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News - All 1999

News - All 1999

 Introduces the Ricoh Group's Environmental Activities and Society's Recognition.

 Activities
December  1999
Ricoh Hadano achieves a 100% resource recovery rate (level 2 zero waste), the fifth base in the Ricoh Group to do so.
December  1999
Ricoh Optical Industries acquires ISO 14001 certification along with 23 production bases of the Ricoh Group.
December  1999
Ricoh employees and their families participate in the Caring for Mr. Seki's Forest activity in Chiba Prefecture.
December  1999
Holds the 1st Company Meeting for Environmental Volunteer Leaders.
December  1999
Ricoh enters one of its machines in Eco-Products 1999, Japan's first comprehensive exhibition for environment-friendly products.
November  1999
Ricoh Unitechno achieves a 100% resource recovery rate (level 2 zero waste).
November  1999
Ricoh Numazu constructs a cogeneration system.
October  1999
Ricoh Electronics, Inc. (USA) is chosen by California State as the WRAP Winner in the environmental area.
October  1999
Ricoh discloses information on the environmental impact of the imagio MF 6550 through Type III Environmental Labels.
October  1999
Opens Northern Kansai and Southern Kansai recycling centers.
October  1999
Works with environmental volunteer leaders to create the Okutama: Colored Maple Leaves and Cleanup project.
October  1999
Ricoh Fukui cultivates and releases killifish into the park pond with the help of neighboring elementary school students.
October  1999
Holds the 2nd Ricoh Nature Seminar.
September  1999
Ricoh Gotemba achieves a 100% resource recovery rate (level 2 zero waste).
September  1999
Ricoh Ikeda participates in an environmental get-together for community residents and explains its corporate approaches to environmental conservation.
September  1999
Ricoh contributes all prize money won at the Global Environmental Awards to an NGO in Bangladesh.
September  1999
Ricoh Ikeda switches to boilers that use city gas to reduce CO2 emissions.
September  1999
Works with environmental volunteer leaders to create a project in which volunteers can enjoy making sandcastles and help clean up a beach.
September  1999
Issues the Ricoh Group Environmental Report 1999.
September  1999
Ricoh announces environmental accounting.
September  1999
Holds the 4th Global Warming Prevention Business Workshop, organized by WWF Japan, at Ricoh Aoyama Head Office.
August  1999
Hasama Ricoh obtains ISO14001 certification.
August  1999
Ricoh Aoyama Head Office is listed in the Eco-Improvement Office Tokyo Declaration (Type I).
July  1999
The Ricoh Group holds the Environmental Management System Screening Standards Seminar pursuant to green procurement guidelines.
July  1999
Ricoh Electronics (United States) establishes an environmental project group.
July  1999
Ricoh completes training of internal environmental auditors at 11 nonproduction sites.
June  1999
Ricoh Group holds the American environmental meeting.
June  1999
Holds the 1st Ricoh Nature Seminar.
June  1999
Ricoh introduces its environmental volunteer leader training program.
June  1999
The Ricoh Group hosts the America Environmental Convention.
June  1999
Implements recyclable design level 4.
May  1999
Ricoh starts training of internal environmental auditors at 11 nonproduction sites.
May  1999
Opens Green Cycle Systems, Northern Kanto Recycling Center.
April  1999
Constructs Kyushu Recycle Tech, the new Kyushu Recycling Center.
February  1999
Ricoh Numazu achieves a 100% resource recovery rate (zero waste).
January  1999
Holds the Fifth Ricoh Company Environment Competition.
January  1999
Issues the Ricoh Group Environment Report 1998.


 Society's Recognition
December  1999
Evaluated as number one in the Third Corporate Environmental Management Level Survey by the Nippon Keizai Shimbun newspaper for the second consecutive year.
November  1999
Ricoh is first in the world to receive international recognition for energy-saving technology.
November  1999
The Ricoh Group Environmental Report 1999 wins the Environmental Report Award for Superior Reports.
November  1999
Ricoh wins the IEA's Demand-Side Management Award of Excellence in the recently created Copier of the Future Division.
October  1999
Ricoh Numazu receives the 1999 Most Technologically Advanced Office Award.
October  1999
Taiwan Ricoh wins the 1999 Superior Plant in Equipment Operations Award for the Promotion of Pollution Prevention by the Taiwanese government.
October  1999
Ricoh Numazu receives the Japan Recycling Promotion Council Chairman Award.
October  1999
The spirio 5000RM copier receives the Fiscal 1999 G Mark for its ecological design.
October  1999
Ricoh Italy receives the Ecohitech Award (an environmental conservation award).
September  1999
Ricoh Atsugi receives type 5 certification for its accident-free operations.
September  1999
Ricoh Electronics declared WRAP Winner by the California state government.
August  1999
Ricoh Fukui recognized for its contributions to the promotion of recycling by the Fukui Prefectural Governor for fiscal 1999.
July  1999
Ricoh Hatano recognized by Kanagawa Prefecture as a superior plant in terms of its self-regulation activities in the area of pollution prevention.
June  1999
Ricoh is awarded grand prize at the Green Procurement Awards organized by the Green Procurement Networks.
May  1999
Receives the Minister of International Trade and Industry Prize at the Eighth Global Environmental Awards held by the Japan Industrial Journal.
May  1999
Receives the Environmental Protection Prize in the Ninth Corporate Contribution to the Society Survey held by the Asahi Shimbun Cultural Foundation.
May  1999
Ricoh Fukui receives the Fukui Environmental Activity Promotion Council's Chairman Prize for environmental conservation promotion activities.
April  1999
Ricoh Corporation receives the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Award for the fourth consecutive year on April 14.
April  1999
The Ricoh Group Environmental Report 1998 receives the top Environmental Report Award.
April  1999
Ricoh Corporation receives the Energy Star award.


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