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HONG KONG, Nov. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- HTC is committed to innovation and providing the best user experience. Its HTC One, which has won numerous awards, is equipped with extraordinary functions, user-friendly interfaces, and exquisite craft design. Recent HTC products and campaigns, conducted in cooperation with famous U.S. movie star Robert Downey Jr. and celebrated Taiwanese rock band May Day, have won critical acclaim from technology websites worldwide. While seeking an excellent user experience, HTC never forgets its role in environmental protection when engaging in innovation.
Through the concerted effort of HTC, distributors, and third-party certification body TUV Rheinland, HTC One has become the world's first mobile phone to meet comprehensive international standards for carbon footprint and lifecycle assessment, including ISO/TS 14067:2013, PAS 2050:2011, ISO 14040:2006, and ISO 14044:2006. In doing so, HTC's wish is to analyze the impact and effect on climate change of HTC's mobile phones at different stages: raw material mining, product manufacture, delivery, consumer use, and disposal. Through the verification of the leading European certification body, TUV Rheinland, HTC hopes that the verification certificate and label can help European and U.S. consumers realize that in addition to a quality product and user experience, HTC products meet the demands for environmental protection of EU consumers.
ISO/TS 14067:2013 is the latest product-footprint standard announced by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), published this May. This is a technical specification (TS) setting out methods for quantifying carbon emissions through a product's life cycle, starting from design and production, along with communication requirements and guidelines. As this TS can also be applied to quantifying the CFP (carbon footprint of a product) of other products and services, it has since become a normative reference for CFP quantification and communication across the world.
As a result of increasing awareness regarding carbon and energy management on the part of international buyers, including European fashion labels, industrial service providers, and machinery manufacturers, enterprises have started implementing carbon and energy management in their factories at home and abroad. These enterprises have also established annual targets for the reduction of energy consumption and GHG emissions, and are expected to request OEM factories to implement energy saving and carbon reduction accordingly in the future.
In 2009 TUV Rheinland began offering verification and audit services in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China for ISO 14064-1:2006 greenhouse gases at the organizational level (including the supply chains); ISO/TS 14067:2013 and PAS 2050:2011 carbon footprint, water footprint, recycled materials (recycling increase), and ISO 50001:2011 energy-management systems. With audit and verification experience accumulated over many years, TUV Rheinland can help suppliers to accurately understand the product and management system requirements of European and U.S. customers, thereby reducing documentary confirmation of functions and data between buyers and suppliers. The TUV Rheinland new test mark allows users to learn about the product certification information by scanning the QR code or entering its ID number on the test mark into our online certificate database Certipedia. In the HTC One Certipedia page, consumers can immediately check the certificates and other information which have more confidence on the product.
