Greening Throughout Product Life Cycle

The Fujitsu Group is working to mitigate the environmental impact of its products over the entire product life cycle. We have been conducting environmental impact assessments on our products since FY1993 in an effort to promote environmentally conscious product designs. These efforts have led to a reduction in power consumption, economization of resources, improvement in recyclability, and elimination of hazardous materials through chemical substance management. Moreover, Fujitsu is also promoting the development of "Super Green Products" that achieve the highest level of environmental performance. Since FY2013, we have been particularly proactive in improving product energy and resource efficiency, making them important themes in offering customers products that have lower environmental impact and higher performance in one package. This was set as one of the goals in the Fujitsu Group Environmental Action Plan. This paper presents an overview of previous initiatives of the Fujitsu Group in developing environmentally conscious product designs and describes how we are working to enhance the energy and resource efficiency of our products in the Fujitsu Group Environmental Action Plan [Stage VII (FY2013-FY2015) and Stage VIII (FY2016-FY2018)]. It also introduces some of the technologies we have developed for achieving environmentally conscious product designs.