Creating Environmentally Friendly Products

Reducing the use of hazardous chemicals and lessening environmental impact

From PCs to mobile telephones, a wide array of IT devices make modern life fuller, more exciting and more connected. Thanks to rapid advances in technology, each new device is more convenient and easy to use than the last. Unfortunately, when devices become obsolete they become waste, and the environmental impact of discarded IT devices has become a serious problem. To preserve an abundant natural environment, I-O DATA works hard to make its products environmentally friendly.

I-O DATA joints the JGPSSI

The Japan Green Procurement Survey Standardization Initiative (JGPSSI) is an IT-industry-wide effort to survey and standardize the use of chemicals. The members of JGPSSI work together to reduce the use and dispersion of hazardous chemicals.

JGPSSI, of which I-O DATA is a member, works with its counterpart industry bodies worldwide, including the European Information & Communications Technology Industry Association (EICTA) and the Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA) in the United States to standardize green purchasing surveys worldwide. This initiative resulted in the official release of JIG.

The Joint Industry Guide for Material Composition Declaration for Electronic Products (Joint Industry Guide or JIG) is a set of standards to be used when surveying suppliers and specifying the chemicals targeted in the survey. The purpose of JIG is to streamline the work of surveying the chemicals included in the products and parts made by electrical and electronic product device makers.

J-Moss Green Mark products

Along with the RoHS directive, I-O DATA follows JIS C 0950, Methods of Indication of Inclusion of Designated Chemical Substances for Electrical and Electronic Equipment, informally known as J-Moss. J-Moss is a JIS standard on the inclusion of six hazardous chemicals that are restricted in Japan. I-O DATA produces many products that bear the Green Mark, the J-Moss stamp of approval.

The RoHS directive

RoHS (Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electric Equipment) is a directive based on EC95 that prohibits in principle the inclusion of any of the six chemicals listed below in electrical devices.

Lead
Mercury
Cadmium
Hexavalent chromium
Polybrominated biphenyls (PBB)
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE)

I-O DATA displays the “Conforms to the RoHS directive” mark on products such as memory products, compact flash cards, LCDs and DVD drives.

The “Conforms to the RoHS directive” mark is displayed on I-O DATA products that clear the criteria for conforming to the RoHS directive and lead-free composition. I-O DATA products that bear this mark are both lead-free and RoHS-compliant.

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