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Green Products

Several areas of the world are now enforcing new environmental regulations that govern the manufacturing and disposal of products that include electronic components. The first was Europe. The European Union's Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive has been in effect since August 2005, and the Restriction on Hazardous Substances (RoHS) took effect in July of 2006. RoHS has caused reverberations around the world. In fact, since these directives became public in 2002, most companies in the industry have been planning for the transition to no-lead products. The two directives are described in more detail below:

 

ISO 14001:2004
ISO 14001 is the standard for assessing an organization's environmental management system (EMS).

WEEE
The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment directive stipulates that a company is responsible for the ecological disposal or recycling of its electrical and electronic products.  >> More

RoHS
The Restriction on Hazardous Substances directive prohibits the use of lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyl (PBB), and polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants. >> More  

China RoHS
The Chinese government has released their own directive for Restriction on Hazardous Substances. To be in compliance, manufacturers must declare and control the use of hazardous substances.  >> More

PFOS Free
Moxa is proud to be among the first in the industry to eliminate the use of perfluorooctanesulfonic acid in most products. >> Click here for the full list of PFOS-free products.

REACH
REACH is Europe's new chemicals legislation, which is applicable in all 27 EU Member States as well as the EFTA European Economic Area (EEA) countries Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland.REACH applies to anyone manufacturing or importing chemical substances into Europe. >> More

One of the main concerns of manufacturers of networking and communications equipment is getting rid of lead, since lead is one of the main ingredients of solder. Moxa's customers can rest assured that all of Moxa's new "green products," which are being released this year, satisfy the EU's RoHS directive.

Moxa's Green Promise

Moxa is dedicated to helping create and maintain a safe and clean environment, but our efforts are not limited to just the product. We have also taken great care to ensure that the product box, all types of packing material, plastic box handles, ink, and all other material used to process and ship our products, meet the RoHS guidelines.
For additional information about Moxa's Green Product project, please read our Deployment Announcement.