Customer Information - care of the environment.

Active involvement in en- our ground-water, which, in vironmental protection is a addition to damage to nature, self-evident part of caring for would also entail high financial mankind and nature - and also losses. an essen- Our engineer- tial part of ing develop- Environmental protection RECHNER’s ment team corporate is important for everyone put their ex- introduction, realisation and philosophy. who is thinking about the tensive know- control of the latest produc- future. how and ex- tion technologies. For us, envi- perience to ronmental use to ensure, They ensure that the same protection means both the that our products always cor- high quality state of our prod- implementation of environ- respond to the current state ucts that is of greatest impor- mentally friendly production of the art. In doing this they of tance for the user, is always methods as well as the use of course also take great care to guaranteed. safe materials. In addition, our include all relevant environ- sensors help to protect the mental para-meters. The target of the EU direc- environment. tive 2002/95/EG RoHS and WEEE RoHS and WEEE is as far as possi- Directives for avoiding ble to avoid the environmental polutant use of harmful substances substances. According to this law where ever possible the use of the harmful The same holds good for the substances, Cadmium, mercu- An example for this would teams in our production fa- ry, hexavalent chromium, po- be our capacitive filling level cilities. lybrominated biphenyl (PBB) sensors and our capacitive and poly brominated di-phe- LEAK-Sensors. In fact, every They are actively integrated nylether (PBDE) should not be container or tank in a filling in the necessary tasks for ful- used in the production: plant or storage facility for haz- filling our quality political and ardous liquids like gasoline, oil ecopolitical targets. or acids, are only allowed to be filled with the use of this type of filling level sensors. This is made possible by their team spirit, flexibility, commu- This ensures that no liquids nication skills and continuing overflow that could contam- commitment to learning. They inate the soil and eventually are also involved during the All specifications are subject to change without notice. (03/2013)

RECHNER Industrie-Elektronik GmbH • Gaußstraße 8-10 • D-68623 Lampertheim • Tel. (0 62 06) 50 07-0 • Fax (0 62 06) 50 07-36 • e-mail: [email protected] • www.rechner-sensors.com At present Monitoring and of circuit boards have been slight risk to the environment. control systems are amongst ordered. Lead is no longer If our products are used as others excluded from this used and has been substituted directed this risk is contained directive by other metals including and thus harmless. gold. RECHNER Sensors comply This is not only good for the All soldering has been tested with the recommendation environment but also increases and since March 2006 has of the ZVEI been completely lead free, for volun- thus causing no harm to the tary self-ob- Voluntary self-obligation to observe environment. ligation to the RoHS and WEEE achieve the For the high melting soldering EU-directives material, as it is used in our RoHS and the quality and performance high-temperature sensors, WEEE in our production. of our products. an exception rule exists. Notwithstanding this, even For the product group “Indus- We purchase only high here the permitted ceiling trial Monitoring and control quality electronic compo- concentration is not exceeded. systems” the compliance of nents worldwide and insist the RoHS-II is certified accord- on components that conform All other units we produce ing to the directive as of July to RoHS. However in making are lead-free soldered. This 2017 by means of CE-marking state-of-the-art products policy is for the collective 2011/65/EU and conformity sometimes components may good for humans, nature and declaration. be used that present a very the environment.

Every department involved with these changes, such as R & D, Purchasing, Production and Quality Management are working closely together to achieve these aims, this includes our component part sup-pliers.

Since October 2005 RECHNER- Sensors have only ordered component parts, which conform to the RoHs and WEEE directives, and also only RoHS conforming variations

RECHNER-SENSORS: Taking a High-Tech responsibili- ty for a clean environment.

RECHNER Industrie-Elektronik GmbH • Gaußstraße 8-10 • D-68623 Lampertheim • Tel. (0 62 06) 50 07-0 • Fax (0 62 06) 50 07-36 • e-mail: [email protected] • www.rechner-sensors.com