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Environmental Policy  

Environmental policy – Integrated responsibility

As a manufacturer of technological products, responsible employer and professional business partner, Wiedenbach embraces its ecological and social responsibilities and sets standards for an integral and sustainable environmental policy.  

Aims
The Wiedenbach Group aims to act responsibly with natural resources starting with the product idea and ending at the recycling process, and aims to operate in consistence with the current environmental legislations. The ecological awareness of employees, suppliers, customers and authorities should be influenced directly or indirectly in order to decrease or avoid environmental pollution to ensure sustainability for future generations.

Cooperation – Customers and suppliers
Customers and suppliers are directly involved in the eco-political objective setting. To guarantee those objectives, Wiedenbach periodically conducts audits of suppliers.

Business Care – Operational protection of the environment
Prospective environmental pollution should be identified and if possible avoided, reduced or eliminated. If wastage or residues are produced they need to be disposed of and recycled in a save and responsible way. Existing resources should be used efficiently and conscientiously. Wiedenbach provides proven disaster recovery plans making protection of health and environment their highest priority in a case of an emergency.

Product Care – Product related protection of the environment
In the development, construction and production process of new products, as well as other operational activities, all possible measures will be taken to save resources and to avoid environmental pollution in order to fulfil all legal environmental regulations.

Environmental Care – Responsibility for the environment
We implement constant measures to economise energy, fuel and paper consumption.

Sustainable Development – Responsible execution
The success of the taken environmental actions will be reviewed periodically by the Wiedenbach Green Team, in conjunction with the parent company. Internal goals, current laws, regulations and norms will be the basis for other reviews. The Wiedenbach Green Team’s primary goal is a continuous improvement of the environmental concept.

Confirming this policy, Wiedenbach accepts its responsibility for preservation and protection of the environment. Approving this declaration, Wiedenbach commits itself to decrease environmental impacts of operational activities by the management and employees and guarantees that all activities are consistent with the current environmental regulations.

REACH Legislation

What is REACH? 

REACH stands for Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals. This European law on chemicals entered into force on 1 June 2007. It will require all chemicals used in Europe to be classified in REACH over a period of several years. The aim of REACH is to improve the protection of human health and the environment through the better and earlier identification of the properties of chemical substances.

Manufacturers and importers are required to gather information on the properties of their substances, which will help them manage them safely, and to register the information in a central database.

Wiedenbach and REACH

REACH will require all of the several hundred chemical raw materials used in Wiedenbach inks, make-up, wash and related fluids products to be progressively classified under the REACH legislation.

What is Wiedenbach doing to get prepared for REACH?

Wiedenbach is giving REACH a very high priority: in order to be well prepared for REACH a “Domino Group REACH steering committee” including regulatory affairs, research & development, manufacturing and marketing was established:

>> To understand the requirements of the REACH legislation
>> To work with suppliers to ensure compliance with REACH
>> To consider the effects of REACH on non-fluids products, such as polymers and other substances used in printer     

      production, etc.

>> To work to integrate REACH databases – such as REACH-IT and IUCLID - with Domino's own corporate IT systems        

      and databases

>> To plan for a new system of product identification and hazard labelling, called the Global Harmonisation System (GHS),      

      a UN system that the EU intends to adopt to replace current legislation, alongside REACH compliance

Wiedenbach is closely monitoring the progress of the legislation as it evolves. In addition, Wiedenbach as part of the Domino Group has retained the services of an experienced consultant in this area to a fully up-to-date understanding of developments in the legislation.

Download WB REACH Declaration

RoHS & WEEE

What is RoHS

RoHS stands for "Restriction of the Use of certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment".
The 2002/95/EC directive of the European Parliament and Council, dated January 27, 2003, restricts the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment. It requires that electrical and electronic equipment which will be placed on the market after July 1, 2006 must not contain the following substances:

>> Lead (Pb)

>> Cadmium (Cd)

>> Mercury (Hg)

>> Hexavalent chromium

>> Polybrominated biphenyls (PBB)

>> Polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE)

What is WEEE?

WEEE stands for "Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment". The 2002/96/EC directive of the European Parliament and Council, dated January 27, 2003, on old electronic equipment regulates the collection, separation and treatment of electronic waste.
  
In Germany, the RoHS and WEEE directives are implemented by means of the Elektro- und Elektronikgerätegesetz - ElektroG (Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act). This law regulating the launching, collection, and environmentally-compatible disposal of electrical and electronic equipment was enacted on 03/24/05.

What does Wiedenbach?

Wiedenbach still uses some RoHS-non-compliant parts in older machine generations, and is currently replacing them. Deliveries to China are labelled and documented according to “China RoHS”.

You can anytime let dispose your old Wiedenbach printer environmentally compatible at our site.