budatan
Joined: 27 Jun 2026
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 Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2026 11:45 am Post subject: Sony Green Partner Program |
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Hi EE,
Do you any information on the Sony Green Partner initiatives, like updates on what the semicon inductry is doing?
Thanks,
Budatan
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EE
Joined: 16 Jun 2026
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Location: Paranaque City, Phils.
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Budatan,
Here are excerpts from Sony's website (www.sony.net) re this program.
EE
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With the realization that conservation of the global environment is one of the most important challenges we face…, Sony has been active in making contributions under its Environmental Vision philosophy. This philosophy aims at realizing a sustainable society that will protect the dreams of future generations.
Sony provides its customers with products that have been designed and produced to minimize environmental impact, based on Sony's environmental policy, which encompasses both global standards as well as the laws of each country...
At Sony we call our suppliers who are willing to work with us in making products that are sympathetic to environmental conservation Green Partners. With our Green Partners Orientation in July 2001 as the starting point, we simultaneously requested our suppliers to make Green Partner activities and systems while we checked and verified that each part, device and raw material does not stress the environment…
Sony Green Partner Activities for the Year 2001
Sony Green Partner Activities started with the Sony Green Partner Orientation in July 2001. Initially, in the interest of establishing an environmental management system the entire breadth of the Sony product supply chain, Sony asked each of our suppliers to review and strengthen its environmental management.
Speaking of environmental management, ISO 14001 is the certification system that represents this and it is very meaningful that our suppliers obtain the ISO 14001 certification… Consequently, Sony has established the "Sony Green Partner Standards," in compliance with ISO14001, and encouraged each of our suppliers to review and strengthen their company's environmental management based on this standard.
In doing this, we asked each of our suppliers to submit an Environmental Activity Report so they could objectively record the environmental management activities of their company…
Sony Green Partner Activities since 2002
... With the internal goal at Sony of rolling out throughout the company methods for dealing with environment-related substances in the parts, devices and raw materials procured by Sony and simultaneously obtaining suppliers' strict compliance of same, we established Sony technical standards SS-00259 "Management Regulations for the Environment-Related Substances…". This document…clearly describes the substances that must be banned immediately (level 1), substances to be banned within a fixed time frame (level 2), substances to be reduced (level 3) and their corresponding management items…
The basis of Green Partner Activities after 2002 is for the suppliers to comply with this SS-00259…
Upstream Management
In order to produce environmentally friendly products, it is fundamental to control the whole process…By using clean raw materials in clean manufacturing processes… it is important that environmental management does not input, use, or output substances that are hard on the environment…
Going back to the raw materials stage and taking control of each process is called Upstream Management, and we at Sony think this Upstream Management is an indispensable tool of environmental management. Sony has made it a goal of its environmental management to build a system of Upstream Management incorporating both Sony and our suppliers…results in the products made in the system being "clean"…
Sony Green Partner Environment Quality Approval Program
Green Partner… supplier's top management guarantees the parts, devices, and raw materials to be delivered to Sony are in accordance with SS-00259 regulations by submitting a Letter of Warranty of Substances Contained in this Product. We made the submission of this guarantee the first step for our suppliers in becoming a Green Partner.
As the content of this letter of warranty will be included in the Sony Green Partner Environmental Quality Approval Agreement…
As a next step, a Sony auditor will conduct an environmental quality audit. …We will ask suppliers all of whose plants have passed the audit to submit a Sony Green Partner Environmental Quality Approval Agreement with the aim of continuously maintaining and improving the Upstream Management system…
Building an Environmental Database
…At Sony, we gather an enormous amount of information through our Sony Green Partner Environmental Quality Approval Program, and the various kinds of documents submitted by our suppliers. Our suppliers spend a great deal of time and effort providing us with this information and we will put it to good use at
Sony…
At Sony we have built an environment-related substance database called SEPARATES, which … updates information which is shared internally
about each supplier… |
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