MELVILLE, N.Y., April 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Canon
U.S.A. Inc., a leader in digital
imaging solutions, is proud to announce it has been awarded the
2020 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year award for
Sustained Excellence for the company's leading contributions and
partnership with ENERGY STAR. This year marks the sixth time
overall (2010, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020) in which Canon has won
the esteemed Partner of the Year Award with ENERGY STAR, and the
third consecutive year (2018, 2019, 2020) in which the company's
work earned the Sustained Excellence accolade.
As the highest honor bestowed, the ENERGY STAR Partner of the
Year – Sustained Excellence Award is given only to those partners
who have received Partner of the Year recognition for a minimum of
two consecutive years. Winners must have gone above and beyond the
criteria needed to qualify for this distinction, in addition to
representing energy-efficient products, services, homes and
buildings in the commercial, industrial and public sectors.
"Canon is honored to receive ENERGY STAR's Sustained Excellence
Award, which truly reflects our ongoing commitment to social and
environmental responsibility through our Kyosei philosophy,"
said Shinya Fukuda, executive
director and general manager, Canon U.S.A. Inc. "By creating technological
solutions with sustainability top-of-mind, we are not only
contributing to the welfare of communities worldwide; we are
simultaneously respecting the environment and helping to reduce
customer and consumer costly energy waste."
For more than 20 years, Canon has collaborated with ENERGY STAR
to save energy and money while promoting the development of
energy-efficient features in the company's products to be
eco-conscious and help combat environmental issues. As part of the
partnership, Canon offers over 175 ENERGY STAR certified products,
each incorporating advanced energy-efficient technologies without
compromising on features or performance. Energy-efficient
technologies implemented within the full range of Canon products
include energy-saver mode, automatic duplex settings and low-sleep
power consumption.
"I salute the 2020 ENERGY STAR Award winners," said Anne Idsal,
EPA Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation,
ENERGY STAR. "These leaders demonstrate how energy efficiency can
drive economic competitiveness in tandem with environmental
protection."
For a complete listing of Canon's ENERGY STAR certified
products, please visit the EPA website HERE.
About ENERGY STAR
ENERGY STAR® is the
government-backed symbol for energy efficiency, providing simple,
credible, and unbiased information that consumers and businesses
rely on to make well-informed decisions.
Thousands of industrial, commercial, utility, state, and local
organizations—including more than 40 percent of the Fortune
500®—rely on their partnership with the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) to deliver cost-saving energy efficiency
solutions. Since 1992, ENERGY STAR and its partners helped save
American families and businesses nearly 4 trillion kilowatt-hours
of electricity with associated reductions of over 3 billion metric
tons of greenhouse gases. In 2017 alone, ENERGY STAR and its
partners helped Americans save $30 billion in energy
costs.
More background information about ENERGY STAR can be found
at: energystar.gov/about and energystar.gov/numbers.
About Canon U.S.A., Inc.
Canon U.S.A., Inc.,
is a leading provider of consumer, business-to-business, and
industrial digital imaging solutions to the United
States and to Latin America and
the Caribbean markets. With approximately $36
billion in global revenue, its parent company, Canon Inc.
(NYSE: CAJ), ranks third overall in U.S. patents granted in
2018† and is one of Fortune Magazine's World's Most
Admired Companies in 2019. Canon U.S.A. is dedicated
to its Kyosei philosophy of social and environmental
responsibility. To keep apprised of the latest news from
Canon U.S.A., sign up for the Company's RSS news feed by
visiting www.usa.canon.com/rss and follow us on Twitter
@CanonUSA.
†Based on weekly patent counts issued by United
States Patent and Trademark Office.
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