Environmental Protection

We commited ourself to help to maintain a safe and clean environment. Furthermore we also are taking care to ensure that product boxes, packing materials, printing ink and all other materials used to process and ship our products, to meet the RoHS directive.

Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive took effect in August, 2004 and the Restriction on Hazardous Substances (RoHS) start from July, 2006. The two directives are briefly described below:

WEEE--requests that electric and electronic equipment has to be collected and recycled on the end of productslife. Electric and electronic products need to offer information for their recycling and eventual treatment to new EEEs.

The WEEE directive addresses the problem of safely recycling of electrical and electronic products to protect the natural environment. The directive establishes maximum recycling targets for all european countries.

RoHS--The Restriction on Hazardous Substances prohibits the use of some poisonable substances in electrical and electronic equipment. These substances are: lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium and flame retardants such as, Polybrominated Biphenyl (PBB), and Polybrominated Diphenyl Ether (PBDE).

The main concern of manufacturers of electrical and electronic equipment is to exclude the use of lead, as the main ingredient in solderpaste used during the manufacturing process. This requests to increase the solder temperature with about 20°C to achieve similar electrical characteristica as using lead. Also the use of cadmium, mercury, chromium VI and additional flame blocker, such as PBB and PBDE, is prohibited.

VSCOM products are committed to fulfill its social responsibility to global environmental preservation through compliance with the European Union's RoHS directive by July, 2006.