Eco Products

Green Procurement and Logistics
TEL works with its suppliers to set up internal organizations that promote
the use of low-impact materials and logistics systems.

TEL's Stance on Green Procurement

Logistics Efforts

Producing semiconductor production equipment, the TEL's main

Most of our main product line, semiconductor production equip-business, requires that nearly all materials and components be pur-ment, is built to unique specifications, which mean that, depending

chased from suppliers. For this reason, in all areas of business activi-on the customer, each unit is differently shaped and therefore pack-ty, TEL must work to protect the environment not only within the con-aging has to be taken this into account. In addition, units are shippedfines of its group itself, but through our suppliers. In the future, TEL

at irregular intervals, making it difficult to take environmental impact-

has plans to start procuring materials solely from those suppliers

reducing measures, such as joint shipments with other firms or

meeting environmental standards. Green procurement is also being

warehouse consolidation, practices commonly used for householdpromoted for various computer systems and high-end network sys-electronics and other products. Determining how to rationalize thetems handled by our Computer Network BU.

logistics of product shipments from TEL to customers is a major
challenge for us. TEL, however, is cooperating with its suppliers toEfforts in Fiscal 2001
Having set fiscal 2001 as our year to begin preparations forminimize the environmental impacts of shipping product components
and materials from suppliers to TEL.

green procurement, TEL carried out the following measures:
Efforts on Shipments from Suppliers(1)TEL drew up and carried out a survey of environmental

TEL works with suppliers to recover and reuse cushioning mate-initiatives to help track suppliers' efforts, and received

rial and AirCap®. We also no longer use AirCap for moving objects

responses from suppliers.

and are instead employing reus-(2)TEL ranked suppliers in one of four categories basedable protective covers.

on survey responses.

Efforts in Fiscal 2002

A reusable protective cover used forshipping purposes

Building on fiscal 2001 efforts, in fiscal 2002 TEL created a program to help those suppliers that had not met standards to accelerate their efforts.

Efforts on Shipments to Customers
In the past, TEL shipped equipment parts by packaging them in-Specific measures:(1)TEL established an internal program to train individuals who can, in turn, train suppliers.
(2)TEL established a system to encourage suppliers todividually in corrugated cardboard boxes with cushioning material.
We have now switched to using mirrormat (a soft polyethylene sheetwith high expansion factor; it provides excellent cushioning, heat insulation, water repellence, moisture barrier and cleanliness) and re-set their own environmental targets each year andusable corrugated plastic cartons. This packaging reduces thework to meet those targets.

amount of cushioning needed.

TEL's Green Procurement Guideline sets standards
and targets for chemicals, energy savings, packaging,
resource saving and recycling, and information disclosure.

Packaging with mirrormat anda corrugated plastic carton

TOKYO ELECTRONENVIRONMENTAL REPORT 2002

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