Canon helps advance supply?chain decarbonization by calculating product CO2 emissions based on actual data using Japan's first SuMPO EPD in the field of virgin-plastic materials, in collaboration with

Japan, Feb. 18 -- Canon Inc. announced that, in collaboration with Teijin Limited ("Teijin"), it has helped promote rules for calculating CO2 emissions from virgin plastics using primary data under the SuMPO Environmental Label Program administered by the Sustainable Management Promotion Organization (SuMPO). Through this initiative, Teijin obtained the first-ever SuMPO Environmental Product Declaration (SuMPO EPD) certification in Japan for this category. In response, Canon incorporated Teijin's actual environmental data-such as CO2 emissions from its plastic materials-into the life-cycle CO2 calculations of its own products, and subsequently registered and disclosed its own SuMPO EPD.The SuMPO EPD is a framework that quantitatively disclo...