ASUS goes green with bamboo notebook

BANGALORE, INDIA: ASUS Technology, a provider in notebooks today announced the launch of an eco-friendly Bamboo Series Notebook in India.

ASUS is the first company to come up with a revolutionary concept of using bamboo casing for Notebooks, said a press release.

The Bamboo series Notebooks designed with real bamboo comes with a  Moso bamboo paneling to give a personalized and exclusive feel to each notebook, it added.

The ASUS Bamboo Series Notebook uses Super Hybrid Engine that reduces the yearly CO2 emission by 12.3kg per notebook.

Given that ASUS ships approximately 6 million notebooks per year, this works out to a massive 73.8 million kilograms of CO2 emission reduced per year, which equates to saving 36 million trees annually.

 It is ‘green’ throughout its life cycle – from its conception and production to its recycling.

It totally complies with RoHS and WEEE Standard and in fact it exceeds the benchmarks of these standards, said the release.

The Bamboo Series notebooks are ultimate celebration of the versatility of bamboo combined with the most advanced computing technology.

Stanley Wu, country manager for Notebook business, ASUS India, said, “The launch of Bamboo Series Notebook will usher in a new era of green computing. It will mark a paradigm shift in the way computers are used and manufactured.

He further said that with the ever increasing concern over global warming and the ecological imbalance, we find it necessary to innovate products that are not only eco-friendly but also commercially viable.