Corporate Responsibility

Volatile Organic Material

The majority of volatile organic material (VOM) emissions result from our manufacturing lines where we use organic solvent-based fluids to clean the stencils used in our screen printing operations and when soldering electronic components onto circuit boards. We have significantly reduced our VOM emissions over the years by changing our processes and introducing substitutes.

VOM figures are based on actual reported data as we capture the vast majority of these emissions through our data collection systems.

Performance

In 2010, we emitted 24 metric tonnes of VOM compared with 51 metric tonnes in 2005.

We have reduced our VOM emissions by 65 percent since 2007 by changing cleaning and soldering processes at our Taiwanese site, which was responsible for the majority of emissions.