Bangalore, June 14, 2007: Wipro Infotech, the India, Middle East and Asia Pacific IT business unit of Wipro Ltd, announced that it is the first Indian company to launch environment-friendly range of desktops. This new range of products named Wipro GreenWare which includes desktops and laptops are compliant with RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous substances) directive, thereby reducing substantial e-waste to the environment.

Wipro has been at the forefront in addressing the issue of increasing e-waste in the environment. Wipro has set up its e waste management process called Wipro Green Computing, which spans across its product lifecycle - from designing, manufacturing, right up to the final disposal. Wipro is now launching a range of eco-friendly hardware products and promises to make its entire product range of laptops and desktops compliant with RoHS directive. Eventually, the plan is to ensure that all desktops and laptops from Wipro Personal Computing would be free of hazardous materials such as Brominated Flame Retardants (BFR), PVCs and heavy metals like lead, cadmium and mercury that have been regularly used in computer manufacture so far.

Speaking during the launch, Mr. Ashutosh Vaidya, Vice President Wipro Personal Computing Division, said “Wipro is one of the most trusted brands in India. We ensure that our products and processes comply with Environment friendly norms being adopted worldwide. We have made substantial investment of resources to launch the environmental-friendly range of products as a part of our responsibility towards cleaner environment. This provides a compelling proposition to our customers to adopt Eco-friendly, high performance and feature rich computing products in their enterprise”

Wipro is an environmentally conscious organization and being large-scale users as well as producers of computers, it continuously strives to comply with all applicable environmental laws of India. Wipro started this initiative way back in Aug 2005. “Our manufacturing facility is certified under ISO 14001. One major milestone for Wipro was achieved in September 2006 when we became the first Indian manufacturer to offer free e-Waste recycling to our customers” added Mr. Ashutosh Vaidya