Canon Inc. plans to calculate, in three years, the complete carbon footprints of all its mass-produced consumer and commercial products over their entire life cycles. The company has worked out carbon dioxide emissions from its nine mainstay multifunction printers by employing the carbon footprint of products (CFP) system. This method computes CO2 emissions along each step … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2012
Canon to track carbon footprint of all mass products
Canon Inc. plans to calculate, in three years, the complete carbon footprints of all its mass-produced consumer and commercial products over their entire life cycles. The company has worked out carbon dioxide emissions from its nine mainstay multifunction printers by employing the carbon footprint of products (CFP) system. This method computes CO2 emissions along each step … [Read more...]
Canon to track carbon footprint of all mass products
Canon Inc. plans to calculate, in three years, the complete carbon footprints of all its mass-produced consumer and commercial products over their entire life cycles. The company has worked out carbon dioxide emissions from its nine mainstay multifunction printers by employing the carbon footprint of products (CFP) system. This method computes CO2 emissions along each step … [Read more...]
Canon to track carbon footprint of all mass products
Canon Inc. plans to calculate, in three years, the complete carbon footprints of all its mass-produced consumer and commercial products over their entire life cycles. The company has worked out carbon dioxide emissions from its nine mainstay multifunction printers by employing the carbon footprint of products (CFP) system. This method computes CO2 emissions along each step … [Read more...]
Smartphones – The New Threat
With 2012 coming to an end, it is appropriate to consider what was the major technological event to hit the industry. Without doubt, it was the advent of Smartphones. I remember some six or seven years ago meeting a senior manager of Nokia. In an arrogant tone, designed to test my knowledge, he asked, “Who is the biggest manufacturer of cameras in the world?” Canon, I … [Read more...]