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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.
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.
