Environmental Activities


Wacom strives to reduce the environmental impact of its business activities and makes effort to create products and technologies while also considering thinking of their environmental sustainability.

Our activities around environmental conscious products

Eco-design for sustainability by Wacom

 

Wacom's Quality and Environmental Policy
About ISO9001/ISO14001
Product Compliance about Hazardous Substances
Recycling Initiatives
Response to Climate Change
Environmental Performance
Information Disclosure Based on the TCFD Recommendations 

 

Wacom’s Quality and Environmental Policy

 

Together with our customers, users and partners in community, Wacom, a technology leadership company, is committed to continuing the limitless journey in the world of creativity paved with Digital Ink, as well as the pursuit of meaningful growth of human beings and society.

Through our core technologies and our progressive approach toward quality control, we offer innovative products and services, which contribute to social development, and make the power of handwriting and drawing more meaningful than ever.

In the belief that the beauty of nature can be preserved and passed on to future generations together with the cherished memories, we strive to make a sustainable world a reality through development of eco-friendly products and our unique approaches cooperating with our community and partners.

We pledge to comply with relevant laws and regulations, and to continuously improve our management system.

 

May 16, 2024

Nobutaka Ide

President & CEO, Wacom Co., Ltd.

 

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About ISO9001/ISO14001

Wacom is driving continuous improvement by establishing a management system so that all the employees shall be involved in the quality and environment management.

Current certification status

 

ISO9001
Site Name Certification Body
 Certificate Number Expiry Date Revision Date
 Head Office  Bureau Veritas Japan Co., Ltd. JP024490  April 17, 2027  Feb 14, 2024
 Tokyo Branch

 

ISO14001
Site Name Certification Body
 Certificate Number Expiry Date Revision Date
Head Office Bureau Veritas Japan Co., Ltd.
 JP024491 March 16, 2027 Feb 14, 2024
 Tokyo Branch

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Product Compliance about Hazardous Substances

Wacom has established “Wacom Environmental Quality Guideline” which specifies environmental requirements regarding hazardous substances that are contained in Material, Parts and Products. It also prescribes restrictions on the Materials themselves and certain chemicals used in manufacturing. Suppliers are required to disclose information about the content of certain substances in their Deliverables according to the guidelines. Wacom also encourages our Suppliers to control chemical substances properly engaging their subcontractors and suppliers.

As Wacom produces electronic products which are sold globally, Wacom makes all the products compliant with the regulations of each country where the products are meant to be sold, such as EU RoHS, EU REACH, China RoHS, Japan J-Moss, India E-Waste, etc.

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Recycling Initiatives

Wacom complies with recycling laws and regulations in the countries where it sells the products, including the EU's Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE Directive), state recycling laws on waste electrical and electronic equipment in the US, India's recycling laws (E-Waste), etc.

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Response to Climate Change

Climate change derived from global warming has become a serious problem on a worldwide scale. There is a growing trend towards acceptance, embracement, and implementation of ESG*¹ /SDGs*² policies every year in many countries, municipalities, and companies. Every country will set reduction targets on greenhouse gas emissions after 2020 based on the Paris Agreement and promote the introduction of renewable energy sources and development of eco-friendly products and/or services.

Wacom recognizes climate change as an important issue in environmental management. We are promoting the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and conduct of business activities with careful consideration of possible risks and opportunities in our business environment brought about by climate change. We are also promoting a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) in response to the possible risk that our activities may be restricted by an increase in natural disasters such as floods. In addition, we are reinforcing our organization structure based on the recognition that the development of eco-friendly products could be an opportunity. Furthermore, we ask our partner companies to review, approve, and follow the Wacom Suppliers Code of Conduct, which could lead to CO2 emission reduction in the whole value chain.
We disclosed information based on the TCFD recommendations on June 1, 2023, and updated CO2 reduction target“ in April 2024, which was approved as a near-term target by the SBTi in October 2024.
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Environmental Performance

 

Electricity consumption

•    The increase in 2023 was due to the increase in the number of members attending each office.

 

GHG emissions Scope1-2

•    Scope1 is calculated from the gasoline consumption of company cars and LPG consumption for the company cafeteria kitchen at the head office.
•    Scope2 is calculated from the electricity consumption of each office, the emission factor of each power company or country of the year, and the calculation method of each country.
•    The CO2 emissions in 2023 were largely reduced since we began utilizing Sai no Kuni Furusato Denki (renewable energy from post-FIT sources) at our head office in Saitama Prefecture from November 8, 2022.
•    Some medium-sized offices with several dozen staff members in Bulgaria (Sofia) and Korea (Seoul) cannot provide CO2 emissions data because of administrative rules of the buildings they lease.
•    In Germany, Dusseldorf office purchases electricity with zero emission factors, and their CO2 emissions are regarded as zero. This makes Germany’s total CO2 emissions smaller than the one of U.S., which has almost same-sized office as Germany.
•    Scope1 was recalculated by adding CO2 emissions from the gasoline consumption of company cars in overseas offices. (September 2024)

 

 

Specific energy consumption per unit

•  CO2 emission (Scope1 and Scope2） per 100 million JPY revenue for reference.

 

Water consumption

•  From 2014 to 2020, the water consumption data was available only for the head office (Japan).
•  In 2021, data from some offices in Germany, China, and Korea became available..
• Germany’s 2021 data includes estimated figures and the data for 2022 and 2023 are tentatively set to zero as these data are still being confirmed (to be updated later).

 

 

Waste (Japan)

•    The graph shows the data on the total weight of industrial waste, general waste, and valuable resources from the head office and Tokyo office; calculated value is within the scope of ISO 9001/14001 certifications.

 

 

GHG emissions Scope3

Category

CO2 emissions(t-CO2)

2021 2022 2023

1. Purchased goods and services

263,951

 271,626 234,466

2. Capital goods

4,919

 6,764 6,157

3. Fuel-and-energy-related activities (not included in Scope 1 or 2)

208

 217 231

4. Upstream transportation and distribution

2,115

1,466 1,391

5. Waste generated in operations

7*

11* 6*

6. Business travel

615

1,104 1,617

7. Employee commuting

2,008

 1,850 1,430

8. Upstream leased assets

-

 - -

9. Downstream transportation and distribution

-

 - -

10. Processing of sold products

-

 - -

11. Use of sold products

25,476

 19,094 15,000

12. End of life treatment of sold products

240

 160 119

13. Downstream leased assets

-

 - -

14. Franchises

-

 - -

15. Investments

-

 - -

•  The result of “5. Waste generated in operations” includes data from offices in Japan only.
•  Scope3 data for 2023 was added. (September 2024)
•  Figures of Category 1,2,3,5,6, and 7 for 2021 and 2022 were corrected since there were errors in the calculation. (September 2024)

 

GHG emissions third-party verification

To enhance the reliability of our environmental information, we had our GHG emissions Scope1-3 for 2023 verified by SOCOTEC Certification Japan. （August 2024）
Independent Assurance Report 

 

 

CDP Score

CDP is a UK-based non-governmental organization engaged in activities to promote information disclosure on environment at the request of corporate investors and companies.

If corporate investors and purchasing companies want to know the environmental impact of investment destinations or client companies, they can become members of CDP and request information disclosure through CDP's questionnaires.

Companies that receive a request can answer the questionnaires through CDP, and the contents will be evaluated on a scale of A, A- to D, D- (4 levels/8 steps).

Wacom has been submitting CDP questionnaires every year since 2019. In 2023, we improved our climate change score by one level (two steps) and achieved a B, which is higher than the global and Asian average of C, and higher than the Electrical & electronic equipment sector average of C.

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