As part of our strategy to achieve sustained growth in products and, increasingly, in services, we pursue a consistent environmental protection policy. Environmentally responsible action is at the heart of all our business activities.

Environment Management System Extended.
Our environmental performance is monitored by an environment management system. This system, audited and approved to DIN EN ISO 14001 by the German Management System Certification Company, ensures that we consistently implement our environmental policy.

Compliance with Statutory Environmental Protection Regulations.
For some time, a key aspect of our environmental activities has been the implementation of the European directives regulating the return and disposal of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and the restricted use of certain environmentally hazardous substances in new electronic equipment (RoHS). Suitable actions, such as product re-designs, are in hand to ensure these are implemented. In so doing, we are making a major contribution to the environment.

Sustainable Products.
Our ecological responsibility applies not only to the production process, but also to the entire life cycles of our products from development and production to deployment and, ultimately, recycling. At the early development stage, we ensure that our products have long life cycles. In the manufacturing process, we avoid the use of materials and substances that can damage the environment. We are prudent in our use of resources by striving to reduce and reuse as many materials as possible.