Environmental Aspects - T+A KS 350 Handbuch

Environmental aspects

In the development of  loudspeakers we concentrate on
innovative solutions to problems, and solid, well thought-out
designs, but these are not our only concerns.
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We place equal importance on the maintenance of all German
and European safety norms and standards.
We are able to guarantee that our products are of the highest
quality, and meet all our specifications in full, because we carry
out strict quality checking of all materials, employ painstaking
production methods controlled by highly qualified staff, and carry
out a fully automatic, computer-controlled final quality control
procedure.
At the earliest stage of development we also emphasise the
importance of avoiding environmentally harmful materials and
methods of working.
For example, we avoid the use of materials which are injurious to
health, such as chlorine-based solvents and CFCs.
We also aim to avoid the use of plastics in general, and PVC in
particular, in the design of our products.
Instead we rely upon metals and other non-hazardous materials
which are easy to recycle.
Electronic sub-assemblies such as active units are shielded by
solid metal housings.
This excludes any possibility of external sources of interference
affecting the quality of reproduction. From the opposite point of
view our products' electro-magnetic radiation (electro-smog) is
reduced to an absolute minimum.
The particle board which we use meets the E1 quality standard in
full. The board is manufactured without the use of chlorides,
other halogens and timber preservative, and its formaldehyde
content is checked at regular intervals by independent monitoring
laboratories.
In ecological terms particle board is environmentally sound,
because its use represents a significant ecological use of wood
as a renewable raw material.
The sound-absorbent wadding used in our loudspeakers is made
of 100 % polyester fibres, in conjunction with a binding fibre.
This material has been tested for harmful ingredients to Eco-Tex
Standard 100; the same test is used for clothing, bedclothes,
pillows, mattresses, household textiles etc.
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