Yokogawa has established sustainability guiding principles called Trusted Green that cover Yokogawa Group products over their entire lifecycle, from planning and development to the procurement of parts and materials, production, service, collection, and recycling.
For many years, Yokogawa has emphasized the establishment of environmental design standards for products, development of life cycle assessment (LCA) criteria for product design, disclosure of LCA information on core products, and evaluation of environmental performance at production plants. In addition to these ongoing initiatives, Yokogawa has reexamined its approach to sustainable products with a view to achieving a circular economy, and has established the Trusted Green sustainability guiding principles that take the entire product supply chain and lifecycle into account.
Yokogawa will continue to partner with its customers to support their manufacturing by providing products and lifecycle services that are environmentally conscious, safe, and dependable for long-term use.
The Trusted Green guiding principles are based on the three pillars of providing highly reliable products, reducing their environmental footprint over the entire product lifecycle, and building a circular ecosystem.
１.Provision of highly reliable products
Yokogawa recognizes that providing highly reliable products can make a significant contribution to solving environmental issues. The robustness and long-term stability of the company’s measurement and control solutions support safe and stable production activities for our customers over the long term, and optimize the use of energy and raw materials. Yokogawa will continue to work to reduce the environmental impact of our customers’ operations by further strengthening collaboration between development, production, and services.
2.Reduction of environmental footprint over the entire product lifecycle
Yokogawa is striving to reduce its environmental footprint in the manufacturing of parts and materials, the production and transportation of products, and their power consumption during use. Yokogawa designs its products with energy conservation, repair, and recycling in mind, based on the consideration that they will be in use for long periods of time at customer sites. The company will strengthen cooperation between all its departments with the aim of further reducing the environmental footprint throughout the product lifecycle.
3.Building a circular ecosystem
Our customers’ manufacturing facilities remain in use for long periods of time, and replacements will need to be made with the products that are in use there. Depending on the customer’s plant, this can involve thousands of units, and their replacement should be planned and carried out by taking into consideration the need to recycle used products. Additionally, as it is necessary to consider the reuse of information and engineering-related data, Yokogawa uses designs that emphasize continuity. The company aims to build a circular ecosystem by collaborating with customers and other relevant stakeholders to promote the recycling of used products.
Based on its vision for society in the year 2050, Yokogawa has set the Three Goals for sustainability, which call for the achievement of net-zero emissions to stop climate change, ensuring well-being and a quality life for all, and making the transition to a circular economy with the circulation of resources and efficiency. Based on the Trusted Green guiding principles, Yokogawa will contribute to the achievement of a sustainable society by providing environmentally conscious, safe, and highly reliable products.
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