Konica Minolta Launches Excellent Green Factory Certification System to Help Suppliers, Customers and Communities Reduce CO2 Emissions
Tokyo (June 30, 2016) -
Konica Minolta, Inc. (Konica Minolta) has launched the Excellent Green Factory Certification System and plans to involve its suppliers, customers and communities in its efforts to reduce CO2 emissions and achieve Excellent Green Factory certification standards at all of its major production sites around the world by fiscal 2018. The company today published Konica Minolta CSR Report 2016 (Japanese version) on its official website, disclosing the results of the past fiscal year and plans for its environmental management, including the new certification system.
Outline of Excellent Green Factory Certification System
Under its original Green Factory Certification System, Konica Minolta attained its goal of achieving Level 2 at all of its production sites around the world by fiscal 2015. The Excellent Green Factory Certification System is being launched as the next step to achieve higher goals.
In addition to complying with the conventional certification standards for reducing environmental impacts from internal sources, the new system is designed to meet the standards for reducing CO2 emissions from external sources by working in unison with suppliers, customers and communities. As an ultimate goal, Konica Minolta aims to achieve the standards for Sustainable Green Factory certification by sharing its environmental technologies and know-how with external stakeholders to reduce CO2 emissions from external sources by an amount which equals CO2 emissions from internal sources.
Source: Konica Minolta, Inc.