February 13 , 2003, the EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION have passed two environmental protection instructions: WEEE(Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) and RoHS(Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances in electrical and electronic equipment). Other countries also stipulate their relevant regulations successively.
While considering what kind of products are bought by customers, not only Quality, Cost and Deliver factors, but also the earth environment factor have already become one of conditions that must be considered by them today. It is in conformity with the environmental protection trend in the world, DARFON Electronics Corp. had begun to launch 'Green Product Project’ since January of 2004.
In order to conduct the ' Green Product Project ' successfully, at the beginning DARFON set up a cross-department unit of ‘the Headquarter Task Force Team’, leading the implementation of ' Green Product Plan '. In the meanwhile, DARFON also set up a “Business Division Task Force Team” in order to assist the promotion of the business. Its members contain every relevant department.
In order to reduce the impact to the environment, DARFON is improving, developing more environmental protection products constantly and setting up management system to control hazardous substances and ensure the procedure of “ Incoming Material” and “Production” fitted with the green products’ quality control procedure of DARFON by management system. DARFON forbids controlled materials, Cadmium, Lead, Mercury, Hexavalent Chromium, PBB and PBDE, that forbid being used in RoHS’ construction, DARFON have also defined many kinds of hazardous substance will endanger consumer's health and the environment, and list these substances in the eliminate list. Besides the regulation of RoHS, DARFON define the more severe standard not only to meet customers’ different satisfactions for green products, but also to get permitted to reuse, recycle and recover easily in future.
Besides conform to laws and customer requests:
�� Power Devices B.D. expect to have the ability to control VOC (Volatile Organic Compound), and have developing & manufacturing of Halogen free. (They had shipped to some customers in Feb. 2007.)
Phase Set-up
To Divide “Green Product Project” into three major phases：Firstly, demanding to adopt the green material. Secondly, conducting into the green process, (Lead-free process). Thirdly, setting up the Green Product management system.
Directive Compliance
1.WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment): The WEEE directive is designed to regulate the collection, reuse, recycling and recovery of waste in electrical and electronic equipment. The directive requires manufacturers to appropriately dispose of WEEE waste that they produce. The directive also requires manufacturers to design and produce new products that take disposal processes into consideration.
2.RoHS (Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances in electrical and electronic equipment). There are six restricted substances: Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, Hexavalent Chromium, Polybrominated biphenyls and Polybrominated diphenyl ethers.
Hazardous Substances Control