Epson will deliver environmental value across the value chain by creating customer value and expanding business opportunities through our efficient, compact and precise technologies and philosophy.
Specifically, we are creating value by reducing environmental impact across the market through the transition from conventional technologies and creating environmental value through industrial transformation.

• Reducing Environmental Impact Across the Market through the Transition from Conventional Technologies
• Creating Environmental Value Through Industrial Transformation
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By encouraging the transition to Epson’s lower-impact solutions in place of conventional products and services, we help cut energy consumption and resource use, contributing to a lower environmental impact across the market as a whole.

High-capacity ink tank printers, which Epson introduced in 2010, significantly reduce the frequency of  ink replacement compared with conventional ink cartridge printers. By reducing the use of consumables  and packaging materials, environmental impacts across the product life cycle, including reduced GHG emissions from material production, transportation, and disposal.
Based on the replacement of ink cartridge printers with high-capacity ink tank printers, we calculated  FY2025 avoided emissions¹,of approximately 160,000 t-CO2e. The high-capacity ink tank system pioneered by Epson has driven market transformation and become firmly established as a major option for customers. As a result, annual avoided emissions are beginning to level off, reflecting the steady  progress of this market transformation. Cumulative avoided emissions from FY2010 to FY2025 reached  approximately 1.39 million  t-CO2e​², demonstrating our contribution to reducing environmental impacts over the long term.
Based on these results, we will continue aiming for further environmental impact reductions across  society by capturing and expanding business opportunities and by reducing environmental impacts.

¹ Using market data from IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker and Epson sales data, we estimated the average alternative purchasing scenario that customers would likely have chosen in the absence of Epson's high-capacity ink tank printers.
This scenario reflects the market share composition of high-capacity ink tank printers and ink cartridge printers. Avoided emissions were then calculated by multiplying the estimated number of printer units corresponding to ink cartridge printers in this scenario by the difference in lifetime CO₂ emissions between the two printer types.
² Calculated based on approximately 70 million units for which comparable ink cartridge printer models were available, out of our cumulative worldwide sales of 119 million units from FY2015 to FY2025.

Epson's inkjet printers require less limited lifetime parts in addition to the low power consumption through Heat-Free Technology ,which uses no heat to eject ink. By promoting the replacement of laser printers, thereby reducing the environmental impactassociated with printing and contributing to the environmental impact reduction of society. To ensure that the information is fair tocustomers, the calculation logic was developed based on the guidelines published by the World Business Council for SustainableDevelopment (WBCSD) and confirmed by a third-party organization. avoided emissions COby replacing laser printers with Epson A3color inkjet printers in FY2025 will be 9.0k t-CO2e³.

³ The value obtained by multiplying the difference between the weighted average of the published lifetime CO₂ emissions of major laser printers in the globalmarketand the lifetime CO₂ emissions of Epson's A3 color inkjet printer by the number of Epson A3 color inkjet printer units sold in the fiscal year, based on thecalculationmethod confirmed by Mizuho Research & Technologies Co., Ltd.

We create new environmental value through innovations that drive industrial transformation. By putting Epson’s technologies into practice to transform manufacturing processes and enhance product performance, we help reduce energy consumption and resource use.

In the manufacture of perovskite solar cells using inkjet technology, Epson's additive manufacturing  technology enables materials to be deposited precisely where and in the amounts needed. This  minimizes material loss and reduces energy consumption through low-temperature, non-vacuum  processes. As lightweight solar cells with fewer installation constraints, perovskite solar cells can also  accelerate the adoption of renewable energy during the use phase, contributing to the reduction of  GHG emissions across society.

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