PROMOTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
CONFORMING TO INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS
At Seiko Epson, all environmental initiatives operate under the
Plan-Do-Check-Action (PDCA) cycle designed to achieve continuous
improvements. The environmental management system (EMS)
operates under the ISO 14001 environmental management standard.
All of our major manufacturing and non-manufacturing sites, in
Japan and overseas, completed the acquisition of ISO 14001 certification.
In order provide high quality and reliable products and services
than meet customer needs, Seiko Epson made early efforts towards
obtaining ISO9000 series certification and has acquired ISO9001 for
all business establishments in Japan and abroad. We have also
acquired IATF 16949 certification that is requested strongly by major
manufacturers as standard.
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●Complies with EU RoHS directive.
*About the products without the Pb-free mark.
Contains Pb in products exempted by EU RoHS directive
(Contains Pb in sealing glass, high melting temperature type solder or other)
ISO 14000 is an international standard for environmental
management that was established by the International Standards
Organization in 1996 against the background of growing concern
regarding global warming, destruction of the ozone layer, and global
IATF 16949 is the international standard that added the sector-specific
supplemental requirements for automotive industry based on ISO9001.
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