This November TCO Certified marked 25 years of IT product certification! Beginning with the first energy saving mode for computer displays, to the complete sustainability certification of today, TCO Certified continues to drive progress toward a sustainable life cycle for IT products.
In our September issue of Technical Update we wrote about a touch panel exception for Displays, AIO’s and Notebooks. In this exception we had calculated our luminance requirement with a 99% confidence interval. We have now recalculated it based on a 95% confidence, which is the interval used throughout TCO Certified. We have also added a minimum color triangle area requirement for Displays and AIO PCs, based on these new results.
Need a quick introduction to TCO Certified? Our on-demand tutorial, TCO Certified in 10 minutes, provides an overview of what’s included in the certification - from criteria to independent verification and customer/purchaser benefits.
November 11 this year marks two years since we launched the current generation TCO Certified. Earlier generations are retired two years following each generation launch. This means that November 11 this year is the deadline to submit your applications to upgrade those certificates.
We’ve received some questions about which energy consumption values should be reported as the “worst case” measurement for TCO Certified products. Some applicants are only reporting the worst case numbers based on the row of the highest Total Energy Consumption, TEC.
Today, the Green Economy conference “Putting words into action” takes place in Stockholm as part of the Global Ecolabelling Network (GEN) annual meeting.
As TCO Certified includes a wide scope of criteria, we want to make the certification process as efficient as possible for you.
The use of touch modules on panels incurs extra testing as the panels used must be tested with and without the touch module. TCO Development has done some investigating to see if we can create more efficiency in this process.
For over 25 years, TCO Certified has developed solutions for driving social and environmental responsibility in IT products and their manufacture.
By setting relevant sustainability criteria, purchasing organisations can help drive increased environmental and social responsibility in the market.