GPD Global strives to minimize our environmental footprint and raise environmental consciousness in everything we do. Wherever possible, we define standards for our employees and business partners to achieve continuous improvement in all aspects of our corporate and community responsibilities.
We believe it is vital to be a responsible Corporate Citizen. We are committed to environmental sustainability through the following approaches:
Our Design and Development Team endeavors to design high precision and new generation equipment for our customers so they increase productivity with minimal impact on the environment:
We recognize the importance of building environmentally friendly operations. We implement waste reduction programs in our work place:
We comply with CE (Conformité Européene), conformity assessment procedures, the harmonization of national legislation and directives, standards and mutual recognition of the technical standards, tests methods (compliance tests) and test laboratories.
We acknowledge our responsibility to provide a safe and environmentally-compliant work place for our employees. We define the responsibility, authority, and the interrelation of all personnel who manage, perform, and verify work affecting safety/environmental matters. This process identifies the objectives, training requirements, and verification activities.
We adhere to Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) rules. This is an important component of product stewardship, occupational safety and health, and spill-handling procedures.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission declared publicly-traded companies must disclose the source of conflict minerals necessary to the functionality or production of their products. Conflict minerals include tin, tungsten, tantalum, and gold (collectively known as 3TG). The mining of these four minerals in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and its bordering countries (“covered countries”) directly benefits armed groups that violate human rights, causing this issue to be declared as a humanitarian crisis. For this reason, the use of conflict minerals from the covered countries that are necessary to the functionality or production of products is not permitted.
GPD Global is not subject to the conflict minerals reporting requirements, but we are committed to helping our publicly-traded customers meet these requirements and create a transparent supply chain. We keep our supply chain conflict-free and ensure ongoing compliance for our customers.
