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Environment

Minimizing our footprint while maximizing our impact, Gentech's sustainable PCBA solutions prioritize waste reduction, renewable energy, and responsible sourcing.

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By embracing ISO14001, we ensure that all our services and businesses abide by environmental regulations to protect our planet. Moreover, we have put in place various guidelines to champion environmental preservation, including: - Cutting down on energy usage and managing waste effectively - Embracing renewable energy sources - Advocating for the 3Rs: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle - Empowering and training our team to meet environmental objectives - Partnering with suppliers and subcontractors committed to environmental responsibility Our aim is to attain carbon neutrality by 2030 and achieve carbon net zero by 2050.

About the environmental regulations that we complied with are as follows:

EU rules restricting the use of hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment to protect the environment and public health. 

  • The acronym REACH stands for “Registration, Evaluation, Authorization, and Restriction of Chemicals.” The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) enforces it.

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    ECHA maintains a list of Substances of Very High Concern (SVHCs). These substances are considered to be carcinogenic, mutagenic, toxic for reproduction, or bioaccumulative. Currently, the list contains over 200 chemicals and ECHA will add more over time.

  • The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE), is a European Communuity Directive, numbered 2012/19/EU, concerned with waste electrical and electronic equipment. It became the European Law in February 2023 with the RoHS Directive 2011/65/EU. WEEE Directive sets out the responsibilities of EEE producers for the collection and recycling of their products at the end of their lifecycle. 

  • Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are regulated worldwide by the Stockholm Convention and the Aarhus Protocol. These international treaties are implemented in the European Union by the POPs Regulation are regulated worldwide by the Stockholm Convention and the Aarhus Protocol. These international treaties are implemented in the European Union by the POPs Regulation 

     

    Chemical substances that have been identified as POPs include: 

    • pesticides (such as DDT); 

    • industrial chemicals (such as polychlorinated biphenyls, which were widely used in electrical equipment); or 

    • unintentional by-products formed during industrial processes, degradation or combustion (such as dioxins and furans). 

     

    The POP Substances are listed in: 

    • Annex I to the regulation are subject to prohibition (with specific exemptions) on manufacturing, placing on the market and use; 

    • Annex II to the regulation are subject to restriction on manufacturing, placing on the market and use; 

    • Annex III to the regulation are subject to release reduction provisions; and 

    • Annex IV to the regulation are subject to waste management provisions. 

  • RoHS is an EU directive that bans the use of 10 chemicals in electrical and electronic equipment (EEE).

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    The RoHS acronym stands for “Restriction of Hazardous Substances.” Each EU member state is responsible for its own enforcement of the directive and it has evolved over time.

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    The initial directive (RoHS 1) was adopted in 2002 and included a list of 6 substances. Another directive (RoHS 2) was added in 2011 to add legal clarity. RoHS 2 was then amended in 2015 to add 4 new substances to the list — this is sometimes referred to as RoHS 3.

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    The following 10 chemical substances are restricted under RoHS: 

    1. Lead (Pb) 

    2. Mercury (Hg) 

    3. Cadmium (Cd) 

    4. Hexavalent chromium (Cr6+) 

    5. Polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) 

    6. Polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) 

    7. Bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) 

    8. Butyl benzyl phthalate (BBP) 

    9. Dibutyl phthalate (DBP) 

    10. Diisobutyl phthalate (DIBP)

     

    Any company that sells EEE products such as mobile phones, IoT devices, and others needs to ensure their products do not contain these substances.

  • PFAS stands for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances, these substances is embedded by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) through setting the regulation on the drinking water standards to protect the communities on free with PFAS. 

  • TSCA stands for the Toxic Substances Control Act Chemical Substance Inventory contains all existing chemical substances manufactured, processed, or imported in the United States that do not qualify for an exemption or exclusion under TSCA. There is the list of chemical substances published by the EPA the United States Environmental Protection Agency to control. The initial list was published in 1979, till today there are more 86,000 chemicals in the list. For the chemical substances on the Inventory list included the Organics, Inorganics, Polymers and Chemical substances of unknown or variable composition, complex reaction products, and biological materials (UVCBs). 

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