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Sustainability
Canon’s commitment to sustainability is focused in three key areas: Business,
Environment and Society
� Business
� Canon provides its customers with products, services and solutions
that support business efficiency and improvement, and wider
economic growth
� Canon has achieved worldwide ISO14001 certification, the
international standard for environment management systems
� Environment
� Canon products are highly energy efficient and almost 100% of our in
scope products qualify for the EU ENERGY STAR® Programme
� Canon started the world’s first toner cartridge recycling programme in
1990
� Canon reduced CO 2 emissions in EMEA by 3% in 2010 vs. 2009
� Canon improved 2010 office waste recycling rate in EMEA by more than
10% vs. 2009
� Society
� We have a multi-cultural environment and marketplace. Canon
Europe’s management board of 13 is made up of 6 different
nationalities and we run cultural awareness workshops in our
European headquarters
Technology & Innovation
� Canon’s Imaging Engines were created by integrating a series of technologies
developed throughout Canon’s history. They are the core technologies in all of
Canon’s current products:
� Image Capture Engine – High resolution and high image quality for
lens, sensor and image processing technologies
� Electrophotography Engine – Electrophotography technology is at the
heart of laser beam printers and copying machines that have been
rated as the best in the world
� Inkjet Engine – Capable of delivering mircroscopic ink droplets as small
as one picolitre (one-trillionth of a litre), making even DNA chip
fabrication possible
� Photolithography Engine – Canon’s semiconductor exposure
technology integrates the ultimate in optical and ultraprecision
positioning technologies
� Display Engine – Next generation flat screen display technology
delivers large screen, high quality images with low power
consumption
� Canon to maintain its position as the No.1 manufacturer of DSLRs
� Canon was the inventor of the Bubble Jet method of inkjet printing and
introduced the industry’s first cartridge-type copying machine