User Manual

Toshiba’s
environmental
vision for 2050
The four "Greens" and the management supporting them
Achieving the highest
level of environmental
performance in all newly
developed product to
reduce life-cycle
enviromental impact
Contributing to provision of
a stable power supply and
mitigation of climate change
through the low-carbon
energy technologies
Achieving one of the world‘s
lowest levels of environmental
impacts by reducing
all manufacturing-related
environmental impact
LED: 3 letters for 1 solution
With such ambitious goals, Toshiba Lighting had
to nd means to produce much better light bulbs
than incandescent and halogen lamps. This aim
combined with economic and environmental issues:
we blazed our path to the solution.
In the 70’s, an LED was used as a coloured indicator
or warning lights.
In 1996, we obtained white light LEDs.
Today LEDs light large areas like museums, public
places and parks to houses.
We began developing LEDs in the very early
stages of the technology as we saw its potential
for vast energy savings and long life. It was a
gamble that we are now seeing a return on many
years later. A true sign of our commitment to this
innovative technology.
We are convinced that economy compliments
ecology and that each corporation is responsible
for the economical, social and environmental
issues of its products.
One of many examples: after years of hard work,
our LEDs use up to 80 % less energy than incan-
descent lamps.
Environment is our priority.
Welcome to Toshiba.
"Improving our global
eco-eciency by 2050"
Do you believe it? At Toshiba, we do.
Aiming to be the most excellent
company in environmental manage-
ment through the training of emplo-
yees and continuous improvement
in environmental communications
Green
Management
Continuous
improvement of
basic activities
Greening of
Products
Creation of products
with highest level
of environmental
performance
Greening of
Process
Environmentally
conscious
manufactoring
Greening of
Technology
Low-carbon
energy
technologies
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