Toshiba TEC to remove 15 harmful substances in hardware by 2010

Toshiba TEC, the retail and industrial automation solutions provider, is advancing its sustainable technologies agenda with the commitment to abolish a total of 15 harmful substances in all its Point of Sale and AutoID hardware products by 2010.

The Group's activity is steered towards the development of environmentally conscious products and actively pursues waste minimization and resource recycling. Toshiba TEC is minimizing the extraction of global resources, cutting the emission of pollutants and conserving energy.

Toshiba TEC is fully compliant with both the WEEE and RoHS EU Directives and is currently making preparations for the new REACH EU Directive. The RoHS Directive stipulated the abolition of six harmful substances while Toshiba TEC will voluntarily abolish nine more making a total of 15 such substances by 2010.

Toshiba TEC uses a structured approach to the life cycle planning of each product. This includes identification of design ideas to improve the upgradeability, keep operating costs low as well as integrate a high level of re-using and recycling at component level.

The company was awarded the 2007 G-Mark Good Design Award in Japan for two of its new technology products marketed in Europe: the TRST-A10 (single-sided) and TRST-A15 (double-sided) receipt printers and the ST-A10 Touch POS terminal were chosen by the jury out of a total of 2,945 entries.