the actual status of chemical substance usage and conduct input/output management (Firure 2). Globally sharing the information contained in these databases makes it possible to promote chemical substance substitution and reduction activities, and we are constantly disseminating the latest information on these activities.
In addition to these activities, NEC Electronics is disseminating information about its environmental activities through a wide variety of media to allow a greater number of customers to access information about our environmental conservation efforts. The NEC Electronics web site you are currently reading has an "Environmental Activities" corner. We also publish our Environmental Report on a yearly basis in both booklet form and on the web (Firure 3). The online and booklet versions both contain information about our objectives for environmental conservation and the current status of our activities. It is our hope that readers will be able to gain a better understanding of our environmental activities through these publications.
A variety of chemical substances and large amounts of energy are used in the semiconductor manufacturing process. On the other hand, NEC Electronics can help its customers greatly lessen the environmental impact of their end products by offering lead-free products and by providing energy-saving semiconductor products that can be used to reduce power consumption in electrical and electronic equipment.
NEC Electronics has made environmental conservation one of its top management priorities. To this end, we are promoting eco-product activities aimed at reducing the environmental load of our products and that strive to decrease the environmental impact of production factories. Moreover, NEC Electronics successfully acquired environmental ISO 14001 certification for its semiconductor production bases across the globe in FY 2003, following its separation from NEC Corporation, and thereafter began to move toward the creation of its own foundation for environmental management.
In the future, NEC Electronics will continue to contribute to global environment conservation through its semiconductor business activities.
* This is an international database providing information on the environmental impact of automobile parts. Established primarily by European automobile manufacturers and American-based Electronic Data Systems Corporation (EDS), this database currently provides information on chemical substances contained in approximately 1,800 different kinds of general-purpose semiconductors.
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