Green Products - Packaging Materials

Among our products, we use a lot of foamed polystyrene materials for Plasma TVs and tilteddrum washer/dryers. Unlike CRT TVs, plasma TVs are large in size and very thin, and wide glass sheets are used for the products. Tilted-drum washer/dryers are heavier than fully automatic washing machines and so these two product items need to be protected more than other items during transportation and storage, for which more foamed polystyrene are needed. We, however, implemented additional measures to reduce the use of foamed polystyrene for plasma TVs every time we developed a new model. As a result, the use of foamed polystyrene decreased by 27% for the 42PX600 released in 2006 compared with the use of these materials for the 42PX300 released in 2004. Also for drum-type washer/dryers, we reduced the use of foamed polystyrene by 23% for the VR1100 released in 2006 compared with the amount used for V80 released in 2003.

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• Proper use of packaging materials
• Use of packaging materials (for products sold in Japan)