The study "Germany's Best - Sustainability" names Kyocera Document Solutions the most sustainable printer manufacturer. The reason is the long-term commitment of the entire Kyocera Group to climate protection.
Sustainability has a long tradition at Kyocera: As early as 1997, Kyocera Document Solutions was the first manufacturer to receive the "Blue Angel" environmental label for a laser printer. Since then, the company has been synonymous with environmentally friendly document and printing processes and has repeatedly underlined this pioneering role: through durable and resource-saving products, decades of support from environmental protection organisations or early environmental management certification in accordance with ISO 14001.
This commitment has now also been recognised in the study "Germany's Best Sustainability". Here Kyocera took first place among all printer manufacturers. The study "Deutschlands Beste - Nachhaltigkeit" (Germany's Best - Sustainability) by the IMWF Institute for Management and Economic Research, commissioned by Focus Money, examines the online reputation of 20,000 companies in Germany in terms of their ecological, economic and social sustainability. To this end, 59 million mentions of the companies examined were analysed between 1 April 2019 and 31 March 2020 from 438 million German and German-language public Internet sources including social media using artificial intelligence methods.
"For us, this award is further proof of the success of our long-term sustainability strategy. Conservation of resources and sustainability are firmly anchored in our philosophy, we have always acted according to the approach "avoid before reduce before compensate", says Stephen Schienbein, Director Sales Kyocera Document Solutions Germany.
Kyocera focuses on long-term commitment
The company's long-standing commitment has been recognised repeatedly, including the "German Excellence Prize 2020", the "German Brand Award 2017" and the "Blue Angel Prize 2014". Kyocera is currently nominated for the German Sustainability Award.
The company is also one of the founding members of the "Alliance for Development and Climate" initiated by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). This alliance of politics and society is committed to implementing the UN's Agenda 2030 and the Paris Climate Treaty by means of CO2 compensation in developing and emerging countries.
In addition, Kyocera has expanded its Print-Green programme to cover its entire product range and has offset a total of more than 310,000 tonnes of CO2 through certified climate protection projects since the project was launched in 2013. This corresponds to the emissions of around 37,000 cars during a round-the-world flight and already serves as best practice of the "Alliance for Development and Climate".
CO2 footprint compensated
Customers can include the compensated quantity of their products in their own carbon footprint. In order to further sharpen the sense of responsibility, Kyocera intensively involves its dealers and is working on an alliance of climate-neutral IT companies within the framework of the alliance.
Kyocera has itself had the CO2 footprint of its headquarters and other locations of the group of companies calculated and made it CO2 neutral. A current example is AKI GmbH in Würzburg. The print management expert from Lower Franconia supports a drinking water project in Zimbabwe to reduce CO2 emissions for water treatment.
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