Time for brand owners to submit information to TCO Certified Portal
Brand owners must submit information to TCO Certified Portal each year to stay compliant with criteria in TCO Certified. Here’s how to know what’s due.
Reminder: Energy efficiency indicators deadline
Energy efficiency indicators must be reported for all final assembly factories on August 30.
Clarification of criterion 6.2, replaceable components
In TCO Certified, generation 8, critical product components must be replaceable. We have made some clarifications regarding service manual requirements in this criteria. Find all the information you need here.
Postponed deadline for reporting product volumes
The mandate of criteria 1.3, sustainability performance, states that global production volumes for the certified product must be reported in TCO Certified Portal each year. The deadline for the first time this should be done has now been postponed.
Which test facilities can carry out product durability and battery longevity tests?
To verify compliance with the criteria 6.4 Product durability and 6.5 Battery longevity, products must be tested by test facilities accredited according to ISO 17025. Until December 3, 2019, some exemptions are allowed.
Clarification on ETEC_MAX value for TCO Certified, generation 8, for displays
We have received questions regarding the ETEC_MAX value for displays in TCO Certified, generation 8. Here is a clarification of which value we want you to report.
Sign up for our industry workshops
During April we’re also offering a number of in-person workshops for industry where we’ll be discussing the draft criteria in detail and answering your questions. Sign up information is below. We’re also available on each workshop date, to meet individually and discuss your feedback.
Clarification – Acoustic noise measurements
We have seen some inconsistencies in acoustic noise measurements for TCO Certified Notebooks 5.0, TCO Certified All-in-one PCs 4.0 and TCO Certified Desktops 5.0.
Clarification: Touch panel testing exception for Displays, AIO PC’s and Notebooks
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.
Clarification – Energy:worst case values
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.