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Wipro Infotech launched its new "eco-friendly" and "toxin-free" desktops on Thursday. The greenware PCs are manufactured with materials completely free of deadly chemicals like polyvinyl chloride and brominated flame retardants.
The Chief Executive of Wipro Infrastructure Engineering Ecoeye, Social and Community Initiatives Anurag Behar speaking about the new release said that they comprised of Intel Core 2 Duo processor and were free from carcinogenic materials such as PVC and BFRs.
He further said that recycling of the electronic products will be much safer in absence of toxins. Anurag Behar said, “Wipro considers the launch of PVC and BFR free products a major breakthrough in clean production and recycling policy. A very difficult process with no alternative solution, Wipro worked with 37 overseas suppliers for over two years to come out with the completely toxin free product.”
Anand Sankaran, Sr Vice-President & Business Head, India & ME business, Wipro said "Wipro is the No.2 greenbrand in India after Samsung and Nokia. Of our annual desktop production of two lakh units, greenware would be 15-20 per cent".
"Greenware desktops will be followed by greenware laptops from the Wipro stable soon", he said.
He disclosed that the collection and recycling of Wipro’s products were done at 17 e-waste collection centres in India .He also had earlier said that 12 of the Wipro campuses in India had been certified green buildings. A "green data centre” has also been established at the national capital.
