Environmental Factors

EB's own business operations focus mostly on the design, assembly performed by manufacturing partners and marketing of products. This represents only a minor part of the environmental impacts over the entire life cycle of the products. The products manufactured by the company have not significant environmental impacts.

Elektrobit Corporation has had ISO 14001 certified management systems since 2001. The certification was updated to confirm ISO14001.2004 requirements in 2007, and it was enhanced to China in 2008 and to USA in 2010.

EB is monitoring the global environmental product requirements and the national regulations deriving from them, and considers their impact on EB's corporate operations. EB has also observed and applied the requirements of the ROHS (use of hazardous substances) including WEEE (recycling of electrical and electronic equipment) directives in design since 2002.

During 2009 the applied environmental standards and regulations in EB operations were consolidated into an uniform EB substance list the requirements of which were enhanced to cover also EB's suppliers. The substance list includes also the requirements of so called ROHS2 standards application. During 2010, EB has updated and applied the substance list to the products or solutions that EB has partial or total responsibility of environmental requirements. Similarly the material declaration processes have been further defined related to the environmental factors. The imposed requirements will be observed in business operations on a country-specific basis.