Taking Care of Environment

Overview:

We recognise that our activities interact with the environment. Environmental and Sustainability issues have become increasingly important to our customers, partners and employees which we support and advice to select environmentally sustainable solutions. We have policies and practices in place to reduce energy and material consumption and to recycle where practicable.

 

Environmental Policy:

Our Environmental Policy is to:

• Comply with all relevant environmental legislation and regulations and stay abreast of new and pending legislation and initiatives affecting our facilities and the communities in which we operate.

• Strive for continuous improvement in environmental performance.

• Employ best practices to maximize the efficient use of resources and minimize pollution and waste.

• Consider and respond to environmental issues through all phases of our product life-cycles.

• We take environment into consideration when selecting and evaluating suppliers.

 

 

Cool Power and Efficient Energy Conversion

We have consistently raised the bar in terms of power converter efficiency and have increased the number of high efficiency and low stand-by power products in our product ranges significantly in recent years.

Improving the efficiency of our products and educating our customers in the benefits of solutions that consume and waste less resource is the biggest impact we can have on the environment.

 

Harmful Substances

European legislation on the Reduction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) came into effect in 2005. This legislation limited the levels of certain substances in products, including lead. All our products are RoHS compliant.

 

 

The Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE) Directive

The primary purpose of the Directive is the prevention of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and requires the re-use, recycling and other forms of recovery of such waste so as to reduce its disposal to landfill or incineration.

 

We have identified that our external power supplies, chargers, inverters and single phase UPS fall within the scope of the WEEE directive. Products placed on the market after 13th August 2005 will be marked with the 'wheelie bin' symbol in accordance with EN50419.

 

Under Producer Responsibility companies will have the option of delegating their responsibilities to a collective compliance scheme. In order to comply with the WEEE Directive Cool Power has elected to follow this route and is a member of SELT ry and Recser Oy in Finland.

We meet the requirements of local environmental laws and regulations.