Epson has earned a platinum rating for sustainability from EcoVadis, a leading provider of business sustainability ratings. This is in recognition of the company’s global efforts to uphold the highest standards on the environment, labour and human rights, ethics and sustainable procurement.
The platinum rating ranks Epson in the top 1% of companies in its industry, particularly excelling in the fields of the environment as well as labour and human rights. It highlights Epson’s commitment and actions on sustainability and more.
EcoVadis is a recognised business sustainability ratings organisation covering more than 220 industry categories and over 13,000 companies of all sizes worldwide across 180 countries and regions. Epson’s latest platinum rating reflects its ongoing commitment and notable improvements towards sustainable growth in the past year.
Epson has made a number of measurable commitments related to sustainability and community impact. Focused on solving societal issues, it publishes details about its environmental initiatives, the creation of social value, corporate governance, and other CSR activities in its website and Integrated Report.
Earlier this year, Seiko Epson Corporation President Yasunori Ogawa commented: “To achieve sustainability in a circular economy, we are helping our customers reduce their environmental impact by providing them with products and services that employ hardware and digital technology built around Epson’s efficient, compact and precision technologies, which enable reduced energy consumption and smaller goods while increasing their accuracy and performance.
“We announced our intent, in Environmental Vision 2050, to become carbon-negative and underground resource-free by 2050. We made strides in our efforts to combat global warming by completing the switch to 100% renewable electricity at all major Epson sites in Japan in the year before last and achieving the same at all Epson Group sites around the world in December 2023.
“We are advancing the frontiers of industry by accelerating the pace of digitisation and automation to improve the working environment in production plants and printing processes. Meanwhile, we are helping to reduce environmental impact globally while meeting market needs by alleviating factory labour shortages, enabling short-run production and faster turnaround times, and increasing productivity. In addition, by evolving sensing and IT technologies, we will further improve working environments and provide a high-quality educational environment.”
Epson Australia recently released its inaugural Sustainability Impact Report, the first-ever documented step that truly highlights and details the company’s continued commitment to driving sustainable progress across Australia and New Zealand.
Download the full Sustainability Impact Report here
