The Ricoh Group promotes green procurement activities that place emphasis on partnerships with suppliers. Green procurement refers to the procurement of raw materials, parts, and products with less environmental impact. Parts and products so designed are manufactured in plants that are advanced in environmental conservation.
The purpose of green procurement is to reduce the environmental impact over the entire lifecycle of Ricoh products and to reduce the costs to the Ricoh Group and its suppliers by using resources and energy effectively.
Moreover, by establishing these activities, we aim to contribute to global environmental protection and reinforce management practices of the Ricoh Group and its suppliers. The basic policies for our activities until fiscal 2010 are to reduce the environmental impact of procured parts;
to maintain and update the chemical substance management systems (CMS); and to collect information on the
environmental impact in order to comply with the REACH Regulation. We have also introduced our own paper procurement standards and rules regarding the composition ratio of recycled pulp, and we perform procurement activities by paying full consideration to biodiversity conservation.
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 - Work with suppliers to reduce their CO2 emissions.
Activities for reducing CO2 emissions contribute not only to the prevention of global warming but also to reduction of costs, leading to the reinforcement of suppliers' management practices. Based on this recognition,
Ricoh is actively working with its suppliers to upgrade their operational processes and reduce CO2 emissions. In fiscal 2008, we organized an energy-saving seminar for major suppliers in the area of imaging equipment,
and encouraged them to formulate their own plans and voluntarily work toward the reduction of CO2 emissions. We are also conducting various activities jointly with model suppliers to help them achieve their targets to create best practices in the reduction of CO2 emissions. As regards recycled paper,
of which we had suspended sales since January 2008 due to the problems concerning the falsification of the content of recycled pulp by paper manufacturers, we resumed sales in April 2009 after auditing the factories and making sure of the quality of the paper, including the recycled pulp content.
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Based on the know-how and experience accumulated through the joint activities with model suppliers, we will compile guidelines on how suppliers can improve their processes to reduce CO2 emissions.
Through these guidelines, we will also share information with suppliers even more actively to help them continue with their efforts to reduce CO2 emissions.
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