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HCL’s initiatives on phasing out PVC & BFR in product manufacturing
HCL announces the launch of its PVC & BFR free computer model,
Series 40 laptop (which is both PVC & BFR free except the power-adaptor)
At present 10% of our overall range of laptops is PVC and BFR free. HCL is working towards the road map of making entire product range PVC and BFR free. In the near future, timelines for making our product - range PVC/BFR free will be provided.
The PVC & BFR-free HCL ME Series 40 meets the RoHS 2.0 standards, laid down by the European environmental-safety standards, and is future-ready for the environmentally-conscious global consumer. The notebook is also blessed with the unique HCL Balanced Power Theme which enables auto shutdown during idle period. The notebook becomes greener with Advanced Thermal Engineering which minimizes the heat-generation capacity. These features increase the battery back-up of the notebook, thus making a step towards conserving energy.
We are happy to point-out that we have achieved the PVC & BFR free status in our product much ahead of our committed date of 31st December 2010.
Further, ME series 40 has received a warm welcome from the Corporate sector. Within a few days of launching the product, we have received more-than-expected orders for our ME series 40 notebook.
Consolidated Status on PVC & BFR Phase-out:
We started our PVC/BFR phase-out drive in August 2007, and set a time-line for PVC/BFR elimination from our product-line as per the chart below:
So far, we have contacted 45 suppliers, out of which 43 have responded, and finally, communication was sent to 30 vendors with target time-lines for PVC and/or BFR elimination from their supply-items.
Suppliers Response Data
| S.No |
Parameters |
Numbers |
Percentage |
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| 1. |
Total Number of suppliers contacted |
47 |
100 |
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| 2. |
Suppliers not responded |
4 |
8.5 |
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| 3. |
Suppliers responded |
43 |
91.5 |
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3.1 Concluded |
42 |
89.3 |
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Targets Given |
30 |
63.8 |
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In response to this, we received affirmative replies from 15 suppliers. 5 among them provided us a PVC free component/part, 7 suppliers provided us with a component/part which was both PVC & BFR free, and 3 among them provided us a BFR free component/part.
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