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Product Liability

LG Display considers “product liability” one of the significant four major areas of environmental technology. It actively addresses environmental issues throughout the entire product life cycle, encompassing design, development, production, consumption, and disposal. The company focuses on minimizing the utilization of new resources and hazardous substance to create eco-friendly products. Specifically, product liability focuses on minimizing power consumption, and aims to base the entire process on transparent management and certification.

Targets of Product Liability

Power
Product
Hazardous
Substances
Basic
Ideology
Life Cycle Assessment
Product Responsibility Orientation
Pre-manufacturing Stage (Raw Material/Component) Manufacturing Stage (Process/Equipment) Post-manufacturing Stage (Product)
Low Power Consumption OLED/LCD Technology Energy Reduction Products
Technology for Recycling Materials/Componet -Recycled 3R Adopted Products
Technology for Reducing Process/Component - Reduce
Technology for Replacing Regulated Substances - Replace
Assessment System Development for Product Environment
Target
  • Power Consumption
    Reduction
  • Use of Recycling Materials
    Replacement of Hazardous Substances
  • Transparent Assessment and Certification

Implementation of Life Cycle Assessment

LG Display assesses the eco-friendliness of the product lifecycle to ensure sustainable and environmentally-friendly product production, utilizing the assessments on eco-friendly technology and product development. The company implemented the life cycle assessment in accordance with the ISO 14040 series by adopting Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in 2021. The environmental impact is assessed under six impact categories: global warming, abiotic resource depletion, stratospheric ozone depletion, acidification, eutrophication, and photochemical smog.
Through the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), the environmental impact is analyzed at each stage, enabling the company to progress toward the production of sustainable and environmentally-friendly products. The company strives to minimize the environmental impact by incorporating the results of the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and utilizing the assessment in the development of processing technologies and eco-friendly materials. The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) was conducted for 21.5% of the products sold in 2022, with the aim of extending this assessment to 40% of the products sold in 2023. Subsequently, the company plans to progressively expand the implementation to cover additional product lines and impact categories.

ESG Product Environmental Performance Index (Eco-Index)

Customer demands for product responsibility are becoming increasingly diverse, and statutory regulations are growing more complex as ESG advances. LG Display has developed the ESG Product Environmental Performance Index (Eco-Index), a tool that assesses a product's environmental performance using an index based on environmental categories by reflecting the rising internal and external demands, and performs product assessments. Furthermore, the company derives and improves environmental categories with improvement potential based on the assessment results. LG Display continually enhances the Eco-Index by considering both internal and external factors, with plans to incorporate the index into product development and assessment.

Procedures for ESG Product Environment Performance Index (Eco-Index)

  • Sensing Internal and External Requested
    Matters
    Customer Requested Matters
    LG Corp. ESG Indicators
    Statutory Regulations
    (RoHS, ErP, etc.)
    External Performance Index
    (DJSI, KCGS, etc.)
    Voluntary Environmental
    Improvement Items
  • Environmental
    Category Selection
    Climate Response
    Resource Circulation
    Hazardous Substances
  • Key Product
    Performance Index
    Carbon Emissions Reduction
    Use of Recycling Materials
    Hazardous Substance Reduction
  • Product Performance
    Index Assessment
    (Adoption on the Development Process)
    Large Size Products
    Medium Size Products
    Small Size Products
  • Derive and Improve
    Environmental
    Categories with
    Improvement Potential

Certification for Eco-Friendly Products

LG Display has obtained eco-friendliness certifications on carbon footprints, hazardous substances, recycling, green technologies, and more from third-party certification institutions to provide customers with credible environmental information about its products.

Product Carbon Footprint Certification

LG Display obtained carbon footprint certifications from global eco-friendliness certification institutions: for OLED panels from Carbon Trust in 2022 and for monitor and laptop display modules from TUV Rheinland in 2023, both for the first time in its industry. They were granted through a verification process that assessed greenhouse gas emissions and reductions throughout the product life cycle, in accordance with the global carbon emissions calculation protocol (PAS 2050). LG Display intends to extend carbon footprint certifications to its major product lines, including automotive display modules, by the year 2024.

SGS Certification

In 2023, LG Display obtained the SGS Eco Label for its monitors and laptop modules, granted by the global testing, inspection, and certification company, SGS. The SGS Eco Label certification is granted after evaluating the hazardous substance management system throughout the product development and production processes, as well as the use of recycled materials and hazardous substances in the product. In 2017, LG Display achieved the SGS Eco Label certification for its OLED TV modules, marking an industry first. The company has since been steadily increasing the number of certifications each year by expanding into other product lines.

Use and Management of Hazardous Substances in Products

LG Display has established and operated hazardous substances management programs and processes to develop and manufacture products that are not harmful to humans and the environment. LG Display will continue to make utmost efforts to provide products that are safe for the human body and the environment by preemptively responding to changes in domestic and international laws and regulations related to hazardous substances.

Hazardous Substance Management Program for Products

LG Display has operated a hazardous substance management program that sets up and manages a four-step gate from supplier registration to mass production in order to respond to domestic and international environmental regulations such as EU RoHS* and REACH** that restrict the use of specific hazardous substances. In addition, LG Display replaced potential risk factors in advance to preemptively respond to four new hazardous substances (4 types of phthalates***) under legislations that RoHS was finalized in 2016 and officially entered into force on July 22, 2019, and established a process for stable management. To establish the process, LG Display had developed its own response strategies by identifying regulatory trends in advance through cooperation with external organizations, drew up plans for effective management through cooperation with development/procurement/quality/analysis departments and applied it in practice.
RoHS (Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances in electrical and electronic equipment): Restriction on the use of substances harmful to the human body such as lead, mercury, and cadmium REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of CHemicals): EU regulatory framework for chemicals Diethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP, Bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate), benzyl butyl phthalate (BBP, Benzyl butyl phthalate), dibutyl phthalate (DBP, Dibutyl phthalate), diisobutyl phthalate (DIBP, Diisobutyl phthalate)
  1. Gate 01Partner/Supplier registration
    • Conducting audits before registering new partners
    • Inspection of hazardous substances response process
  2. Gate 02Parts development
    • Environmental evaluation of all parts of products
    • Document review, XRF*, detailed analysis (3 steps)
  3. Gate 03Product development
    • Model environmental evaluation
    • Product Labeling
      (RoHS Verified)
  4. Gate 04Mass production
    • Process management through periodic testing of parts before mass production
    • Test by grade through risk assessment
XRF (X-Ray Fluorescence (Spectrometer)): X-ray fluorescence analysis equipment for simple analysis of hazardous substances

Hazardous Substance Management System

LG Display operates the Hazardous Substance Management System for Products that classifies and effectively manages hazardous substances into three levels: Level A-I, A-II, and B. LG Display has continued to promote various activities for the gradual and voluntary reduction of unregulated hazardous substances by classifying substances that are harmful to humans and the environment as Level B substances as well as substances banned by global hazardous substance regulations on products, developing technologies and parts to replace them, and applying them to its products.
Classification of Hazardous Substances
  1. Level A-Ⅰ
    • 10 substances specified by EU RoHS regulation and substances prohibited by certain customers, including lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium and compounds, PBB, PBDE, 4 types of phthalates, brominated flame retardants, and chlorine-based flame retardants
  2. Level A-Ⅱ
    • Substances prohibited by laws and conventions other than Level A-I. Substances prohibited by customers, including PCBs, PCNs, asbestos, organotin compounds, ozone depleting substances, etc.
  3. Level B
    • Substances that are not currently banned, but are expected to be reduced or phased out in the future such as volatile organic chemicals, substances that may fall under RoHS regulation or may be exempted under RoHS, and high-risk substances that may fall under REACH, etc.
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