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Kyocera Global Environmentally Friendly Products Certified Products in FY2005

Power Conditioner "ECONOLINE 403"
Photo:Power Conditioner "ECONOLINE 403"
Environmental consideration points
 · Contributing to the prevention of global warming and energy saving by becoming the top class of the electricity conversion efficiency in the industrial world.
 · Contributing to a resource recycling by reducing weight of the products for compact packages and implementing a base of electrolytic capacitors.


Solar Modules
Photo:Solar module

Environmental consideration points
 · Contributing to the prevention of global warming and energy saving by reducing man-hours at the production stage and improving output modules. (15.8% CO2 emission on whole life-cycle is decreased).
 · Contributing to a resource recycling by using light weight packaging materials.
Image:Solar module Procurement stage 639kg-CO2/piece Production stage 77kg-CO2/piece Distribution stage 5.0kg-CO2/piece Use stage -1,881kg-CO2/piece Disposal / recycle stage -10kg-CO2/piece The whole life-cycle -1,171kg-CO2/piece


Compact FRM for Optical Fiber Sensors (Faraday whirl mirror)
Photo:Compact FRM for optical fiber sensor (Faraday whirl mirror)

Environmental consideration points
 · Contributing to the prevention of global warming, energy saving, and resource recycling by reducing the number of components for simple structures and reducing man-hours at the production stage.
 · Contributing to a resource recycling by smaller size than others (38% smaller).
Image:Compact FRM for optical fiber sensor (Faraday whirl mirror) Procurement stage 1.9g-CO2/piece Production stage 36.4g-CO2/piece Distribution stage 323.2g-CO2/piece The whole life-cycle 361.5g-CO2/piece

*Because environmental impacts are changed greatly by applications after shipment, the use stages and disposal/ recycling stages are excluded.


Multilayer Ceramic Chip Capacitors (CWF12X5R225)
Photo:Multilayer Ceramic Chip Capacitor (CWF12X5R225)

Environmental consideration points
 · Contributing to the prevention of global warming and energy saving by reducing energy consumption through miniaturization. (32.4% CO2 emission on whole life-cycle is decreased).
 · Contributing to resource recycling by reducing resource input and reducing consumption items through miniaturization (31.6% resource input is reduced).
Image:Multilayer Ceramic Chip Capacitor (CWF12X5R225) Procurement stage 35.4g-CO2/piece Production stage 1.5g-CO2/piece Distribution stage 0.029g-CO2/piece The whole life-cycle 37.0g-CO2/piece

*Because environmental impacts are changed greatly by applications after shipment, the use stages and disposal / recycling stages are excluded.


Multilayer Ceramic Chip Capacitors (CM105X5R106M4)
Photo:Multilayer Ceramic Chip Capacitor (CM105X5R106M4)

Environmental consideration points
 · Contributing to the prevention of global warming and energy saving by reducing energy consumption through miniaturization. (62.0% CO2 emission on whole life-cycle is decreased).
 · Contributing to resource recycling by reducing resource input and reducing consumption articles through miniaturization (33.9% resource input is reduced).
Image:Multilayer Ceramic Chip Capacitor (CM105X5R106M4) Procurement stage 0.14g-CO2/piece Production stage 0.40g-CO2/piece Distribution stage 0.15g-CO2/piece The whole life-cycle 0.69g-CO2/piece

*Because environmental impacts are changed greatly by applications after shipment, the use stages and disposal / recycling stages are excluded.


Bluetooth Module (FB01UAX)
Bluetooth module (FB01UAX)

Environmental consideration points
 · Contributing to the prevention of global warming and an energy saving by reducing energy consumption on use stage. (0.9% CO2 emission on whole life-cycle is decreased).
 · Contributing to environmental protection and safety by reducing contained hazardous wastes in resistances.
Image:Bluetooth module (FB01UAX) Procurement stage 0.77g-CO2/piece Production stage 104g-CO2/piece Distribution stage 1.2g-CO2/piece The whole life-cycle 106g-CO2/piece

*Because environmental impacts are changed greatly by applications after shipment, the use stages and disposal / recycling stages are excluded.


Rx Module (LR-T513S2)

Photo:Rx module (LR-T513S2))

Environmental consideration points
 · Contributing to the prevention of global warming and energy saving by reducing energy consumption on use stage. (0.9% CO2 emission on whole life-cycle is decreased).
 · Contributing to environmental protection and safety by reducing contained hazardous wastes in resistances.
Image:Rx module (LR-T513S2) Procurement stage 0.38g-CO2/piece Production stage 104g-CO2/piece Distribution stage 1.1g-CO2/piece The whole life-cycle 105g-CO2/piece

*Because environmental impacts are changed greatly by applications after shipment, the use stages and disposal / recycling stages are excluded.


Ceramic Knives
Photo:Tomato knife

Environmental consideration points
 · Contributing to the prevention of global warming and energy saving by improved through miniaturization. (17.4% CO2 emission on whole life-cycle is decreased).
 · Contributing to a resource recycling by reducing resource input for miniaturization of products (35.3% resource input is reduced).
Image:Tomato knife Procurement stage 0.11kg-CO2/piece Production stage 2.3kg-CO2/piece Distribution stage 0.054kg-CO2/piece Use stage 1.9kg-CO2/piece Disposal / recycle stage 0.0013kg-CO2/piece The whole life-cycle 4,3kg-CO2/piece


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