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 | | LG PUBLISHES GREEN CHARTER | | | LG Electronics | | 04/06/2008 | | | LG, the air conditioning technology global leader, has published a green charter in the form of an illustrated 20 page electronic document (available in pdf format) which includes a road map of eco friendly products designed and built by the company.
The road map starts with the single split and ends with the state of the art hybrid system, offering energy efficiency and reduced CO2 emissions, a true eco design.
The charter also reveals how dealers can get involved by becoming an LGE Green Supplier. The LGE Green Program Certificate is for companies who want to be seen to meet the highest environmental requirements.
The LGE Green Supplier award certifies that companies have been audited and continue to meet the requirements of LGE in environmental terms.
LG Electronics itself has a green programme ensuring the company purchases environment friendly raw materials and parts.
The LGE Green Supplier award also makes it clear that LG Electronics and its partners vow to provide environmentally conscious products to customers and take environmental responsibility as a global company in the global market.
The green programme also has the objective of preventing the use of hazardous substances and improving environmental performance of raw materials.
The Quality Management Team at LG Electronics’ headquarters has a lab fully equipped with precision analysis instruments to pin point and deal with hazardous substances.
LG has developed and standardised ways to analyse and test hazardous substance content in products ahead of environmental regulations. The lab, certified by the American UL (Underwriters Laboratories) system and by the German TÜV Rheinland, is one of the leading centres of scientific and technical excellence in this field.
In addition, the company participates in the assessment done by external organisations like the Agency for Technology and Standards to guarantee the quality of in house tests while it enhances the reliability of internal analyses through regular assessment of skills, education and workshops.
LG distributes an environmental manual and a list of hazardous substances to help partner firms’ work with the green programme.
The company has an eco manufacturing record and reveals in the Green Charter that despite increasing output, the company’s CO2 emissions have actually been steadily reducing over the last five years.
In 2004 it took 5.5kg of CO2 to manufacture an average air conditioning unit. In 2007 that was down to 3.9kg and this year the aim is to get the total down to 2.9kg.
As a result total CO2 emissions are down by about a fifth over the period and are expected to fall yet again this year despite booming output.
But the company’s eco friendly manufacturing strategy has been geared to doing a lot more than just reducing CO2 emissions. It has also homed in on heavy metals, oil soil and water pollution, phosphates, sulphur acidification, photochemical smogs and the threat to the ozone layer posed by CFCs.
The company’s policy is that emissions never get higher than half the legal permitted level, so that it always achieves a good neighbour reputation no matter where it’s anti pollution facilities are sited.
As a major international producing organisation it has the advantage of being able to swap information and pool knowledge, so that best practice can be adopted all over its worldwide operations.
LG Electronics is in the spotlight in Europe, as a result of heightened concern about green issues and the use of environment-friendly products. Its Multi V systems use a high efficiency inverter. The result is that compressors operate as necessary, depending on the load required. This green and lean system offers reduced operating costs (by perhaps as much as 60% when compared to air conditioning/ heating devices with a single speed compressor).
With this new inverter technology a single, large compressor can be run at optimal efficiency all the time.
LG’s Green Charter also describes how it is designing in recyclability. LG’s approach to environmental stewardship incorporates every stage of the product’s life cycle, starting from concept and design. Product engineers check lists and improvement guidelines to evaluate products and find ideas to make our products environmentally sound. | |
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