Sony Viet Nam loves being ‘green’

VietnamNews — Sony Viet Nam was awarded first prize in the "Green Business Firm" awards. The awards were handed out by the HCM City Department of Natural Resources and Environment to companies that foster corporate and community environmental awareness.

The company became the only electronics firm in the awards history to receive the top honour so far, and was lauded for its launching of corporate responsibility programmes and community schemes such as the Green Sony Inventions Award. Their own inventions prize has been given out since 2000, and has become a prestigious award for university students nationwide that invent or contribute research to environmental protection.

Since it began operations in Viet Nam some 20 years ago, the company has improved its production lines by scrapping the use of lead in its welding to ensure a smaller environmental footprint, said head of Sony Viet Nam’s International Relations Office, Vu Quoc Tuan.

Recently, the company launched the Green Sony Project Award which will run parallel with the Green Sony Inventions Awards. Prominent among those in attendance during the awards, held last week in HCM City, was Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, Mai Ai Truc.