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Wacom is driving continuous improvement by establishing a management system so that all the employees shall be involved in the quality and environment management.

Current certification status

ISO9001

ISO14001

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Product Compliance about Hazardous Substances

Wacom has established “Wacom Environmental Quality Guideline” which specifies environmental requirements regarding hazardous substances that are contained in Material, Parts and Products. It also prescribes restrictions on the Materials themselves and certain chemicals used in manufacturing. Suppliers are required to disclose information about the content of certain substances in their Deliverables according to the guidelines. Wacom also encourages our Suppliers to control chemical substances properly engaging their subcontractors and suppliers.

As Wacom produces electronic products which are sold globally, Wacom makes all the products compliant with the regulations of each country where the products are meant to be sold, such as EU RoHS, EU REACH, China RoHS, Japan J-Moss, India E-Waste, etc.

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Recycling Initiatives

Wacom complies with recycling laws and regulations in the countries where it sells the products, including the EU's Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE Directive), state recycling laws on waste electrical and electronic equipment in the US, India's recycling laws (E-Waste), etc.

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Response to Climate Change

Climate change derived from global warming has become a serious problem on a worldwide scale. There is a growing trend towards acceptance, embracement, and implementation of ESG*¹ /SDGs*² policies every year in many countries, municipalities, and companies. Every country will set reduction targets on greenhouse gas emissions after 2020 based on the Paris Agreement and promote the introduction of renewable energy sources and development of eco-friendly products and/or services.

Wacom recognizes climate change as an important issue in environmental management. We are promoting the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and conduct of business activities with careful consideration of possible risks and opportunities in our business environment brought about by climate change. We are also promoting a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) in response to the possible risk that our activities may be restricted by an increase in natural disasters such as floods. In addition, we are reinforcing our organization structure based on the recognition that the development of eco-friendly products could be an opportunity. Furthermore, we ask our partner companies to review, approve, and follow the Wacom Suppliers Code of Conduct, which could lead to CO2 emission reduction in the whole value chain.

Mid-term Target

Wacom outsources almost all production processes to overseas factories and CO2 emissions from the business activities of Wacom itself are not significant. However, we have become a member of the Japan Climate Initiative (JCI) and set a mid-term target on CO2 emissions for FY2030 to contribute to global GHG*  reduction.

Following office relocation and extension completed in 2013, we set FY2014 as the base year. We will reduce CO2 emission at a 4% annual rate* (i.e., 48% reduction in total) and achieve 715 t-CO2 in 2030. We also plan to introduce renewable energy as soon as possible.

*We have updated our CO2 emission reduction target from annual rate 2% to 4%

The introduction of LED lighting in the head office and promotion of teleworking helped reduce the CO2 emission in 2021. The estimated volume of emissions was 915 t-CO2, which was much lower than the target, 1032 t-CO2 (The previous target was 1151 t-CO2). 

In addition, we started collecting environmental performance data from overseas offices in 2021. Now we have specified data that can be obtained, and we will disclose them accordingly. We will investigate feasible measures to contribute to reduction of CO2 emissions and examine options of setting global target.

*1 Environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG).
*2 United Nations 17 Sustainable development goals (SDGs).
*3 Greenhouse gas.

CO2 reduction activities

The introduction of LED lighting in the head office and promotion of teleworking helped reduce the CO2 emission in 2021. The estimated volume of emissions was 914 t-CO2, which was much lower than the target, 1032 t-CO2 (The previous target was 1151 t-CO2).

We will monitor and disclose improvements in t-CO2 emissions per 100 million JPY revenue although we don’t set the reduction of specific energy consumption per unit as our goal.  (Please refer to the Environmental Performance section for Wacom’s CO2 emissions from FY2012 to FY2021.) 

In addition, we started collecting environmental performance data from overseas offices in 2021. Now we have specified data that can be obtained, and we will disclose them accordingly. We will investigate feasible measures to contribute to reduction of CO2 emissions and examine options of setting global target.

We have changed the electricity service contract and started to use electricity generated by natural energy in the head office on November 8, 2022.

The CO2 emissions (Scope2) in the head office will drop to zero after November 2022, and our environmental performance data will be updated accordingly.

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Environmental Performance Data（Global）(FY2021)

• Calculation targets of the global total have been changed from the offices with 30 or more staff members to any offices that can provide environmental data. The total volume of CO2 emissions was corrected from 1217t-CO2 to 1337.2t-CO2 accordingly. （Updated on March 15, 2023）

• In this table, Japan’s CO2 emissions includes data from small offices that are out of ISO 9001/14001 scope. The total was changed from 914t-CO2 to 920.2t-CO2. (Updated on March 15, 2023)

[Supplemental remarks]

• Among the offices with 30 or more staff members, Bulgaria（Sofia） office and Korea（Seoul） office cannot provide CO2 emissions data because of administrative rules of the buildings they lease.

• In Germany, Dusseldorf office purchases electricity with zero emission factors, and their CO2 emissions are regarded as zero. This makes Germany’s total CO2 emissions smaller than the one of U.S., which has almost same-sized office as Germany.

• The graph of CO2 emissions (Japan) has not been updated yet.

• In the “Water consumption” section, the offices marked with “- “ cannot provide data for such reasons as they do not have water meters for each floor.

GHG Scope3 emissions in FY2021

• The result of “5. Waste generated in operations” includes data from offices in Japan only.

CDP Score

CDP is a UK-based non-governmental organization engaged in activities to promote information disclosure on environment at the request of corporate investors and companies.

If corporate investors and purchasing companies want to know the environmental impact of investment destinations or client companies, they can become members of CDP and request information disclosure through CDP's questionnaires.

Companies that receive a request can answer the questionnaires through CDP, and the contents will be evaluated on a scale of A to D-.

Wacom has been submitting CDP questionnaires every year since 2019. Our score of climate was C in 2022. This is equivalent to the global and Asian average, as well as the average of Electrical & electronic equipment sector.

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