AAEON Rolling Plans for RoHS Compliant Solutions

1.The business factors that AAEON considered when deciding to make RoHS compliant products

• Built to last
  As a member of society, AAEON must be responsible for protecting more for our only one home - the Earth. Hence, AAEON must contribute to reducing the usage of those banned substances in our products during the stages of design and manufacturing. A RoHS compliant solution will be AAEON's first commitment to realizing this goal since AAEON sold many products to the EU during the past years. Therefore AAEON can run its business for coming decades.
• Concerns about global status of environmental issues
  In addition to the RoHS Directive from the EU, Japan has their recycling laws and a lead solder ban is planned. For Mainland China, they are planning legislation that will be similar to the RoHS Directive and likely to come into force on July 1, 2006. In addition, in USA some states are planning legislation for WEEE-like product take-back laws and the rest of world is also likely to follow similar environmental laws, regulations or directives. Hence, AAEON also must take those environmental issues into account and regard RoHS compliant solutions as the start-point for similar issues.
• Improvement of corporate image
  AAEON must set the first priority to make environment-friendly solution. It means that AAEON must give that solution higher priority than making a profitable solution. When AAEON commits to an environment-friendly solution, AAEON can differentiate its products from those of its competitors and improve its corporate image. Therefore AAEON can get more business opportunities worldwide by offering environment-friendly solutions.
• Guiding upstream suppliers to offer RoHS compliant solutions
  As the downstream (comparing with materials or components suppliers) of the supply chain in the IPC industry, AAEON must guide her upstream materials or components suppliers to offer RoHS compliant solutions and disqualify those suppliers who are unwilling to do that or passively offer RoHS compliant solutions. Therefore AAEON can ensure that upstream suppliers and AAEON can provide her downstream customers (including SI (System Integrators), distributors and even end customers) with RoHS compliant solutions.

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