9 Feb, 2012
TOKYO-Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) today announced
that it will hold its 21st Environmental Exhibition for the
general public at Toshiba's Tokyo headquarters on
February 9 and 10. The Exhibition will showcase Toshiba
Group's latest environmentally conscious products and
environmental initiatives.
In seeking to realize harmony with the Earth and richer
lifestyles, Toshiba Group aims to become one of the
world's foremost eco-companies-a company that
incorporates environmental awareness into all aspects of
business management; that exceeds other companies in
environmental efficiency throughout product life cycles;
and that supports individuals and society in achieving new,
sustainable lifestyles.
Toshiba will also use the exhibition to unveil the grand
design that unifies its strategies for becoming one of the
world's foremost eco-companies, including the index of
achievement that it will use to record progress made.
The exhibition is organized into four sections, each
reflecting an aspect of the measures that Toshiba is
promoting toward realization of "Toshiba Group
Environmental Vision 2050": Greening of Process, which
covers environmentally conscious manufacturing; Greening of
Products, which focuses on environmentally conscious
products; Greening by Technology, which covers energy and
environmental technology; and Green Management, the
foundations of Toshiba's approach to environmental
management.
Toshiba aims to contribute to the realization of a
sustainable society through ever-closer integration of
business management and environmental management, as the
company accelerates the pace of expansion of its business
to become a global leader.
Highlights of the Exhibition
1. Introducing Toshiba's Approach to the
Environment
Environmental Vision 2050, Toshiba's corporate vision
that envisages affluent lifestyles lived in harmony with
the Earth, envisages the ideal situation of mankind in
2050; the grand design that incorporates Toshiba's
strategies and index of achievement for securing a position
as one of the world's foremost eco-companies; the three
"Green" concepts and their foundations
2. Greening by Technology
Toshiba Group's Smart Community concept; energy
solutions for realizing the smart community in buildings
and at home; cutting-edge technologies to cut CO2 emissions
in power generation and in transmission and distribution
systems, including photovoltaic power generation and wind
power generation
3. Greening of Products
Highly environmentally conscious products, including the
"VEGETA" refrigerator, the "SIENT"
electric fan, the enterprise SSDs-winners of the Energy
Conservation Grand Prize-the "SPACEL-GR" elevator
that reduces power consumption by up to 50% through energy
regeneration
4. Greening of Process
Reduces environmental burdens through mitigation of climate
change, management of chemicals and efficient use of
resources. Examples of such activities will include
recycling greenhouse gas, CF4 in LED panel manufacturing;
cloud-based visualization of power consumption and CO2
emissions for employees at Toshiba's Fuchu Complex;
efforts to reduce waste sent to landfill to 0.5% or less at
a HDD factory in Philippines.
5. Green Management
Biodiversity and communication with local society:
Participation in a biodiversity protection network
including Kawasaki city, Japan, where Toshiba factories are
located, towards securing the coexistence of business
operations and animal life; environmental social service
activities of TV manufacturing site in Poland
Environmental advertising:
LED advertising "WITH 10 YEARS OF LIFE", winner
of the gold prize in the outdoor section, Cannes Lions
International Festival of Creativity; SCiB advertising on
"Future cities" and "Bolt keep",
winners of the gold prizes in the series advertising
section and two facing pages advertising section, business
advertising prize from Fuji Sankei Business i, a major
Japanese daily
Special Events
During the exhibition period, Mr. Takao Ogawara, Director
of Eco-Planning Research Co. Ltd. and Mr. Taikan Oki,
Professor of the Institute of Industrial Science, the
University of Tokyo, will give presentations, in Japanese,
focusing on pressing environmental issues. Toshiba Medical
Systems Corporation and Toshiba Corporation's Corporate
Environment Management Division and Semiconductor & Storage
Products Company will also organize environmental seminars.
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and specifications, content of services and contact
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