Ensuring environmental compliance
For some companies, staying within environmental compliance regulations is as simple as ensuring that the rubbish goes out on the right day. However, some find it much more complicated. The regulations that apply to companies dealing with a wide variety of listed substances can be complex. Following them is often far from straightforward. In addition […]
Environmental compliance and RoHS regulations
The European Union laws governing environmental compliance management are complex, and how heavily your company needs to be concerned with them depends on what you do and how you do it. Even across the engineering sector, materials in use and processes at work vary widely, as will the need to ensure compliance with environmental and […]
What is the REACH directive?
The REACH directive is a piece of environmental compliance regulation. At first glance REACH is a lot like the RoHS directive in that it governs the safe use of chemical substances. The difference is that REACH is far broader in its scope, dealing with a different set of substances that need to be handled in […]
WEEE compliance
The WEEE legislation is something almost any company that lists a computer or a piece of electronics in their assets will need to deal with eventually. For those engaged in manufacturing or selling anything with electronic or electrical components, this is one of the key components of environmental compliance management. WEEE stands for Waste Electrical […]
The changing demands on manufacturing
Complying with new EU environmental and safety regulations has posed challenges for manufacturing, and they aren’t all focused on how waste is dealt with, and ensuring health and safety at all stages of production. The nature of the products has had to change in the items produced, along with the raw materials that can be […]
Experts in Environmental Compliance
Enventure technologies are undisputed experts in all areas of environmental compliance. By engaging our outstanding professional services, you can ensure that your products meet environmental compliance statutes such as RoHS, WEEE and REACH in the markets of the European Union and requirements such as China RoHS, Korea RoHS and Japan J-MOSS, which are the equivalent […]
Understanding the ELV Directive
We seem to spend a lot of time talking about EU directives as they apply to environmental compliance and mechanical engineering. Whilst we realize that these are not the most exciting of topics we do hope our short summary articles are useful and at least raise awareness of these important issues. Today we are looking […]
What is RoHS All About?
RoHS Compliance, or more accurately EU Directive 2002/95 covering the Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations 2008 (the “RoHS Regulations”) is hard enough to pronounce (people tend to spell it out or opt for Ross, Roz or even sometimes, Rose) let alone to understand, so we thought […]
Do You Need to Worry about WEEE Compliance?
In this entry, we thought we would look briefly at the European Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (or conveniently WEEE compliance) and why this environmental compliance directive may apply to you. WEEE is there to try and encourage the collection, recycling and recovery of all or parts of waste electronic or electrical apparatus. This […]