1. Ensuring Compliance with Environmental Regulations: Case Study
– Introduction to Barco NV
– Today’s challenges in environmental compliance
– Establishing an environmental management system for product compliance
– Challenges and lessons learned

2. About Barco
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NYSE
Euronext 90 3,500 897
International company Presence in Employees Million euro
Headquartered in Belgium 90 countries sales in 2010
Stocklisted (BAR) on
NYSE Euronext Brussels

3. Company history
75+ years
’50s and’60s ’70s and ’80s ’90s 21st century
of experience million sales
Founded in 1934 Barco one of the Diversification Barco moves into Global leader in
as the “Belgian first manufacturers and international professional markets professional
American Radio to use printed expansion with (projection, medical visualization
Corporation” circuits for its video projection imaging, 3D
television sets systems and LED)

4. Company structure
Four core divisions, five wholly-owned ventures
Control rooms & Defense &
Entertainment Healthcare
Simulation Aerospace
Digital signage Lighting LED ATM software Design services

5. Flagship products
500,000+ 14,000+ 500,000+ 40,000+ 10,000+
Medical displays Digital projectors LED pixels for Display cubes Displays in
in the field in movie theaters U2’s 360° tour in control rooms air traffic control

6. Current challenges in Environmental Compliance
Environmental regulations are pushing the industry to share environmental
information within the supply chain: e.g. RoHS and REACH Directives
Challenges for the industry:
 No standard way to share information
 Sharing information requires infrastructure, knowledge and resources
 Need to convince suppliers to disclose information

7. Current challenges in Environmental Compliance
Environmental regulations targeting EEE are growing fast and change
Frequently: e.g. REACH SVHC Candidate list changes every 6 months!
Challenges for the industry:
 Need to build up in-house regulatory knowledge
 Need to keep track of regulatory changes and updates worldwide
 Need to update compliance information provided by suppliers

8. Environmental Compliance: current initiatives
Joint Industry Guide IPC Association
Published by the Consumer Connecting Electronics Bomcheck.net -
Electronics Association Industries ENVIRON
Aim: guide suppliers to Provides a standard (IPC- Bomcheck.net is an web-
1752A) to be used by based platform that allows
understand the
materials and substances suppliers to disclose suppliers to submit
to be disclosed if present in material information. environmental declarations
Suppliers can disclose RoHS to their customers online.
EEE.
Information on: information, but also full
•Thresholds material declarations at the Suppliers can submit both
•Related regulations article and homogenous substance declarations (e.g.
•If substance is subject to level. for RoHS or REACH) and
full material declarations.
restriction/information
requirements

9. Case Study: Barco

10. Establishing an EMS for product compliance
2010: establishment of the corporate Environmental
Compliance Office
 Aim: to establish and maintain an EMS for product
environmental compliance within Barco
 Roadmap:
2011: EMS 2012:Green 2013:Leader in
Products environmental
performance

11. Barco’s EMS for products compliance
Policy
Environmental
management system (EMS)
Supplier
Internal the management of an
Sustainability
Program
Procedures organization's environmental
programs in a comprehensive,
Barco’s
systematic, planned and
EMS documented manner.
Green Training
Communication Worldwide
Green
Knowledge
Owners
Network

12. Business Case Preparation New Product Introduction
PDR CDR FQR
Puts green requirements Requests certificate to
Product
into requirements ECO
Mgr document
NPI Project Mgr Makes sure BOM is Makes sure product has
Includes green activities Requests Green
R&D Project Energy test compliant based on green label and green doc
into project plan Assessment to ECO
Leader reports Energy testing
ELS Follow up
Provide BOM Report risky Receive compliance reports
Green
delegate to ECO items from ECO and store them
Assessment
Puts green labels on
product
R&D Puts green requirements into
technical specifications for
engineer
suppliers
designer
PUR Gets acceptance of
Solves escalations
compliance from
delegate with suppliers
suppliers
DOC Includes green
Makes WEEE
statements into
delegate instructions
manuals
Policy and Internal Procedures

13. Training Worldwide
 Around 200 people trained
worldwide (Belgium, China, Italy,
France, US, India)
 All departments trained on
Product Environmental
Compliance: R&D, Procurement,
Product Management, Quality
and Sales
 2nd training round already
started

14. Green Network
Barco now has a Green Network worldwide:
23 Green Knowledge Owners collect and spread the
knowledge about product environmental compliance in all
Barco business units worldwide.

15. Green Communication
The GreenZone
An internal Barco portal where
employees can find
information about Barco’s EMS
and environmental compliance

16. Supplier Sustainability Program
 Aim:
– to engage suppliers to share environmental
information within the supply chain
– To phase out non-compliant or at-risk
components from the product design
 How?
– Educating suppliers to environmental compliance
– Collecting environmental data for all Barco
products throughout the supply chain
– Building up a Green Database for compliance and
Ecodesign

17. Supplier Sustainability Program – Data Collection
Barco
procurement Engages supplier to provide evidence of compliance
department
GreenSoft Collects data from the supplier
Technology Interprets and validates the data
Barco
environmental Issues compliance reports from Green Database
compliance office Informs R&D of compliance issues

18. Supplier Sustainability Program – Data Collection
Barco to follow up
Batteries
Required Data RoHS CoC Full Material Declaration
statement
List of Restricted Substance
Exemptions Decl.
if not possible
REACH CoC
if not possible
Deliver to:
ECO
Acceptable Formats Declaration in BOMcheck.net
IPC 1751A (Class 3) or IPC-1752 (Class 5)
Declaration using Barco template
Supplier's own format
Internal Process GreenSoft to interpret/validate the data and deliver data package for GDMgr
Roll-up and reporting substances on product level

19. Internal resistance Suppliers not always
to prepared to disclose
organizational environmental
change information
driven by the EMS
Challenges
Full Material
Is green needed in Declaration Vs
the professional Certificates:
market? what is best?

20. Next steps – 2012 Green Roadmap
Green Products
•LCA and Ecodesign guidelines
•PCBA recyclability
•Barco’s restricted substances list
•Green Database complete
Green Supply Chain
•Green audits
•Phase-out of non-green suppliers
Green Communication
•Internal green newsletter
•First Barco environmental report
•Products’ green passports