'eco ideas' for factories
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Clean factories
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Panasonic is striving to have "clean factories" globally. Our central goal is to minimize the effects of our factories on the environment while simultaneously making them more profitable. Thereby we do not just pay attention to the materials that enter the production cycle, we also look at energy consumption and waste (emissions, waste water, etc.).
Within this framework, Panasonic has created an internal accreditation system for production sites with minimal environmental impact. All Panasonic factories are to be successively turned into "clean factories". By 2011, 90% of all global manufacturing sites are to have reached this standard.
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Production in Europe
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Following the global announcement, Panasonic Electric Works Europe AG German Factory and Pfaffenhofen and its sister factory, Panasonic Electric Works Czech Factory in Plana/CZ, received the "Clean Factory Award" in recognition of continuous improvements in the aforementioned areas.
Being close to the customers who use the products, these factories produce electromechanical relays, particularly for safety, installation and automotive applications.
Already in 1998, environmental activities played a key role at these sites so that they achieved ISO 14001 certification the same year. The current award once again underlines the important role that the environment plays for our corporation, rewarding our efforts for producing relays that use non-hazardous substances, from development to production to logistics.
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