Green Products - Reducing Chemical Substances

A plasma display panel (PDP) comprises electrodes, a dielectric layer, seal frit, and various other materials, which are stacked on glass substrates. In order to handle the differences in temperature at which the glass ingredient of each material softens, lead has traditionally been used in the manufacturing process.
   Despite the widely held view that it was beyond current technical know-how, Panasonic succeeded in developing a lead-free PDP, by adopting two approaches: the development of a new additive, and the review of thermal process conditions. We implemented this new lead-free PDP manufacturing method across all our PDP manufacturing plants and began producing all our new products using lead-free PDPs (140 models) as of fiscal 2007.^*

• * As of November 2, 2006

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