SUSTAINABILITY
Scoring Sustainability
Buying a new device for your office or home and knowing it’s been designed with the planet’s health in mind is the kind of peace of mind Barco is aiming to provide with its comprehensive “ecoscore” ranking – a transparent and all-encompassing measure of the environmental footprint of its products. Unlike typical labels that focus on just one aspect like power consumption or material usage, Barco’s ecoscoring delves into every aspect, from energy efficiency to recyclability, offering the purchaser clarity around sustainability choices.
Barco’s Footprint Barco’s aim was to openly communicate about the footprint of their products and, having found no all-round scoring scale that covered different types of products, Barco developed ecoscoring. Barco ecoscoring is an objective tool that grades Barco’s products according to all aspects of their ecodesign performance, and it is regularly reviewed with Barco currently on version 6.1 of their ecoscore tool. Those products that rank highly on ecoscoring are quantified to have a lower environmental footprint and are thus marked with the ‘Barco Eco Product Label’. Covering the Environmental Footprint Barco’s technology encompasses advanced display and projection, image processing, connectivity and computational optics. The ecotool focuses on four areas that affect Sustainability – Energy, Materials, Packaging and Logistics, and Lifecycle. Energy efficiency includes scoring against
the product’s intended purpose, and hence functions that optimise power efficiencies such as standby, normal mode and off- mode are reviewed. Materials scoring is based on reducing (potentially) hazardous or restricted substances and having full supply chain transparency. This gives those designing Barco’s future products an aim to use materials that are more environmentally friendly in terms of production or sourcing, especially in areas that can incorporate recycled plastics and recycled metals. Throughout the product development process, Barco’s Research and Design departments are challenged to incorporate ecodesign into their decision-making. Packaging areas of focus include reducing the amount of materials used in the product and the packaging, and focusing on the potential to use and recycle the packaging material afterwards. Logistics teams are measured on improving the logistical footprint with bulk shipments being optimised amongst other
Jan van Houtte Executive Vice President Meeting Experience
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