Schneider Electrical, an automation expertise supplier, introduced it has turn into the primary firm to obtain certification for UL Answer’s new EcoLogo certification program for vitality and industrial automation tools. Schneider Electrical acquired the certification for its portfolio of PowerPact molded case circuit breakers.
The EcoLogo certification for sustainability in industrial tools is designed to assist producers reveal their dedication to sustainability via third-party analysis, in accordance with UL 2711, the Commonplace for Sustainability of Power and Industrial Automation Tools.
It’s a life cycle-based ecolabel that evaluates environmental and human well being impacts throughout your entire product lifecycle. Standards embrace:
- Supplies: Use of recycled, bio-based and sustainably sourced content material.
- Manufacturing and operations: Renewable vitality use, vitality effectivity, and waste minimization.
- Well being and security: Decreased toxicity and human well being hazard mitigation.
- Product life cycle: Efficiency, sturdiness and recyclability.
- Company governance: Reporting on sustainable company practices.
- Transparency: Publicly accessible third occasion licensed carbon footprint disclosure.
In accordance with Schneider Electrical, the certification marks the primary time that vitality and industrial automation tools might be assessed beneath the EcoLogo program, which has lengthy been utilized in sectors akin to cleansing merchandise, electronics and private care.
EcoLogo certifications are a part of the World Ecolabelling Community’s GENICES (World Ecolabelling Community Data and Certification System) and qualify as an ISO Sort 1 ecolabel.
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