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We are accelerating efforts to reduce the environmental impact of our products throughout every stage of the product lifecycle.
Our efforts concerning energy conservation, the recycling and saving of resources, and proper management of chemical substances are consistently implemented from materials procurement, manufacturing, and sales, to actual use and recycle or disposal.
In product development, Yaskawa Electric has formulated product assessment regulations and set up a system to verify that environmentally conscious design is being used and to prevent the release of products that do not achieve a certain level.
By introducing life cycle assessment (LCA) practices, we have also enabled visual measurement of environmental impact at every stage in a product’s life cycle. This clarifies product issues and has made it possible to verify the effectiveness of countermeasures.
We intend to make use of these arrangements to continue reducing the environmental impact of our products even more throughout their entire life cycle.
We have introduced a “Green Products” certification system to dramatically improve our customers’ productivity and energy-saving performance and reduce environmental burdens around the world.
We evaluate the environmental contribution of products from the three perspectives of: “prevention of global warming,” “resource saving and recycling,” and “proper management of chemical substances,” and products which meet certain criteria are certified as “Green Products” and those that have the best environmental functions in the industry as “Super Green Products.”
In FY2024, Yaskawa certified 4 products as “Super Green Products” for a cumulative total of 45 certified products.
Super Green Certified Products have won high acclaim from outside the company, such as the Energy Conservation Grand Prize.
Authorized products as “Super Green Products” in FY2024
The matrix converter U1000 is a next-generation drive product that was initially developed for the purpose of saving resources, recycling, protecting the environment, safety, and enhanced energy saving. The size of the area required for its installation has been reduced by 65 % and wiring has also been reduced by 70 %.
The conventional power supply regeneration equipment configuration with the AC drive + converter connected required higher harmonic control parts (input AC reactor, higher harmonic filter reactor/capacitor). The use of these parts required a large number of wiring and a large control panel, and the control parts also gave rise to energy loss.
To solve this problem, we have developed and released the Matrix Converter U1000 as a next-generation motor drive product that incorporates all circuits necessary for power supply regeneration. This product makes possible not only energy savings by power supply regeneration but also realizes savings in wiring and space due to not requiring higher harmonic control parts and thereby contributes to significant resource savings as well as energy savings by elimination of the energy loss caused by higher harmonic control parts.
The Matrix Converter U1000 exhibits excellent environmental performance through power supply regeneration + resource savings + energy loss reduction.
With an ever-greater close-up on global environmental issues, water grows increasingly in importance.
Water supply is required to be the responsible lifeline in any society that desires to make advancements and sewers have been tasked with ensuring flood control, public health improvements, and quality preservation of public waters. In recent years, in addition to the above commitments, water-related operations are also involved in a wide range of issues, such as pursuit of energy-saving, effective use of facilities, and population decline.
In order to meet increasingly diversifying needs, our company provides reliable electrical systems for water treatment under a wide-range of ideas with an eye toward the next generation and from a fine and on-site based view.
Monitoring of widely distributed water and wastewater facilities
Sewage treatment facilities
Monitoring room
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